Events
VS 2005 Launch Tour
Launch event is here! I’ll be attending mine in Anaheim, hurry up and get registered to Walk away with “a free copy of Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition and SQL Server™ 2005 Standard Edition”.
Downloads – San Diego Fall 2005 Technical Summit
San Diego Fall 2005 Technical Summit
A group photo of NEC attendees for San Diego Fall 2005 Technical Summit.
(Right to Left) Neal, Me, Antony, Ajit, Calvin, Ana
It was previously mentioned as left to right, thanks for the correction Rob!
Upcoming Events
10.08.2005 San Diego Fall 2005 Technical Summit: Its a prime so-cal event in Carlsbad; with topics like “Developing Rich Web Applications with ASP.NET “Atlas”, “Practical Best Practices for migrating an ASP.Net 1.x application to ASP.Net 2.0“, “Design Patterns in .Net“, “Test-Driven Development in .NET“ and “Introduction to Windows Communication Framework (Indigo)“, its definitely a must attend for socal .NET devs.
11.07.2005 – 11.11.2005 – DevConnections – I’ll be at ASP.NET Connections/VS.NET Connections with Jeremy Cunningham, a fellow co-worker and gifted software architect, from 7-10 Nov in Las Vegas, NV. We’ll also be attending the post conference session on C# 2.0 and VS.NET 2005 on Friday. Since I’ve missed PDC, I’m very much looking forward to this event.
Windows Communication Foundation (“Indigo”) Road Show
Windows Communication Foundation (formerly code name “Indigo“) Road Show was an interesting event for developers; a good combination of little marketing and more drilled in code for windows communication foundation. In the Orange Coast College Costa Mesa, this event was presented by Ami Vora and Piyam Shodjai. In connection to Don Box’s Tour of Indigo Team it was a good learning event and the resources DVD had excellent material.

Got a signed copy of programming indigo by David Pallman

Me with David Pallman

Ami Vora explaining about the event DVD she made and getting started with Windows Communication Foundation.

Ami Vora, calling for some indigo action and feedback and as she puts it, no other team is as hungry for feedback as Indigo team.

Raffle, the best part of the event since I won a copy of programming indigo :)

Payam Shodjai’s no-fluff presentation on indigo.

Payam Shodjai explaining the architecture.

Payam Shodjai explaining the layers and choices available to mix and match in indigo.

Payam Shodjai explaining the WSDL role in the indigo.

Antony Chhan: enjoying the Indigo Road Show.
MSDN Event:: Rule the Web with ASP.NET 2.0
On Thursday the 18th, I and Rob went to Rule the Web with ASP.NET 2.0, the MSDN event in Burbank. It was a 200 level event with Bernard Wong who is an excellent speaker. However I’ve just had enough of same presentation/contents over and over at several MSDN Events/Conferences and therefore I slept part of the time and later we browsed slashdot and our blogs on his Treo and my Blackberry. Swag was good, especially the event DVD and VPC for Visual studio team system.

Bernard Wong presenting the Masterpage in ASP.NET 2.0

Bernard Wong answering questions and presenting the skins.

Rob has a claim that his smile should be placed next to Mona Lisa in Louvre.

Demonstrating the classic night and day style sheet example.
