July Meeting

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The next Bloomington / Normal .NET User Group meeting will be Tuesday,
July 14th at 6:00pm at the Microsoft office in Bloomington, IL. We
have an exciting topic for the meeting that you don’t want to miss.
Colin Blair from EKI is going to talk about Silverlight 3.0 and how it
can be used to create rich business applications. Colin is currently
developing Silverlight applications for the State of Illinois and has
a ton of experience with this great new technology.

Microsoft Silverlight is a programmable web browser plugin that
enables features such as animation, vector graphics and audio-video
playback which characterize rich Internet applications. Version 2.0,
released in October 2008, brought additional interactivity features
and support for .NET languages and development tools. Microsoft made
the beta of Silverlight 3.0 available on March 18, 2009. The final
version is expected to arrive on July 10, 2009.

The timing and subject of our meeting can’t be more perfect with the
July 10th go-live of Silverlight!!!

LRS (http://www.lrs.com) will be picking up dinner for the group.
LRS (Levi, Ray, & Shoup) is a global provider of innovative
information technology solutions . Thanks LRS and Jeff Johnson for
helping our group out.

Please register for the meeting at
http://www.bloomingtondotnet.org/Meetings/Silverlight-3-0-and-how-it-can-be-used-to-create-r.aspx
so we knew how much food to get.

Pass this on to everyone you can and we look forward to seeing you
there.