9/10/08 Meeting

Held at Robert Half Offices 18200 Von Karmen in Irvine , Ca. Suite 800
6 "newer" members attended

RHT generously provided sandwiches/cookies/drinks !!!

NOTE: The parking is expensive adjacent to the building
After hours - "Free Parking" is available in the Allergan building
on Michelson / Von Karmen. This is a "little walk" to the 8200 Building.


RoundTable Summary

We had a lively discussion and demo of DNN implementations. 
A lot of DNN tips ....

Bruce D 
Q. DNN Timeout using Dev Express control / callback
A. Suggest adding javascript settimeout to call a dummy page on the server to keep the session going.

Philip H.
Q. DNN 3.x - Devexpress Grid Support in Asp.Net 1.x ?
A. .... 
Suggest Upgrade to DNN 4.x ( and all the re-testing )

Bruce D / Michael A.
Demo their DNN Website for Manufacturing Products / Request for  Quotes
	- approx. 300 users
	- One Custom Module approach:
	- heavy use of DevExpress Ajax controls
	- Extended DNN User Membership Attributes with a wrapper on UserInfo class
	Extended the DNN UserInfo class which "queries" the standard Membership
	data to add a separate query to the "extended attributes table"
	- based design concepts on Forums module
	
Philip and Brian - 
Demo DNN Website Review Concepts - Custom E-Commerce Store
	- One Custom Module approach:
	- extensive use of XSLT to render HTML
	backend stored procedures use sql queries with "For XML" to 
	convert Database data to XML for XSLT rendering.

DNN Architecture
	Discuss use of windows authentication using Active Directory ( DNN has a "plugin" for AD )
	Use of Active Directory shifts responsiblity for maintaining
	users / passwords to Corporate Security group and supports a
	"single signon" environment.

Henry V - Riverside Group had Tues Meeting Topic on
Virtualization 101 - Stephen Rose

use external USB HD 7200 RPM
using Virtual Server 2005


James B.

Q. DNN ECommerce ?

A.  consider: Catalook
http://www.dnnsoft.com/

??? software not that flexible for your business




Raffle a Camtasia License 
Henry V.

Telerik Rad Controls
Michael A

TrainingSpot - sql / SSRS / Sharepoint
James B

LVS - Learn Visual Studio .Net
Brian D

Mandeep Singh Controls - meetmandeep@hotmail.com
Darcy M

1 DevExpress Controls - CodeRush / Refactor
Walter P

Book 1
Kenny J.

Book 2
Joe G.