.NET User Group Meeting August 2007

VSTO development using VS.NET 2008

By: Prasanna Amirtalingam (MVP - Visual Basic)
http://www.prasanna.ws

By now you heard the Visual Studio 2008 Beta2 is released.
So join us to take a look at some of the new designers available in Visual Studio.NET 2008
which simplifies programming for office. This session would also show how easy it is
to extend the Microsoft Office platform in embedding custom business logic.

Date: 1st August 2007
Time: 6.00 PM onwards
Venue: Microsoft Sri Lanka Training Room, 11th Floor, DHPL Building, Nawam Mawatha, Colombo 02
Entrance: Free (as usual)

.NET User Group Meeting June 2007

Introduction to Windows Communication Foundation

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is the platform for building new generation connected applications in Windows.
In this session, Buddhike will be talking about the WCF fundamentals and walk you through a demo to show how to get started with this powerful & exciting technology.
Session prerequisites: Some WS-* required ;)
Level: 200

http://blogs.thinktecture.com/buddhike

Date: 6th June 2007
Time: 6 PM onwards
Venue: Microsoft Sri Lanka Training Room, 11th Floor, DHPL Building, Nawam Mawatha, Colombo 02

.NET User Group Meeting May 2007

Session 1: Introduction to SQL Server CE Programming
Speaker: Fiqri Ismail (MVP - Visual Developer - Device Applications)
An Introduction to access the System.Data.SqlServerCe class libraries programmatically. This will allow you to create/delete Databases, Tables and add/modify/delete Data programmatically using Visual Basic.net

Session 2: Introducing Microsoft Silverlight
Speaker: Merill Fernando (MVP - ASP.NET)
Microsoft® SilverlightT is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. Join Merill to learn from a developers perspective on how you can extend your web applications with Silverlight.


Date: 9th May 2007
Time: 6 PM onwards
Venue: NDB Auditorium, DHPL Building, Nawam Mawatha

.NET User Group Meeting

March .NET User Group Meeting

Session 1: Ribbon customization for VSTO developers

Speaker: Prasanna Amthralingam

Office 2007 brings many interesting possibilities for VSTO developers to incoperate their custom application with Office 2007. This session talks about the customization that can be made in the UI for office 2007 in incoperating custom applications.

Session 2: Developing Messaging Applications with MSMQ

Speaker: Joy Rathnayake

MSMQ is Microsoft's solution for developing Messaging Applications. MSMQ is a piece of software which does message queuing, serialization, etc. free of cost for Visual Studio developers. Visual Studio 2005 simplifies task of developing messaging applications with in built MesageQueue component.

Date/Time : 7th, March 2007
Venue: NDB Auditorium, Navam Mawatha.
Entrance: FREE

.NET User Group Meeting November 2006

As usual the meeting started around 6.10pm at the Microsoft Sri Lanka office. There were around 60 participants who came for the meeting. The place where the meeting held got “HOUSE FULL”. Hope that next time the meeting will be held in a place with more space.

Manzi did the one and only presentation that was arranged. He did do the presentation on AJAX in ASP.NET that was really interesting. From the presentation we learn lot about AJAX and how to use it with ASP.NET and how easy to use AJAX with ASP.NET.

The meeting ended around 8.30pm

.NET User Group Meeting September 2006

This time also the user group meeting was held at the same place which is Microsoft Sri Lanka office. I went there around 5.45pm and the meeting got started around 6.15pm.

This time unexpected amount of members came to the meeting. I think more than 60 members came to the meeting and had to bring seats from here and there to provide seats to the crowd. I have been attending user group meeting since March of this year and I think this was the time the highest number of members came according to my knowledge (From the six meetings I have attended).

There were 2 presentations arranged for the meeting. Madawa did a presentation on DAO (Data Access Objects). In this presentation he gave us a better understanding of what DAO is and how to use this concept in the real world enterprise application development.
Also Prasanna did a presentation on Windows Mobile Application Development. In this presentation he showed us new cool features that comes with mobile 5.0 and he showed us how easily those can be implemented.

The meeting ended around 8.15pm.

.NET User Group Meeting August 2006

Last Wednesday I attended the .NET user group meeting for the month of August which was held in Microsoft Sri Lanka office. Early these meetings were held at Gateway Auditorium.
On that day there were around 40 members who came to attend to the user group meeting.

At this meeting Rajah did a presentation on New Features in Windows Forms 2.0 and Dinesh did a presentation on encryption of SQL Server 2005. I learn a lot from these two presentations.

At the end of the Dinesh's presentation he asked 3 questions based on his presentation and I answered one question and got exam voucher of Microsoft.