EGYSUG @ Microsoft!

At 11:30am today we hosted the first event by the EGYSUG at Microsoft Egypt. I am very pleased to say that despite the fact that it was early on Saturday morning, with probable roadblocks due to some official visits downtown, we had over 30 people in attendance! Partners & customers were both present and very keen to hear about SharePoint.

Marwan started off first with a great introduction to SharePoint 2010, discussing the changes to the offerings. He had an excellent demo showing off the new UI and some great features around themes and Composites.

Our second presentation was by Mohamed Yehia, targeted towards giving developers an update on the changes with Visual Studio 2010, which will give them some amazing time-saving functionality when it comes to customizing SharePoint. He started with a brief on the technology stack and gave a hands-on demo on the developer features including Server Explorer, Project Creation and more. EGYSUG plans to deliver another session in 2 weeks time in collaboration with CodeWorx.

This will be the start of many more sessions by EGYSUG and hopefully a great way for the community to interconnect and share their knowledge of SharePoint!