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  07/09/2008 Meeting - Windows Workflow Foundation Policy and Rules Please join us for an engaging and informative session! As always, we will have FREE food, drinks and prizes for attending!  Presentation: Windows Workflow Foundation Policy and Rules Date: Wednesday, July, 9th 2008 Time: 6:30PM  Where: Microsoft, Las Colinas LC1 (7000 HWY 161, Irving TX) RSVP: rsvp@dfwcsug.com Maps: Google | Yahoo | Mapquest | Microsoft   Summary  In the future, orchestration in BizTalk will be defined with Windows Workflow Foundation.  It's an important tool for BizTalk developers to learn now in order to be prepared for the future.  In this talk Mark will cover a brief introduction to workflow to explain where it fits and why you would interested as a BizTalk developer. WF includes the ability to define rule driven workflows with a powerful rules engine. Mark will dig into the rules engine and explain how forward chaining works, how you can take control of rule evaluation yourself and how to use the various attributes that control how the rules engine makes its decisions. You'll also learn the secret of making dynamic changes to rules for a running workflow. Speaker Bio Mark has over 20 years of experience in the disciplines of software engineering, database administration, and project management. Software that Mark developed for the radio industry is still in use today. He was a lead developer on the team that created Tapscan, a well-known Arbritron ratings analysis package that has dominated that industry for many years. He is the president of DUNN Training and Consulting, Inc. a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner based in Atlanta, GA. For the past four years, Mark has been awarded MVP status for his contributions to the Visual Studio .Net community and he serves as Microsoft's Regional Director covering the Southeast United States. Mark also co-founded .Net Rocks, an Internet radio program for .Net developers recognized in over 80 countries and now hosted by Microsoft on the MSDN site. He is a popular speaker at conferences such as TechEd and DevConnections as well as a member of the INETA speakers bureau. Mark is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Application Developer, Solution Developer for .Net, and Database Administrator.   The sponsor of our meeting is Sogeti, the provider of top IT expertise and technical assistance.    06-25-2008, 9:29 AM by zachbonham to News & Announcements Filed under: UserGroup, Windows Workflow, 2008

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  Mary Kay, Inc. -- June 11th Meeting The DFW Connected Systems Group will hold its June meeting on Wednesday, June 11, 2008.  Zach Bonham and Ray Crager of Mary Kay will present an overview of the BizTalk Solution at Mary Kay, Inc. Presentation: The BizTalk Solution at Mary Kay - Six Years Later Tonights presentation is one not to be missed.  Mary Kay, Inc., the leading brand of women's cosmetics in the U.S., is a technological leader and the home of an extraordinary group of software architects and engineers.  Recognized in 1999 by Bill Gates when it embraced the internet for online ordering, the Mary Kay IT department was among the earliest adopters of the .Net Framework and then of BizTalk 2002. The June meeting will feature Zach Bonham, Technical Architect for Mary Kay, who will review the role that BizTalk  played in Mary Kay's technology success over the last six years.  Zach will speak about the connected systems, formats, and protocols; then discuss the infrastructure within which BizTalk runs.  Zach also will address some of the perceived weak points in this environment (no BAM or BRE, plus tightly coupled ERP systems). Zach's presentation is to be followed by one from Ray Crager.  Ray, though an independent consultant, has been with the Mary Kay organization since BizTalk's introduction at Mary Kay.  He is considered a key member of the architectural and engineering group.  Ray will present a demonstration of Mary Kay's SharePoint portal for exception management; then one about an administration utility "HATTrick" that is used by Business Analysts and Developers. This will be an informative view of the technology and architectural process at one of America's leading private enterprises. There are food, drink and door prizes... so RSVP - then attend the meeting.       Place:  Microsoft Offices (7000 State Highway 161, Irving TX).        When:   6:30pm on Wednesday June 11th. [RSVP to rsvp@biztalkusergroup.com ] We are looking forward to seeing you there. The sponsor of the June meeting is Sogeti, the provider of top IT expertise and technical assistance.  06-06-2008, 1:50 PM by John Lingenfelder to News & Announcements

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  May Meeting Is Wednesday - the 14th The DFW Connected Systems Group will hold its May meeting on Wednesday, May 14, 2008.  Robby Powell with FarPoint Technologies will have a presentation about "Spread for BizTalk 2006", FarPoint's first SOA Solution. Presentation: Spread for BizTalk 2006 - FarPoint Technologies  Spread for BizTalk is a spreadsheet pipeline disassembler and pipeline assembler component.  Recently, Robby and his team released the beta of Spread for SharePoint, which is a fully-integrated SharePoint spreadsheet that provides SharePoint professionals with a feature-rich, robust spreadsheet for managing SharePoint List data.    Robbie Powell Robby Powell comes to us from North Carolina.  He has 20 years of experience in the software industry, and has been a member of the FarPoint development team since joining the company in 1995.  He has been involved in the development of many of FarPoint’s products as the company has shown consistent leadership in supporting application developers using Microsoft technologies (DLL, VBX, OCX, ActiveX, .NET Windows Forms, and ASP.NET).   In 2005, Robby became the Project Manger of Spread SOA Components to lead the company’s SOA initiaive. There will be food, drink and door prizes... so RSVP - then attend the meeting.       Place:  Microsoft Offices (7000 State Highway 161, Irving TX).        When:   6:30pm on Wednesday May 14th.   [RSVP to rsvp@biztalkusergroup.com ] Looking forward to seeing you there. The sponsor of our May meeting is Sogeti, the provider of top IT expertise and technical assistance.     05-08-2008, 7:39 AM by John Lingenfelder to News & Announcements

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  April Meeting is This Wednesday - the 9th The DFW Connected Systems Group (formerly DFW BizTalk User Group) will hold its April meeting on Wednesday, April 9, 2008.  Rob Vettor, a Microsoft .NET Architect/Senior Solution Developer, will have an exciting presentation about LINQ and Integrated Querying.  An Introduction LINQ and Integrated Querying While most enterprise applications are object-oriented, the data upon which they depend is not.  Today, binding these two platforms together results in a significant amount of lost productivity as well as a less than optimal solution. Take a detailed look at the "LINQ Project" to see what Microsoft is doing to help bridge the mismatch between OO and data.  Rob will discuss the following: How LINQ manifests a move from an imperative to a declarative style of programming. Adding language and framework extensions to provide a single, unified approach to querying data. Examples of querying data from multiple data domains. A look at the upcoming Entity Framework. How LINQ fits into a multi-tiered application. There will be food, drink and door prizes... so RSVP - then attend the meeting.       Place:  Microsoft Offices (7000 State Highway 161, Irving TX).        When:   6:30pm on Wednesday April 9th.   [RSVP to rsvp@biztalkusergroup.com and double your chance to win a great door prize] Looking forward to seeing you there. 04-07-2008, 9:52 AM by John Lingenfelder to News & Announcements

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  March Meeting Cancelled Our March meeting has been cancelled due to unforseen circumstances. 03-12-2008, 2:01 PM by admin to News & Announcements