Our Sponsors

Akal Tech

Akal Tech is sponsoring our August 2008 meeting with food, drink, prizes and with our speaker - Ish Singh. Akal Tech provides our group with one Professional Edition license of Quick Objects to give away at each meeting. Akal Tech is a leading component developer with a focus on improving developer productivity. Akal Tech's flagship product line called Quick Objects for .NET include Data Access Library Business Logic Framework Data Source for ASP.NET and Time Zones Library. Quick Objects is built with a unique and innovative approach that combines Code Generation, Code Reuse and Object Relational Mapping to provide a robust and powerful business logic and validation framework. Quick Objects is available in Community Edition (Free) and Professional Edition.

Apress

Apress provides our group with book discounts, promotional items for raffle prizes, and free books in exchange for reviews. Apress is a publishing company devoted to meeting the needs of programmers and IT professionals.

CodeSmith

CodeSmith provides our group with one CodeSmith 4.1 Professional Edition license to give away at each meeting. CodeSmith CodeSmith is a software development tool to help you get your job done faster. Technically speaking it is a template driven code generator that automates the creation of common application code for any language (C#, Java, VB, PHP, ASP.NET, SQL, etc.). CodeSmith can help you produce higher-quality, more consistent code in less time. Read More

Developer Express

Developer Express provides our group with a license to give away at each meeting and will be sponsoring one of our upcoming meetings by providing food, drinks and t-shirts. DevExpress engineers feature-complete visual components and IDE tools for Visual Studio .NET. Our technologies help build your best, reduce the amount of code you write, increase your productivity and create stunning applications for Windows® and the Web in the shortest possible time. To learn more, visit us online at www.devexpress.com.

DiscountAsp.net

DiscountAsp.net provides our group with hosting services. DiscountASP.NET - Microsoft Gold Partner - Best ASP.NET Web Hosting: 2007, 2005 - Visual Studio Magazine - Best ASP.NET Web hosting: 2007, 2006, 2005 - asp.netPRO Magazine - ASP.NET Product of the Year: 2006, 2005 - asp.netPRO Magazine.

EasySearchASP.net

EasySearchASP.net provides our group with a license to their fast and easy to use ASP.NET web site search solution for use on our web site. EasySearchASP.net is developed by the same company that brings you the myKB.com knowledge management solution.

Ineta

Ineta provides our group with several speakers per year from a list of distinguished speakers.

Infragistics

Infragistics provides our group with a few of their latest products to give away at our meetings. Infragistics is the world leader in Presentation Layer Technology. We are committed to providing our customers the highest quality of reusable presentation layer development tools for Windows Forms, ASP.NET, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Tablet PC, and Java environments that allow them to empower themselves and their software development teams to realize the potential of the presentation layer by accelerating development cycles and improving usability to the end-users.

JetBrains

JetBrains provides our user group with two ReSharper 3.0 licenses to give away at each of our meetings. With unparalleled support for C#, Visual Basic .NET, XML, XAML, and ASP.NET, including comprehensive cross-language functionality, ReSharper 3.0 is sure to satisfy more Visual Studio developers than ever before. Version 3.0 brings unrivalled code analysis, a superior unit testing solution with multiple unit test sessions, Go to Symbol navigation, a handy To-do Explorer, and many other features — to boost individual and team productivity in the world of .NET development. ReSharper 3.0 comes in three editions: Full, C# and Visual Basic .NET, to give every developer precisely what they need.

LogicNP Software

LogicNP Software has provided our user group with a product license to give away at a number of our meetings. LogicNP Software specializes in the development of developer-centric software products such as reusable controls, components and libraries for .Net, WPF, ActiveX and MFC/ATL developers. Our mission is to provide innovative, developer-friendly, robust and easy-to-use software that helps developers build the best applications that today's competitive marketplace demands. Our products are used by thousands of large corporations, multi-national companies, consultants, ISVs and professionals from all over the world working in finance, government, military, education, technology, health, insurance, consulting and more.

Microsoft

Microsoft sponsors most of our giveaways including software, books, and t-shirts through our user group participation on CodeZone. If you want to indicate that you're a member of our group then go to CodeZone and search for the word Tucson. Enter the following as the leader-supplied access code: tucson

Murach

Murach provides our group with book discounts, promotional items for raffle prizes, and free books in exchange for reviews. Murach is a publisher of professional programming books.

O'Reilly

The O'Reilly User Group & Professional Association Program supports the good work of user and professional groups by providing: Review copies of O'Reilly products, Donations of books and other promo items, UG member discount on all O'Reilly books and conferences, Monthly newsletter, O'Reilly speakers

Neudesic

Neudesic is sponsoring our February 2008 meeting with food, drink, prizes and with our speaker - Rick Garibay. Neudesic is a Microsoft National Systems Integrator and Gold Certified Partner with a proven track record of providing reliable, effective solutions based on Microsoft's technology platform.

SourceGear

SourceGear has provided our user group with Fortress licenses, t-shirts, and other promotional material to give away and is the sponsor of our December 2007 meeting providing us with food, drink, and prizes. SourceGear has been selling team tools for professional software developers since 1997. In 2002, we were named #156 on the Inc 500, an annual list of the fastest growing private companies in America, published by Inc Magazine.

Telerik

Telerik has provided our user group with licenses to give away and is the sponsor of our March 2008 meeting - providing food, drinks and other promotional material. Telerik is the leading vendor of User Interface (UI) components for ASP.NET and Windows Forms, and .NET Reporting solutions. Building on our expertise in interface development and Microsoft technologies, Telerik helps customers build applications with unparalleled richness, responsiveness and interactivity. Check out the latest release featuring our RadControls for ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX controls, Silverlight tools, RadControls for WinForms, and Telerik Reporting: http://www.telerik.com

Wrox

Wrox provides our user group with books in exchange for reviews. Wrox Press, established in 1992 to publish books for computer programmers, is driven by the Programmer to Programmer philosophy. Wrox books are written by programmers for programmers, and the Wrox brand means authoritative solutions to real-world programming problems. Wrox's unique author-editorial process delivers the best and most useful information you need in the timeliest manner.