The Western Mass .NET Users Group is hosting its next monthly meeting on Thursday, April 9th at 6:00 PM at the MassMutual Learning Center in Chicopee, MA. Free pizza, drinks and dessert will be provided compliments of MassMutual. Attendance is always free and open to anyone interested in learning about Microsoft .NET technologies. Directions are below.

Presentation Abstract:

Late last year, Microsoft unveiled its cloud computing platform called the Azure Services Platform. It is made up of an operating system for the cloud called Windows Azure and some developer services (.NET Services, SQL Services, etc.) that bring internet scale to your solutions. In this session, we'll explore the platform via code samples and see how you can reuse your Visual Studio, ASP.NET and WCF skills to program for the cloud. At the end of this session, you'll know how to get started and have an understanding of the general anatomy of the platform. If you are new to .NET or are not a .NET developer, you will still benefit from this session as we'll discuss some of the ways to access the cloud (via REST and some non-.NET SDKs: Java and Ruby). We'll also discuss Microsoft's Software plus Services strategy and some of the recent public announcements surrounding the Azure Services Platform. Find out more about Azure here: http://www.microsoft.com/azure/windowsazure.mspx

About the Presenter:

Allan da Costa Pinto is a technical evangelist with Microsoft and his job is to help enterprise developers and architects become more successful on the Microsoft platform. He lives in Hartford, CT and on Facebook and blogs at http://blogs.msdn.com/allandcp.

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Meeting Details
Thursday, April 9th at 6:00 PM
MassMutual Learning & Conference Center
350 Memorial Drive
Chicopee, MA 01020
Telephone: (413) 598-9898

From the West
Take I-90 East (Massachusetts Turnpike) to Exit 5 (Chicopee). Bear Right after toll booth, and then Right again onto Rte. 33. The MassMutual Learning & Conference Center is one half mile on the Right.

From the East
Take I-90 West (Massachusetts Turnpike) to Exit 5 (Chicopee). Bear Right after toll booth, and then Right again onto Rte. 33. The MassMutual Learning & Conference Center is one half mile on the Right.

From the South
Take I-91 North
to Rte. 291 East in Springfield. Follow Rte. 291 East to Exit 6 Ludlow/Chicopee Falls). Follow exit ramp to first Stop sign. Take a Right onto Fuller Road. Continue on Fuller Road to third traffic light. Take a Left at light onto Memorial Drive (Rte. 33). Take a Right into MassMutual Learning & Conference Center entrance.

From the North
Take I-91 South to Exit 14 to I-90 (Massachusetts Turnpike). Take I-90 East to Exit 5 (Chicopee). Bear Right after toll booth, and then Right again onto Rte. 33. The MassMutual Learning & Conference Center is one half mile on the Right.

If you have questions, please direct them to:
Dan Caron
User Group Leader, Western Mass .NET Users Group