Last night we had about 60 people at the Atlanta MS Pros user group listening to Jim Wooley talk about the migration path developers currently using Linq to SQL might use to move to the Entity Framework. Jim has some deep history with Ling, including being the coauthor of the Manning Press book Linq...
Don Browning from Turner Broadcasting came out of the fun buildings which bring you the Cartoon Network (and those other channels) to talk to the group about the new architecture features of Visual Studio 2010. Those changes include: 6 new designers case model – a visual view of user stories (including...
Please join us on Monday, October 1 at 6:30 PM for the monthly Atlanta Cutting Edge .NET / MsPros / VB Study Group meeting. Note, for this meeting we will be meeting at Turner in midtown (1015 Techwood Drive) rather than the usual Microsoft offices. If you haven't attended meetings in the past due to...
The Atlanta Microsoft Professionals group has been through more than one change in its history. It started life as the Atlanta.NET Mobility group, but was probably before its time. Next came the AMP name and the SharePoint 1, 2, 3! training sessions. The 18 hours worth of presentations and hands on labs...
Excellent turnout in terms of percentages at last night’s SharePoint 1, 2, 3! Level 200 presentation. We had 23 people registered to attend and where we normally experience between 25% and 40% drop-off, last night we saw only a 17% drop-off. That means that 19 people were in attendance last night. Several...
There is still room for attendees. Register for tonight (seminar presentation) Register for tomorrow (hands on lab) Thanks in advance to everyone for coming out and supporting us!
This past Monday was a meeting of the Atlanta Microsoft Professionals, and we featured Karl Rissland, a Microsoft BizTalk technical specialist. Karl was a great presenter and I'm only sorry that I was so late getting the newsletter out because we didn't have a very large crowd. Another reason we might...
Popping up just in the nick of time as I work on a project dealing with unmanaged code, Jeffery Richter gave us a great presentation on threading and reliability. Among the things I learned...IntPtr is bad. Time to go rewrite some code! Stupid examples.... We had about 60 people show up for Richter's...
First of all, does everyone know who Jeffery Richter is? He's a cofounder of Wintellect , he's the author of several books, including this one , he supposedly contributes to this blog (although I can't find any of his posts after 3 seconds of searching), and he apparently owns a cat (we'll forgive him...
Last night 27 people showed up to the cross user group holiday party/Visual Studio Launch Event recap. I gave a quick slide deck based recap of the Launch Event content (the web slide deck is now online at the Atlanta MS Pros website ). Chris Wallace followed me with some great demos of new ASP.Net features...
The demand for the Hands on Labs was so high that we overran our capacity by more than double! We had enough space for 15 people to have PCs and we managed to squeeze 35 people into the room, not counting the 8 people there as instructors! Dan Attis did a great job with the content and leading people...