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How Do I Sign Up You can signup here: http://phillydotnet20120531.eventbrite.com/ The Event May 31 Scott Hanselman: The Future of ASP.NET Thursday Blue Bell, PA This special meeting will be held at the Montgomery County Community College Science Center Auditorium in Blue Bell, PA on Thursday, May 31 from 6:30-9:00.We have some great meetings lined up for the next few months. Please take a look at the upcoming schedule on the web site and follow other local user groups on our community calendar. 6:30 Scott Hanselman, Microsoft The Future of ASP.NET 8 Scott Hanselman, MicrosoftApprenda Software Spend a night with Scott and learn about the future of ASP.NET.Scott Hanselman works for Microsoft as Principal Community Architect for Web Platform and Tools, aiming to spread the good word about developing software, most often on the Microsoft stack. Before this he was the Chief Architect at Corillian Corporation, now a part of Checkfree, for 6+ years and before that he was a Principal Consultant at STEP Technology for nearly 7 years. He was also involved in a few things Microsoft-related like the MVP and RD programs and will speak about computers (and other passions) whenever someone will listen to him. He’s written in a few books, most recently with Bill Evjen and Devin Rader on Professional ASP.NET. He blogs athttp://www.hanselman.com for the last 10 years and podcasts weekly at http://www.hanselminutes.com and http://www.thisdeveloperslife.com.We are pleased to have Apprenda Software as our sponsor for this event:Apprenda is an Open Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) stack for .NET that enables any organization to transform their existing infrastructure into a self-service cloud application platform. By decoupling applications from infrastructure and Developers from IT, Apprenda empowers organizations to achieve significant cost savings and massive productivity improvements that result in better business/IT alignment. Come enjoy the company of the best geeks in the Delaware Valley! 9:00 Books, software, and other goodies!

As I announced earlier in the month, Philly Code Camp was searching for qualified speakers for many different topics surrounding .NET specifically .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. Now, in this post, I have the pleasure to announce to you that we are going to be looking for sponsors for Philly Code Camp. If you have a product that you would like to present to over 500 targeted, attentive, and actively engaged .NET developers, please contact us today. ...

Philly.NET is looking for speakers to fill 60 sessions for Code Camp 2010.1. We have exciting news this year. 10 of the sessions will be broadcast live by the MSDN team in Redmond and posted to Channel 9. We need to set the agenda by March 12 so please get your submissions posted in the coming days. Enter your session details here… Details Our first 2010 Code Camp will be held at the DeVry University campus in Fort Washington, PA on Saturday, April 10 from 8:30-5:00. Please register at EventBrite. Detailed directions are on the DeVry web site. ...

As I indicated a couple weeks ago I was going to be speaking at the Philly Code Camp 2009.2. If you weren’t there you missed a great day of learning about many of the new technologies that are going to matter to you, as a developer, in the next 12 months. Not all of the topics were Microsoft related or even Developer related, for the first time this year there was an Enterprise IT track, targeting specifically you network admins. So Code Camp next year is something you should pay attention too, even if you are not a developer. ...

For the second 2009 Philly Code Camp, it will be held at the DeVry University campus in Fort Washington, PA on Saturday, October 17 from 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM. If you haven’t signed up please register on the Philly.NET web site. Detailed directions are on the DeVry web site. Check here and here for the latest printable agenda, there will be: Lots of code, just say no to slides! 8 hours of presentations 60 sessions (8:30, 10:00, 12:30, 2:00, 3:30) 12 tracks including two hands-on Beginner rooms and the Bonus Track 600 seats with tables (laptops welcome) Free breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snack (expanded menu!) Raffles and prizes at 5:00 Convenient parking After hours party in Ambler (network with speakers and attendees) All of this is made possible by the Gold partners (Component One, Hosting.com, TEK Systems), Silver partners (Pearson, Redgate, Telerik) and the Platinum site sponsors (DeVry University, Microsoft). ...

Here is my presentation from Code Camp 2009.1: You can download the software seen in this presentation at: Microsoft Visual Studio Express http://www.microsoft.com/express/download Microsoft SQL Server Express w/ Tools http://www.microsoft.com/express/sql/download And Sara Ford’s best selling book on the subject, appropriately called Microsoft Visual Studio Tips. And because she is such an awesome person all the royalties from the book are going to a scholarship fund to help pay for the the costs of sending Hurricane Katrina survivors to college. So if you are interested go pick up a copy. ...

I will be speaking at the Philly.NET Code Camp 2009.1 tomorrow. So if you read this blog, come up to me and say hi. I don’t bite. :) After my presentation tomorrow on “Gooey GUI… Programming in Visual Studio”, I will be posting my presentation and links for everybody that couldn’t attend or did attend and wants a quick reference. See you tomorrow.

As I announced yesterday I will be speaking at the Philly Code Camp 2009.1 on Visual Studio 2008 for beginners. As part of this presentation I want to be able to provide the 10 most valuable tips for beginners using Visual Studio. I did a quick search of the internet last night, on this subject, and everything seemed to point to Sara Ford as the defacto standard on Visual Studio tips. She even has a best selling book on the subject, appropriately called Microsoft Visual Studio Tips. ...

I will be doing a presentation on Programming in Visual Studio in the Beginners track, which will start at 10:00 AM. I expect to see you all there. Also if you have any tips on what you find to be a useful feature in Visual Studio for new developers please leave it in the comments below. I have included the announcement below in case anybody is going to be in the Philly area on April 18th and want to hang out with a bunch of .NET developers. ...