Just a quick update from the meeting this month.  Jeff Certain did a great job presenting on Azure.  He showed some of the gotchas as well as how to get started with some of the latest SQL Azure stuff.  We also really enjoyed the new meeting space at the OTC.  The room is really impressive.  It has a giant main screen as well as two flat panels for the sides of the room.  It also has wireless access for everyone as well as wired connections at each seat!  Please come out in Oct. and check it out.

The food from Robert Half was terrific as well.  We had pasta, salad and breadsticks.  Jason Moyer from Robert Half also gave some great resume writing tips as well as a quick update on the economic status in the IT market.

Below is a link to Jeff's slides and demos from the meeting.  The demo is a quick Winform app that will migrate a current SQL or Access DB to SQL Azure.  His original demo was in VS 2010 Beta only.  I converted to VS 2008 and included it in the zip file below.  I also added support for a couple more datatypes.  Anyway, you need to setup your SQl Azure account to use.  So, go to the Azure site for that first and then fire up this demo to get yout DB out there.  Here is the zip that has the slides and the Demos:

Demo and Slides

Enjoy!

Ben