From: Arnoldbilansky@cs.com Subject: [DotNetLearn] Meeting on VB 2005 Express Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 03:21:59 +0000 *** Contents *** *** 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! ******************************************************************************** *************************** *** 1) 6pm Study Group featuring Bob Tattersall ******************************************************************************** *************************** 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. ******************************************************************************** *************************** *** 2) 7pm Main Meeting featuring Pat Tormey On the Way Cool, Way Free, Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition ******************************************************************************** *************************** 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 _______________________________________________ DotNetLearn mailing list DotNetLearn@blu.org http://olduvai.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/dotnetlearn