The night was humid…
… so we spent it at a local .NET User Group meeting! If you’re looking for one, you can always check https://www.codezone.com, https://www.southcentraldevelopers.com or this blog – https://blogs.msdn.com/chkoenig. Here is the list of upcoming events that I just sent to the MSDN Flash editors:
- Friday, September 12, 2008 11:30 AM: Bartlesville .NET User Group Monthly Meeting - Topic: Windows Communication Foundation Agenda: 11:30-11:45 Grab your lunch provided by Oaktree Software. 11:45-12:30 Technical Presentation. 12:30-12:45 Door prizes and wrap up. Door Prizes Include: 1 - License of Code Rush and Refactor!Pro 1 - License of Resharper 1 - License CodeSmith Pro 1 - License Nevron Charts 1 - License of ASP.NET Ajax, RadControls for Silverlight, or Telerik Reporting (Your Choice)
[ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] - Saturday, September 13, 2008 9:00 AM: Houston TechFest - Houston's premier tech event. Over 50 sessions and lots of giveaways. free t-shirts and lunch for pre-registrations
[ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] - Tuesday, September 16, 2008 7:00 PM: Dallas XNA Usergroup Monthly Meeting - Every 3rd Tuesday at the SMU Guildhall (Building 2), we meet to discuss how to develop video games & interactive media using the XNA framework for deployment on Xbox 360, Windows and Zune.
[ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] - Friday, September 19, 2008 11:30 AM: Bartlesville .NET User Group - Study Group - Meet to study for the first test for the MCTS certification: Exam 70-536: TS: Microsoft .NET Framework, Application Development Foundation
[ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] - Saturday, September 20, 2008 8:00 AM: North Texas PC User Group - SIGs on various subjects, regular 3rd Saturday meeting at King of Glory Lutheran Church
[ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] - Saturday, September 20, 2008 11:00 AM: NTPCUG Microsoft ACCESS SIG - NTPCUG Board Member and Leader of the Alpha Five SIG Bill Parker will kick off our "What is the competition to Access?" presentations with "An overview of Alpha Five". Did you know our NTPCUG meeting check-in database is one that Bill created in Alpha Five?
[ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] - Monday, September 22, 2008 6:00 PM: Tulsa SQL Server Group - Boyd Evert will be presenting Designing and Optimizing Partitioned Tables.
[ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] - Tuesday, September 23, 2008 9:00 AM: Microsoft ArcReady: Architecting Modern Distributed Applications - Nearly every application we build today has dependencies to other systems. How do we design them to work together to meet our goals? How do we decide what to build and what to buy? Do we host it ourselves or in the cloud? With a bewildering array of choices, the biggest challenge we face today is how to architect robust applications with the right technologies to meet our user’s needs and integrate nicely into our existing IT ecosystems. Join our Central Region Architect Evangelists for a great discussion on architecting distributed applications using all the latest technologies and best practices. Session 1: Blueprints for Success. Session 2: Making It Real
[ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] - Tuesday, September 23, 2008 1:00 PM: MSDN Unleashed - Session 1: Demystifying WPF Session 2: Developing Applications with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1
[ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] - Tuesday, September 23, 2008 6:00 PM: Dallas .NET New Technology - Chapter 4 (Hosting WCF Services) of the book Learning WCF by Michele Bustamante. Contact robvettor@hotmail.com for more info.
[ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 9:00 AM: Microsoft ArcReady: Architecting Modern Distributed Applications - Nearly every application we build today has dependencies to other systems. How do we design them to work together to meet our goals? How do we decide what to build and what to buy? Do we host it ourselves or in the cloud? With a bewildering array of choices, the biggest challenge we face today is how to architect robust applications with the right technologies to meet our user’s needs and integrate nicely into our existing IT ecosystems. Join our Central Region Architect Evangelists for a great discussion on architecting distributed applications using all the latest technologies and best practices. Session 1: Blueprints for Success. Session 2: Making It Real.
[ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 1:00 PM: MSDN Unleashed - Session 1: Demystifying WPF Session 2: Developing Applications with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1
[ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] - Thursday, September 25, 2008 9:00 AM: Microsoft ArcReady: Architecting Modern Distributed Applications - Nearly every application we build today has dependencies to other systems. How do we design them to work together to meet our goals? How do we decide what to build and what to buy? Do we host it ourselves or in the cloud? With a bewildering array of choices, the biggest challenge we face today is how to architect robust applications with the right technologies to meet our user’s needs and integrate nicely into our existing IT ecosystems. Join our Central Region Architect Evangelists for a great discussion on architecting distributed applications using all the latest technologies and best practices. Session 1: Blueprints for Success. Session 2: Making It Real
[ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] - Thursday, September 25, 2008 1:00 PM: MSDN Unleashed - Session 1: Demystifying WPF Session 2: Developing Applications with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1
[ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] - Friday, September 26, 2008 11:30 AM: Bartlesville Sharepoint User Group - This will be the first meeting of the Bartlesville Sharepoint User Group. Please join us in kicking this group off right! Lunch will be provided.
[ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] - Monday, September 29, 2008 6:00 PM: TulsaDevelopers.NET - Jason Townsend will be presenting SOA with Windows Communication Foundation
[ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] - Monday, October 06, 2008 6:00 PM: Fort Smith .NET User Group October Meeting - Scott Cate Back presents on Back Button Support in ASP.NET AJAX
[ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] - Tuesday, October 07, 2008 5:30 PM: NWA DNUG: Scott Cate Back button support for ASP.NET Service Pack1 - The Northwest Arkansas Dot Net User Group will meet from 5:30 to 8:00 PM October 7th at The Jones Center 922 East Emma Avenue Springdale, AR 72764 Room 113. Scott Cate will talk about "Back button support for ASP.NET Service Pack1" This is a free event and RSVP is required . For more information, contact Zach Young at officers@nwadnug.org, or for more details and to RSVP go to https://snipr.com/3a5bd.
[ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] - Wednesday, October 08, 2008 6:00 PM: DFW Connected Systems User Group - A real-world example of creating a BizTalk platform to reliably process messages asynchronously and sequentially.
[ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] - Thursday, October 09, 2008 8:00 AM: TulsaTechFest 2008 - Two full days of awesome technical training. Free event, but we are "charging" TWO CANS or TWO BUCKS for local charity!
[ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] - Thursday, October 09, 2008 6:00 PM: Dallas .Net Users Group - Norm Headlam, Fidelity Investments - Windows Communication Foundation
[ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] - Tuesday, October 14, 2008 6:00 PM: AlamoCoders monthly meeting - AlamoCoders is an active .NET user group in San Antonio, meeting every 2nd Tuesday. At this month's meeting Tim Quinn, from Wachovia, will give a presentation on Computer Graphics in C#. Come on out and join us at New Horizons Training Center. Food is provided and we will have a drawing for door prizes.
[ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] - Saturday, October 18, 2008 8:00 AM: North Texas PC User Group - SIGs on various subjects, regular 3rd Saturday meeting at King of Glory Lutheran Church
[ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] - Saturday, October 18, 2008 11:00 AM: NTPCUG Microsoft ACCESS SIG - Topic "Queries - Simple and Not So Simple", Regular 3rd Saturday Meeting at King of Glory Lutheran Church
[ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] - Tuesday, October 21, 2008 6:00 PM: DFW Sharepoint Community - Objective: To provide Resources for Success through monthly meetings and our On-line Knowledge Forum. Who Benefits: End-users, Developers, Architects or Executives contemplating,designing, administering or using SharePoint Technologies. The DFW SharePoint Community is the only dedicated North Texas SharePoint forum to promote: Sharing of SharePoint "Best Practices" and Successes. Exchange for Issues and Work Arounds. Exposure to Certified 3rd party add on products. Connection Point for market and Microsoft SharePoint resources.
[ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] - Monday, November 03, 2008 6:00 PM: Fort Smith .NET User Group November Meeting - Tim Rayburn presents Parallel Programming in .NET
[ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] - Friday, November 14, 2008 8:00 AM: Agile Dot Net Conference - The Agile Dot Net Conference is an exciting one-day event specifically designed to bring together the world of .Net with the world of Agile methodologies. Designed for both those experienced with Agile techniques and for those that are new to world of Agile, attendees can expect interesting, real-world experience presentations from some of the industry’s leading Project Managers, Developers, and Business Analysts who have embraced Agile principles within .Net development environments. Join in to hear how they have implemented Agile techniques in their projects and organizations – they will discuss the successes and the challenges.
[ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] - Saturday, November 15, 2008 8:00 AM: North Texas PC User Group - SIGs on various subjects, regular 3rd Saturday meeting at King of Glory Lutheran Church
[ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] - Saturday, November 15, 2008 11:00 AM: NTPCUG Microsoft ACCESS SIG - Topic "Starting an Application - Not 'From Scratch'". Regular 3rd Saturday Meeting at King of Glory Lutheran Church
[ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] - Saturday, December 20, 2008 8:00 AM: North Texas PC User Group - SIGs on various subjects, regular 3rd Saturday meeting at King of Glory Lutheran Church
[ Event Details | Map & Directions | Add To Calendar ] - Saturday, December 20, 2008 11:00 AM: NTPCUG Microsoft ACCESS SIG - Topic: "Potpourri – Bring Your Questions and Your Thinking Cap" Regular 3rd Saturday Meeting at King of Glory Lutheran Church
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Whew! That is a busy district! If you are a User Group leader or event organizer and you don’t see your upcoming events listed here, please head over to https://www.communitymegaphone.com and enter your events in today. They’ll be in the next issue of the MSDN Flash!
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