If any of you are planning on attending VSLive next week you are
cordially invited to attend a free special meeting of the New York
City .NET Developers Group.

The event will be held Tuesday July 27th in the Regency Room from
6:00pm to 8:00pm, followed by Midnight Madness. VSLive is at the Grand
Hyatt Hotel , 42nd St. & Park Ave. at Grand Central Terminal, Regency
Room.

For meeting details see:
http://www.nycdotnetdev.com/EventDetail.aspx?f=list&event=7/27/2004

The topic will be: Asynchronous Execution in Windows Forms: Today &
Tomorrow presented by Brian A. Randell

It's 2004 and the days of the blocking UI are over. What do you think
you're using, VB3? In this talk Brian will show you how to execute
long-running tasks (database queries, web services calls, etc.) on a
secondary thread. More importantly, he'll show you how to do it safely
and correctly. He'll cover how to do it in .NET 1.1 and show you some
enhancements in .NET 2.0.

About Brian: Brian A. Randell is a senior consultant with MCW
Technologies, LLC, a Microsoft Certified Partner. Brian spends his
time between teaching Microsoft .NET –based technologies to developers
for DevelopMentor and consulting with MCW Technologies whose clients
include Microsoft, American Honda, DELL, and others. Brian enjoys
helping people get the most out of their software. He does this
through training, consulting, and speaking at events such as VSLive!,
Tech Ed, and the PDC. In addition, Brian shares through the written
word. He is the co-author of Effective Visual Basic and has written
articles for MSDN Magazine and Microsoft. Brian is currently working
with Rockford Lhotka and Bernard Wong on a book about Visual Basic
Express, tentatively titled "Tom and Huck's Guide to Visual Basic
Express" to be published by Addison-Wesley. Reach Brian through his
blog at http://sqljunkies.com/weblog/brianr/ or at
http://www.mcwtech.com .

All attendees are welcome.