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The Philly ALT.NET user group is focused on the craft of software development and the continuous improvement of our skills as developers.  By identifying and discussing the best practices and principles that have been successful throughout our industry, we can help to establish a solid foundation for growing our own skills.  In 2009, members of the group started the "Foundation Series" which is a series of workshops and talks aimed at teaching or reaffirming some of the proven, core principles and practices of object-oriented software design.  This code camp, we've decided to dedicate our entire track to some of the content from our workshop series.  If you consider yourself more of a craftsman than a "code monkey," and you value quality and maintainability in your code - we think you'll enjoy our track!

Learn about leading edge Application Development with Silverlight, WPF and Azure. See the newest emerging user experience technologies coming out of Redmond.

 

The SQL Server track will include talks on Developer, DBA and BI topics.

Designed specifically for IT professionals, this track will focus on key Microsoft products and technologies targeted at the enterprise environment.  Sessions will include an in-depth look and demonstration of products from Microsoft's System Center family, Office Communications Server 2007 R2, building a virtualized infrastucture on Hyper-V, and a technical discussion of high-availability options for SharePoint.  

The beginner track is hands-on.  Please bring a laptop with Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 and SQL Server 2005 or 2008 installed.  The Express versions which can be downloaded free from msdn.com or Microsoft.com are just fine.  For SQL Express, install the tools as well.  Visual Studio Express has multiple pieces.  We will be writing Windows and Web applications using C#.  If you cannot bring a laptop, come anyway and take notes!