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Imagine Cup 2007

Congradulation for the teams who won 1st (Team : SARA, Application : ISECED
),2nd (Team : MaTHaKa, Application : KAMZA
) and 3rd (Team : Sanhitha
, Application : Iddhipada
) place in Imagine cup 2007 Sri Lanka which held yesterday.

I must congradulate other 3 teams who came up to the finals.

I wish all the best for the team whome are going to Korea for the world finals and hope that they will bring proud to Sri Lanka.

Finally thanks Wela for inviting my self and Dumidu for the event.

Bradby Express To Kandy

Hurray....

Our rugger team won the first leg of the bradby last Saturday. It was a very joyfull time for us seeing our team winning the first leg.

Hope that the our team will win the second leg as well and get the Bardby trophy.

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.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

Dinner Dance

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.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

Wishes

Yesterday one of my best friend (Ishan) got married with his love Thiloshini at Trans Asia hotel. It was a very happy day for me.

Wish them a happy wedded life.

Congratulation

Best wishes for Sri Lankan cricket team for becoming the Runners up of ICC Crocket World Cup 2007. All of the Sri Lankans thought that our team will win the world cup this year but unfortunately bad weather prevented the Sri Lankan victory.

But next time hope that Sri Lankan team would be able to win the world cup as the world cup 2011 is going to be held in asian countries.

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SQL Server User Group

There is a user group and a forum (http://www.sqlserveruniverse.com/) which will be launching. The first user group meeting of the new forum will happen on Thursday (5th of April) at the Microsoft Office.

The meeting shedule...

1. Implementing ETL Solutions with SQL Server Integration Services
Speaker: Dinesh Priyankara

2. A Simple BI Case
Speaker: Gogula Aryalingam

Finally I wish all the best for the new user group.