One of the goals of the business intelligence initiatives is to improve the efficiency and accuracy of both short-term and long-term decisions through better access to data. It is incumbent upon the IT department to provide a platform that enables executives to have up-to-date internal and external information at their beck and call in a consistent and easy-to-use manner.
While there is no silver bullet for the difficulties surrounding the creation of a business intelligence delivery system, there are tools that can be used to help with certain areas of the deployment. The goal of this Architect's Breakfast session is to look at how SQL Server and SQL Reporting Services can help on the delivery end of this process. For more details, check out the complete session description here.
Andre King, Senior Consultant from ObjectSharp, will introduce you to ASP.NET, data binding, client-side data validators and more. Attend this free event and learn how you can create an ASP.NET application. More information and registration can be found at the
Canadian Technology Triangle web site.
You want to deliver enterprise data to your customers in a smart client application, but they want to use the tools they are familiar with: Word & Excel. While the VBA programming model is great for power users and occassional development, Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) lets you unleash your full professional development skills and the power of the .NET Framework to build robust applications. VSTO solutions are not only fully featured with things like spell checking and charting, they also make great Business Intelligence tools when fed data from your data warehousing system. In this webcast we will discuss the capabilities of VSTO 2003 available today and demonstrate the new 2005 version that will be available shortly. To register for this webcast, click
here.
This Level 300 presentation will provide a broad end-to-end architectural overview of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services. Topics include using SQL Server Reporting Services to implement, deploy, and manage reporting solutions, customizing reports and integrating reports into web and windows forms applications.
To register, visit http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032265546&Culture=en-CA
Next up in our continuing Architect's Breakfast series is application integration. This is a topic that is near and dear to the hearts of any developer that has needed to move data between systems that weren't designed to communicate datively. In this talk, some of the alternatives that are currently available will be discussed, including BizTalk Server, Sharepoint and InfoPath. Included in this presentation is a demonstration of a proof of concept application that integrates data from multiple sources using the orchestration and workflow functionality in BizTalk Server. For more information, including instructions on how to pre-register, visit
http://www.objectsharp.com/TTDInvitation/AppIntInvite.asp
This session provides an overview of how you can use the Visual Studio .NET 2005 project templates provided by Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System to create Smart Client solutions that use Microsoft Office Excel 2003 and Microsoft Office Word 2003.
Location: Microsoft offices in Montreal on 4th floor, 2000 McGill College coin De Maisonneuve O.
Locaux de Microsoft au 2000 McGill College, 4e étage (coin de Maisonneuve O.)
Location:Microsoft offices in Montreal on 4th floor, 2000 McGill College coin De Maisonneuve O.
SQL Server Montreal User Group http://www.ssmug.ca/
Montreal FoxPro User Group http://www.mfug.ca/
The announced Visual Studio Team System promises to raise the level of discipline in the way we develop software today. Firstly, a new diagramming capability is being added to allow for class diagrams and "service-oriented" design diagrams for both contract design and logical deployment. New features including support for test driven development and refactoring will increase developer productivity and discipline.
Speaking of testing there is a new "NUnit-style" framework that also support UI testing and Load testing. A new build environment called MSBuild combined with the new source control repository and its support for static code analysis and code coverage policies makes for a well rounded, full life cycle IDE.
In addition to the normal SWAG, we will be giving away an Xbox gaming system and a copy of Halo 2 at this meeting!
This presentation will focus on building Mobile applications using the .NET Compact Framework and SQL CE. It will demonstrate and review source code of a pre-built application. The session will explore:
- Using P/Invoke and why it is so important in the .NET Compact Framework
- Developing “Sometime Offline” Applications in the .NET Compact Framework
- Creating a Self-Updating .NET Compact Framework Application.
- Consuming Asynchronous Web Services calls
- Best Practices for using SQL CE
Attendees will also be given a link where they can download the application and its source code at the session. Click here to register.
The second in our continuing Architect's Breakfast series has been scheduled. Building on the goal of providing information about technology to help system architects make appropriate choices, we tackle one of the more common problems in software deployment - how to keep client systems up-to-date without compromising user interface functionality. The answer in the .NET world is Smart Client and in this seminar, some of the issues surrounding data access and security are discussed, along with the mechanics of Smart Client technology. For more information, including instructions on how to pre-register, visit
http://www.objectsharp.com/TTDInvitation/SmartClientInvite.asp.
This presentation will focus on building Mobile applications using the .NET Compact Framework and SQL CE. It will demonstrate and review source code of a pre-built application. The session will explore:
- Using P/Invoke and why it is so important in the .NET Compact Framework
- Developing “Sometime Offline” Applications in the .NET Compact Framework
- Creating a Self-Updating .NET Compact Framework Application.
- Consuming Asynchronous Web Services calls
- Best Practices for using SQL CE
Attendees will also be given a link where they can download the application and its source code at the session. Click here to register.