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QMSDNUG is the first contact point for Brisbane and Queensland .NET developers dedicated to sharing knowledge with and learning from each other. We primarily work with Microsoft technologies and acknowledge the support we receive from Microsoft.

QMSDNUG has operated continuously since 1998, before .NET!

Meeting Dates: Meetings are generally held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month, apart from December where that's a bit late in the month.  See below for details of our upcoming meetings.

Location and Time: Meetings are held at Microsoft's Brisbane Office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane.  Most arrive around 5:30pm for a 6pm start and we are normally finished around 7:30.  It is important to arrive before the building lifts are locked at 6pm.  Late arrival procedure: see Monthly Meetings.

All welcome; bring your friends and colleagues.  Whenever possible, pizza and drinks are supplied.

December MeetingTue 8 Dec 2009

QMSDNUG's December meeting is a week earlier than usual to avoid the Christmas rush.

John O'Brien and Bronwen Zande, Soul Solutions :
Data Visualisation with Silverlight 3

To finish up the year come join Windows Live Platform MVPs Bronwen and John for a festive drink and a look at how you can visualise your data on the web using Silverlight 3.  We will explore some of the many controls available including the new Bing Maps control giving you some great ideas for your next project.

Date:	Tuesday 8 December 2009
Time:	17:30 for 18:00
Location:	Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

RSVP:
All welcome.  Bring your colleagues.
An early rsvp by email to mike@fitzsimon.com.au will help with planning.

Many thanks to Soul Solutions for their generous sponsorship of drinks for this meeting.

Upcoming Meeting Dates

Tue 16 Feb 2010Robert Crago, Revelation Computing :
An Introduction to WPF 3D

3D modelling in WPF and Expression Blend

Tue 16 Mar 2010Anthony Borton:
A look at Lab Management using VS2010

Create, manage and deploy lab environments using MTLM and SCVMM

Also of interest to Brisbane / Queensland developers...

• Dave Thomas - Maximum Software Productivity - Breaking the Rules! Wed 21 Oct
  Dave runs JAOO - http://jaoo.com.au/ - a very different kind of developers conference - and will be speaking in Brisbane for one night only.
   
• Office DevCon comes to Brisbane !!!
  
  This year, Office DevCon is being held in Brisbane on the weekend of the 31st Oct - 1st Nov.
  The presenters and organisers of Office DevCon are industry experts from Australia and the USA, eg, Rob Cooper, the Test Lead on the Access team at Microsoft.
  Office DevCon is a free conference on advanced Office technologies for Office 2003 and 2007 and 2010 (the next version), including Word, Access, Excel, SharePoint, PowerPoint, Groove, InfoPath, OneNote and Outlook.  To see the list of sessions and presenters, and to register, go to www.officedevcon.com.au.
   
• WebsiteSpark  Does your company have 10 or fewer employees?
  Receive Windows Web Server and SQL Server Web Edition at no cost to host new websites.  See www.microsoft.com/web/websitespark.
   
• Tech.Ed Australia 2010
  Tue 24 Aug - Fri 27 Aug 2010.   Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre
   
• More developer-related events on Mike's blog.
   
• Facebook and Linked-In users...
  ... are invited to QMSDNUG's Facebook and Linked-In group pages.  Start discussions and connect with other QMSDNUG members.
   
• ausdotnet mailing list.
  Get your .NET questions answered by your peers working in your timezone.  To subscribe, send an empty message to ausdotnet-subscribe@lists.codify.com.  FAQ at www.codify.com/ausdotnetmailinglist.
   
• Regular 30% off MSPress books for QMSDNUG Members
  See our Member Offers for more details.