The group seemed to grow to a standard “over 25” group; this is the second or third week in a row that all the regular seats were full.  I have to say that says that Paul and Keith are doing a great job.  This group is a great group for people to talk with each other at the beginning and at the break; I guess they have something in common, like computers.  There were a bunch of new faces in the crowd and it was great to meet some of the local Atlanta Bloggers that showed up for the meeting.  Keith and Paul gave the standard introduction and there were a few job announcements.  Keith then jumped into his talk about Threading.  I call it that because he mostly talked about classes in the System.Threading namespace.  From what I heard from people in the audience the section on Locks was one of the best they had ever seen before!  Wow what a compliment (Great job Keith and keep it up).  After that we had a session of make the Microsoft man talk as much as you can and complain about the new products as much as you can.  We asked questions about the next Visual Studio coming out and about how pricing might be structured.  The funny part was we really didn’t have any concrete answer aside from the fact that he said they can’t give away a product that has taken a while to make.  After we had finished announcements for Code Camps and asking the Microsoft Man questions we moved on to Mitch’s presentation on C# 2.0.  Unfortunately we had spent so much time on breaks and other taking that he was not able to give his full presentation.  He was able to cover generics and anonymous method calls both of which he did a wonderful job on.  Hopefully he will be able to finish up the presentation at one of the other user groups.  Make sure if you attend a user group that you go around and at least say hello to other people in the room, they may be interested in talking with you if you are interested in .NET. 

-- Brendon Schwartz