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Local Events June 22: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group Meeting ( http://www.clevelanddotnet.info/ ) June 23: Cleveland SharePoint User Group Meeting ( http://www.sharepointcleveland.org/ ) June 24: Cleveland IT Martini ( http://www.itmartini.com/ ) July 16: Cleveland Give Camp ( http://www.clevelandgivecamp.org/ ) July 24: TechNic 2010 (Heidi Hooper - Heidi@BoundlessFlight.com ) Regional Events June 26: SQL Saturday-Columbus ( www.sqlsaturday.com/42/schedule.aspx ) June 25-26: CodeStock ( http://www.codestock.org/ ) August 5-7: DevLink ( http://www.devlink.net/ )

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The 2nd annual TechNic will build on the camaraderie of the boundless IT community of Northeast Ohio with the support of companies and organizations by providing a free event for attendees to simply enjoy a summer day of classic picnic fun and activities. Last year’s event brought together over 200 attendees and 20 supporting companies from around the globe! Pictures of last year's event can be seen here . We hope that your organization becomes a part of T3CHn!c TM 2010. Feel free to include your friends, family, employees, customers, clients, partners, prospects, and their friends and families, too! Logos of supporting organizations will be displayed on all announcements. Consistent mention and messaging on behalf of supporters will be made through social media and other public relations, with a higher level of promotion for top sponsors. Banners and other means of visibility will be displayed at the event. Suggested donation guidelines: $200 +........................................

Listed below are upcoming regional events relating to .Net April 17: Pittsburgh Code Camp ( http://codecamppgh.com/default.aspx ) April 20: Cleveland WPF User Group –RIA Services by Chris Woodruff ( http://www.clevelandwpf.info/ ) April 27: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group - Architecture tools in Visual Studio 2010 by Cameron Skinner (Microsoft) ( http://www.clevelanddotnet.info/ ) April 28: Cleveland SharePoint User Group ( http://www.sharepointcleveland.com/default.aspx ) May 1: Ann Arbor Day of .Net ( http://www.dayofdotnet.org/AnnArbor/Spring2010/default.aspx ) May 1: Chicago Code Camp ( http://chicagocodecamp.com/ ) May 7: Stir Trek ( http://www.stirtrek.com/ ) June 25-26: Code Stock ( http://www.codestock.org/ ) June 26: Columbus SQL Saturday ( http://www.sqlsaturday.com/42/eventhome.aspx ) August 5-7: DevLink ( http://devlink.net/ )

Stephen Toub from the Parallel Computing Platform team at Microsoft will be presenting at the Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group on Thursday, October 29, 2009. Please note this meeting date is in addition to, not replacing, our regularly scheduled meeting every 4th Tuesday (October 27, 2009). He will be travelling through our district the last week of October. He will be speaking at corporations during the day, and user groups in the evening. Stephen's goal is to get direct feedback from developers on the products he works on. Your questions and feedback help make .NET better! Stephen will discuss concurrency and how .NET 4.0 simplifies parallel programming. This is one of the exciting things about .NET 4.0. With Moore’s Law breaking down, software developers need to be able to master multithreading and know how to develop concurrent applications. Historically, this has been very difficult. It’s hard to understand concurrency issues, hard to write good code, and hard to debug w...

Typemock is holding a free live webinar (web-seminar) on how to unit test successfully. The webinar will include the following: · Creating Supporting environment · Unit testing tools of the trade · Practices and Pitfalls · Writing the first test · Live Q & A You can get more details on - http://blog.typemock.com/2009/09/unit-testing-net-successfully-live-free.html

Microsoft released a chart highlighting the features of Windows 7, Vista SP1, and Windows Xp SP3. It lists features in 5 categories: File organization and Search Remote Access Security and Compliance Management Deployment To download the comparison chart, go to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=FA0177CC-7E82-4993-B0D6-FEC84216DD9C&displaylang=en \