Hello Everyone, I just wanted to remind everyone about our meeting tomorrow night, Tuesday, August 29 at 6:00P. We will meet at SouthEast Technical Solutions (www.set-solution.com <http://www.set-solution.com/> ), which is located at: 273 Azalea Rd., 3 Office Park STE-200, Mobile, Alabama 36609. Click here <http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=30.67447~-88.1485&style=r&lvl=14&; rtp=null~null&sp=aN.p3c53f7nmvw7_273%2520Azalea%2520Rd%252c%2520Mobile%252c% 2520AL%252036609-1970___> for a map. As if a top-notch .NET presentation and free food wasn't enough, we also have a gratuitous number of door prizes, including books, developer tools and lots of other stuff. Registration and refreshments start at 6:00 PM; the presentation starts at 6:30 PM. Please RSVP Matthew Hughes (mat_hues@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:mat_hues@xxxxxxxxxxx?subject=LANUG%20RSVP%20-%208/29/2006> ) and let him know if you are planning to attend so he can order the appropriate refreshments. Also, help us spread the word; tell all of your friends and colleagues about this meeting. Better yet, bring them along with you to the meeting. As a program note, our scheduled speaker, Joe Healy had to cancel due to TS/Hurricane Ernesto. Fortunately, we were able to get Keith Elder to fill in for Joe. Keith presented at the Memphis .NET code camp this past weekend and has a great presentation, with tons of source code examples, on building smart clients. He also has a lot of enterprise-level application development experience. Please see the info on his presentation and on him below. You won't want to miss this one. I look forward to seeing everyone there. Building and deploying Smart Clients in the Enterprise In this session you will learn a practical and best practices approach to building and deploying Smart Clients in the Enterprise. Maybe you've heard of Smart Clients and maybe you haven't. Or maybe you are an Asp.Net developer who has come to realize you spend 5% of your time writing logic for your web application, and the remaining 95% of your time trying to make it function like a Smart Client. Whatever the case is, the fact remains that we use Smart Clients everyday and they are here to stay. Although we'll cover briefly an intro to Smart Clients, this session picks up where others leave off with real world knowledge and best practices you can use. In this session we are going to cover everything from the ground up starting with why you should consider leveraging Smart Clients more in the Enterprise to how to get started structuring a three tiered architecture for your solution. We'll also cover how to deploy your application using ClickOnce with signed certificates and how to provide automatic updates through ClickOnce. You'll walk away with real world Enterprise knowledge you'll be able to use immediately when you sit back down in your money making cube ready to start coding. About Keith: Keith Elder is a Sr. Software Engineer for Quicken Loans, the nation's largest online mortgage lender based in Livonia, MI. At Quicken Loans he is the lead developer and architect for a custom built in-house Smart Client CRM application. He is an experienced educator who has logged thousands of hours in front of the classroom teaching students of varying ages from the 6th grade to the college level. He has also trained countless developers from various business sectors ranging from the top auto manufactures to Fortune 500 companies as well as Universities. His technical expertise combined with his outgoing common sense friendly southern attitude allows him to explain technical information so even your grandmother can understand it. He is also the leader of the internal Quicken Loans .Net User Group where upwards of 100 team members get together monthly. He now resides in Hattiesburg, Ms with his wife and three dogs where he continues to unthaw after residing in Michigan for eight years. Doug Douglas A. Greene President Middle Bay Consulting, Inc. dgreene@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 251.895.8908