VS 2008, SQL Server 2008 Launch Event a Huge Success

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VS 2008, SQL Server 2008 Launch Event a Huge Success

gregsohl 03-18-2008, 7:43 AM
CRineta enjoyed its largest turnout in its recorded history last evening for a Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008 launch event. 56 people attended the event including people from as far away as Muscatine joining us for the evening. This reflects the growning interest in .NET in the area and the excitement around this significant group of product releases.

Overviews of the new functionality in several areas of the new releases were given by Tim Barcz, Arian Kulp, Greg Sohl and Chris Sutton. They included:

Visual Studio 2008 IDE enhancements
.NET Framework 3.5 core enhancements
C# 3.0 language enhancements
LINQ
SQL Server 2008 enhancements for SQL programmers
IIS 7

Our sponsors came through for us in a big way for this special event. CRineta would especially like to thank Robert Half for its sponsorship of the conference room at the Marriott and TEK Systems for providing food. While both are regular sponsors, their contributions were significantly more for this event than our regular monthly meetings.

We also had a number of meeting sponsors who provided products for our door prizes. They included Microsoft, Infragistics, Red Gate Software, Syncfusion, ComponentArt and JetBrains. We were very happy to have all these vendors as sponsors. Additionally, Geonetrics provided beverages for the meeting. Thank you!

Note that in upcoming meetings, we will be having full sessions on many of the new technologies highlighted during the launch event. See the home page for details.

Thanks to everyone for making the event a success!

Re: VS 2008, SQL Server 2008 Launch Event a Huge Success

tbarcz 03-18-2008, 9:00 AM
I had fun. I can't speak for others, but it was a good time. I enjoyed seeing so many people.

Re: VS 2008, SQL Server 2008 Launch Event a Huge Success

leblanc 03-28-2008, 1:23 AM

I agree. is there anyway to get a copy of the powerpoints...???

i can't seem to find a topic that covered skinning an application ... the new way to do it.

by the way thanks to the presenters here is some extentions i've created:

http://rafb.net/p/uxYGmI19.html

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Re: VS 2008, SQL Server 2008 Launch Event a Huge Success

gregsohl 03-28-2008, 7:06 AM
Sorry for the delay in getting the presentations posted. I will be doing so. I will post an announcement when I have them there (it shows up on the home page and there is an RSS feed).

Greg

Re: VS 2008, SQL Server 2008 Launch Event a Huge Success

leblanc 04-15-2008, 9:55 AM

hey i can't seem to find the power points...

can you post a direct link to the zip?

by the way i missed yesterdays meeting.... dammit! Wish ya had a subscription option so i can ask for a reminder the day of the event.

thanks,

-lm