Just a shout to let you all know of NW-MTUG's next session on 10th March, it's on Using ASP.NET MVC 2 - Introduction to MVC & What's New and will be presented by Martha Rotter. Check out NW-MTUG's site for all the details.

Just a shout to let you all know of NW-MTUG's next session on 1st February, it's on Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Sever and will be presented by Martin Woodward. Check out NW-MTUG's site for all the details.

Don't miss this opportunity to meet with the Irish TechNet team and have your questions on Windows 7 answered. The Windows 7 Road Show will include an overview of what's different in Microsoft's next operating system release, along with great demos giving you the opportunity to demo and win!! The Road show will be held at the University of Ulster's Magee Campus in the MS building at 18:30 on 25th May.

The agenda for the evening will be:

• What's new
• Upgrade path and licensing
• Deployment
• Dave Northey vs. Will Craddock - Windows 7 Demo Shootout
• Public demo contest - prizes at stake for the best Windows 7 three-minute demos! ?
• 'Install Fest' - Windows 7 Release Candidate provided

If you'd like to come along please register for this event on the Microsoft Events site.

The Northwest Microsoft Technology User Group will be holding its first session on Tuesday 7th April at 7:00 pm in the MS Building of the University of Ulster's Magee campus. The building and adjacent car park is marked on the map below.

The session will be "Best Practice for getting a business to adopt SharePoint from day 1" and will be presented by Ciaran Colgan.

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The 9^th International Conference on Agile Processes and eXtreme Programming will be taking place in Limerick 10^th-14^th June 2008 you can get all the details on their web site http://www.lero.ie/xp2008/home.html

Looking at technologies such as Silverlight 2 and ASP.Net MVC framework the MIX essentials event due to take place in Dublin on 23rd May 2008 at the National College of Ireland my be of interest to some of you. You can get more details and register for free at http://www.microsoft.com/ireland/mix08/register.html

The Irish Microsoft Technology Conference will be taking place on 3rd and 4th April in Dublin at the Cineworld Cinema Complex on Parnell St. It looks like it could be an interesting event tas here are over 40 sessions organised and it's be billed as a mini TechEd.

You can get more details form the web site http://imtc.firstport.ie

It's being organised by Irish Dev  they have loads of other events scheduled this year in a range of technologies, you can check these out here.

DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper! are holding a conference for the .NET community in Galway's Instatute of Technology on 3rd May 2008. The agenda includes some intersting topics and icludes speakers from TechNet and DevWeek.

Full details can be found at their web site dddireland.com, registrater via Microsoft's events site.

Just a quick shout to anyone who hasn’t heard yet, Microsoft are running launch events for Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008. And one of the best perks for going is, “you will leave with a promotional kit that includes product licenses for Windows Server 2008, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008”

Check out http://www.microsoft.com/heroeshappenhere/events/default.mspx for details on all events or go straight to the Ireland events here, see you there

Your can register for the Belfast event here or you can register for the Dublin event here