Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 16:29:35 EST From: Arnoldbilansky@cs.com Subject: [Foxpro] March User Group Meetings Please share this information with your colleagues. All user group meetings below are free and open to the public with not reservations necessary unless otherwise indicated. Each is meeting at Microsoft, 6th floor, 201 Jones Rd., Waltham MA. For driving directions visit http://www.microsoft.com/usa/offices/waltham.asp.Check each listing for meeting time. In case of inclement weather you can call Microsoft's main number to check for a recording of cancelled meetings at 781-487-6400. *** Contents *** *** 1) March 26: FoxPro User Group Monthly Pre-meeting "Final acceptance criteria, sign off, future enhancements" *** 2) March 26: FoxPro User Group Main Meeting Guy Pardoe on "Accessing Internet Datas Sources With VFP" *** 3) March 20: MS Business Productivity User Group Meeting "The Tablet PC" *** 4) March 24: VB Learn User Group Meeting "VB.NET 101- Intro for VB Developers" ************************************************************************** *** 1) March 26: FoxPro User Group Monthly Pre-meeting "Final acceptance criteria, sign off, future enhancements" ************************************************************************** Time: 6:00pm - 7:00pm Wednesday, March 26, 2003 Location: Microsoft, 6th floor, 201 Jones Rd., Waltham MA Agenda: Guy Pardoe leads our monthly pre-meeting Business Topic ************************************************************************** *** 2) March 26: FoxPro User Group Main Meeting Guy Pardoe on "Accessing Internet Datas Sources With VFP" ************************************************************************** Main Meeting Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm Wednesday, March 26, 2003 Location: Microsoft, 6th floor, 201 Jones Rd., Waltham MA Guy discusses how a VFP application can use a data source located anywhere on the Internet with the use of West-Wind Web Connect. Demonstrations will include the use of VFP and SQL Server backends. ************************************************************************** *** 3) March 20: MS Business Productivity User Group Meeting "The Tablet PC" ************************************************************************** Date: March 20, 2003 (Monthly meetings are on the third Thursday of the month) Time: 6:30pm Location: Microsoft, 6th floor, 201 Jones Road, Waltham MA 02451 Announcing the birth of the Boston Microsoft Business Productivity User Group! The group is the successor to the Greater Boston Microsoft Office User Group. Group Director Arnold Bilansky has worked closely with Microsoft to craft a compelling new regional user group format keeping pace with the changing dynamics of the computing industry. The Boston MBPUG is focused on leveraging technology to improve individual productivity and organizational efficiency utilizing the Microsoft Desktop platform. "Business productivity" reflects Microsoft's core focus on helping individuals and workgroups realize their potential through simplifying automation tools, and enabling new ways to communicate and share. The new meeting format kicks off this month with Kevin McKelvey, Microsoft Business Productivity Advisor for Medium Business in New England, introducing the Windows XP-based Tablet PC. Tablet PC is a strategic, next generation business platform supporting the mobile knowledge worker, providing both standard desktop functionality and pen-based computing capability. He discusses the key business drivers around Tablet computing, and demonstrates core application functionality and SharePoint Portal integration. The Boston Microsoft Business Productivity User Group kickoff meeting agenda includes: · Pizza dinner provided by Microsoft Corporation · Giveaways including Microsoft Office XP, Tablet Reference Guides, Wireless Mouse Devices · Microsoft welcome · Demonstration of the XP Based Tablet PC Meetings are free and open to the public. No reservations are required. The user group Web site is at http://www.bostonusergroups.com/office (soon to be re-branded) where you can subscribe to the e-mail meeting notification list. We encourage your active participation! Let us know what technologies you would like to see. Recommend speakers, or volunteer to show compelling technologies. Become a steering committee member. Contact Arnold Bilansky at arnoldbilansky@cs.com. ************************************************************************** *** 4) March 24: VB Learn User Group Meeting "VB.NET 101- Intro for VB Developers" ************************************************************************** This is the meeting that was postponed due to last month's blizzard. The March meeting will is on the fourth Monday of the month - March 24 - rather than the regular third Monday of the month date. The agenda for the next March and April are listed below. Please inform your colleagues and invite them to attend. All meetings are free and open to the public. No prereservations are needed. The exception is that we hope to announce soon a special event featuring .NET guru and author Jesse Liberty for which reservations will be required. Watch your e-mail or check out the group Web page - http://www.bostonusergroups.com/vblearn/ - as details become available. ******************************************************** Event: Visual Basic Learning User Group Date: Monday, March 24, 2003 Location: Microsoft, 6th floor, 201 Jones Rd., Waltham MA Time: 7:00pm You're a VB developer. What do you need to know to develop in VB.NET? We discuss simple, step-by-step code examples. Offer nuts-and-bolts explanations. Starting at the very beginning, we cover topics thoroughly. No tricks, no shortcuts, just VB.NET straight up.; We discuss: Forms Controls Properties Variables Functions and Subroutines Errors and Exception Handling SPEAKER: Dan Hermes, MCT, MCSD has over fifteen years of experience as a developer and trainer. As a Microsoft Certified Trainer, he has taught Visual Basic courses through the Microsoft Official Curriculum. On the faculty of Northeastern University, Mr. Hermes has offered courses on Visual Basic and E-Commerce development.; As a developer and project leader, Mr. Hermes has demonstrated expertise in mission-critical business applications, object-oriented design, Internet applications, database design, high-volume transaction processing, and multi-tiered, cross-platform development. Mr. Hermes is founder and president of Lexicon Systems. Lexicon Systems provides software development and training services to IT organizations nationally. Leaders in business, software development, e-commerce, and Internet technology call on us to bring their endeavors to success and profitability. **************************************** Event: Visual Basic Learning User Group Date: Monday, April 21, 2003 Location: Microsoft, 6th floor, 201 Jones Rd., Waltham MA Time: 7:00pm Author David J Berube of Berube Consulting (http://www.berubeconsulting.com/) speaks on "Good Programming Practices in VB.NET" Clean, consistent "best practices" can make any programmer produce code faster and with fewer bugs. ************************************************************************** The Greater Boston FoxPro User Group Web page is at http://www.bostonusergroups.com/VFPBoston/ You can manage your subscription to this list (including subscribing or unsubscribing) by visiting http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/foxpro