Pla.NET Southeast!Developer happenings in Georgia, Alabama and MississippiNew comprehensive website for finding Alabama IT Events- May 23, 2008 Thanks to the diligence of the new president of the Birmingham Software Developers Association&160;Robert Cain, there's now a blog http:altechevents.com that is intended to be a central location for the IT community in Alabama to post and find technology events. Although the primary target is user groups, the organizers of the site are also accepting event posts from businesses that hold any kind of a technical event of interest to the Alabama IT community.&160; The event does not have to be in.http://blogs.msdn.com/glengordon/archive/2008/05/23/new-comprehensive-website-for-finding-... Mobility Roadshow coming to Atlanta and Charlotte in June- May 20, 2008 Brian Hitney and I are bringing a Mobility Developer Roadshow to Atlanta and Charlotte. We'll be teaching about the .NET Compact Framework 3.5 and using VS2008 to develop Windows Mobile SmartClient Applications. So join us for a full day of programming for Windows Mobile. There will be great take-home resources like books and DVDs, as well as some bigger giveaways (Windows Mobile 6 devices, anyone) Overview This session is geared towards familiarizing the attendee with developing smart...http://blogs.msdn.com/glengordon/archive/2008/05/20/mobility-roadshow-coming-to-atlanta-an... Inaugural meeting of GGMUG was a blast- May 12, 2008 Last week was the inaugural meeting of GGMUG, the Gwinnett, Georgia Microsoft User Group, and Doug and I stopped by to get things rolling. This group is geared towards folks that live on the northeast side of Atlanta, but certainly anyone who can make it is welcome. Traffic around here can be abysmal, so having closer options for getting together to talk about technology is a nice thing. This group might even draw people from as far away as Athens, GA. The meeting space is great, the sponsors...http://blogs.msdn.com/glengordon/archive/2008/05/12/inaugural-meeting-of-ggmug-was-a-blast... Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack- May 9, 2008 In the Heroes Happen Here launch events I've been doing I've been mentioning there is a new Visual C++ feature pack that will let you easily incorporate new UI elements into your MFC apps. The feature pack makes it easy to add Ribbons, docking toolbars, and the like to your UI, plus there are some new features that are part of the implementation of TR1 (read on below for details). Visual C++ 2008 Feature Packhttp://blogs.msdn.com/glengordon/archive/2008/05/09/visual-c-2008-feature-pack.aspx Great architectural overview of RIA with Silverlight 2.0- May 8, 2008 If you want to get a nice comprehensive overview of Silverlight 2.0 Architecture Development and Deployment then check out this 4 part series from my colleague Bob Familiar. There's some great information here that covers a broad spectrum of integration with Silverlight -&160; everything from WCF to DeepZoom. I'm sure you'll find something interesting and useful here, including source code and more. Read about it starting at...http://blogs.msdn.com/glengordon/archive/2008/05/08/great-architectural-overview-of-ria-wi... Next meeting of the Augusta Developers Guild - May 29- May 8, 2008 The next meeting of the Augusta Developers Guild will be on Thursday, May 29th, 2008 at 6PM at Augusta State University. Karl Shifflett will be presenting Mole Visualizer For Visual Studio. It's a pretty exciting developer tool, and I guarantee you have never seen anything like what it can do! Check the guild's website below for meeting details.http://blogs.msdn.com/glengordon/archive/2008/05/08/next-meeting-of-the-augusta-developers... |