Please join us on Monday, July 7th at 6:00 PM for the monthly
Microsoft Professionals / Atlanta Cutting Edge .NET / VB Study Group meeting
at the Microsoft office in Alpharetta.
Scroll to the bottom of this message for directions to the meeting.

Meeting Agenda

Presentation Topics

• Speaker: Dan Attis
  Topic: Event Handlers and Feature Receivers in SharePoint 2007
  He will be discussing what event handlers are, where they can be used, how to use them. He will demonstrate using an event handler declaratively thru a Feature element, via a content type, as well as programmatically.
  
  Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 provides classes for responding to Feature events, which allow you to trap and respond to events that fires when a Feature is activated, de-activated, installed or un-installed. He will be discussing how to leverage Feature Receivers to perform various tasks to help you work through various issues that may arise during development.
  
  Dan hails from Canada and has been in the Atlanta area working with technology since 1999. He became heavily involved in the local user group community in 2003 and hasn’t stopped since. In addition to being an occasional speaker at both the Atlantadotnet.org and the AtlantaMSPros user groups, he helped create the Free Training 1,2,3! series (www.freetraining123.com) to help developers learn Microsoft technologies. He created and presented material at the first SharePoint 1,2,3! event (www.sharepoint123.com) along with other members of the Atlanta Microsoft Professionals, a group he founded. Today, Dan works as a consultant for Slalom Consulting, working primarily with cutting edge SharePoint and .NET technologies creating innovative technology solutions that achieve measurable business improvements for their clients.
• Speaker: Alan Stevens and Chris Raber
  Topic: Comparing Inversion-Of-Control Containers
  Managing complexities is one of the biggest challenges we as software developers face today. To complicate matters, we don't do ourselves any favors by building applications with a large number of dependencies. These applications are tough to test and even tougher to refactor.
  
  In this talk, we will show how Inversion of Control Containers can help manage your dependencies cleanly and elegantly by making your code highly cohesive with reduced coupling. As an added bonus, your code becomes instantly easier to test since you have more control over the dependencies each class relies upon. We will also compare four of the leading IoC containers for .Net and discuss how each accomplishes dependency injection and wiring up class dependencies:
  • StructureMap
  • Ninject
  • Windsor
  • Unity
  
  
  Alan Stevens is a passionate and experienced software developer living in Knoxville, TN. Alan has had a lifelong love affair with technologies of all sorts. He became a software developer with the creation of his first application, because there was nobody around to do it for him. Life hasn't been the same since. Alan regularly speaks at industry conferences and user groups. Alan is the President of the East Tennessee .NET Users Group. When Alan is not playing with his kids, enjoying a fine cigar, singing or playing his acoustic guitar, he occasionally updates his blog at http://netcave.org.

We will be meeting at the Microsoft Regional Headquarters at the Sanctuary Park complex in Alpharetta (Mansell Rd. Exit). The meeting begins at 6 PM so folks can mingle, however the announcements and presentations are not scheduled to begin until 6:30 PM.

For more information on this month's meeting, please visit our websites at: http://www.atlantace.com/, http://www.AtlantaMsPros.com , http://www.avbsg.net

If you are not familiar with the meeting location, please print out the driving directions for reference: http://www.atlantace.com/MeetingLocation.aspx

If you have a topic that you would like to present to the group, please contact me to discuss your ideas. We have lots of available time slots in the coming months, and our group is a fantastic place to hone your public speaking skills and to contribute back to the user group community.

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Thanks, and I hope to see everyone at this month's meeting!

Meeting Location and Directions

Microsoft Corporation
1125 Sanctuary Pkwy.
Suite 300
Alpharetta, GA 30004
Phone: (678) 629-5700
Location Information on Microsoft's Website

See map and/or driving directions