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Software Creating SQL 2005 Custom Data Types
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Sponsoring Pizza Soda
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SWAG from INETA!
Book Raffle!
Use Case Authoring Tool (500 value)
and piles of magazines!
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Coming to VTdotNET

• April 11 Robert HurlbutTest Driven
  Development, Unit Testing and NUnit
• May Thom RobbinsMicrosoft Developer Evangelist,
  .NET 2.0 Overview
• June 13 Sam Gentile.NET Guru
• July 11 Kathleen DollardVB Guru and Code Gen
  Queen

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Vermont SoftwareDeveloper Alliance

• Statewide business association for software
  development businesses including independent
  contractors
• Next meetingWed. March 16th (lunch)
• Top Trends in Government IT SpendingWhat you
  need to know to tap into the government spending
  game.
• Panel Experts from MetaGroup and ThinkVermont
• www.vtsda.org

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Code Camp III
has come and gone. Well tell you what you
missed. Stay tuned for Code Camp IV!
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C Mini Code Camp!

• Special Edition C.NET
• All day with Richard Hale Shaw
• April 30th (Saturday)
• Microsoft, Waltham Mass
• http//weblogs.asp.net/trobbins
• (see February 8th, 2005 post)
• (link on VTdotNET website)

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Montreal June 19-22 www.DevTeach.com User Group
Discount Code V0006VTDOTNET (50
discount) Early Bird rates before April 1st Save
300! Many VTdotNET folks go to this!
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Upcoming Conferences

• Nearby
• DevTeach (Montreal June 19-22) DevTeach.com
• VSLive (Boston June 28-July 1) VSLive.com
• Not so Nearby
• Connections (Orlando Mar 19-24)devconnections.com
• TechEd (Orlando June 4-10) microsoft.com/teched
• PDC 2005 (L.A. Sept 13-16) microsoft.com/pdc

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Area User Groups

• Montreal GUVSM.NET
• April 4th Kevin McNeish, Oak Leaf Enterprises,
  Inc.
• The Art of Refactoring in Visual Studio 2005
  (English)
• Boston.NET
• Wednesday April 27 David Chappell on Indigo!
• Tech Valley.NET (Albany)
• May 10 Russ Nemhauser INETA Speaker

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Microsoft Learning

• Register for this offer by May 31, 2005,
  before taking any Microsoft Certification exam.
  If you dont pass on your first try, you can take
  it again for free. www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp
  /offers/2ndshot
• Twelve free, online skills assessments on
  developing Windows-based and Web-based
  applications/www.microsoft.com/learning/assessmen
  t/

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Local Training

• KnowledgeWave
• contact Rob Muehleck
• rmuehleck_at_knowledgewave.com
• www.knowledgewave.com
• Panurgy
• www.panurgyvt.com

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