AWDNUG May
Last night's meeting of the Albury/Wodonga .NET User Group featured Microsoft's Ron Dunn, who came up to demonstrate SharePoint, and more specifically custom workflows. An hour and a half is, of course, way too short a time to cover any part of SharePoint with any depth, and we had a sizeable percentage of people in the room who had never seen the product at all, so the level of detail that Ron could go to was limited by necessity. That said, he did a great job not only of introducing SharePoint, but also of covering some of the more advanced topics like creating workflow activities in Visual Studio. A big thanks to Ron for making the trip and taking the time to shed some light on such a broad topic.
Ron assures me that he has a blog on the way, and will use it to publish more in-depth articles on workflow. Expect a link here when that goes live.
Next month I'll be sharing some of my recent experience with Windows Presentation Foundations, in a session that I think I'll call, "WPF: A Noob's Eye View". I hope to be able to do the bulk of the presentation outside of PowerPoint - maybe code something up from scratch. We'll see if I can pull that off.
On a semi-related note: Thanks to Pete for coming last night. It was his first AWDNUG meeting and I'd like to think it won't be his last. In fact, I'm sure we'd all love to see a presentation around XNA, which is his forte right now. How 'bout it, Pete?