SharePoint User Group UK

6pm – 9pm followed by the usual SharePint

Session 1: Chris O'Brien, MVP
SharePoint, jQuery and AJAX - a beginner's survival guide

It takes a different approach to build SharePoint apps with a slick AJAX experience - getting rid of those nasty postbacks involves declining some help from .Net and learning new techniques. Whilst the answers often lie with the Client Object Model and jQuery, both are hefty topics so the barrier can be intimidating. This talk aims to boil things down to "3 core techniques to survive by", with step by step demos to show the development process. Tips and tricks such as enabling jQuery intellisense, debugging JavaScript and using JSON will be covered. To pull the concepts together, the session will round off with a demo migration of an existing mini-application from postbacks to AJAX. Building custom SharePoint experiences that users love is simpler than you think!

Refreshments (yup, the bacon butties are back!)

Session 2: Open Q&A Session – Ask The Experts
In a similar format to the Best Practices Conference "Ask The Experts" feature we will be providing an open forum for you to come and ask us anything about SharePoint and we'll do our best to answer them. You are more than welcome to answer questions yourselves. Audience participation is highly encourage here! We will have a great panel including, Chris O'Brien, Brett Lonsdale, Myself, Sam Dolan, Alex Pearce and anyone else I can collar into coming along.

Please help to spread the word about SUGUK in the North West. Far too many people still don't know we exist. Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, down the pub. Let people know we are here.

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Mark Stokes
SharePoint Studio
http://www.sharepointstudio.com
http://twitter.com/MarkStokes

As it stands at the moment, I should be able to come along :)

I'll be there - looking forward to some dev. content.

Going to try and make it along this time - looking forward to it!

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http://www.thesharepointbaker.co.uk
@sharepointbaker

I'll be there... Questions in hand, butty in the other :)

Count me in!

Cheers, Ken

Count me in

Hi Mark Please count me in? Looking forward to both sessions. Thanks Jon

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Jon Taylor

@jtredbase

I'll definately be there - will be my first one too!

Duncan

Hi Mark, I'd like to attend.

Cheers
Phil Harding.

count me in please

I'll attend

I'm looking foward to my first session, but very much a newbie to sharepoint dev

Hi Mark

Sounds a good session, count me in.

Cheers
Alex

Count me in Cheers

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Andy Hodges
www.sharepointrescue.com

@andyrhodges