Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 14:06:04 -0400
From: Arnold Bilansky <71533.1031@compuserve.com>
Subject: FoxPro and VB.NET meetings next week

*** Contents ***

 1) August 22 FoxPro User Group - Ted Roche on Unit Testing

 2) August 20 VBLearn User Group - Russ Fustino on Best Practices
for Upgrading VB 6.0 Projects to VB.NET


*** 1) August 22 FoxPro User Group - Ted Roche on Unit Testing ***

User Group: FoxPro Group
Date:  Wednesday, August 22
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Microsoft, 6th floor, 230 Third Ave. Waltham MA

Speaker: Ted Roche

Topic: Unit Testing

Unit testing is an essential part of the eXtreme
Programming methodology, and helps to produce better
quality software faster. Ted discusses unit testing in
eXtreme Programming and Refactoring and shows how it
can be done in FoxPro.



*** 2) August 20 VBLearn User Group - Russ Fustino on Best Practices
for Upgrading VB 6.0 Projects to VB.NET ***

Here is another meeting which should be of general interest.

User Group: Visual Basic Learning Group
Date:  Monday, August 20
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Microsoft, 6th floor, 230 Third Ave. Waltham MA

Special guest speaker: Microsoft's Russ Fustino

Topic: Best Practices for Upgrading VB 6.0 Projects to VB.NET

This session will cover the best practices to upgrade Visual Basic 6.0
projects to Visual Basic.NET. First, it will introduce Visual Basic.NET,
explaining the goals and new concepts. It will then discuss various
upgrade options as well as the interoperability with Visual Basic 6.0
and Visual Basic.NET. In addition, it provides architectural guidance as
well as programming recommendations, to allow developers to plan, design
and develop Visual Basic.NET applications now or in the future. Finally,
it will demonstrate how to take advantage of the new Visual Basic.NET
features.

Russ Fustino is a Microsoft Principal Technology Specialist and a
Microsoft Certified Professional with over 20 years of software
development experience. He has an expertise in developing Visual Basic
and Visual InterDev solutions. Prior to Microsoft, Russ was a VB
instructor, headed up a development department and created several
client/server application and system software products. Russ'
specialties include Visual Source Safe, team development methodologies,
COM development with VB, XML, Biztalk and is a Subject Matter Expert for
Devdays.


 -Arnold

-----------------------------------
To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to majordomo@blu.org.
In the first line of the message put:

 unsubscribe foxpro

In the next line put:

 end

The subject is ignored.

Our group Web page is at www.bostonusergroups.com