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SPONSORS needed for 2005 -- contact Chris Wallace now to SPONSOR a
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SPECIAL:
Countdown to Visual
Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005
Details below
Thursday, January 20, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. - with Breakfast,
Lunch and Door Prizes! FREE!
 Visual
C# 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0 – Joe Mayo
Visual
Basic 2005 and Windows Forms – Rod Stephens
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NEXT
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User Group Meeting
(4th Monday, monthly)
Monday,
January 24,
2005,
5:30 p.m.-9:00 p.m., Networking and Refreshments start 5:30 p.m.
Location:
Microsoft, Rocky Mountain
(Denver),
Directions and Maps
Address:
4643 S. Ulster St. (7th
Floor), Denver, CO 80237, Phone: 720-528-1700 |
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Building
.NET Solutions for Office System
with
Steve Milroy, RD, Connected Innovation |
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Office 2003 has a number of exciting new features that
leverage .NET to enable powerful enterprise solutions. These
features enable solutions involving forms automation,
document automation, workflow and integration with
SharePoint and enterprise systems. |
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Explore with Steve the new Office 2003 features that
leverage .NET including InfoPath 2003, Smart Docs, Visual
Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) and Information Bridge
Framework (IBF). We will look at solution scenarios and how
to get started building .NET solutions for Office System. |
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Updated 02/02/2005
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Steve Milroy's presentation! |
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From:
"Microsoft Office developers get own venue" December 21, 2004,
Builder.com
Click
here for story.
Confab dedicated to custom development with the Office
System, Microsoft touts Office as an application platform. The company
expects about 800 developers to participate in the conference. Find out more
details in this
news
story.
GET:
2-Days FREE Training!
Enterprise Ascend Smart Client Training.
All travel related expenses are the responsibility of
the attendee. February 22 and 23, 2005, All Day, Location: Microsoft
Conference Center, Silicon Valley, CA. Contact Chris Wallace for details and
password code to register. |
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From:
"Developing Office 2003 solutions with .NET" August 26, 2004,
Builder.com
Click
here for story.
Getting Office applications to talk to each other used
to mean writing some VBA code. But developers should start looking to the
future of Microsoft programming, Visual Studio .NET. Get started with this
simple VB.NET application
here.
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Steve Milroy
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Steve Milroy is an industry leader with smart client,
mobility and emerging technology solutions. Steve is currently
working on a number of .NET, mobile/wireless, Office System and
MapPoint projects. He is a
Microsoft Regional Director
and member of
Connected Innovation.
Steve has presented at developer conferences, user groups, and
business associations on many emerging technology solution and
development topics. Contact
Steve Milroy. |
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MEETING SPONSOR
No
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SPONSORS needed for 2005 -- contact Chris Wallace now to SPONSOR a
meeting! |
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MEETING AGENDA
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Please arrive
before 6:00 p.m., entry after that is not guaranteed. Building doors are
scheduled to remain unlocked until 7:00 p.m.
See FAQ. If you leave the 7th floor after
7:00 p.m., return entry is not available.
5:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.*
5:30 - 6:00 (30 min) Informal Networking and Refreshments (come
early)
You may arrive after 5:15 p.m., Meeting
starts
PROMPTLY at 6:00 p.m.
You must arrive before 7:00 p.m. lockout, see
above about late arrival
6:00 -
6:10 (10 min) Welcome and Announcements -
Chris Wallace
6:10 -
6:15 (5 min) Open "Mic" Time - Member Announcements
6:15
- 6:30
(15 min) Networking Break
6:30 -
8:00
(90 min) Feature Presentation
Building
.NET Solutions for Office System
-
Steve Milroy
8:00 -
8:15(15 min) Closing Thoughts and Door Prizes -
Chris Wallace
8:15 -
9:00*(45 min) Open
* All times are approximate and
subject to change.
Please note that some meetings
may end much later than 9:00 p.m.! |
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MEETING DOOR PRIZES
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To
qualify to win any of our door prizes, follow the
complete door prize requirements and details.
You must be a qualified
group member and you must be present to win -
Include your name and current e-mail address on your one business card
entry per meeting. All door prizes are subject to change.
All door prize winners who select a book are asked (not required) to
write a review of that book.
Accepting a door prize obligates each winner to
send a thank you note to their door prize provider. |
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From Softpro
Books
Celebrating Over 1 Year as our User Group's Preferred Bookstore! |
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$20 gift certificate
to Softpro
Books
(e-mail)
6862 S. Yosemite St., Centennial, CO (near DTC, Southwest of Arapahoe Rd and
I-25), 303-740-7751
An independent computer
bookstore - wide selection of the best computer books available anywhere! |
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From
Addison Wesley Professional Publishing
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Developing Microsoft Office Solutions:
Answers for Office 2003, Office XP, Office 2000, Office 97 |
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From Apress
Publishing
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Beginning .NET Game Programming in C# |
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From Microsoft,
Rocky Mountain
See all Microsoft Press Books and Upcoming Titles! |
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Several selected developer Microsoft Press
books! |
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MEETING
REFRESHMENTS
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from
Microsoft |
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Come early, 5:30 -
6:00 for our Informal Networking and Refreshments
- soft drinks only! |
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NEXT
LAB
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User Group Lab (Friday
before our monthly Meeting)
Friday, January 21,
2004, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Location:
Hensmann Technology Learning and
Education Center,
Directions and Maps
Address:
6825 South Galena St., Englewood, CO
80112,
Phone: 303-832-4665, 877-660-4876 |
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FMI about our Labs, contact:
James Hansen. |
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Delegates
and Events - Now, plus a look at C# 2.0
with Joe Mayo, Author /
Instructor |
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Learn how to implement delegates and events in your .NET
applications. You'll learn how to use system defined delegates and
how to declare your own delegates. You'll learn about the benefits
of using events in your code and how they relate to delegates.
Another powerful feature of delegates is asynchronous programming.
You'll see different ways to implement asynchronous algorithms and
how to expose asynchronous methods in your own types.
Additionally, you'll see how anonymous methods, a new
C# 2.0 feature, simplify delegate implementation. |
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Joe Mayo
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Joe Mayo
is an author, independent consultant,
and trainer, specializing in .NET technologies. He opened
the
C# Station
Web site on July 4, 2000, and has been working with C# and
.NET since the pre-beta. Joe’s been programming for over 18
years and is currently a consultant and instructor, serving
customers in the Denver area. |
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His books include C# Unleashed/Sams Publishing and C#Builder Kick
Start/Sams Publishing.
Other Resources for
Applying the C# Programming Language.
Contact Joe
Mayo.
Need C#/.NET training? Visit
www.mayosoftware.com
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Future
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Just do it!
See or write to
James
Hansen to provide comments
and thoughts on
planning our future Lab activities and future Lab enhancements! |
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FREE
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For members participating in our volunteer Book
Exchange
"FREE Book in Exchange for a Book Review." |
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You Are A Winner:
by reading down this
far, you have just won the opportunity to obtain a FREE book!
Now is the time to help
your fellow group members and yourself. You get a FREE book in exchange for
writing a review of that book. We ask all recipients of door prize books to
complete a review of their book choice; however, some specific books have
been entrusted to our group by the publishers in exchange for a published
review by our group members posted to our web site. We are obligated to
fulfill those agreements, to receive additional door prizes and more FREE
books for review. See our
Book Reviews. |
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H o w t o c l a i m
y o u r F R E E b o o k:
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1.
Select one of the books currently offered for
review (one outstanding review per member, please): |
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XML
in Office 2003: Information Sharing with Desktop XML
(Pearson
Education, "Prentice Hall PTR"
Professional Technical Reference)
ISBN 0-13-142193-X
Open
Source .NET Development: Programming with NAnt, NUnit, NDoc, and More
(Addison
Wesley Professional)
ISBN
0-321-22810-3
Expert
Service-Oriented Architecture In C#: Using the Web Services Enhancements 2.0
(Apress)
ISBN 1-59059-390-1
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2.
Be the first to send an e-mail message to
Chris Wallace.
State that you will write a review of that book within 60 days of
receiving that book and that you understand and agree to follow the book
review process and submit your review as described in our
“How To Review.” |
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Attend our Meeting described in this e-mail to see if
you are a winner of your book choice! Get your book at our Meeting.
You must be present at that Meeting to pick up your book, no exceptions. If
you are not present to obtain your book at the time during the Meeting when
it is offered, it will go to the next person who submitted an e-mail in the
order received. |
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Start reading and writing! - Plus, send
your Thank You
message to your book provider! |
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CoDe MAGAZINE
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FREE copy at our next user group meeting
(while supplies last)! |
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CoDe -
Component Developer Magazine is on an aggressive growth path to become the
number one Microsoft technology information resource, as reflected in their
slogan, "Microsoft Technologies In-Depth for IT Managers and Developers."
Check out
CoDe!
Each bi-monthly issue contains detailed explanations of
Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework, as well as other new Microsoft
technologies and developer tools. Written by real-life developers who
actually use the tools they write about,
CoDe is a "must-have" reference for
serious .NET and database developers. |
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FREE Developer Training
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Updated 02/02/2005
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Download
Rod Stephens' presentation! |
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Updated 02/02/2005
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Download
Joe Mayo's presentation! |
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Great Xpectations FREE Seminar Series for Developers and Architects
presented by Developers and Architects - a training event with
your focus on core Microsoft
technologies.
Countdown
to Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005
REGISTER HERE
Thursday, January 20, 2005, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Location:
Microsoft, Rocky Mountain
(Denver),
Directions and Maps
Address:
4643 S. Ulster St. (7th
Floor), Denver, CO 80237, Phone: 720-528-1700
Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 are two
of the most anticipated technologies to be released by Microsoft in the
next year. The products have generated a lot of excitement in the
developer communities and a lot of customers are building applications
using these products.
These free monthly seminars will focus on the two
products and is targeted towards helping developers understand the new
features and functionality. We will bring you technically relevant up to
date information and will be presented by well-known experts in the
region.
Visual
C# 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0 – Joe Mayo
Joe Mayo is the founder of
C-Sharp Station,a Microsoft MVP and a
trainer. His session will focus on new C# Language features like
Generics, Anonymous Methods, Iterators, Partial Types, etc. He will also
cover Debugging, Refactoring, Code Expansions, Class Designer and
ASP.NET 2.0.
Visual
Basic 2005 and Windows Forms – Rod Stephens
Rod Stephens runs
VBHelper and is also a Microsoft MVP.
He will focus on the Visual Basic enhancements like My object, XML
Comments and other topics like Control Changes, Operator Overloading,
XML Comments, Edit and Continue, Click-Once and Windows Forms.
Please
REGISTER HERE
- Breakfast and Lunch provided.
Door Prizes: XBox and MS Press books.
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LEARNING .NET -
How am I ever going to learn all this .NET stuff?
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NEW:
Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) -
Protect your PC from spyware - FREE
also see
Microsoft AntiSpyware Preview
NEW - MSN Revolutionary Desktop Search Tool Beta -
MSN Toolbar
Find anything on your computer, try the New MSN Search, block annoying
pop-ups, fill out forms and web site passwords in one click
Want tabbed browsing, search
toolbars, more? Try
Windows Marketplace.
Bill Gates' Visual Studio 2005 Vision
(also see VSLive keynote video)
Hear Bill Gates' vision of the future of consumer
technology
Cool list of
the products Microsoft plans to ship in 2005
Microsoft at Year's End:
Broad Range of Products and Services Introduced in 2004; Advances
in Services, Software and Tools Slated for 2005
Microsoft Product Lifecycle Dates -
Developer Tools Family
Desperately seeking SOA -
Enterprise apps look beyond the Web services specs
Describing the Enterprise Architectural Space
(Webcast), New: PatternShare.org
Download FREE
-- Essential XML Quick Reference: A Programmer's Reference to XML, XPath,
XSLT, XML Schema, SOAP, and More,
FMI
True
interoperability between Java and .NET
Free eBay .NET SDK - Integrate with
eBay, join the eBay Developers Program
U.S. Air Force Selects Microsoft
Software and Services In Technology Transformation Effort
to Increase Security - 525,000 Software Licenses Awarded Through Dell;
Microsoft to Standardize Infrastructure, Provide Support for One of the
World's Largest Global Enterprises
2004 Compensation Survey from InfoWorld
"Resumania"
- errors made by job seekers on resumes, applications and cover letters.
2005 Salary Guide and Quick Reference
Guide to Microsoft .NET Framework
Microsoft - Sun Interoperability
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Microsoft is referring customers who want
Java on Windows to Sun's JVM because
Microsoft's JVM is not being upgraded. The two companies are working to
ensure Java products run well on Windows. "As a relationship goes, we have
done a 180-degree turn. Nine months ago, we were slashing each other's
tires; now we are helping one anotehr fix our flats." Greg Papadopoulous,
CTO, Sun Microsystems, on its relationship with Microsoft. InfoWorld
magazine 12-06-2004. |
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NEW
EVENTS SITE
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From
Sco Scofield: As most of you know, almost two years ago, Microsoft
stopped posting user group meetings on their regional websites. (This is
when we stopped registering for our meetings.) Until about a month ago, at
least there was a page that had links to all of the user group websites.
Now, with their "new and improved" regional websites, there is not even a
page mentioning user groups, let alone links to any of the user group
websites.
Two of our members, Mel Harris and Sco Scofield,
created MS Colorado Events to fill the huge hole left by Microsoft when they
stopped putting the user group meetings on their event calendar. MS Colorado
Events is currently contacting all of the user groups and seminar presenters
in Colorado to post their meetings. MS Colorado Events plans to be your one
place to look for user group meetings and seminars in Colorado.
If you know of a user group that is not posting their
meetings, please let them know about MS Colorado Events and have them
contact the MS Colorado Events Administrator:
MS Colorado Events Administrator<MSCEAdmin@scobiz.com> |
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INTEROP
WEBCAST SERIES
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Join the
month-long webcast series focusing on interoperability – why it matters to
the business, common strategies and methods, and guidance on specific
implementation scenarios between the major platform players. Over 40
webcasts, cool giveaways, and brand-new technical guidance from experts!
SPECIAL WEBCASTS, DO NOT MISS THESE FEATURING
JNBridgePro:
MSDN Webcast: High-Performance Interoperability
Between .NET and Java with JNBridgePro
January 31, 2005 10:00 AM PT (GMT-08:00)
MSDN Webcast: Interoperability Between BizTalk Server
2004 and J2EE Using JNBridgePro
February 09, 2005 10:00 AM PT (GMT-08:00) |
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.NET
CELEBRITY AUCTION
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Thirty of the top
consultants and trainers in the worldwide .NET community, including
our very own member
Kathleen Dollard,
have come together to help raise money for an organization that is
doing amazing and heroic disaster relief in Aceh Province, Sumatra,
the hardest hit area of the Dec 26th Tsunamis.
FMI.
Auction
ends Wed., Feb. 2, at 6 a.m. PST. |
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Our Local User
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Go Link,
Visit these other local user groups
(see more
links):
See More Developer Events
MS Colorado Events.com
Northern Colorado .NET Special Interest Group - Ft. Collins and Northern Colorado
 Car Pool to Denver: For car pool
locations, times. Contact
Tim Colton
South Colorado
.NET User Group - Colorado Springs and Southern Colorado
Boulder Visual Studio .NET User Group - Boulder area
Denver Area Access Users Group
Office Professionals Group
Rocky Mountain SharePoint User Group
Rocky Mountain BizTalk User Group (web site pending) |
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