Philadelphia VFP User Group
Wednesday, April 5, 2006 (Note: not our usual meeting date)
7 PM (Optional: Meet for dinner at 6 PM in the food court)

Topic: Introduction to .NET (from a VFP perspective)
This discussion will include: an overview of the VS2005 environment, and general project structure; C# or VB?; Windows Forms; Creating classes/subclassing Winform controls; Data binding and data binding interfaces; Building a data access layer; Typed datasets; Distributed architectures with web services and remoting; String and date operations; Reflection and type discovery and uses of interfaces; Delegates and events; Miscellaneous tips

Speaker: Kevin S. Goff
Kevin S. Goff is the founder and Principal Consultant: Common Ground Solutions. He has 18 years experience - NET/SQL Server/Crystal Reports/Visual FoxPro and is a 2005-2006 Microsoft .NET MVP for C#. Kevin is the author of “The Baker’s Dozen” series in CoDe Magazine (Productivity Tips for .NET, Crystal Reports, and T-SQL) and one of the 2005 Personalities of the Year on the Universal Thread for .NET and SQL Server.

Kevin's current activities include multiple .NET project contracts, writing regularly for CoDe magazine, a book contract with Apress on Reporting Solutions in VS2005, a contract to write exam questions for VS2005 certification exams, speaking at 2005/2006 Dev TeachOffsite link to http://devteach.com, MSDN CodeCamp, and .NET User Groups, the Common Ground Framework for .NET (free framework). He has awards and citations from the Dept. of Agriculture and large corporations.

Reach him at www.commongroundsolutions.net, kgoff@commongroundsolutions.net. Read his blog at http://www.TheBakersDozen.net.

Location: Church on the Mall, Plymouth Meeting Mall, Plymouth Meeting, PA
Directions to Plymouth Meeting Mall at
http://www.shopplymouthmeetingmall.com/pages/aboutus/directions/index.jsp