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Original Post: Presented at the Chattanooga Area .Net User Group
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On January 13, I had the opportunity to present at the Chattanooga Area .NET User Group. This is one of the trips where you are glad to be from Tennessee as Chattanooga is located on the east side of the state and is much prettier than Memphis (which is on the West side of the state). On top of that, this UG has it going on!
Eric King is the leader and founder of the group. They have an average of 80 attendees which places them on a list of above average user groups in the U.S. Plus, Eric is passionate about community efforts and thus is on INETA's UG Relations Committee.
Eric and I had lunch together where we discussed INETA, differences between his UG and the Memphis group, Quilogy, and Atomic. Afterwards, we had an interview filmed for a upcoming INETA UG leader resource CD. He asked me several questions about being an RD, on the INETA Speakers Bureau, and running an user group. It was enjoyable and I appreciate that he thought my opinions are of value in this initiative.
That evening at the UG meeting, I did the first take on a new presentation that I recently created. Titled the same as our book "Building Solutions with .NET Compact Framework", the presentation is structured just as the book. We start out looking at the Mobile Development Landscape, then the Architectural Principles of PDA Development, and then explore Developer Challenges. I believe the topic was well received and hopefully it had an impact towards getting others to look at this type of development. My big demo of the night is a desktop application that talks to a cradled Pocket PC, enables .NETCF profiling (a little known secret), pulls back the performance report, and displays in a ListView control on the desktop. It uses a library from OpenNetCF that allows a developer to use RAPI to do several things including a managed interface to CeCreateProcess, CeRegistryXXX functions, and CeFileCopy. .NET and VS helps me do the rest.
Thanks, Eric, for a wonderful trip. I don't mind coming back to Chattanooga anytime! Eric's contact info is below:
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