--- title: "Sunday at the VB.Net users group: Software Architecture: Techniques, Methods, and Issues" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/9/1/sunday-at-the-vbnet-users-group-software-architecture-techni.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/9/1/sunday-at-the-vbnet-users-group-software-architecture-techni.html" published: "2004-09-01T03:32:00" updated: "2004-09-01T03:32:00" tags: [".Net Original"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "I hope to see you this sunday at the VB.Net users group meeting. should be really fun! here's the invitation letter: Once again, in BIG BOLD LETTERS – PLEASE NOTE THE 1-TIME DAY CHANGE !!! This month we will be meeting…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Sunday at the VB.Net users group: Software Architecture: Techniques, Methods, and Issues By Roy Osherove September 1, 2004 In [.Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original) **Historical article** · Originally published September 1, 2004; technical details may be outdated. _I hope to see you this sunday at the VB.Net users group meeting. should be really fun! here's the invitation letter:_ Once again, in **BIG BOLD LETTERS – PLEASE NOTE THE 1-TIME DAY CHANGE !!!** This month we will be meeting on **SUNDAY Sept 5**.  Other than that – same time, same place.  The goal of this month's speaker, [Natty Gur](http://weblogs.asp.net/ngur), is to share with us the various techniques, methods, and issues when addressing software system architecture.  Natty is an independent consultant on architecture and design to many organizations.  He is very passionate about software architecture and will provide an overview of different classical and more recent approaches.  Although we all love to see code, it is important to occasionally take a step back and look at how we should address the "big picture".  As always, we'll have our special "Hatzilu" session at our meeting. So please come prepared to discuss your most frustrating problems (or at least some of them !) and to share some of your own techniques and solutions that you have found useful in your applications. The September meeting of the Israel Visual Basic User Group [http://www.renaissance.co.il/ivbug](http://www.renaissance.co.il/ivbug "http"): **Sunday September 5, 2004 ** **Location****:** **Microsoft Israel** **2 Hapnina St****, Ra'anana** **(09) 7625-100** **Floor 0 , Dekel Room** **It is the new building across from Amdocs.** **After the first traffic circle, there is an area for parking on the right.**  17:30 - 18:00   Assembly 18:00 - 18:05   Introduction and miscellaneous 18:05 - 19:15    **“Software Architecture: Techniques, Methods, and Issues – Part 1****”** [Natty Gur](http://weblogs.asp.net/ngur)  \- Independent Consultant and MS MVP 19:15 - 19:30    Break 19:30 – 19:45   "Hatzilu !"                         Open session, with questions and answers/ideas from everyone 19:45 - 20:45   **“Software Architecture: Techniques, Methods, and Issues – Part 2****”** [Natty Gur](http://weblogs.asp.net/ngur)  \- Independent Consultant and MS MVP ## More in .Net Original [All posts in .Net Original](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-original) - Sep 3, 2004 ### [WilsonORMapper at version 3.0, and what's an OR mapper anyway?](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/9/3/wilsonormapper-at-version-30-and-whats-an-or-mapper-anyway.html) - Sep 3, 2004 ### [Testing GUIs and customer tests using FIT](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/9/3/testing-guis-and-customer-tests-using-fit.html) - Aug 30, 2004 ### [Simple data binding simplified using \[BindToField\] and \[BindToValueList\]](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/8/30/simple-data-binding-simplified-using-bindtofield-and-bindtov.html) - Aug 26, 2004 ### [Revisited: Killing a process, Introducing: TaskKiller](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/8/26/revisited-killing-a-process-introducing-taskkiller.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. 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