We are starting a Developer Seminar series titled Great Xpectations - Countdown to Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005. This will be a series of presentations on the two new products Microsoft will be releasing in the next year and will be presented by experts from Microsoft and the Rocky Mountain technology Community. The first one is on Jan 20th - Overview of VS 2005 presented by Joe Mayo and Rod Stephens and more details are at http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?culture=en-US&eventid=1032267034&x=5&y=10.

There is an XBox drawing as well as MS Press books. I look forward to seeing you there.

I presented to the Denver .NET User Group at their November meeting on Visual Studio Team System. The response has been very good and there seems to be a lot of interest in the product and the features included.

We also chatted about having a Hands On Lab (HOL)event sometime in February. I am all for it and would love to host and help more developers get Hands-On experience. Would you want this? Would you be interested in a SQL Server 2005 HOL? How about Smart Clients around Office technologies? We can get these HOLs to the User Group members if there is enough interest. I would love to see your comments and feedback.

This website is for the community and by the community. Please take advantage of this to build a collaborative community of developers and IT professionals around Microsoft technologies. Thanks to Sco Scofield who helped put together this site and all the hard work he has been doing to keep this running.

I would welcome any feedback on what Microsoft can be doing to help User Groups in the region.

Ashwin