I'm very happy with how the Utah .NET User Group went tonight, despite obstacles.  We've had some issues with our mail server.  Apparently a very small percentage of the emails sent out were actually received.  Despite not receiving their emails, we had about 50 people show up which was fantastic :)

We had a group of students/developers from Neumont University demonstrate and talk about their ORM solution (named NORMA - Neumont ORM Architect) which will be released as an open source beta on Feb 17th.  Their solution was very impressive.

I then had the opportunity to talk about creating WinForms controls.  We created a simple control, touched on several attributes, created an Editor, a Designer, and an Extender.  It was lots of fun and I think it was well received.  I really look forward to following it up with a talk on creating ASP.NET controls - maybe next month or the month after depending on demand and enthusiasm.  It was very reassuring to have several developers come up to me afterwards expressing how much they enjoyed the presentation and how much work it saved them.  Awesome!