From:    Arnoldbilansky@cs.com
Subject: [DotNetLearn] Meeting on VB 2005 Express
Date:    Wed, 16 Nov 2005 03:21:59 +0000

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*** 1) 6pm Study Group featuring Bob Tattersall
*** 2) 7pm Main Meeting featuring  Pat Tormey On the Way Cool, Way Free, Visual
Basic 2005 Express Edition

Location: Microsoft, 201 Jones Rd., Waltham MA
Date: Monday, November 21 2005
Time: Study Group 6:00PM - Main Presentation 7:00PM

Bonuses: Doorprises, CoDe Magazines!

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*** 1) 6pm Study Group featuring Bob Tattersall
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Bob Tattersall leads our C#.NET/Visual Basic.NET mentoring session. Monthly
reading assignments are given
from Jesse Liberty's O'Reilly books Learning C#.NET and Learning Visual
Basic.NET. This month please read
chapters on: Collection Interfaces and Types, and Strings.  After reading these
chapters if there are any
topics you are having a particular problem with please let Bob know as soon as
possible (rtatt@comcast.net).
This will help him decide what to cover in more depth in the meeting.


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*** 2) 7pm Main Meeting featuring  Pat Tormey On the Way Cool, Way Free, Visual
Basic 2005 Express Edition

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Pat Tormey gives us a tour of Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition.

Initially slated to be $49.99 retail products, Microsoft has done an about face
and is offering the
2005 Express Editions of Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++, and Visual J# as
free downloads! All you
need to do is download them before Nov. 7 2006 and they are yours to use without
timelimit. These lightweight
versions have lots of ease of use features, tutorial content, and can be used to
distribute applications with
no licensing restrictions. For more info on the Visual Studio Express Editions
and on SQL Server 2005 Express
Edition, visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/default.asp

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