Ready to build apps for Windows 8?!?! This free, full-day event is designed to share all the knowledge you need to start building Metro-style applications for Windows 8 – today! This training session will begin by showing off the new features of Visual Studio and how to code fast, fluid and beautiful Metro-style applications in XAML/C#, HTML5/JavaScript and C++. Your existing investments in these languages carry forward, making Windows a no-compromise platform for developers.

This event is a hands-on training event. Bring your personal machine and the experts will guide your through a series of Labs to get you up and building Windows 8 apps.

Windows 8 Developer Camps are currently scheduled for:

For additional cities near you, check http://msdnevents.com

You have chance to spend a day with some of the nation’s leading cloud experts and for you to learn how to build a web application that runs in Windows Azure.  You will learn how to sign up for free time in the cloud, and how to build a typical web application using the same ASP.NET tools and techniques.  You will explore web roles, cloud storage, SQL Azure, and common scenarios. You can get your questions answered via open Q&A, and you will learn what workloads should not be moved to cloud.  This will be a hands-on learning experience.  The invite links below have the details needed for setup your machine. 

Of course we’ll have help onsite to get the right software installed as well. Lunch and prizes will be provided.  You can use the registration links below to get registered. 

By the way if you have MSDN you have free cloud benefits!  This video shows you how to get your risk free access to Azure to explore and learn the cloud or activate your MSDN Cloud benefits here.  If you have questions send our Azure team members an email at  msnextde@microsoft.com.

For additional cities near you, check http://msdnevents.com

Deeper in .NET
March 31, 2012
Milwaukee, WI

Fox Valley Day of .NET
April 28, 2012
Appleton, WI

Chicago Code Camp
May 19, 2012
Grayslake, IL

that Conference
August 13-15, 2012
Wisconsin Dells, WI

Illinois

Bloomington .NET Users Group
Second Tuesday of the month, 5:30 P.M., Bloomington, IL

Chicago ALT.NET Users Group
Second Wednesday of the month, 6:00 P.M., Chicago, IL

Chicago Architects Group
Chicago, IL

Chicago Cloud Computing Users Group
Downers Grove, IL and Chicago, IL

Chicago .NET Users Group
Third Wednesday of the month, 6:00 P.M., Downers Grove, IL

Chicago SharePoint Users Group
Downers Grove, IL and Chicago, IL

Chicago Windows Users Group
Downers Grove, IL

Chicago VSTS Users Group
Downers Grove, IL and Chicago, IL

Lake County .NET Users Group
Last Thursday of the month, 7:00 P.M., Grayslake, IL

Rockford .NET Users Group
Fourth Tuesday of the month, 6:00 P.M., Machesney Park, IL

Indiana

Evansville .NET Users Group
Third Tuesday of the month, 5:00 P.M., Evansville, IN

Evansville SharePoint Users Group
Evansville, IN

Indianapolis .NET Developers Association
Second Thursday of the month, 5:30 P.M., Indianapolis, IN
(Special Interest Groups meeting immediately following meeting: ASP.NET SIG,
Architecture SIG, C# SIG, Sharepoint Developers SIG)

Indianapolis Professional Association for SQL Server (IndyPASS)
Third Tuesday of the month, 5:30 P.M., Indianapolis, IN

Indy ALT.NET
Third Thursday of the month, 6:00 P.M., Indianapolis, IN

Michiana Area .NET Users Group
South Bend, IN

.NET Users of Fort Wayne
Ft. Wayne, IN

SharePoint Users of Indiana
Indianapolis, IN

Wisconsin

Black Hole .NET Users Group
Marshfield, WI

Chippewa Valley .NET Users Group
Eau Claire, WI

Fox Valley .NET Users Group
Appleton, WI

Madison .NET Users Group
Madison, WI

Wisconsin .NET Users Group
Second Tuesday of the month, 7:00 P.M., Milwaukee, IL

To find a user group near you, visit the User Group resource page on http://ineta.org.