December Area User Group Meetings

Here's the line up of topics at area Microsoft related user groups for December:

New Jersey

• NJ MS Developers Group - Thursday, December 6th -  BizTalk 2006 - Brian Mallon, Microsoft  
• Northern NJ User Group (N3UG) – Tuesday, December 11th - WPF: The Beauty of the Beast - Josh Smith 
• Central NJ .NET User Group – Thursday, December 13th - WPF (check user group site for updates)
• NJ SQL Server User Group – Tuesday, December 18th – TBD (check user group site for updates)

New York

• NY Enterprise Windows User Group –  Saturday, December 8th – Special Event: MVP Vista TechDay - Corey Hynes, HynesITe, Inc. 
• Long Island .NET User Group - Thursday, December 6th – Pair Programming & TDD - David Laribee, XClaim Software & Raymond Lewallen, EMC
• NYC SharePoint User Group – Wednesday, December 5th - Introduction to Developing & Deploying Custom Site Definitions - Josh Carlisle, Viewfusion Solutions 
• NYC Connected Systems Group – No meeting this month for holiday break.
• NYC .NET Developers User Group – Thursday, December 20th - Introduction to Scrum - Stephen Forte, Corzen, Inc.
• NY Metro SQL Server User Group - TBD (check user group site for updates)
• IASA NYC – TBD (check IASA site for updates)

Connecticut

• Fairfield/Westchester .NET User Group - Tuesday, December 4th - ASP.NET Development with Castle - John Zablocki, webroyalty.com
• Fairfield/Westchester SQL User Group - Wednesday, December 12th - SQL Server's Full-Text Search - Hilary Cotter
• Southern CT .NET UG - Tuesday, December 11th - Code Generation - Des Nolan
• Connecticut.NET - Monday December 10th - Bob & Chris MSDN Roadshow (8:30am-4:30pm) followed by Visual Studio 2008 InstallFest (6:00pm-8:00pm) - Check site for updates.

Pennsylvania

• Pittsburgh .NET User Group - Tuesday, December 11th - Visual Studio 2008 Community Launch Party 
• Philadelphia SQL Server User Group – Wednesday, December 12th - Replication Optimization/Tips & Tricks - Hilary Cotter 
• Lehigh Valley .NET User Group  – Monday, December 17th - Visual Studio 2008 Launch Event - Dani Diaz, Microsoft
• Central Penn.NET – Code Camp - Saturday, December 1st
• Philly .NET – Wednesday, December 19th – Topic 1: TBD - Topic 2: Chuck Urwiler, MicroEndeavors
• .NET Valley (Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area) – Tuesday, December 18th - Visual Studio 2008 Install Fest - Dani Diaz, Microsoft 
• Philadelphia Area SharePoint User Group – TBD
• Philly Office Geeks - NEW GROUP! - Tuesday, December 11th - Unisys Case Study - Jim Kane
• Philly Alt.NET - NEW GROUP! - Thursday, December 13th - Open Spaces Event: YOU decide the topic!

Delaware

• Delaware .NET Users Group - Wednesday, December 12th - TBD
• Northern Delaware .NET User Group - No Meeting this month - Holiday Break!