.NET 3.0 Road Show 2006

.NET Framework 3.0 (formerly WinFX) is the brand name for a set of modern technologies designed to be the next-generation Windows development platform. .NET Framework 3.0 will simplify and speed-up the application development for building connected systems without the need for developers to learn new programming paradigms.

.NET 3.0 will be released with Windows Vista in January 2007 and will also be available on Windows XP.

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BRADBY SHIELD 2006 KANDY LEG

Our group (Royal College Group of 2001) arranged the participation of our group for the Bradby Shield which was held on 23rd of September in Kandy. The rugger match was played at Bogambara Grounds Kandy.

As planned we stated from Our college gate around 7am in the morning on that day and came to Kandy around 12.30pm.While we are coming to Kandy we had lot of fun. We came by a Air-conditioned bus so not got much tired when we came to Kandy. Our group made T-Shirts for the Bradby and we wore them to watch the match.

After coming we went here and there and came to the ground around 2.45pm.

The main match started around 4.30pm and Trinity team got ahead our school team. While the match is going there were some “Papare” bands playing music to make us entertained. There were lot of people gathered in the ground to watch the match.

The match ended by Trinity winning the match and we were sad that our school team didn’t perform well.

We left Kandy around 8.15pm and came to Colombo around 11.30pm on that day. Thanks for Dulip who is the chairman of our group and committee members for arranging our group participation for the match.

.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.

Future Minds Exhibition

Future Mind Exhibition was held at SLECC on 14-16 July. I promised Wela that I will come to stay in the stall on 16th July which was a Sunday.

I went to the SLECC around 1.30pm in the afternoon and stayed until the end of that day.This was the last day of the exhibition.



Our guys at the Red Hat stall.

From left to right : Charith,Fazmil,Wela,me,Razor

From left to right : me,Fazmil,Wela,Dinesh junior,Dinesh,Ludmal


This photoes were taken on the last day of the exhibition from Wela's camera.Thanks Wela for putting up these images on the .NET Forum.

Not much people came to the exhibition though this was a Sunday.We also went to the Red Hat stall and exchanged our MVP bags with their Caps.

Got through the exam

After styding for sevaral weeks May 25 th of 2006 I did my first exam on MCSD which was in ASP.NET. I did my exam at SLIIT Kollupitiya.

The exam started on 10AM and around I finshed exam around 11.30AM.There were 43 questions.The pass mark was 700 out of 1000. I got 962 marks out of 1000.

This was a very happy day for me as well as my parents. I don't have enough words to explain how happy was I.

Now I am MCP in ASP.NET. In the future I will complete the next 4 exams and become MCSD as soon as I can.

Annual Get Together 2006

Our school group's (Group of 2001) annual get together held for the 4th successive year, at the women’s international hall on the 12th of March 2006.

My self and my class mates went there around 7.30PM on that day.The get together started around 8.15PM.

Lot of our group members came on that day and had lot of fun.We received many souvenirs on that day.The night was celebrated with a buffet dinner and many more fun activities.

We left from the club around midnight.

Below are some photoes taken at the event.