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Here in Mid Atlantic, we are blessed with a vibrant community with great energy and a ton of local events (code camps, SharePoint Saturdays, SQL Saturdays, and of course hundreds of local user groups every year). In discussions with the developer community leaders in Mid Atlantic, lots of folks have...

Today’s the day! We’re bringing a full day of Visual Studio 2010 and Office 2010 content to Arlington, VA to celebrate the launch of these products. I’ll be presenting on Windows development in Visual Studio 2010, as well as developing for Windows Phone 7. Looking forward to seeing folks from the local...

For those who don’t subscribe , here’s my local editorial for the MSDN Flash newsletter for Mid-Atlantic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ff603519.aspx There’s info on upcoming local Visual Studio 2010 launch events, upcoming Code Camps , free software for small web shops from WebsiteSpark, and more...

I already announced our upcoming Mid-Atlantic Roadshow stops for this next quarter, but I figured those of you who read my blog who aren’t in Mid-Atlantic might be interested in finding out about the roadshows coming to your area. Thankfully, my colleague Peter Laudati already put together a list of...

My colleague Peter notes an opportunity today for some free access to great content: Today and tomorrow is the Microsoft Enterprise Developer & Solutions Conference in NYC.  The Enterprise Developer and Solutions Conference will provide developers, architects and key business decision makers...

Are you ready for some great tech news this week? Well, stay tuned here and to the Live MIX site for all the latest from MIX 09. I got in a bit late last night, thanks to a delayed flight, but I’m up early as usual (see here for more on 0 Dark 30 ), and getting ready to go for a walk, and perhaps a swim...

I may regret this at some point, but for those who missed my growl-fest at the MVP Summit last week, here’s the video, as recorded by W. Kevin Hazzard . There are at least two other videos floating around out there, but this is the first one I was able to lay hands on…enjoy!

Unfortunately have some bad news to share. Due to unforeseen circumstances, we’ve had to cancel our Richmond, VA (3/10) and Roanoke, VA (3/26) MSDN Roadshow stops. Folks who registered should be receiving an email informing them of the cancellation. I’ll post an update with information on our event plans...

We’ll be in Reston, VA next week to talk about all things Windows Client. Here’s the session list: Around the World of Windows Client in 75 Minutes Create Rich User Experiences with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Re-use Your Skills and Code to Expand the Reach of Your Apps with Silverlight Developing...

The MSDN Mid-Atlantic Roadshow rides again…our next series of roadshow events kicks off later this month in Reston, VA. Currently, we’ve got the Reston event, and also a roadshow stop scheduled for Richmond, VA in March. We’ll have more cities to announce soon, but I wanted to get word out about these...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area: Monday, January 12, 2009 6:00 PM: SoMD .NET User Group: Sessions Vs ViewState Vs ??? - James Pendarvis will discuss different techniques for passing state data between pages. Meetings are held in #205...

If you haven’t yet registered for the MSDN Developer Conference this Friday, January 16th in Reston, VA , you are running out of time! If you miss this great event, you’ll miss out on: Great content from the PDC, live and local, covering Windows Azure, ASP.NET, Oslo, Visual Studio Team System 2010, F#...

Wow…2009 already. I’m back from a nice long vacation, and there’s a lot coming up, so let’s get to it! Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area: Thursday, January 08, 2009 6:00 PM: RV.NUG January Meeting: MVC - NOTE: Second Thursday due to...

We have 80 people registered for this event next week in Washington, DC but still have a few seats open.  If you want to get a Jumpstart on Live Services, take a minute now to register for next weeks free training event. Want to build traffic, drive user engagement and influence behavior through...

For folks who are not able to make it to PDC next week, fear not…there’s some good developer stuff for you, too, if you’re in the DC area. TechDays DC will be running October 28th-30th in Arlington, VA. Here’s the agenda: Oct. 28th – WebDev Fundamentals – Moving Beyond ASP.NET Topic 1: Introduction to...

If you haven’t yet registered for the MSDN Roadshow events taking place this week in Roanoke and Baltimore, you’re almost out of time. I’ll be storming Roanoke tomorrow with my road trip buds Zhiming Xue and Ashish Jaiman for a full day of web development goodness. Here’s the agenda:   8:30-9:00...

[bumped and updated] For folks who attended my MSDN Event yesterday in Reston, covering WPF, Windows Vista Security, and .NET 3.5 SP1, here’s where you can get the decks and some of the code from those talks ( I’m seeing if we can get the rest of the code up there, or if there’s another way I can get...

OK, so I’m a day late with this, but I plead travel, as I’m on the road at VSLive! New York through Wednesday. Anyway, here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so) for the Mid-Atlantic area: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 6:30 PM: RockNUG September Meeting - Jessica Moss...

Why do I have the Beastie Boys running through my head this morning? Oh yeah, it’s because I’ll be in Brooklyn, NY this week for VSLive! New York . I’m doing two sessions: Controlling AJAX when You’re Out of Control – Monday, September 8th, 1:45-3:00pm Geocoding, RSS, and Mapping, Oh My! – Wednesday...

The Richmond community is celebrating the launch of SQL Server 2008 with their Community Launch Event featuring information on SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008. Food, fun, giveaways, and best of all, free education! When: Saturday, August 16th, 2008, 10:00 PM - 2:00 PM Social Time starts at 9:45...

Great idea from Chris Williams and the Twin Cities XNA User Group : The Twin Cities XNA User Group is throwing their first ever charity event! Admission to this event is $10 (ten bucks!!) and that covers entry into what just might be the biggest Halo 3 tournament you've ever seen. We'll also have a room...

Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so): Tuesday, July 22, 2008 6:30 PM: Maryland and Pennsylvania .NET User Group July Meeting - This month MAPAMDUG presents their Heroes Happen Here community launch [ Event Details | Map | Add to Calendar ] Thursday, July 24, 2008...

Frank La Vigne has created a very cool plug-in for Windows Live Writer that allows you to insert links to Community Megaphone events into any blog post. So if you happen to be promoting your events on Community Megaphone (and if not, why not?), you can then easily add links to more information about...

My colleague Glen Gordon has found a new use for the geoencoded RSS feed from Community Megaphone , namely using it as the basis for a custom Collection in Windows Live Search for Mobile : If you haven't been entering your developer events like user group meetings and code camps into the extremely useful...

My colleague Zhiming Xue is hosting a cool event this Friday that you don't want to miss: You are cordially invited to join us in a full-day event for developers and designers. Our first TechFest series will focus on how to use Microsoft latest web design and development technologies and tools such as...