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MSDN User Group Tour Hits North York

The MSDN User Group Tour hits North York on Monday, October 4. Adam Gallant from MSDN Canada will stop by the Toronto Visual Basic User Group to talk about building mobile applications.

This presentation will focus on building Mobile applications using the .NET Compact Framework and SQL CE. It will demonstrate and review source code of a pre-built application. The session will explore:

- Using P/Invoke and why it is so important in the .NET Compact Framework
- Developing "Sometime Offline" Applications in the .NET Compact Framework
- Creating a Self-Updating .NET Compact Framework Application.
- Using Inheritance to create a Stream Interface Driver
- Consuming Asynchronous Web Services calls
- Best Practices for using SQL CE

For all the details, visit http://www.tvbug.com/events.aspx. There's no need to register, just come on out and enjoy the fun.

See you there.

Literacy

MSN Web Messenger

MSN Web Messenger - when only port 80 will do.

This is a cool piece of software. It allows you to use the basic functionality of messenger when you only have access to a browser.

MSDN/INETA Canada Speakers Bureau

OK, welcome to our blog.

Hey, Hosehead, don't forget the theme song!

Oh yeah, cloo loo coo coo coo coo coo coo, cloo loo coo coo coo coo coo coo.

OK, welcome to our blog. Today's topic is the MSDN/INETA Canada Speakers Bureau.

That's right, the people at MSDN Canada got a bunch of Hosers from all across the Great White North and they'll help pay for them to come out and speak at your group.

Yeah and they'll talk Canadian, eh; not that fancy American lawyer talk.

OK and get this, MSDN will also pay for beer and back bacon at the meeting too.

You just made that up.

OK, maybe they won't pay for beer and back bacon; but I think it's a good idea eh.

OK, that's our blog for today, thanks for reading.

TVBUG Returns From Summer Break

After a couple months of Summer (or perhaps that should be Extended Spring) Vacation, the Toronto VB User Group (TVBUG) is ready to rock again. I'll be doing a talk on Storing User-Specific Settings in WinForms Apps at this month's meeting which will be held on the 15th (this Wednesday). On October 4th we have our stop on the MSDN Canada User Group Tour where Adam Gallant will be doing a talk on Building Mobile Applications using the .NET Compact Framework and SQL CE. And then on November 9th Barry Gervin will be stopping by to give us A Lap Around Visual Studio Team System.

For all the details check out the TVBUG web site at http://www.tvbug.com