Please join us on Thursday, October 25^th for our next meeting.  This month Mark Davey will be presenting information on Silverlight.  We'll listen to the presentation on Silverlight and then we'll have time for questions and then we can open the floor for some round-table type discussions.  When you come to the meeting bring with you ideas for the upcoming meetings, we can also discuss getting a special presenter to come to Evansville and talk with us about a topic.  We haven’t yet decided on a meeting topic for our next meeting so we’re looking for ideas and volunteers!

Food will be provided by Atlas World Group!  As usual we will be giving away some free stuff!  This merchandise has been donated to our group by Microsoft and Culminis.

Be sure to note the change in our start time…we’ll start at 5:30PM instead of 5:00PM.

We hope to see you all on Thursday!

Thank you.

Bart A. Robinson

http://www.evansvillednug.org

Date: 10/25/07 [Thursday]

Time: 5:30 - 7:30 PM

Where: Evansville Public Library - Central branch (Browning Events Room B)

Topic: Silverlight

Presenter: Mark Davey

We had 17 people attend this month's meeting.  This month’s meeting was our discussion about Silverlight.  Mark Davey presented this topic for us, Thanks Mark!  Mark needs a rest, he’s been gracious enough to present for that last two months and we all really appreciate all his hard work.

I'd like to thank Atlas World Group for supplying our group with pizza and drinks!  I know everyone really enjoyed it.  For our next meeting I need someone to volunteer to provide the food, I don’t yet have a company to sponsor our meeting…if your company is interested please contact me.

As usual we gave away all kinds of free stuff at this meeting…I think everyone who attended the meeting took something home with them!  We gave away Windows Vista Ultimate Edition, Microsoft Expression Web, T-Shirts, etc.  I should be getting another shipment soon…so I’m sure I’ll have some more goodies for our next meeting.

Mark gave us an overview of Silverlight and left us with lots of links so that we can learn more about this exciting new technology on own.  Here are the links to the sites/materials that he used as reference for his presentation:

Presentation

Space war game

DR Popper

Silverlight 1.0 Demos

Silverlight bookmarked links

I’ve uploaded some of the source code that Mark showed us to our website for you to download, it is available under our Resources section and then under Presentations & Source Code.

We are going to combine the meetings for Novemeber/December together do to the Holiday’s and everyone having extremely busy schedules.  So our next meeting will be the first week of December and we’ll be talking about the LINQ Project.  I know I can’t wait!  It will be a very interesting topic…come to think of it, aren’t they all!

Upcoming Meetings:

Thurs, December 6 from 5:30 – 7:30 PM [LINQ Project]

January 08 [TBD]

Upcoming Topics:

Visual Studio Team System

MVC

Frameworks

BizTalk

SharePoint

Google APIs, hacks, tips, etc.

LINQ project

SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)

If there is something that you'd like to hear about that we don't already have listed, please send it to me and we'll see about working it into an upcoming meeting.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me anytime.

Thanks.

Bart A. Robinson

http://www.evansvillednug.org