Boston Area SharePoint Users Group February 13th, 2012 Meeting

Please note the date change for this month's meeting!!
The Boston Area SharePoint Users Group (Baspug) was founded to bring together like minds to network and share their experiences, triumphs, and tribulations around Microsoft SharePoint, to provide a community platform for Boston area SharePoint users, administrators, developers, architects, of all experience levels, even brand new to SharePoint, to share their knowledge with the community. We meet on the 2nd Wednesday of every month at either the Microsoft New England Research and Development Center in Cambridge, Ma, or at the Microsoft office in Waltham on Jones Road.
PRESENTER The presenter for our next meeting is Rob Windsor, Developer Evangelist for Allin Consulting . He will be presenting "Integrating SharePoint 2010 and Visual Studio Lightswitch"
Session Abstract Visual Studio LightSwitch is a tool that's designed to let power users build data-centric business applications for the desktop and cloud. The tooling takes care of code generation, data access and common infrastructure needs, allowing the application builder to focus on business logic. If enhanced functionality is required, developers can extend the application with custom .Net code. In terms of data access, LightSwitch applications can use many data sources including SharePoint 2010 list data. The tooling uses a combination of the client object model and the Rest Api, so the integration is rich and powerful. In this session, you'll see how to build LightSwitch applications that use data from SharePoint 2010.
About Rob Rob Windsor is Senior Developer Evangelist with Allin Consulting based in Boston. He has over seventeen years experience developing rich-client and web applications with Delphi, VB, C# and VB.Net and is currently spending a majority of his time working with SharePoint. Rob is a regular speaker at conferences, code camps, and user groups across North America and Europe. He regularly contributes articles and videos to MSDN, TechNet, and the Pluralsight On-Demand library and is the co-author of Professional Visual Basic 2010 and .Net for Wrox. Rob is the founder and part-president of the Toronto Visual Basic User Group and has been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for his involvement in the developer community.