2020
| Month | Description |
|---|---|
| January | Creating Windows Services with .NET Core – Chris Brown |
2019
| Month | Description |
|---|---|
| January | Introduction to Blazor, WebAssembly for .NET – James Schafer |
| February | Automation Trepidation: Does DevOps freak you out? – Ryan Foote |
| March | Design For Inclusivity Using Conversational Chatbots – Suganthi Giridharan |
| April | Code Checkup: Tools to Check the Health of your Code – Doug Mair |
| May | Where the Web is Going – Jared Faris |
| June | Visual Studio 2019 Launch Recap – Phil Japikse |
| July | Introduction to Unity – Brian Turner |
| August | Command Pattern Deep Dive – Ken Baum |
| September | .NET Core 3.0 and C# 8.0 – Mike Smith |
| October | A Tour of Azure Monitor – Mike Wood |
2018
| Month | Description |
|---|---|
| January | Easy CQRS with ASP.NET Core & MediatR – Ryan Foote |
| February | Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the Future of Everything – David Shattuck |
| March | Building concurrent systems with Akka.NET – Joe Wirtley |
| April | UI Tests are Fun to Write (if you Write them Right) – Seth Petry-Johnson |
| May | Introduction to Functional Programming with F# – Chris Lomont |
| June | Secure Applications, by Design – Craig Stuntz |
| July | Azure Functions in Action – Baskar Rao Dandlamudi |
| August | Event-Driven Architectures – Michael Levy |
| September | JetBrains Rider Tips and Tricks: Getting more out of your development time – Chris Woodruff |
| October | Lightning Talks |
| November | ASP.NET Core For Mere Mortals – Phil Japikse |
| December | No Meeting |
2017
| Month | Description |
|---|---|
| January | Creating Eloquent Code – Joe Wirtley |
| February | Bitcoin, Merkle Trees, and the Block Chain – Ken Baum |
| March | Take Your Site From Ugh to OOH with Bootstrap – Phil Japikse |
| April | Dockerize Your .NET Development Environment – Lee Brandt |
| May | Being More Productive with VS2017 and C#7 – Brian Sherwin |
| June | Lightning Talks From Crawling to Stumbling with Windows IoT – Hanen Alkhafaji and Ryan Donahue SpecFlow – Keith Bouas Semantic UI – Joe Wirtley |
| July | Flying High with Xamarin! – Sam Basu |
| August | Dealing with Database Sprawl in Azure – Mike Wood |
| September | Digital Payments in a Mobile World – Parag Joshi |
| October | Rebooting the ASP.NET Franchise – Jay Harris |
| November | A Feature Based approach to Software Development – Ryan Lanciaux |
| December | No Meeting |
2016
| Month | Description |
|---|---|
| January | Generics in .NET – Joe Wirtley |
| February | Introduction to ‘Enterprise’ Event-Driven Architecture – Shawn Wallace |
| March | Programs that Write Programs: How Compilers Work – Craig Stuntz |
| April | First Look at EF Core 1 and MVC6 (ASP.NET Core 1) – Phil Japikse |
| May | Giving Clarity to LINQ Queries by Extending Expressions – Ed Charbeneau |
| June | F12: Tools and Tips for Tuning and Debugging the Web – Jared Faris |
| July | More Personal Computing with Smart APIs – Brian Sherwin |
| August | Full Stack Development with .NET and NoSQL YouTube – Matthew Groves |
| September | An Introduction to Azure Service Fabric – Mike Wood |
| October | How to Listen to What Your Software Is Telling You – Chris Farrell |
| November | The Past, Present and Future of 3D Printing – Bill Steele |
| December | No Meeting |
2015
| Month | Description |
|---|---|
| January | Defense in Depth with AOP – Nerdy Beardo |
| February | MVVM for WPF with a sprinkling of NUI – Phil Japikse |
| March | The Leadership Journey – Jim Holmes |
| April | Hypermedia – The Ignored Constraint – Mike Levy |
| May | How to Train a Tree – Steve Daum |
| June | Lesser Known Design Patterns – Ken Baum |
| July | SSG Agile Software Development Process – Josh Gold |
| August | A Lap around ASP.NET vNext! – Sam Basu |
| September | Fluent Migrator: Managing SQL Objects from within Visual Studio – Keith Callis |
| October | TypeScript – Dale Alleshouse |
| November | Getting Started with AngularJS + WebApi – Eric Wise |
| December | No Meeting |
2014
| Month | Description |
|---|---|
| January | The Art of Decision Making – Keith Engelhardt |
| February | Hitchhiker’s Guide to the NetDuino Galaxy – Carey Payette |
| March | Quickly Build a Cross-Platform Application for Windows 8 and Windows Phone – David Giard |
| April | A tour of functional programming in C# – Ben Kyrlach |
| May | “OMG! This Codebase Sucks!” Paying Down Technical Debt While Continuing to Deliver Value – Jim Holmes |
| June | RavenDB: NoSQL is Rapping at Your Door – David Neal |
| July | Five Lightweight Windows Azure Features for Fast-Moving Mobile Devs – Mike Wood |
| August | Navigating AngularJS – Ryan Lanciaux & Joel Lanciaux |
| September | SOLID Design Patterns for Mere Mortals – Phil Japikse |
| October | Lightning Talks Overview of Jenkins – Matt Anderson Flatten the Database – Steve Daum Microsoft Kinect v2 for Windows – Ben Green 2D Barcodes – David Shattuck Semantic Merge – Bob Sledge |
| November | Don’t be a stereotype, rapid prototype – Edward Charbeneau |
| December | No Meeting |
2013
| Month | Description |
|---|---|
| January | I’m Not Dead Yet! AKA The Resurgence of Web Forms – Phil Japikse |
| February | Windows 8 and Near Field Communication – Parag Joshi |
| March | The class that knew too much: refactoring spaghetti code – Matt Groves |
| April | Design Principles for Coders – Keith Engelhardt |
| May | Open discussion |
| June | The future is Futures – Michael Levy |
| July | Instrumenting Your Code for Better Performance using ETW – Dan Moyer |
| August | Rails for the .NET Developer – Jamie Wright |
| September | Application Security: What you don’t know can hurt you – Joe Kuemerle |
| October | Building Composite XAML Applications with Prism – Brian Lagunas |
| November | I Only Want to Write My App Once: Using Xamarin to Build Multi-Platform Mobile Apps – Jerrel Blankenship |
| December | No Meeting |
2012
| Month | Description |
|---|---|
| January | Making Crazy Money with Games and the Cloud – Brian Prince |
| February | Making a Mockery of Hard to Test Code – Phil Japikse |
| March | A Sneak Peek of Visual Studio & Team Foundation Server 11 – Randy Pagels |
| April | The Windows 8 platform for Metro style apps – Jennifer Marsman |
| May | Managing Code Complexity – Mark Haskamp |
| June | It’s Only Aweso Without Me/How to Learn – Jeff Blankenburg |
| July | Programming with the OSS ‘Cloud-Stack’ – Mike Amundsen |
| August | Testing the Security of Your Web Apps with Backtrack 5 – Bill Sempf |
| September | Getting to Know Visual Studio 2012 – Jim Holmes and Justin Kohnen |
| October | Building Rich User Experiences without JavaScript Spaghetti – Jared Faris |
| November | Technical Debt – Elizabeth Naramore |
| December | No meeting |
2011
| Month | Description |
|---|---|
| January | Defensible .NET – Jason Montgomery |
| February | Pivot and the Silverlight PivotViewer Control – Joe Wirtley |
| March | Going for Speed: Testing against Performance Expectationsl – Jay Harris |
| April | Goodbye Entity Framework 1, Hello Entity Framework 4!- Steve Michelotti |
| May | Deliver Cleaner Code with LINQ to Objects – Phil Japikse |
| June | FAIL – Anti-Patterns and Worst Practices of Software Development – Steve Smith |
| July | An Introduction to Visual Studio LightSwitch – Dan Moyer |
| August | Data Visualization – David Giard |
| September | You – Leon Gersing |
| October | Test Automation Isn’t All Shiny Toys – Jim Holmes |
| November | A match in the clouds! – Samidip Basu |
| December | Tea, Earl Gray, Hot! The Rise of Personal Replicators – Bill Steele |
2010
| Month | Description |
|---|---|
| January | Extending your Application with the Managed Extensibility Framework – David Giard |
| February | Python 101 for the .NET Developer – Sarah Dutkiewicz |
| March | MIX 2010 Overview – Jeff Blankenburg |
| April | Introduction to Unit Testing – Jim Holmes |
| May | Five Classic Patterns in Everyday Code – Mike Wood |
| June | Silverlight 101: Write your first Silverlight Application – Mike Eaton |
| July | Testing .NET Code with Ruby – Tim Wingfield |
| August | Why Spring.Net will change your life forever, for free, right now. – Mike Levy |
| September | Windows Workflow Foundation – Mel Grubb |
| October | Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 – Jim Holmes and Justin Kohnen |
| November | Introduction to Windows Phone 7 Development – Matt Middendorf |
| December | Lightning Talks – various presenters |
2009
| Month | Description |
|---|---|
| January | Cancelled due to weather. |
| February | An Intro to Web Programming: Understanding the “Series of Tubes” – Justin Kohnen |
| March | Coding in Public – Alan Stevens |
| April | Introduction to WCF – Dan Rigsby |
| May | Beginning Silverlight 2- Robert Lair |
| June | Improving our craft: A Discussion on Software Estimation – Mike Eaton |
| July | Three Tips to Improve your Development Process – Jim Holmes |
| August | Production Debugging: Tools & Techniques for when things go *really* wrong – Scott Walker |
| September | What’s New in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 – Jim Holmes & Justin Kohnen |
| October | SOLID Software Design Principles – Jon Kruger |
| November | Mobile Application Development: A Cross Platform Introduction – Nino Benvenuti |
| December | Source Control Smackdown 2009 – Ryan Cromwell, Leon Gersing, Joe Wirtley |
2008
| Month | Description |
|---|---|
| January | Be a Rules Follower – Mike Wood |
| February | Visual Studio 2008 Tour and Install Party – Justin Kohnen |
| March | Soft Skillz. Geeks Need ’em Too. – Brian Prince |
| April | Windows Presentation Foundation – Ryan Cromwell |
| May | Pointing and Laughing: A SharePoint introduction for designers, developers and IT pros – Leon Gersing |
| June | Getting Started With the ASP.Net MVC Framework – Tim Wingfield |
| July | Hands On Agile Practices v.2 – Alexei Govorine |
| August | Visual Studio Reporting – ReportViewer control, RDL, Reporting Services, in Visual Studio 2008 and SQL 2008 – Bill Vaughn |
| September | Microsoft Project Astoria and the Semantic Web – Chris Woodruff |
| October | An Introduction to ASP.NET AJAX – Wally McClure |
| November | Test Driven Development (TDD) and NHibernate – Phil Japikse |
| December | Lightning Talks jQuery – Justin Kohnen Gallio – Phil Japikse Balsamiq Mockup –Joe Wirtley Developing DSLs via fluent interfaces in C# – Leon Gersing |