The WNC .NET Developers Guild is an independent, all volunteer organization, dedicated to promoting Microsoft .NET technology and education to the software developer community of Asheville, NC and the surrounding areas. Our monthly meetings will offer refreshments, professional networking and educational programs and we will often have some great items to give away.

Meetings are normally held on the 2nd Tuesday of every month from 6 to 8:30 PM in the training center of our meeting host, ImageSmith Communications, located near Asheville at 19 Walden Drive in Arden near the intersection of Sweeten Creek, Hendersonville, and Airport roads. Click here for a map and directions.

Anyone interested in .NET software development is invited to join our group. We invite you to register so that you will be notified of upcoming meetings and events. Your contact information will not be used for any marketing purposes. You are invited to attend whether you register or not. See the individual meeting announcements to add the event to your calendar and to RSVP so that we can estimate refreshments for our meeting sponsors.

If you have an interest in helping to sponsor or making presentations at meetings please contact us.

Dive into Windows Azure

Note that this meeting has been MOVED to a new date, February 16th, due to bad weather expected to hit Asheville on February 9th.

In this presentation, we’ll take a look at Windows Azure – Microsoft’s Cloud Computing platform. We’ll explore what it is, and how to get started. We’ll cover key features of the platform, and specifically dive into migrating existing web applications and making use of Azure Storage, using the Worldmaps http://www.myworldmaps.net application as an example. We’ll discuss specifics of Azure VMs including pricing, and also look at monitoring Azure applications for health and performance. With a full day of Azure coming to the MSDN Events in a few weeks, this session will give you a sneak peek at what’s coming.”

Please click RSVP to send us an email that you will attend this meeting to help us estimate refreshments. Click here to add this meeting to your calendar.

Presented By Brian Hitney

Brian Hitney is the Microsoft Developer Evangelist for the Carolinas and is an energetic and knowledgeable speaker. Check out Brian's blog here!.

Agenda

• 6:00 PM Networking and Refreshments
• 6:30 PM Announcements and Introductions
• 6:45 PM Presentation - Dive into Windows Azure
• 8:15 PM Prize drawings
• 8:30 PM Wrap-up

Technical Sponsor

This meeting is being sponsored by Microsoft and our meeting is being hosted by ImageSmith Communications.

Here is a summary of what we already have lined up for future meetings:

• The February meeting has been moved to the 3rd Tuesday, February 16th due to bad weather. The meeting will be "Dive into Windows Azure" presented by Brian Hitney.