GANG Meeting

Had a great GANG meeting tonight. Bob Crosley from Wise Solutions discussed "Deployment nightmares: How poor software deployments destroy schedules, projects and your customer's computer". He also demo'd Wise for Visual Studio.NET and it looked slick! It integrates directly into the IDE as a new project type and has a ton of nice point-and-click options. It also supports some complex stuff like database installs, virtual directory creation, GAC install and even nGen on the client. Nice.

After the meeting I got a chance to meet (face-to-face) with new Microsoft Technical Evangelist Alex Lowe. Alex has a ton of great ideas for the Great Lakes Region and I look forward to a lot of good things from him!