The HDNUG Times

Volume 1 Number 1             August 2005
HDNUG's 46th meeting was excellent both in content and attendance. Venkat Subramaniam's ".NET Gotchas" was a big hit. Over 110 people were present to hear Venkat talk about things in .NET that can grab you when you are not looking. read more Letter from the Editor
by Michael Steinberg
A lot of times in the software business we do what we call a proof of concept. This Web page and its associated pages are a proof of concept. The concept is that a newsletter for HDNUG is a desirable and an interesting thing to have. read more
Meetings are held at 6:30PM on the second Thursday of each month. The Microsoft Office is located at:

Microsoft Houston Meeting Facility
2000 West Sam Houston Pkwy South, Suite 350
Houston, TX 77042

Thank you Microsoft for the use of your meeting facility.
Next Month's Speakers

Marcus Egger our featured Speaker, will talk about "A Quantum Leap in UI Technology: Building Interfaces with "Avalon", XAML, and WinFX".

Jerry Fitzpatrick, our Tip and Trick speaker, will talk about "Customizing A .NET Control".
Book Review
Beginning C# Objects: From Concepts to Code by Jacquie Barker and Grant Palmer
Published by: Apress
Reviewed by: Trish Middleton
This is an outstanding book on C# objects! The book is broken into three parts. Part One gives you the ABC’s of objects. Part Two discusses object modeling. Part Three translates a UML Blueprint into C# code. read more
Major thanks to J. Sawyer, our Microsoft liaison, for his efforts above and beyond the call of duty.
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Thanks to Microsoft and O'Reilly for providing books for the door prizes at this months meeting. O'Reilly is offering a 30% discount on books bought by users group members
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Published by: Houston .NET User Group
Editor in Chief: Michael Steinberg