Today, we held our June .NET User Group meeting.  It was great!  Unfortunately due to very late speaker cancellation and other scheduling issues we had to move our meeting from our usual last Thursday's meeting.  David Waddleton, an MSDN Events Team member out of Houston was in town and offered to present to our group a few weeks ago.  Boy! Talk about the stars aligning.

David spoke on Advanced Web Services and touched on quite a few topics that are of interest.  Primarily, he focused on WSE and demonstrated taking what would normally be an unencrypted, insecure SOAP request to a web service and tagged on the Web Service Extensions to encrypt the contents and in essence make the same request to the web server, getting the same results, but in a secure manner.  David also touched on SQL Reporting Services and Http end points in SQL Server 2005.

All very cool stuff.  I was very impressed as well with the turnout.  We had 50+ people there which was unexpected but very welcome!  We had some great giveaways as well: a few SQL Server Standard licenses, Sax.Net Communications Library, Primal Code, and much more.

Thanks go out to the user group members and their support!  What a fantastic user group!