Premium Sponsors

Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Corporation logo Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services, and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. At Microsoft, we’re motivated and inspired every day by how our customers use our software to find creative solutions to business problems, develop breakthrough ideas, and stay connected to what’s most important to them. We run our business in much the same way, and believe our five business segments – Client, Server and Tools, Online Services Business, Microsoft Business Division, and Entertainment and Devices Division – offer the greatest potential to serve our customers.

We are committed long term to the mission of helping our customers realize their full potential. Just as we constantly update and improve our products, we want to continually evolve our company to be in the best position to accelerate new technologies as they emerge and to better serve our customers.

For more information, visit www.microsoft.com.

Central Piedmont Community College

Central Piedmont Community College logo Central Piedmont Community College is an innovative and comprehensive public two-year college with a mission to advance the life-long educational development of adults consistent with their needs, interests, abilities, and efforts, and to strengthen the economic, social, and cultural life in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg region of North Carolina. The College accomplishes this purpose by providing high-quality, flexible educational programs and services which are academically, geographically, and financially accessible, and which meet individual and community needs. This purpose requires a fundamental commitment to teaching excellence and a supportive, caring student environment.

For more information, visit www.cpcc.edu.

DiscountASP.NET

DiscountASP.NET logo DiscountASP.NET is committed to promoting and supporting ASP.NET technology. We offer one feature-rich ASP.NET Hosting plan starting from $10/month and addon enhancements.

DiscountASP.NET offers one base hosting plan for $10/mo. You will signup for the Annual plan - prepay for 6 months of the base ASP.NET hosting package and you will get the entire first year! That means 6 months FREE!! The free months do not apply for addons.

For more information, visit www.discountasp.net/carolina.

Logical Advantage

Logical Advantage logo Logical Advantage is a full service information technology (IT) solution provider located in Charlotte, North Carolina. We are dedicated to providing high quality, cost-effective custom software development and consulting services. We pride ourselves on our ability to master our clients’ most complex business challenges, delivering solutions that require expertise in the broad spectrum of software and information technology.

Logical Advantage’s expertise lies in the development of enterprise-class solutions utilizing custom developed software and data integration. Our services include application outsourcing, software re-engineering, QA testing, data integration, technology consulting and strategic staffing services.

For more information, visit logicaladvantage.com.

Lash Group, AmerisourceBergen Specialty Group

Lash Group, AmerisourceBergen Specialty Group logo For more than 20 years, Lash Group has been the leader in the innovative design, development and implementation of unique product support programs. These programs are designed to address specific reimbursement and patient access issues for pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, biotechnology firms and payers. Our partnerships with our clients encompass every stage of the product life cycle from pre-launch to commercialization and beyond.

Placing “Patients First” is the core theme of Lash Group’s services. Putting patients first drives us to build better programs, become more efficient and help patients start therapy in a timelier manner. This focus has made our best-in-class service a standard in the industry by which others are measured

For more information, visit www.lashgroup.com.

ZoboTV

ZoboTV logo When it comes to home theaters, flat panel TV’s, and surround sound speakers, ZoboTV is the anti-big box store. Instead of walking into an overly aggressive retail environment, a ZoboTV store offers a very relaxed atmosphere where you can see what your new home theater system would actually look like.

Our staff of home theater experts will be able to answer any question you might have about which TV is right for your home and lifestyle, how you can best integrate today’s streaming media technology like Netflix, Pandora, or Vudu, and how you can completely automate your home with one, easy-to-use remote control solution.

Or if you’re looking to design and install a complete home theater solution in your home, we’ll sit down with you to understand your wants, needs, and objectives and we’ll come up with a solution that, at the very least, meets all of your expectations.

Stop by one of our two ZoboTV locations to see first-hand how we can integrate all of your home theater needs into a simple, affordable solution, or if you’re not quite sure what you want, be sure to request one or all of our informative consumer guides that will help you understand what’s possible with today’s home theater technology.

For more information, visit www.zobotv.com.

New Horizons

New Horizons logo Since 1992, New Horizons of Charlotte has been delivering expert-led computer training to local Charlotte businesses and individuals. Through an integrated learning approach that ensures that new knowledge can be applied to real life situations, New Horizons Charlotte delivers a full range of technology and business skills training from basic application and desktop productivity tools to complex and integrated business systems.

For more information, visit www.newhorizons.com.

Red Gate

Red Gate logo Since 1999, Red Gate Software has produced ingeniously simple tools for over 500,000 Microsoft technology professionals worldwide. We currently specialize in MS SQL Server, .NET and email archiving tools.

Developers writing applications in any of the languages supported by the .NET Framework love our ANTS Performance Profiler, because it helps them optimize their code and boost their application's performance.

Our philosophy is to design highly usable, reliable tools that solve the problems of DBAs and developers. We also want to make dealing with us as simple as possible. This means that we are transparent about our pricing, offer online ordering, and give free, 14-day trials for all our software.

For more information, visit www.red-gate.com/products/ants_memory_profiler/index.htm?utm_source=ug&utm_medium=uglogo&utm_content=carolina&utm_campaign=antsmemoryprofiler.

Telerik

Telerik logo Telerik is a leading vendor of development, automated testing, and team productivity tools, as well as UI components and content management solutions for Microsoft .NET. Created with passion, Telerik products help software development teams every day to be more productive and to deliver reliable applications on time and under budget. Telerik was founded in 2002 by a few friends with a simple idea – to “deliver more than expected”. Nowadays, a market leader with a team of more than 220 professionals spread around the globe in 5 offices, Telerik is still true to its motto – building outstanding products and serving customers with fanatical dedication.

For more information, visit www.telerik.com.

NCover

NCover logo NCover Complete is the leading .NET test coverage platform in the world. Using advanced profiling and reporting methods, NCover wraps every part of the development, build, and quality assurance process with objective code quality metrics. With integration into the tools you are already using, NCover squashes rework and reduces risk for everyone involved in the project.

Every day, more than 100,000 individual developers use NCover in more than 150 countries to write incredible code. With “1 in 4” of the Fortune 100 and 19 of the 25-largest banks in the world using NCover to reduce risk for mission critical application development, the NCover Team is on a mission to change the way software is being developed.

For more information, visit www.ncover.com.

AVIcode

AVIcode logo AVIcode is the leading provider of .NET application performance monitoring solutions. Our technology protects application development and management investments, and is recommended as a best practice by Microsoft for .NET application monitoring. We can detect application problems in real-time throughout the application lifecycle - including security and connectivity issues, performance bottlenecks, and code failures - and deliver immediate root cause information to accelerate problem resolution. Organizations worldwide rely on AVIcode’s technology to get applications to market faster, reduce application maintenance and management costs, and ensure maximum application availability and reliability.

For more information, visit www.avicode.com.

LogicNP Software

LogicNP Software logo 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.

For more information, visit www.ssware.com.


Contributors

TEKsystems

TEKsystems logo

For more information, visit www.teksystems.com.

Queen Associates, Inc.

Queen Associates, Inc. logo

For more information, visit www.qai3.com.

Murach

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For more information, visit www.murach.com.

Visual Studio Tour

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For more information, visit www.visualstudiotour.com.

Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated

Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated logo

For more information, visit www.cokeconsolidated.com.