Follow up to Orlando .NET Users Group Meeting on .NET 3.0
I went to Orlando yesterday to present in their Orlando .NET User Group's meeting. I gave an overview of .NET 3.0 features - WCF, WF, WPF, Windows CardSpace, and System.Speech. Dennis drove along with me to Orlando. The meeting was in Orlando City Hall. It was a nice facility in the middle of downtown. Shawn Weisfeld does a great job organizing Onetug meetings. Other notable people who were present in the meeting were Ken Tucker (President, Space Coast Dot Net User Group) and J. T. Taylor (Secretary, Onetug).
Shawn started the meeting with some announcements. He handed it over to me around 7:15 pm. I spoke for around 90 minutes. The turnout for meeting was good. The attendees were excited and there was good discussion and questions. Then there was raffle for the give aways. After the meeting was over - Shawn, Ken, Dennis and I went to IHOP for dinner. Most of the time we talked about the idea of unifying all the user groups of Florida through a single web site. All of us agreed on the features and benefits that such a portal will bring. We discussed several options to develop such a web portal. Some action to watch out for. It was around 11 pm, when Dennis and I headed back to Jacksonville. A long day came to a satisfying end couple of hours after midnight.
Anyways, the session resources can be downloaded from here. I have also included the demos in the zip file. The demos for WPF data binding and WF - State diagram based workflow are standard samples (included in the download package). You can download the complete set of samples for .NET 3.0 Framework from here.
The WCF StockService demo had a problem with security configuration. The problem was that app.config for WCF Client (StockServiceClient) had an identity element pointing to my domain user name. As there was no domain available when I demo'd it gave a security negotiation exception. Right after the presentation, I removed the identity element from the client's app.config and it worked like a charm.
I have included the list of resources in the presentation slides. In the next couple of days, I'll post that list and some other resources in a separate blog entry.
I hope you enjoyed the talk. Thanks to Shawn and Onetug for giving me this opportunity to present. It was a pleasure to speak. Please feel free to contact me, if you have any questions or comments.
Download Links
Presentation Slides and Demos - .NET 3.0 - Overview
.NET 3.0 Framework RC 1
Windows SDK for .NET Framework RC 1
Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation RC 5
Visual Studio Code Name "Orcas" CTP - Development Tools for .NET Framework 3.0