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Unfortunately, the Greater New Orleans .NET User Group August meeting will be cancelled. :( However, there is good news: it's cancelled because Joe Healy, the scheduled speaker and Developer Evangelist from Tampa, had his baby a month early. Well,...

The Austin .NET User Group will have noted author and guru Rockford Lhotka down to present on Creation of Distributed Object-Oriented Applications in .NET . This presentation will explore his Component-based Scalable Logical Architecture (CSLA) for .NET...

My counterpart DE from Tampa Bay, Joe Healy, will be present Untangling the Knot: VS.NET 2005 Beta 1 (Whidbey) Exploring VS.NET 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0 Enhancements at the Greater New Orleans .NET User Group (GNONUG) on August 9. Joe's quite a...

I will be presenting an Introduction to ASP.NET 2.0 at HAL-PC's C# SIG August meeting on August 11 at 7:00 PM. On threat of lynching, I will make sure that all demos are in C# and that there is no VB to be found anywhere in the building! :-) Where...

The Houston .NET User Group will be hosting a Whidbey InstallFest as a special event on Tuesday, August 3rd at the Houston Microsoft Office (where HDNUG usually meets). We will be installing the Express versions of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005...

Well, this didn't happen when I first installed the Express Editions (Web Developer Express and SQL Server Express), but when building my demo image for the Express products using the bits downloaded from MSDN Subscriber Downloads, I ran into the same...

It's out! :D I'm installing it now. Playing with SQL Server 2005 Express edition is nice, but it doesn't have all of the cool new tools that are in Big Daddy Yukon, like Reporting Services, Notification Services and DTS. And it doesn't have the administration...

If you are reading about this for the first time in my 'blog … well, color me twelve shades of surprised. Just in case you haven't heard, we've released the Express editions if Visual Studio 2005 to the web for any and all to download and play...

Well, we had a “Community Leader Appreciation Night” for Houston last night ... we got a suite at Minute Maid Park, had hamburgers, hot dogs and beer and generally had a good time. It was great to hang out with a bunch of other geeks and watch...

Well, you've found my little corner of the blog space. Welcome! I'd like to tell you a little bit about myself. My name is J Sawyer and I'm a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft based in Houston, TX. I'm associated with the Gulf Coast District, which...