Joe Healy, Our Microsoft Developer Evangelist spoke to us at the West Palm Beach .Net User Group meeting on July 27th, 2010 about VS2010 and its new features. The talk lasted for 2.5 hours. Included are some photos and a brief overview of our meeting.

Sam Abraham (Me) will be speaking at SQL Saturday #40, an all-day FREE SQL event taking place at Devry University on July 31st, 2010. The talk will demonstrate how to use ADOX and SSIS to Programmatically create a backup Access database for selected SQL Server tables.

Taking a quick look at installing Web Platform Installer 3.0, Microsoft WebMatrix and its out-of-the-box support for Umbraco configuration and development

A recap on the July 13th, 2010 Miramar .Net User Group meeting with Sam Abraham(Me)where we discussed MVC2 and VS2010 features as well as newly released tools and frameworks such as WebMatrix and Razor.

In this blog post, we explore some of the available extensible .Net open source frameworks suitable for creating a fully-featured Blog Engine. We briefly cover Oxite, Orchard and Umbraco.