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Listed below are .Net-related events happening in the Cleveland area and Midwest region for June... and beyond: .Net-related User Groups: June 4: ON SQL User Group ( www.ohionorthsqlserverug.org ) June 10: Cleveland .NET User Group ( www.bennettadelson.com/ComingEvents.aspx )   June 17: Cleveland WPF User Group ( www.ClevelandWPF.info )  June 18: Hudson Software Craftsmanship ( http://hudsonsc.com ) June 24: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group ( www.clevelanddotnet.info )  June 25: SharePoint User’s Group ( www.sharepointCleveland.com )    Regional Events: June 4: Security Summit ( https://www.informationsecuritysummit.org/ ) June 13: Cleveland SharePoint Golf Outing ( http://www.sharepointcleveland.com/default.aspx ) June 13-15: Circle City Con ( http://www.circlecitycon.com/ ) June 14: SQL Saturday #299 ( http://www.sqlsaturday.com/299/eventhome.aspx ) July 11-12: CodeStock ( http://www.codestock.org/ ) July 18: Cleveland GiveCamp: ( http://clevelandgivecamp.org/ ) Augu

On June 3, 2014, Microsoft released Visual Studio “14” CTP (Community Technology Preview).  Listed below are some useful links relating to this release:   Downloads: Download the Visual Studio “14” CTP (also available on MSDN subscriber downloads ). Alternatively, save some time and use the provided VM in Azure . Blogs & Release Notes: Read announcements by Soma & Brian . Check out the team blogs, including Visual Studio , Web Dev (web tooling) , Web Dev (ASP.NET vNext) , Entity Framework , C# , VB , and C++ . See the Visual Studio “14” CTP release notes for a list of new features. Discuss on Facebook & Twitter . Known Issues: This release should be installed in a test environment, such as a VM or a clean machine. Do not install on a machine with another version of Visual Studio installed. For other known issues, please see the Visual Studio “14” CTP KB . Feedback: Submit bugs through Connect , suggestions on UserVoice and quick thoughts through Sen