.NET on Linux - Mono Project

on 27th and 28th January 2006, Vivek Vidyalaya college - Goregaon (West), Mumbai had a techfest in their college, they invited me - Dhaval Faria [MVP], for giving session on .NET Introduction, ASP.NET Introduction and .NET on Linux. Session was schedules in the afternoon for in two days time span - 27th and 28th January 2006. Total attendies 50.

KolkataNet - Security Day & Students of Heritage Enggr. College - 28 Jan'06

It was a great experiences with Subratam, Rajat, Abhijit Mehta in the Security Day in Heritage Engg. College. Prof. Boira - Director of this college kept introductory speech.
Subratam talked on different kinds of threats related to security issues. Shown some interesting Video Clips. Before launch I, Abu Ismail, talked on Cryptography and its concept in context to .NET. Seven people participated to the Speaker’s Contest. After launch Abhijit Mehta, Student Champ, from Durgapore NIT took session on .NET. Whole day we had lot of fun.

KolkataNet -User Group Meeting Jan'06 - XML & .NET 2.0

We had session on 21 Jan on XML and .NET 2.0. Arround 30 people attended in this session. Abu Ismail took this one. Later on Neo shown some interesting things in Coding.

MUG and PUG - HOL

HOL for MUG and PUG Student Champs - 21st Jan 2006 - 11 AM to 5:30 PM
Mumbai User Group Meet - 21st Jan 2006 - 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM

MUG and PUG, conducted Hands on Labs for Student Champs on ASP.NET 2.0 and ADO.NET 2.0.

We had about 11 Student Champs attending Honds on Lab and had a great fun while doing it. VPCs failed to work, moment we login into Windows Server 2003 in VPC it crashes (guest OS), Nauzad Kapadia came up with sugestion go to google and search for intelppm.sys thats what BSOD what showing.. we searching on google and found the solution to change registry value in guest operating system... so we looged into guest os through safe mode, changed it and yes it worked :). HOL was supposed to start at 10 AM, but it started at around 12 PM, then after hour, we decided to go for lunch, had lunch came back and continued with the HOL, done ASP.NET 2.0 - Nauzad Kapadia [MVP], then he handed over to Sarang Datye [MVP] to continue with ASP.NET remaining part and ADO.NET as Nauzad had to create sample for evening's UG meet. After Sarang done with his part, Mayur Tendulkar (Student champ from Pune User Group), talked about ASP.NET Master Pages, then handed over to Dhaval Faria [MVP], and spoke about UXTheme, and finally handed over to Hardik Shah from Microsoft, he shown preview of Windows Vista. By the time Windows Vista preview started, UG Members started arriving at the venue. In morning it self, we found out that VPC Image was creating problem, we had to copy VPC Image from one maching to the other over Laptop to Machine using one single cross cable, it was fun and pain. at 7:00 PM Nauzad Kapadia started MUG HOL on ASP.NET WebParts and we done by 9:30 PM.

Sorry, we dont have any snaps of the event.

MUG and PUG Team.

B.NET - We Rocked The Launch!

Quite easily, it was the biggest day for B.NET. It was the first of its kind - The Community Launch of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005.

What better way to launch a technology than to have a presentation and expert-interaction packed two days, 11 technical sessions from MVPs and community experts? Yes, we rocked!
We devoted and entire day for Visual Studio and Team System, and one for SQL Server 2005. The theme for Visual Studio Team System was to get the technology and concept across by considering a full SDLC based storyline of a fictitious WhidbeyRocks! application ! SQL Server 2005 sessions did more than justice to developers and DBA's alike. The demos had more talking to do here.

We had about 400 participants over two days and the enthusiasm was unmatched. All the sessions were marked by great interraction with experts and interest.

Finally, we (MVPs) decided to add another piece to the nearly perfect story - We created a small e-book for the community, which is a collection of articles on .NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005. You can get details of the same here.

We would sincerely like to thank RVCE MCA department for facilitating a great venue for the event and Microsoft India for giving all the needed support. And most definitely, the interest of .Netizens in Bangalore (and beyond), for making this a grand success!

For a more detailed report, and all the snaps of the event, check out Vinod's Blog