Thanks to the hospitality of Microsoft Cyprus(especially Mr. Savvas Kounnis), the first User Group event was successful. According to the number of attendees

Two excellent sessions presented by Chad Z. Hower received more than expected feedback from the rest of the (mostly) members’ audience.

In the first session, Chad explained most of the controversies new developers had about .NET using few comparison methods with VB 6 and C++, and later in the session, the comparison with Java.

Second session was geared towards ADO.NET, starting with brief introduction to .NET version of well-known ADO 2.6, quickly followed by advanced methods of using full power of ADO, as well as few design misconceptions related to Multi-tier architectures, Stored Procedures, SQL and storage in general. Second part of the session triggered few contra-arguments from the audience and discussion had taken its way. It was definitely a great experience for any developer dealing with databases.

After the sessions, short organizational meeting took place at Starbucks, Nicosia where it was decided to draw down the plan of the future events and eventual involvement of Microsoft as a potential sponsor of the events.

For the time being we will just say ... brace yourself for "Cyprus .NET Momentum"!!!