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Glen Gordon, Developer Community Champion, Microsoft Corporation will give a presentation on Visual Studio.NET 2005.

Pre-register by sending an email to Tore Bostrup (<tore@bostrup.us>) stating that you are pre-registering for the event.

Location: Midlands Technical College - Northeast Campus/Center of Excellence for Technology The Auditorium 151 Powell Rd. Columbia, SC 29203 (803) 691-3925 Map http://www.midlandstech.edu/northeastmap-b.htm
Event Date: Thursday, August 05, 2004
6:15 PM Registration and Networking	Registration Opens Meet and Mingle. The time before the meeting is a great time for networking with other developers in the area. Have some (free) pizza and refreshments. Any handouts (think VS.Net beta CD's) and pizza will be available on a first come first served basis.
6:45 PM Announcements	Introductions and Announcements We present a brief description of the new user group, the upcoming events and happenings within the community. Speaker - Committee
7:00 PM Spotlight Presentation	Visual Studio.NET 2005 The first beta of VS.Net 2005 is out, and it is time to take a closer look at the new features. This session will appeal to developers interested in experiencing demonstrations of a variety of techniques you can leverage to build more powerful and scalable .NET web applications for the future. Microsoft Developer Community Champion Glen Gordon will talk about Visual Studio.Net 2005 (codename Whidbey) and the recent beta-1 release. Glen Gordon is the Developer Community Champion for the Southeast He has been involved with software development for the past 15 years, both as a trainer and developer/architect. He wrote instructional material for several versions of Visual Basic, and he worked on several commercial Internet applications. Prior to joining Microsoft, Glen was an enterprise consultant for a large datacenter/system integrator in the southeast. His current passion is mobile applications. To let off steam, Glen enjoys music, movies, improv comedy and spending time with his family. He also plays a mean game of table tennis. Speaker – Glen Gordon
About 8:00 PM Raffle and Conclusion	Raffle Door prizes - lots of goodies. Eligible participants must fully complete a meeting survey to be entered in the prize drawings. Must be present to win. Speaker - Committee

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