Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 20:10:39 -0400 From: events@bostondotnet.org Subject: Boston.NET UG May 14 meeting On May 14th the Boston.NET User group will be holding these events: 04:00pm-05:00pm Executive Committee 05:00pm-06:30pm Training - Emerging XML Standards that will shape the future of XML 06:30pm-08:30pm Main meeting and presentation on .NET Code Access Security Please register for each event that you plan to attend. This helps us plan for future events. Thank you. Planning is underway for our September meeting - 3rd party vendor night. We are in urgent need of vendors to consider for this event. If you are interested in a 3rd party .NET product please send the name of the vendor, product name, url and contact info to 3rdpartynight@bostondotnet.org. Thank you. ============================================================= Here's more information on the May 14 events. This information is also available at bostondotnet.org. Executive Committee ------------------- Planning for upcoming meetings, group organizational issues, and web site developoment project. This meeting is open to all members, but please register as space is limited. View the Agenda in the Executive Committee area before the meeting. Training - Emerging XML Standards that will shape the future of XML ------------------------------------------------------------------- In November of 2002, the W3C put out three new Working Drafts that will have considerable impact on the future use of XML. The XPath 2.0 Working Draft, the XSLT 2.0 Working Draft, and the new XQuery 1.0 Working Draft are all documents designed to help facilitate the use of XML in Enterprise application development. Many of the key features of the XML Schema specification have been incorporated into all three proposed standards. During the presentation, I'll give a general overview of what has changed from the XPath/XSLT 1.0 specs to the proposed XPath/XSLT 2.0 working drafts. In addition, insights into the impact that these updated and emerging standards will have on the future of XML will be discussed. Main meeting and presentation on .NET Code Access Security ---------------------------------------------------------- Most programmers have difficulty understanding security issues. It is easy to take any .NET assembly and expose it to other machines through .NET remoting, or as a Web service. Programmers cannot assume that the software they are developing will only live on a single machine. Your technology can easily be exposed to the outside world, and that means exposing it to hackers. Code Access Security (CAS) helps deal with this problem by allowing you to place limitations on the code itself, irrespective of the user id under which the code runs. This talk will review the key parts of Code Access Security as well as examine some common scenarios of how CAS is used.