Iowa .NET User Group

August 2008 Meeting

When:	August 13th, 2008
Where:	Two Rivers Marketing 107 E 5th St Des Moines, IA 50309 Map
Agenda:	5:45 PM - 6:15 PM: Free Pizza & Soda / Announcements 6:15 PM - 7:45 PM: Presentation 7:45 PM - 8:00 PM: Drawings & Giveaways
Topic:	Simplify XML Processing using LINQ to XML LINQ technology in .NET 3.5 has some great hooks into XML that make using XML documents a breeze. This seminar will explore how you will put this technology to work in your applications. Many XPath queries can be greatly simplified using LINQ. Besides the obvious advantages of using LINQ to iterate over XML data you can also use it to create and process XML documents. One great way you can use XML is in prototyping, another is to merge XML data with Word 2007 documents. In this seminar you will learn to use LINQ to XML for real world applications.
Presenter:	Paul D. Sherriff Paul D. Sheriff is a recognized leader in the Visual Basic development community and the Microsoft Regional Director for Southern California. Paul is a frequent speaker at Microsoft Developer Days, Microsoft Tech Ed, Microsoft "MSDN Presents", Access/VBA Advisor Developer Conferences, and user groups across the country. Paul is a contributing editor to Access/VBA Advisor magazine. You can also see Paul teaching .NET on Microsoft WebCasts and with Blast Through Learning videos (www.blastthroughlearning.com). Check out Paul's book "ASP.NET Developer's Jumpstart" with co-author Ken Getz.