The Lubbock Community Launch of SQL Server 2008 will be held on Tuesday, May 20th from 6 PM to 8 PM at Smooth Fusion, located at 5502 58th Street, Suite 500, just west of the South Plains Mall, behind Home Depot. We will be looking at the latest version of Microsoft SQL Server with all of the new features.

We will giving away several door prizes, including several versions of Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition as well as some TechNet Plus subscriptions.

Please RSVP to info@ldnug.net by Monday, May 19th. If you have already accepted through the CodeZone, you do not need to reply.

The Lubbock Community Launch of Visual Studio 2008 will be held on Tuesday, April 15th from 6 PM to 8 PM at Smooth Fusion, located at 5502 58th Street, Suite 500, just west of the South Plains Mall, behind Home Depot. We will be looking at the latest version of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework with all of the new features.

We will giving away several door prizes, including several versions of Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition.

Please RSVP to info@ldnug.net by Monday, April 14th. If you have already accepted through the CodeZone, you do not need to reply.

The February meeting of the Lubbock .NET Users Group will be held on Tuesday, February 19th from 6 PM to 8 PM. The meeting will be held at Tyler Technologies-Incode, located at 5808 4th Street (Frankford Ave. & 4th St.) behind the First United Bank building.

Shane Shepherd will present an overview of the ASP.NET MVC Toolkit, the new toolkit that provides model-view-controller (MVC) support in ASP.NET. MVC is currently part of the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview.

As usual, we will have pizza as well as some door prizes. So that we know how much pizza to have available, please RSVP by February 18th to info@ldnug.net.

For additional information, please send an email to info@ldnug.net.

UPDATE: The meeting has been postponed to next Tuesday (1/22). Sorry for any inconvenience.

The January meeting of the Lubbock .NET Users Group will be held on Tuesday, January 22nd from 6 PM to 8 PM. The meeting will be held at Tyler Technologies-Incode, located at 5808 4th Street (Frankford Ave. & 4th St.) behind the First United Bank building. Our speaker this month is courtesy of INETA. Caleb Jenkins will be presenting this month and his topic is "Silverlight with Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Studio". We will be looking at Silverlight, 1.0, 2.0 (formally 1.1); where we are today, and where we're going tomorrow. This talk will be an exciting look and provide great insight in to the future of web applications!

As usual, we will have pizza as well as some door prizes. So that we know how much pizza to have available, please RSVP by January 21st to info@ldnug.net.

For additional information, please send an email to info@ldnug.net.

The December meeting of the Lubbock .NET Users Group will be held on Tuesday, December 11th from 6 PM to 8 PM. The meeting will be held at Tyler Technologies-Incode, located at 5808 4th Street (Frankford Ave. & 4th St.) behind the First United Bank building. Our presentation, by Christopher Reed, will be the third installment on ASP.NET controls. In this session, we will take a look at the new AJAX controls that come with Visual Web Developer Express 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5.

As usual, we will have pizza as well as some fabulous door prizes, including a copy of Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate.

So that we know how much pizza to have available, please RSVP by December 10th to info@ldnug.net.

For additional information, please send an email to info@ldnug.net.

The November meeting of the Lubbock .NET Users Group will be held on Monday (note the day change), November 12th from 6 PM to 8 PM. The meeting will be held at Tyler Technologies-Incode, located at 5808 4th Street (Frankford Ave. & 4th St.) behind the First United Bank building. Our presentation, by Christopher Reed, will be the second installment on ASP.NET controls. For this session in the series, we will take a look at the TreeView, Wizard, and Multiview controls as well as look at the Membership API and the ASP.NET Login controls.

As usual, we will have pizza as well as some fabulous door prizes.

So that we know how much pizza to have available, please RSVP by November 11th to info@ldnug.net.

For additional information, please send an email to info@ldnug.net.

The July meeting of the Lubbock .NET Users Group will be held on Monday, July 16th, (note the day change) from 6 PM to 8 PM. The meeting will be held at Tyler Technologies-Incode, located at 5808 4th Street (Frankford Ave. & 4th St.) behind the First United Bank building.

For this month's meeting, we will have Ken Getz, who is an INETA-sponsored speaker. Ken's topic is .NET Windows Forms Tips and Tricks. In this session, Ken will demonstrate several different techniques you can use when building Windows applications, including: Creating owner-drawn controls, binding controls to just about anything, exposing protected information with inheritance, handling thread synchronization with Windows forms, and creating your own property grid. The session covers a lot of material, but the included samples (in both C# and VB.NET) will allow you to review the material once you've returned home.

Ken Getz is a developer, trainer, and writer and is a Senior Consultant with MCW Technologies, a Microsoft Solution Provider specializing in mentoring, training, and development using Microsoft tools and products. Ken is also an instructor and courseware author for AppDev (www.appdev.com), co-writing their VB.NET, ASP.NET, VB, and Access courseware. He is also co-author of several best-selling development books, including ASP.NET Jumpstart (from Addison-Wesley, with Paul D. Sheriff), the Access Developer's Handbook series (from Sybex, with Paul Litwin and Mike Gunderloy), and VBA Developer's Handbook (from Sybex, with Mike Gilbert). You can find Ken's articles on .NET in MSDN Magazine, VS.NET Magazine, asp.netPRO, and VB.NET Advisor Journal. When not writing about technology, Ken speaks about it at many industry conferences, including Microsoft's Tech-Ed and DevDays, VSLive, DevConnections, Advisor DevCon, Informant's ODDC, and more.

As usual, we will have pizza as well as door prizes.

So that we know how much pizza to have available, please RSVP by July 15th to info@ldnug.net.

For additional information, please send an email to info@ldnug.net.

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