Columbia .NET User Group

Location:
Midlands Technical College - Northeast Campus/Center of Excellence for Technology
The Auditorium
151 Powell Rd.
Columbia, SC 29203

(803) 691-3925

Map http://www.midlandstech.edu/northeastmap-b.htm

Event Date: Thursday, September 02, 2004 

6:00 PM

Tour of the Center of Excellence for Technology Manufacturing Floor

Midlands Tech has done an excellent job in cooperation with local businesses in establishing an impressive facitilty.  I had the opportunity to take this tour last year, and I must say I was impressed.  They are offering our members a tour of the facilities, and I highly recommend it!

6:30 PM

Registration and Networking

Registration and Networking

Meet and Mingle.  The time before the meeting is a great time for networking with other developers in the area. Have some (free) pizza and refreshments.  Any handouts and pizza will be available on a first come first served basis.

6:45 PM

Announcements

Introductions and Announcements

We announce the results of the naming competition and last month's survey, as well as other club business, upcoming events and happenings within the community, and words from our sponsors.
Speaker - Committee

7:00 PM

Spotlight Presentation

Integrating InfoPath forms into your application using WSE 2.0

Microsoft InfoPath can interact with Web Services to allow for rich form functionality. Out of the box, InfoPath only supports accessing Web Services across an HTTP connection. Consequently, this means that to integrate InfoPath into your solution, you must host your Web Services in an HTTP server (IIS or http.sys included in Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP SP2). Many times, this configuration is not supported in the environment that your application executes within.

 However, with the introduction of Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Microsoft InfoPath, Microsoft made available the InfoPath SDK. With the InfoPath SDK, it is possible to write code for InfoPath from within Visual Studio 2003. We'll go through the steps necessary to add WSE 2.0 to your application and to your custom InfoPath form so that you can interact with the data structures exposed by your application. This allows you to expose the rich forms editing capabilities of InfoPath to your users thereby reducing the development time involved with UI development while also allowing your business domain experts to define their own forms based on the Web Service API you expose.

This presentation will take you through the steps necessary to integrate InfoPath forms with your Windows applications using WSE 2.0. It will also demonstrate how you can expose Web Services in your .NET Windows Forms application using WSE 2.0.

Michael Earls is a Microsoft technology solutions consultant working for Magenic Technologies.  He began his software development career in 1996 when Microsoft launched the Activate the Internet campaign.  At that time he was a developer on one of the first online catalogs for an international publishing company.  His industry experience includes financial services, supply chain management, consumer marketing services, e-commerce, Internet services, travel services, and telecommunications.  He enjoys building puppets and composing electronic music in his spare time.  Michael maintains an active Weblog at http://www.cerkit.com/.

Speaker – Michael Earls

About 8:00 PM

Raffle and Conclusion

Raffle

Door prizes - lots of goodies.

Must be present to win.

Speaker - Committee