I had a chance to go to Joe Brinkman's presentation on DotNetNuke at CapArea.NET last night. As always, I was impressed by what a lively group they are, and Scott and I had fun giving away a bunch of swag. Next month's meeting should be good. Chris Kinsman...

It's almost too late to do this, but I wanted to publicly say how excited I am that Andrew Duthie agreed to join Microsoft as the .NET Evangelist covering the Mid-Atlantic region. Andrew is a well-known author , blogger , blogger , and blogger , and he...

A new .NET user group will be kicking off in Hunt Valley, MD, on Wednesday, October 27th. The group will meet at the System Source Training Facility . I've been invited to kick off the group with a presentation on SQL Server Reporting Services . I'll...

Brian Noyes of IDesign will be at DelMarVa.NET on Thursday, October 21st. Brian is my favorite former fighter pilot turned .NET guru. Update: The topic will be Querying XML Data with XPath in .NET. This meeting will be at 5:30 PM on Thursday, October...

The Washington Area SGML/XML Users Group is having its next meeting on October 20th at 7:00 PM at the American Geophysical Union , 2000 Florida Avenue NW. Sasha Schwarzman will present "XML-Centric Workflow Offers Benefits to Scholarly Publishers." In...

The National Capital Chapter of AIIM is hosting this meeting to discuss the state of the CMS industry. The speaker is Tony Byrne, the Founder and Editor of CMS Watch , a source of news and analysis about the content management industry. Mr. Byrne is the...

Richmond .NET will meet at 6:30 PM on October 13th to discuss Open Souce Development tools including NAnt, NUnit, and others. The speaker is Eric Meier , the Assistant Dean of Technology and CTO of the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of...

A speaker from SyncFusion will talk about Windows Forms programming at WeProgram.NET on October 12th . SyncFusion provides a set of components for doing Windows Forms programming, including Essential Tools, Essential Grid, Essential Chart, Essential Diagram...

Lehigh Valley .NET will hold its third meeting on Monday, October 11th. Mitch Ruebush , a .NET architect for ING Direct and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional will talk about Microsoft Team System . Team System is a set of tools that will ship with...

I'll be in Virginia Beach on Monday, October 11th doing a presentation to the Hampton Roads SQL Server User Group . I'll do a short review of the basics of SQL Server Reporting Services, then talk about some advanced concepts, including using custom ...

I'm just starting to learn the new content for the next set of MSDN Events which starts in October. We've got four topics: Optimizing ASP.NET 1.1 Web Applications , Membership and Personalization in ASP.NET 2.0 , Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) in VB...

There's an interesting piece of symmetry in the next couple of weeks. DotNetNuke and the Community Starter Kit are both starting points for creating community web sites. CapArea.NET has a meeting on DotNetNuke tomorrow night. Central Maryland ASP Professionals...

The next meeting of WinProTeam (formerly ASP Rockville) will be on October 6th from 6:00 - 9:00 PM. Directions are here . WinProTeam's Rockville and Vienna meetings have started to alternate. This month, WinProteam will meet in Rockville, but there is...

Alice Marshall has an interesting blog , with lots of coverage of NoVa/DC community, including a useful list of DC-based organizations.

The public sector developer team is holding another of their legendary partner dinners on October 20th. This will be a presentation on the new Microsoft Team System , Microsoft's new software development lifecycle tools that will ship with Visual Studio...

Windows SharePoint Services , built into Windows Server 2003 , can provide a low cost platform for building collaborative solutions. CapArea.NET's November meeting features a presentation by Lamont Harrington. Lamont Harrington is a Senior Web Developer...

I've been contacted by some beginners to .NET programming who want to start a Windows Forms Project Group. This group will meet weekly on Saturdays, starting some time in October, to build a project that uses a Windows Forms multi-tiered architecture...

CapArea.NET has a meeting tomorrow on the DotNetNuke toolkit . DotNetNuke is an open source hybrid of the IBuySpy Portal. that provides automated content management capabilities and tools to maintain a dynamic, interactive, and data-driven web site. This...

Jorge Balderas from Summa Technologies will be present for this meeting that combines the Pittsburgh Java and .NET User Groups. The presentation will focus on interoperability options between .NET and J2EE applications. This meeting will take place at...

WSE 2.0 is the latest version of Microsoft's Web Services Enhancements. It's our implementation of some of the Web Services Architecture (WSA) , and the 2.0 version includes support for the Oasis WS-Security standard . here's some information on new features...

Folks interested in DoD stuff may wish to go to this colloquium at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab. It will cover past DoD Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconaissance (C4ISR) constructs and...

Microsoft's Mobility Roadshow is all about providing answers to mobile development questions. This show will give you: A complete view of the .NET Compact Framework from the ground up and how it can be used within your application. Information on what...

The content from Frank Grimberg's ASP.NET Tips and Tricks seminar last Wednesday in Reston has now been posted here .

.NET Valley has a meeting this Wednesday, September 29th , at 6:00 PM in Luzerne County Community College . Jason Gaylord will present on Visual Basic 2005 . It's a great opportunity to wear your .NET Valley apparel . To register, please e-mail meeting...

Registration is going really well for Frank Grimberg's presentation tomorrow. When I asked Frank how he developed his content, he told me that he kept notes on everything that he found difficult when he was learning ASP.NET. Frank suffered, so you don...