The Shameless Plug Dept. would like to call your attention to SearchWinDevelopment.com’s .NET User Groups Learning Guide.

As you’ve noticed, we try to avoid promoting in the blog anything and everything that our parent site publishes. (This helps explain why the Shameless Plug Dept. is so poorly staffed.) This learning guide, though, is a bit of a special case.

First, it’s about user groups. If you aren’t a member of one, you should join — and not just for the free pizza and swag. You get to network, learn about job openings in your area and take in presentations by .NET experts.

Second, in our effort to finish this learning guide in a timely manner (read: before the next New England blizzard does us in, once and for all), we certainly missed some important .NET, Visual Basic, C#, C++ or SQL developer user groups.

So, if you are so inclined, we’d appreciate it if you could take a moment or three to check out the .NET User Groups Learning Guide and let us know which groups we missed. You can either leave a comment here or, as instructed on every page of the learning guide, send us an email. Either way, we’ll add your user group to the list.