### DevFish >««(o> Corner ###
I hope all the Florida .NET commmunity had a great holiday. In the last MSDN Flash, my celebration of the Day of Silverlight event hosted by the Orlando .NET User group in the last issue was a little premature. The event was a great success with 150 attendees, and over 100 copies of VS2008 Pro installed. But it wasn't easy. The efforts and nightmares of community volunteer Shawn Weisfeld to put on a free event often should not go unheralded. So let me tell you a tale of the Orlando Day of Silverlight and VS2008 installfest. The original agenda was Joe Healy installing VS2008 on a 100 plus machines, and two speakers covering Silverilght and WPF respectively. It looked to be a great Saturday event. Friday morning the Silverlight talker finds out he has to go to the hospital for surgery, and the the WPF speaker comes down with a cold. Ouch. Shawn Weisfeld (Orlando .NET User Group leader) has 210 plus people registered for the event, the facility secured, food purchased, et cetera. The show must go on. So I am volunteered by Shawn for an early am Silverlight 1.0 talk, Bill Reiss ( http://www.bluerosegames.com/brg ) steps up, preps all night, and delivers a great session on Silverlight 2.0 during the late morning session, and RD Jon Goodyear ( http://www.angrycoder.com/angrycodercolumn.aspx ) spends - literally - all night overhauling his ASP.NET MVC materials. Brian Banville got to take care of the VS2008 installfest. So a special thanks goes out to Orlando .NET Community leader Shawn Weisfeld ( http://www.onetug.org )for coordinating this potential disaster, as well as Brian, Jon and Bill for stepping up large here. Couple flips of the fish to ya'll. Jon, it almost gets you off the hook for being a Mac-ie.

### PNP Day ###
Interested in topics like Web Client Software Factory v2.0, Web Services Software Factory Modeling Edition, ASP.NET MVC Framework, or a dialog on The Perfect Pattern Storm? Are you a fan of Sarasota's David Hayden (MVP), Sarasota's Stan Schultes (MVP), Jeff Barnes - Microsoft Architect Evangelist, or -gasp- Ron Jacobs from Redmond PNP group. Those topics are going to be discussed by the esteemed list above. You're crazy if you miss this event. All day, Microsoft Tampa Office, January 31, 2008. See http://www.devfish.net/FullBlogItemView.aspx?BlogId=471  for more info.

### SFL CC III ###
South Florida Code Camp 2008 - We have the date - February 2, 2008 and the location: Devry University in Miramar. Starting this month we will begin planning, lining up track chairs and generally getting organized. Our goal is to have the website up by September. If you know of anyone who wants to volunteer, speak, chair a track or be a sponsor, please see the website at http://codecamp08.fladotnet.com 

### SQL Saturday Tampa ###
Wes Dumey ( http://durableimpact.com/default.aspx ) and krewe are putting on Tampa's SQL Saturday on February 16. Speakers, sponsors, and folks who want to show up and learn are needed. See the website at http://www.sqlsaturday.com for more information.

### LOCAL EVENTS ###
Birmingham, AL ( http://www.bsda.info )
1/10/2008 - Election of officers and business meeting
2/7/2008 - Silverlight - Doug Turnure of Microsoft

FLADOTNET - ( http://www.fladotnet.com )
1/8/2008 - Miramar - Shawn Wildermuth (MVP) - Introducing the Entity Framework (and Astoria too) the Ent2/2/2008 - South Florida .NET CodeCamp III

Ft. Walton Beach, FL ( http://www.gulfcoastdotnet.org )
1/16/2008 - VS2008 Installfest - SOLD OUT -

Gator .NET User Group - Gainesville, FL ( http://www.gatormug.org )
see website

GoldCoast User Group ( http://www.gcdotnet.com )
1/10/2008 - "Its all about the Data" by David Cobb, MCITP: Database Administratorvid Cobb2/21/2008 - Introducing New Business Intelligence Features in SQL Server 2008 - Joe Homnick (MVP)

Huntsville Sharepoint ( http://www.mossmosis.com/huntsville/default.aspx )
1/17/2008 - MOSS Search\Search Server 2008 - Ben Curry, MOSS MVP

HUNTUG (All events Huntsville, AL) ( http://www.huntug.org )
see website

Jacksonville .NET - Jacksonville, FL ( http://www.jaxdug.com )
1/9/2008 - Ken Koteles, Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi - CSLA and MSBuildayed Ibr1/23/2008 - VS2008 Installfest - SOLD OUT -

Jacksonville Office Geeks ( http://www.jacksonvilleofficegeeks.org )
1/17/2008 - John Holliday (MVP) - Generating SharePoint Workflow from Office Client Apps

Jacksonville SQL Server ( http://www.jssug.com )
see website

Lakeland .NET ( http://www.cfdotnet.org  )
see website

Miami User Group ( http://www.miamiusersgroup.org )
see website

Mobile, AL - ( http://www.loweraldotnet.org )
1/15/2008 - Joe Healy - VS2008 Overview

Montgomery, AL .NET User Group ( http://www.simplifi.com/madev )
see website

NAPLES, FL ( http://www.naplesdot.net )
see website

Orlando .NET User Group ( http://www.onetug.org )
1/24/2008 - Roy Ashbrook of Bank of America - What .NET developers need to know to interop with J2EE

Orlando Sharepoint Users Group ( http://www.mossmosis.com/orlando/default.aspx )
see website

Orlando SQL Server ( http://www.opass.org )
2/18/2008 - date set, speaker and topic tbd

SARASOTA IT PRO GROUP ( http://www.sarasotaitpro.org )
see website

SARASOTA .NET DEVELOPER GROUP ( http://www.sarasotadev.net )
1/10/2008 - Rocky Lhotka [MVP] - tbd

SARASOTA SQL SERVER GROUP ( http://www.sarasotasql.net )
see website

Space Coast / Melbourne, FL ( http://www.scdnug.org )
1/22/2008 - Joe Healy - VS2008 Overview (repeat)
2/20/2008 - Entity Framework - John Papa (MVP)

TALLAHASSEE .NET ( http://www.tlhdotnet.net )
1/17/2007 - VS2008 Installfest - MSDN Roadshow / .NET Tiki Hut - Joe Healy and Jeff Barnes of Microsoft Joe Hea2/7/2007 - WPF - Rob Eisenberg of BlueSpire

Tampa Bay Office Geeks Association ( http://floridaofficegeeks.org/TOGA/default.aspx )
1/29/2008 - Andrew Connell (MVP) - favorite AC topics - generally sharepoint related but you never know

Tampa Bay .NET ( http://www.fladotnet.com  )
see website

Tampa Bay Microsoft Project Association ( http://www.mympa.org/chapters/TampaBay/public.aspx )
see website

TAMPA BAY SQL SERVER ( http://www.tampasql.com )
2/16/2008 - SQL Saturday - Tampa

Tampa Bay SQL Server Business Intelligence ( http://tampasqlbi.sqlservercentral.com )
1/7/2008 - Robert Skoglund - BI Delivery Process

West Palm Beach ( http://www.fladotnet.com )
1/22/2008 - INtroducing MVC in .NET - Kyle Baley - INtroducing MWant your .NET Developer or SQL Server user group event listed in the 'local events' section? Got a special announcement you want posted (no paid events please) Send a 10-15 word description of your event to jhealy@microsoft.com . All entries are subject to trimming to fit the space we have available.