.NET presented by Jim Holmes President & Founder Dayton .NET Developers Group
Tuesday, June 28 at University of Dayton Campus, Dayton, Ohio No charge.    Please bring a friend.    Guests welcome. Please join us Tuesday night, June 28, 2005 for this free presentation at the University of Dayton. Go to O'Leary Auditorium in Miriam Hall. We'll begin at 7:30 p.m. Bring a friend. .NET by Bob Kwater, Editor The DataBus

Each year, thousands of companies turn to .NET—the Microsoft strategy for the implementation of Web services.to connect people, information, systems, and devices through innovative software solutions. Integrated across the Microsoft plat form, .NET empowers businesses to quickly build, deploy, and manage connected, security-enhanced solutions. In short, .NET helps businesses realize the promise of information anytime, anywhere, on any device.

Budgets are limited. Demand is great. Time is short. Everywhere in business, software has a direct impact. At the business and public sector level, we've captured the everyday, essential activities—payroll, accounts receivable, spreadsheets, and word processors.in desktop software programs.

.NET is the Microsoft Web services strategy to connect information, people, systems, and devices through software.

Say you have a stand-alone inventory system. If you don't connect it to anything else, it's not as valuable as it could be. The system can track inventory, but not much more. You may have to enter inventory information twice—once in your accounting system and once in your customer relationship management system. The inventory system may be unable to automatically place orders to suppliers. The benefits of such an inventory system are diminished by high overhead costs.

However, if you connect your inventory system to your accounting system, it gets more interesting. Now, whenever you buy or sell something, the implications for your inventory and your cash flow can be tracked in one step. If you go further, and connect your warehouse management system, customer ordering system, supplier ordering systems, and your shipping company, suddenly that inventory management system is worth a lot. You can do end-to-end management of your business while dealing with each transaction only once, instead of once for every system it affects. That's a lot less work.and a lot less opportunity for errors.

Web services (.Net) allow the applications to share information through the Internet, regardless of the operating system or back-end software that the application is using.

Dayton.NET Developers Group is part of a large network of individuals throughout the country interested in helping developers, tech leads and managers keep current with the latest in .NET technology, industry best practices and trends. They hold monthly meetings at 6pm on the fourth Wednesday of each month at New Horizon's Fairborn location (map at http://snurl.com/fofq). Membership in the DDNDevGroup is free! Anyone interested in .NET technology can join.

This month at DMA^® our guest speaker is Dayton.NET Developers Group founder and President, Jim Holmes. Jim has been involved with computers since the early 80s, having started with Basic on a friend's Radio Shack "Trash 80" while in high school, then moving on to 6500 series processors in Air Force technical training, and taking several decades to finally build his first PC in June of 2005.

His varied career has included positions as a radar technician on USAF E-3 AWACS aircraft, wine sales clerk, hotline telephone support tech, network manager, systems engineer, and software engineer. His domain experience also includes test engineering, USAF electronic technical manuals, and customer relations management.

Jim's currently the principal of Iterative Rose Solutions, LLC, a company he founded to further his interests in agile, iterative software development with a focus on the .NET platform. He spends his scant free time roasting and drinking coffee, puttering around in his rose garden, and trying to recover from working at home while taking care of his family's two small children.

Learn more about .NET at:
www.microsoft.com/net
www.gotdotnet.com
www.daytondevgroup.net

Come out to the Dayton Microcomputer Association meeting on June 28 7:30pm O.leary Auditorium in Miriam Hall on the campus of the University of Dayton. There is no charge. Parking is free in .C. lot. Guests are always welcome. Bring a friend.

Bob Kwater, Editor
The DataBus
editor@dma.org

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