Welcome to the Lincoln .NET Users Group

The Lincoln .NET Users Group was founded in September 2008 by Adam Barney and Ken Versaw. We currently have over 100 members of the group, with anywhere from 30-60 members attending each meeting. Our monthly meetings cover a wide variety of .NET topics suited for beginners and experts alike. We strive to deliver the best speakers from local and national sources while providing a valuable networking environment for our growing developer community. Our sponsors are integral to our success, and we do all we can to make thier partnership with our group a worthwhile one for both the sponsor and our users. If you have any questions about the group, or sponsorship, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Our next meeting...

WPF / MVVM / Entity Framework in Visual Studio 2010

3/24/2010 6:00:00 PM

Location: Nebraska Book Company - 5240 S. 19th Street

WinForms have been good to us over the ages. In the world of rich media, however, WinForms falls flat. They do not have the aesthetic appeal we’re looking for in graphically appealing applications. Windows Presentation Foundation has allowed us to go to a whole new level by providing tools for developing powerful, easy to customize applications. In this presentation, Brian Swiger will give you an overview of the features of WPF and the tools in Visual Studio 2010 RC. He will discuss why you might want to consider using WPF for your next client application.  We will also examine the Model-View-ViewModel design pattern used in formulating WPF applications, including a brief introduction to the integration and leveraging of the Entity Framework as an Object-relational mapper.  This discussion is focused towards people with no WPF experience.