This meeting held on April 15, 2008 was the Hereos Happen Here Community Launch. I know I'm a bit late with this update however, I also attend the Central Ohio Day of .Net that same week.  Two great events. In regards to the local launch, this was one meeting you had to register for and the place was packed. There were three presentations that night.

The first presentation, by Kirk Wilson representative of MAX Technical Training, was on the new features in VS2008. Some of the new features include Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Team Foundation Server (TFS), and Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF), and SharePoint Server. Even though this was a quick presentation I was able to learn about many of the new features.

The second presentation, by Stefan Kyntchev, was on LINQ. This was a great presentation. I really want to try a project or two using LINQ. It just looks fun. You need to think "what you want you want to search for, modify, etc. Stefan's approach to this presentation went over big with the audience. He shared his thoughts on the creation of LINQ in a very witty way. He also had some great code examples. 

The last presentation by Dan Hounshell was on the new features of ASP.NET 3.5. Most of the questions that I had about 3.5 were answered that night. Even though Dan had some technical difficulties the overall message was there. He gave a demo on the new features of CSS and I found the overall concept a great time saver. I used to have a heavy focus on CSS but after watching this presentation I see I can let that take a back seat and focus on LINQ a bit more. I also like the concept of the nested master pages and plan to check into that further.

I also wanted to mention that this meeting included a hands-on lab that we were able to use during the break. CINNUG is really a great user group that I found recently with some really great people. I can see they're serious about their group in regards to helping the community grow and I really appreciate all their time and efforts.