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Infusion is at it again, they are organizing a sleepless roadshow after the success of the Sleepless in NY sharepoint weekend, which i was fortunate enough to be a part of. Check out this video from last time. I highly recommend these events to any sharepoint/silverlight developers or anybody looking to add learn about these technologies.
This event is sponsored by .Net Rocks and will cover Washington D.C, Atlanta, Dallas, L.A, Silicon Valley and Chicago. And the goodies they give out to participants and winners are just awesome. You have to be there to believe it.

-Latish Sehgal

 Sharepoint 2007 allows user targeting at the individual web part level. You can control what each user sees by default by enabling audience targeting on the control in its Settings, and then configuring the user groups that should see the web part under Advanced 'Settings->Target Audiences' .


You should remember though, that this only removes the control from the default view, and can still be accessed via the 'View All Site Content' link on the site. To completely remove access to a control for a user group, you should also configure the 'Permissions for the List' under 'Settings->Permissions'.

-Latish Sehgal

 I was one of the participants in the Sleepless in NY - The Ultimate Sharepoint Weekend. It was an awesome experience and hats off to Infusion for pulling it off so well. The trainers were able to  squeeze in so much in these 2 days. I am a sharepoint newbie and this weekend increased my knowledge by leaps and bounds. And of course, there were plenty of cool prizes including a really high end laptop and a trip to MS - Redmond.
 We were put up in the Park Central hotel near Times Square, but we hardly got to stay there! The training schedule was really intensive, mixing in labs to let us practise what we were taught, and it all ended with a saturday night assignment for us to to develop something useful for the Community Kit for Sharepoint. We were divided into groups of three and my group decided to come up with a cool media library webpart for sharepoint collaborating sharepoint and silverlight. We worked really hard on it all night, but were unfortunately unable to complete our project by the morning, partly due to the new Silverlight RTW giving some unexpected issues; and of course our inexperience with both sharepoint and silverlight slowed things down. But it was great to work along with such talented people and just be creative. The judges were really interested in our project and commented that it woud definitely be a contribution to the Sharepoint society and that we should try to finish it.
 Another highlight of the weekend was that we got to meet and hang out with Carl and Richard from DotNetRocks. Besides the talented Infusion trainers, Sahil Malik (MS MVP) and Lawrence Liu also gave excellent presentations.

 Not only did i pick up so much in sharepoint in the 2 days, but i also got to meet some really talented people. I am thankful to Infusion for that and hopefully they will continue to host such great events in the future.
-Latish