Guest speaker Andrew Duthie (Microsoft's Developer Evangelist for the mid-atlantic) will be giving a presentation on the Security Block of Enterprise Library:
The Microsoft Enterprise Library Security Application Block, version 1.0, helps developers implement common security-related functionality in their applications. Applications can use the application block in a variety of situations, such as authenticating and authorizing users against a database, retrieving role and profile information, and caching user profile information. The Security Application Block has the following features:
It reduces the requirement to write boilerplate code to perform standard tasks.
It helps maintain consistent security practices, both within an application and across the enterprise.
It eases the learning curve for developers by using a consistent architectural model across the various areas of functionality provided.
It provides implementations that you can use to solve common application security problems.
It is extensible; it supports custom implementations of security providers.
If you have not heard Andrew speak before, I highly recommed it. He's a great presenter and the material he is presenting is, as I understand it, brand new so it should be very interesting! (For more information about the Security Block, check out the webcast, slides, and hands-on lab over at p&p live.)
If that's not enough, we will also be giving away one free license to ReSharper - a developer IDE plug-in for Visual Studio .NET and C#!
For more details and directions to our meeting, please visit the WeProgram.NET web site! See you there!