UPDATE: RSVP's are maxed out and we are going to be packed tonight. Feel free to come out and hang out anyways, but it may be standing room only.

May 2009 Meeting

Please join us for a entertaining and interactive session! As always, we’ll have FREE food, drinks, and prizes for attending!

Please join us on May 6th for a special event. Shannon Davidson & Tom Dupont from CodeSmith will lead a code-heavy discussion around the PLINQO project - focused on "supercharging" LINQ to SQL.

In the time that LINQ to SQL has been available, we have been identifying ways to make LINQ to SQL better. We have compiled all of those cool tips and tricks including new features into a set of CodeSmith templates. PLINQO opens the LINQ TO SQL black box giving you the ability to control your source code while adding many new features and enhancements. It's still LINQ to SQL, but better!

Attendees will receive a fully-licensed copy of CodeSmith Professional 5.0, so please RSVP NOW!  Seating is limited.

Meeting Information:

PLINQO - Supercharged LINQ to SQL

Speaker:  Shannon Davidson & Tom Dupont
Date:  Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Time:  6:00 - 8:30
Location:  Intuit Headquarters
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For more information, please check out the following:

• The PLINQO Website
• CodeSmith Professional
• Microsoft's LINQ to SQL Documentation

Speaker Bios:

Shannon Davidson lives in Grapevine, TX and has a bachelor's degree in Math and Computer Science from East Central Oklahoma University. Shannon is currently the General Manager for CodeSmith Tools and has over ten years of development experience that includes ASP.NET, C#, SQL Server and Smalltalk. Before CodeSmith, Shannon spent 5 years in the automotive industry at Reynolds Web Solutions/Third Coast Media working on CRM and websites and 4 years in the insurance industry at Cybertek working on GUI front-ends sitting on top of mainframes. In his spare time, he enjoys long walks on the beach while sipping a swiss mocha.

Tom DuPont lives in the Dallas, Texas, where he is a Software Development Engineer at CodeSmith Tools, LLC. Tom is a .Net developer, specializing in C# and ASP.Net MVC; he is also well versed in Javascript and the ExtJS framework. Tom has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas. While Tom doesn't mind long walks on the beach, he much prefers long rides across the country on his motorcycle.

Door Prizes

Make sure to attend, because in addition to our awesome presenter, we have some way cool prizes, including:

CodeSmith Professional v5

MindJet MindManager Pro 8

Balsamiq Mockups

JetBrains ReSharper v4.1

Sponsors

Thanks to our sponsors for this event:

NorthDallas.net gracoiusly thanks Intuit for their continued sponsorship
and support. Without their fine meeting facilities awesome team members, our meetings would not be possible.

For more information, please visit: http://www.intuit.com/