The HDNUG Times

Volume 1 Number 2             Sept. 2005
This Month's Meeting

HDNUG's 47th meeting was another excellent meeting with Markus Egger talking to an eager audience of over 100 people about Avalon, XAML, and WinFx.
Letter from the Editor
by Michael Steinberg
I tried to put some fancy things in this issue. I am starting to remember some of the DHTML and JavaScript that I used to use on a regular basis.
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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 Meeting
We have two meetings during October.
  • Our regular monthly meeting will be on Oct. 13th. Come hear John Cook talk about SQL Management Objects (SMO) in SQL Server 2005.


  • On Oct. 27th, .NET Rocks! is Hitting the Road! That's right Houston, the .NET Rocks! road show is coming here. Be prepared to shout
    .NET Rocks!
Book Review
SQL 2000 Reporting Services by Brian Larson
Published by : McGraw Hill/Osborne
Reviewed by: Tracy Sawyer

This book was rather incomplete. It didn't take the reader very far in any of the topics. read more
Major thanks to J. Sawyer, our Microsoft liaison, for his efforts above and beyond the call of duty.

Speaking about J, don't forget to check out his blog at J.Net. Go there to get information on the amazing effort to put together the Katrina Safe project by J and some of his co-workers at Microsoft.
November's Meeting
J. Sawyer, our liaison from Microsoft, will be speaking.
Send book reviews and articles to editor at hdnug.org. Our web site is HDNUG.ORG
Thanks to Microsoft and O'Reilly for providing books for the door prizes at this month's meeting. O'Reilly is offering a 30% discount on books bought by users group members. See the handouts at our meetings. Published by: Houston .NET User Group
Editor in Chief: Michael Steinberg