Topic:  Improving Organizational Effectiveness with Microsoft SharePoint 2007!
Date:  Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Speaker:  Matthew Panzano
Location:  Heritage Hall at Seville Quarter

Microsoft SharePoint has been the fastest growing product in Microsoft history. By making it easier to manage content and streamline processes, Microsoft SharePoint 2007 helps organizations derive more value from their information assets, and accelerates everyday business activities. SharePoint 2007 enables users to easily assemble and analyze critical business information from disparate systems, leading to better-informed decisions at all levels of the organization. It enables people to effectively connect with the information and resources they need, both within and across organizations. Enhanced interoperability support facilitates integration with non-Microsoft IT investments, while the tight integration into familiar desktop applications and browsers accelerates end user adoption.

Whether you are a current SharePoint customer or not you should learn about the next generation of SharePoint and the ways it can improve your business.

Matt has been in the information systems field for 20 years. He has worked at companies such as Prudential and was the Director of Information Systems for the largest non-for-profit vocational rehabilitation center in New Jersey. Matt was one of the first 500 people in the world to become Windows NT certified. He worked for Tech Data as the lead in their Microsoft tech support department for 5 years before joining Microsoft in 1996 where he worked for 9 years. Matt has been working with Microsoft SharePoint since its inception and was on the internal Microsoft SharePoint advisory council while he worked at Microsoft.  Currently Matt is with Tribridge out of Tampa, Florida.  Tribridge is the 2008 WORLDWIDE Microsoft Dynamics Partner of the Year

Also on this evening:

“Lost in SQL”

Providing the SQL Server track for this evening will be Rodney Landrum.  For this meeting, Rodney is following up with answers to questions posed to him via email (rodney@pensacolasql.com) from users who will be attending this meeting.  An example of a question that Rodney will be addressing is how to convert a DTS package to a SSIS package.  Please email him any other questions that you need help with.  He will try to fit in as many as he can during his session this evening.

Reminder that SQL Saturday Orlando is coming Saturday, October 25th in Lake Mary, FL.  Register at www.sqlsaturday.com.

Pensacola SQL Server Users Group and Microsoft invite you to the MSDN Tiki Hut Roadshow, November 13th at Seville Quarter’s Heritage Hall, from 1:00 to 4:00.  Presenting at this MSDN are Microsoft MVPs Joe Healy, Russ Fustino and Jeff Barnes. 

Register now at Joe Healy’s blog, http://devfish.net/

Session 1 - What’s New in SQL Server 2008 for Developers - SQL Server 2008 adds numerous new capabilities for developers – from support for Spatial Data types to a storage mechanism for SQL BLOB data using the NTFS file system, and much, much more. The new release also delivers several improvements to development-related areas, from T-SQL to SQLCLR to XML. This presentation will provide a technical dive into the latest and greatest features you’ll find in SQL Server 2008, while offering insight into how to effectively apply them to your upcoming development projects.

Session 2 – Build next generation applications with Silverlight 2.0 - Silverlight provides a powerful platform for building the next generation of rich interactive applications on the Internet. In this session, we’ll take a look at the programming model and tools that developers and designers can leverage to build these true next generation experiences for consumers and business, and demonstrate how to build a rich interactive application (RIA) using Silverlight and Microsoft .NET. We’ll explore how to use Microsoft Visual Studio to create applications, and  networking, how to retrieve data from a Web service, and various other aspects of building Silverlight applications.

Session 3 – Real World Application - How to create an end-to-end Mobile GPS tracking application using the .NET Compact Framework, WCF, LINQ, Silverlight, Deep Zoom, and Virtual Earth - Inspired by a true-story mobility case study recently published on the Microsoft.com website, this session will walk you through how to create a mobile GPS tracking application using the .NET Compact Framework, Windows Mobile SDK, and Compact SQL.   At the Web host layer,   we will create a Windows Communication Foundation service and generate a Compact framework client proxy to send the GPS tracks to a host web server - where finally, the GPS trail can then be viewed using LINQ, Silverlight, Deep Zoom, and Virtual Earth.

Optional Session 4 (dependent on available event time) - Power up your Office applications with VSTO - In this presentation, we’ll focus on the power and productivity of Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System (VSTO) – a .NET Smart Client technology. We’ll give you tips and tricks for designing and building smart client applications with VSTO, which allows you to create managed code applications with .NET languages including Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and Visual C#. VSTO also makes it simple to manifest the functionality of those applications in the rich user interfaces of Microsoft Office Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook and others from the Office stack. VSTO addresses some of the biggest challenges that Office solution developers are facing today, including separation of data and view elements, server-side and offline scenarios, seamless integration with the Visual Studio tools, deployment and updating. Join us for this eye-opening session and learn just how easy it is to build and deploy powerful applications with VSTO.

Attendance is Free!