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May is here and with it comes a lot of spring activity in the local community!

MS Enterprise Developer & Solution Conference – May 5-6th

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 in large enterprise organizations a clear roadmap of the Microsoft Application Platform. You will get to hear directly from Microsoft’s customers and partners on:

Cloud Computing in the Enterprise
Application Life Cycle Management
Creating Impact with Silverlight, WPF and Surface

The event has been “sold out” for some time now, but all of the sessions are going to be recorded and streamed online live. If you weren’t able to get a ticket to the Enterprise Developer & Solution conference, tune in today & tomorrow to: http://entdevcon.telligent.com/

NJ SQL Saturday – May 16th

Do you want to learn SQL Server Performance Tuning Strategies from the Pros? Then come join the NJ SQL Server User group for a free Saturday event that includes 4 sessions on Performance Tuning Topics! The event will be hosted at the Microsoft office in Iselin, NJ from 8:15am – 3pm. Breakfast & Lunch will be served.

User Groups

Of course, don’t forget about your local user groups! There’s never been a better time to come out each month and network with your peers as you learn about the latest developer technologies. Each month, industry experts come to speak at user groups throughout the area.

These groups attract both local and national expert speakers. Two prominent speakers this month include Richard Campbell, of .NET Rocks fame, at the Long Island .NET group on May 7th and Martin Fowler, of Thoughtworks & Enterprise Patterns series fame, at the NY Alt.NET group on May 20th.

These meetings are all volunteer driven and free! They’re success depends on your participation. So don’t let a valuable resource go to waste!

Here’s the full area user group line up for May 2009…

New Jersey

User Group Name	Location	Date	Topic & Speaker
NJ MS Developers Group	Iselin, NJ	5/7/2009	What’s New in Internet Explorer 8 for Developers – Peter Laudati
Northern NJ .NET User Group (N3UG)	Parsippany, NJ	5/12/2009	Azure – Scott Watermasysk
Central NJ .NET User Group	East Windsor, NJ	5/14/2009	TBD – Check site for details
NJ SQL Server User Group	Iselin, NJ	5/16/2009	NJ SQL Performance Tuning Saturday – SPECIAL SATURDAY EVENT in MS Iselin, NJ office! See site for registration.
NJ SharePoint User Group – NOTE: New URL!	Iselin, NJ	5/20/2009	The Discipline of Findability – Bill English
PhillyNJ.NET	Greenwich, NJ	5/28/2009	ASP.NET MVC – Dan Boris

New York

User Group Name	Location	Date	Topic & Speaker
NY Enterprise Windows User Group	New York, NY	5/7/2009	TBD – Check site for details
NY PC Visual Basic SIG	New York, NY	5/4/2009	Nifty things with Windows Forms – Dave Kulick
Long Island .NET User Group	Melville, NY	5/7/2009	The Scaling Habits of ASP.NET Applications – Richard Campbell
NYC SharePoint User Group	New York, NY	5/6/2009	Architecting a Highly-Available SharePoint Farm – Michael Noel
NYC SharePoint Developer Group	New York, NY	5/26/2009	TBD – Check site for details
NYC Connected Systems Group	New York, NY	TBD	TBD – Check site for details
NYC .NET Meetup Group	New York, NY	5/19/2009	Open discussion on current .NET issues.
NYC .NET Developers Group	New York, NY	5/21/2009	Getting Started with Windows Azure – Erik Stepp
NY Metro SQL Server User Group	New York, NY	5/28/2009	TBD – Check site for details
International Association of Architects (IASA) NYC	New York, NY	5/26/2009	TBD – Check site for details
NYC VSTS User Group	New York, NY	5/26/2009	Best Practices for SharePoint Development & VSTS with Team Foundation Server – Vincent Trepanier
NYC ALT.NET	New York, NY	5/20/2009	Domain Specific Languages – Martin Fowler – NOTE: Special date & meeting location this month.
NYC Microsoft Azure Group	New York, NY	TBD	TBD – Check site for details

Connecticut

User Group Name	Location	Date	Topic & Speaker
Fairfield/Westchester .NET User Group	Stamford, CT	5/6/2009	What’s New in Internet Explorer 8 for Developers – Peter Laudati
Fairfield/Westchester .NET SQL Server User Group	Stamford, CT	5/13/2009	TBD – Check site for details
Connecticut .NET User Group	Farmington, CT	5/12/2009	TBD – Check site for details
Fairfield County Share Point User Group	Fairfield, CT	TBD	TBD – Check site for details

Pennsylvania

User Group Name	Location	Date	Topic & Speaker
Pittsburgh .NET User Group	Pittsburgh, Pa	5/19/2009	Silverlight 3 Double Dose – Pete Brown
Philadelphia SQL Server User Group	Plymouth Meeting, Pa	5/14/2009	Topic 1: Advanced Analytics and Dashboards – Kevin Bucher Topic 2: Query Fingerprints & Plan Fingerprints – Damien Johnson PSSUG Appreciation Night – Special meeting this month at Dave & Busters in Plymouth Meeting, Pa!
Lehigh Valley .NET User Group	Center Valley, Pa	5/18/2009	TBD – Check site for details
Central Penn.NET	Harrisburg, Pa	5/19/2009	Silverlight Toolkit – Brian Mains
Philly.NET	Malvern, Pa	5/20/2008	Topic 1: Intro to MVC – Andy Schwam Topic 2: Building DevEvents.com with MVC – Steve Andrews
Philly.NET Hands On Labs	Fort Washington, Pa	5/26/2009	Hands On Lab – MVC Part II – Rob Keiser, Bill Wolff, and 60 friends with laptops!
.NET Valley	Scranton, Pa (University of Scranton – Hyland Hall)	5/21/2009	WinForms to WPF/Silverlight – Making the Switch – John Baird
Philadelphia Area SharePoint User Group	Malvern, Pa	5/27/2009	TBD – Check site for updates
Philly Office Geeks	Malvern, Pa	5/12/2009	NewsGator for Social Networking – Ashley Roach
Philly Alt.NET	Philadelphia, Pa	5/5/2009	Mobile “i” for the .NET Guy – iPhone Dev – Alex Hung
Philly Alt.NET Foundation Series	Fort Washington, Pa	5/13/2009	Foundation Workshop Series 3 – Design Patterns – Erik Peterson

Delaware

User Group Name	Location	Date	Topic & Speaker
Delaware .NET User Group	Newark, DE	TBD	TBD – Check site for updates
Northern Delaware .NET User Group	Newark, DE	5/28/2009	TBD – Check site for updates