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The ADNUG meeting this month is at the ART GALLERY ATRIUM Room, North Terrace.

To register for Wednesday’s meeting, email Berridge Hume-Philips B.HumePhillips@aiia.com.au

This month November 2008

1. ADNUG Meeting Programme at ART GALLERY ATRIUM– 12^th.November

2. FREE Innovations Day 20008 National Road Show – Friday 28^th November 2008!

3. Tech SummerFest08 – 2,3,4^th December

4. Australian SQL Server User Group meeting – Thu 9^th October

5. ASPUG Adelaide Sharepoint User Group meeting – Tue 21^st October

6. Xmas meeting Quiz Night 10^th December

7. Beta version of new ADNUG website

8. Freebies from Microsoft Press for 2008 launches

9. Join the MSDN Connection

10. Sponsors

1. ADELAIDE DOT NET USERS GROUP. To register email B.HumePhillips@aiia.com.au

The next meeting of ADNUG will be held on WEDNESDAY 12^th November at 5.45pm

at
Art Gallery Atrium Room, North Terrace, Adelaide .

Visitors welcome. See below for Programme.

PROGRAMME

5.45 pm Registration and Networking

6.00 pm Brian Cunningham, Chief Executive, Department of

Trade and Economic Development,

Introducing SouthAustralia.NET. objectives and the benefits of membership of SouthAustralia.NET.

6.15 pm Peter Watson – Microsoft – Director, Software Services

Peter, fresh back from PDC in Los Angeles,will talk on the next wave of Software + Services from Microsoft and the exciting future ahead.

Join us to network with representatives of SA companies using Microsoft technologies and identify skills and synergies, share knowledge and pool resources.

Take the first step to gain employment, potential partnerships, joint tender opportunities, market intelligence, futures thinking and co-operative trade show participation, plus much more.

8.00 pm Meeting close

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2. Free Innovations Day 2008 National Road Show – Friday 28^th November

at
Microsoft Office
Level 2, Westpac House
91 King William Street
Adelaide, SA, 5000.

http://blogs.msdn.com/chlong/archive/2008/10/14/innovation-days-2008.aspx

This is your opportunity to ‘get your feet on the ground, head in the clouds’ and connect with top architects, developers, and IT Marketing professionals in the community for a day of technical sessions and compelling discussions about the exciting future of the Microsoft platform.

The day will concentrate on important announcements released at October’s Professional Developer’s Conference, and will focus on our Software plus Services paradigm. This is Microsoft’s vision for the next generation of computing that brings together the best of cloud-based services and traditional client computing software to deliver a richer experience to your customers.

You will also:

· Learn how to adopt and market your solution on a new platform via the global marketplace resource, InnovateOn,

· Hear about how to choose the right ISV Licensing Agreements and Hosting Provider for your business,

· See Silverlight, Expression, Vista and IE8 in action,

· Get excited about the new Software plus Services Incubation Program, and

· Discover how Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 can benefit your solution

Ready to be inspired by change? Register now!

More further information, please visit the Innovation Days site, or email us.

3. Tech SummerFest08 – 2,3,4^th December

http://www.techsummerfest.com/brochure/Techfest08.pdf

This summer AB Training, Portal Synergy, WARDY IT Solutions and Microsoft will be

showcasing key Microsoft technologies as part of Tech SummerFest 08. In Hobart, Adelaide

and Canberra you will have the opportunity to see how you can leverage your investment in

Microsoft technology to solve business problems. You will also have an opportunity to

receive cutting edge training in Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Visual Studio Team System

and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server from Australia’s leading trainers.

Location & Dates

ADELAIDE 2, 3, 4 December

* Places are strictly limited

* See website for early-bird bonus offer

I have a FREE ticket (normally $295) for some lucky person to attend the Tuesday of the Tech SummerFest08 presentations. If you would like to be in the running for this free ticket, email me pgriffit@senet.com.au to get on the list while we work out who will be the lucky attendee.

Microsoft Technology Showcase coming to you

In just one day, attendees will find out how to leverage Microsoft technologies and tools to enable your business to innovate and create strategic advantage. This one day seminar style event has been designed to showcase how you can extend and unlock the value in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio Team System

2008. During this ShowCase three of Australia’s leading presenters will show you how to maximise your investment in these technologies to make significant gains in time to value, productivity, and total cost of ownership.

• SQL Server 2008, Visual Studio Team System 2008 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007

• Expert speakers • Interactive live demonstrations • See how to solve real-world problems

This two day hands-on course

4. AUSTRALIAN SQL SERVER USER GROUP meeting:

Venue: Level 2 Westpac House (91 King William Street Adelaide)

Duration 2 hours (including light lunch) 12:00 – 2:00pm On Tuesday 25th November

Greg Linwood presenting.

See http://www.sqlserver.org.au/Events for details of December meeting

5. ASPUG ADELAIDE SHAREPOINT USER GROUP meeting:

Venue: 5.45pm Level 26 Westpac House, 91 King William Street Adelaide.

Tuesday 18^th November 2008

Daniel brown – Sharepoint Projects, Repliweb – ROSS

To join ASPUG and/or be on mailing list click on www.aspug.org.au

6. XMAS Meeting Quiz Night:

A Quiz night is being planned for 10^th December.

The Sharepoint, SQL and SBS User Groups have been invited to attend.

Microsoft have been asked to provide Questions and Answers (multichoice).

Sorin will be providing voting handhelds to record and collate the answers in his voting system.

7. Beta of new ADNUG web site

Thanks to Paul for getting the new web site to a stage that we can now get this project underway to further develop the site.

http://paulturner.is-a-geek.com:9001/default.aspx

This is an opportunity to do some work and get experience in Sharepoint 2007. We are looking for “volunteers” and beginners to get involved. You will be supported and mentored.

See latest suggestions at

http://pgriffith.wordpress.com/2007/12/19/developing-new-adnug-website/

Pick a function that needs to be added to the site and volunteer.

8. Freebies from Microsoft Press

Free e-book offer and Microsoft Press newsletter

The free e-book includes content from three recent publications from Microsoft Press:

•	Introducing Microsoft LINQ by Paolo Pialorsi and Marco Russo (ISBN: 9780735623910) This practical guide covers Language Integrated Query (LINQ) syntax fundamentals, LINQ to ADO.NET, and LINQ to XML. The e-book includes the entire contents of this printed book!
•	Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX by Dino Esposito (ISBN: 9780735624139) Learn about the 2007 release of ASP.NET AJAX Extensions 1.0, including an overview and the control toolkit.
•	Introducing Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 by Laurence Moroney (ISBN: 9780735625396) Learn how to use Silverlight to simplify the way you implement compelling user experiences for the Web. Discover how to support an object-oriented program model with JavaScript.

Learn more about the free e-book offer, and sign up for the Microsoft Press Book Connection newsletter, a newsletter that provides news about upcoming and recent releases, special offers, and additional information from those who know our books best.

•	Sign up for the free e-book offer and the Microsoft Press newsletter

Check out these additional Microsoft Press books about Visual Studio:

•	Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Step by Step Teach yourself the fundamentals of working with Microsoft Visual Basic 2008—one step at a time. With this book, you work at your own pace through hands-on, learn-by-doing exercises.
•	Microsoft Visual C# 2008 Step by Step Get the hands-on, step-by-step guide to learning about the latest enhancements in Microsoft Visual C# 2008. Visual C#, one of the tools in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, is a modern programming language designed to deliver a productive environment for creating business frameworks and reusable object-oriented components.

9. Join the MSDN Connection. http://msdn.microsoft.com for details

Going Interstate? For list of Australian User Groups http://www.microsoft.com/australia/msdn/usergroups.aspx

Subscribe to MSDN Flash http://msdn.microsoft.com/flash.