Event Summary: Oct UG Meeting on Design Principles and Practices

It was fun, exciting and great learning at October 2011 user group meeting on design principles and practices. We had two interactive sessions with developers.

• Refactoring to SOLID Code by Adil Mughal
• Aspect Oriented Programming in .NET using PostSharp by Zubair Ahmed

We would like to thank every single one of you who attended the event. Special thanks for speakers (Adil Mughal and Zubair Ahmed), our sponsors (INETA, Pluralsight, PostSharp, Jetbrains Resharper, NimblePros, Wrox) and Microsoft Innovation Center team (especially Jibran and Kamran) for making this possible.

UPDATE:  Slides and demo code have been shared by speakers. Visit the following links to catch the stuff

• Session: Refactoring to SOLID Code
• My Presentation on AOP in .NET with PostSharp

Session 1 – "Refactoring to SOLID Code”

First session was delivered by Adil Mughal on “Refactoring to SOLID Code”. The session  was all about Object Oriented Principles and how we can refactor our code to apply SOLID principles. Following was the outline of the session

He also discussed about IoC (inversion of control) containers and how we can apply Dependency Inversion Principle using IoC container such as StructureMap.

 

Session 2 – “Aspect Oriented Programming in .NET using PostSharp”

Zubair demonstrated the power of Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) and how PostSharp integrates with Visual Studio/.NET to help developers implement different aspects and cross cutting concerns.

Giveaways

This was the fun time. We distributed a good number of prizes with lucky draw which participants enjoyed really. The giveaways includes

• 6 Pluralsight Monthly Subscriptions
• 1 Jetbrains Resharper license
• 2 PostSharp licenses
• 4 MicrosoftFeed T-shirts

As Munir Usman visited our event, we invited him to do the lucky draw and distribute prizes. Following are snapshots of some of the winners

So we really hope that this session was fruitful for the participants and you all had good learning time. Please feel free to provide your feedback and suggestions.

Oct UG Meeting on Design Principles and Practices

We are excited to announce October User Group Meeting for developers’ community in Karachi.

Come join us on 29th October to discuss design principles and practices.

Based on the feedback from community we received , we have initiated series of session on Software Design Principles, Practices and Patterns.

Agenda:

Refactoring to SOLID Code [50-60 minutes]

In this session, Adil will discuss about bad design, better design and SOLID Principles. He would also demonstrate how we can refactor our existing code to make them better using Visual Studio 2010 IDE.

Break [10-15 minutes]

Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) [50-60 minutes]

In this session Zubair will discuss “Aspect Oriented Programming” paradigm and how PostSharp helps developer to implement AOP in .NET.

Date, Time & Location:

29th October, 2011 – 3:30 PM to 6:00 PM – Microsoft Innovation Center, Karachi

Target Audience:

• Experience of Object Oriented Programming Language such as C++, Java, C#
• Entry to Mid-level Professionals

Registration:

Give Away(s) (via lucky draw)

• Pluralsight Monthly Subscription
• JetBrains ReSharper License
• PostSharp License
• MicrosoftFeed T-shirts

Speakers:

Adil Mughal is software engineer by passion and profession currently working as Team lead/Architect at Telenor Pakistan. He is Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) for Web.

Besides, day to day job, he is active in offline and online technical community and often participates as speaker in different events. He has been thrice awarded as Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) by Microsoft Corporation. He is leading International .NET Association (INETA) user groups, “Emerging .NET Devs” and “DevNext”. He is also author of articles at CodeProject.com. He frequently does blogging at http://www.AdilMughal.com

Zubair Ahmed is a experienced software developer, he currently works for @OmniaConnect in Dubai, his main area of interest include Software Architecture and improving code quality. He keeps an eye on latest tools and frameworks for building better software solutions, he is also an active participant in technology groups. He shares his technical experience on zubairahmed.net, follow him on http://twitter.com/zubairdotnet

Event Summary: Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate LoadFest

THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING VISUAL STUDIO 2010 ULTIMATE LOADFEST!

4th December 2010, we had another exciting event “Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate LoadFest”. The event was held at FAST- National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Karachi. We would like to thank all the organizers, speakers, participants and volunteers for making this event successful. Especially to our speakers Adil Ahmed Mughal, Jibran Jamshed and Munir Usman for their valuable time and attention to this event.

Agenda:

• What’s New in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate? by Adil Mughal
• Application Life cycle Management (ALM) by Jibran Jamshed
• Refreshment
• Mastering Debugging in Visual Studio 2010 by Munir Usman
• Lucky Draw [Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN Subscription, Pluralsight  subscription, Microsoft Bag]

The first session focused more on the new features in Visual Studio 2010 IDE. The speaker started discussion on the New Project Dialog improvements and Start Page customization in Visual Studio 2010 then moving towards Core IDE improvements that includes WPF based editor, easy code navigation, improved IntelliSense, column selection, call hierarchy etc.

Adil then talked about how Visual Studio supports “Test Driven Development” and Code Focused development approach. Then ASP.NET improvements such as ASP.NET/HTML mark up snippets, Cleaner HTML, automatic HTML encoding were discussed. Finally, Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX) was discussed and some powerful/highly rated extensions such as Productivity Power Tools, Power commands etc were demonstrated to the audience.

The second session was about application life cycle management with major focus on Team Foundation Server 2010.

Jibran highlighted the issues faced by software development teams in the overall application life cycle and how Team Foundation Server (TFS), along with its numerous features and integration with other tools, can address those issues.

He also demonstrated creating new team projects, selecting MSF process, code version control, work items and test cases execution against those work items in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and TFS.

The third session was on mastering debugging in Visual Studio 2010. The speaker started discussion from basic debugging, such as usage of debugging points, stack trace, immediate window etc, to advance debugging features offered by Visual Studio such as conditional debugging, hit count, filter, macros, data tips, debug labels etc.

In the end the Munir talked about the historical debugger (IntelliTrace) in Visual Studio 2010 ultimate and demonstrated how useful this feature is for developers.

In the end goodies were distributed via lucky draw. Following were the winners:

• Sheeraz Sheikh – Winner of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN subscription
• Winner of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN subscription
• Fahad Khan – Winner of 1 Month of free training of Pluralsight on-demand
• Hassan Zahid – Winner of 1 Month of free training of Pluralsight on-demand

For more picture, please visit photo album on Emerging .NET Devs Facebook Page. If you have attended the event, please take out few minutes to fill the feedback form here.

In the end, we would like to thank our sponsors without them it would not be possible to organize this event. INETA, Wrox, Pluralsight, DevNext, Fast.NET

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate LoadFest

We are proud to bring you “Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate LoadFest”. Registration is now Open! Visit the website: http://www.VisualStudioLoadFest.com

October UG Meeting Summary

On 6th October 2010, We had another great User Group meeting at Microsoft Innovation Center but this time it was a bit unique and different topic i.e. Windows Phone 7. Yes! we invited Munir Usman (MVP) to share his experience of mobile development in particular Windows Phone 7.

The speaker discussed about the revolution in mobile application development and the ecosystem. The speaker demonstrated kick start applications to begin on Windows Phone 7 development.

Thank you all for attending the event. We know many of you couldn’t attend due to limited number of seats but stay tuned because there are more shows coming up!!

In the end, we would like to thank our sponsors INETA, Wrox and FAST.NET for making this event successful.

About Emerging .NET Devs

Emerging .NET Devs is a registered user group under International .NET Association (INETA).  The group is committed to it’s vision of disseminating information through lectures in events, sessions and to enable the developer community to collaborate with each other.

Are you a developer? Are you passionate about technology? Do you want to grasp the Ins-and-Outs of the .Net Platform? Then this is right place for you. Join us on Facebook and/or Yahoo Group to participate further!

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October ‘10 User Group Meeting on Windows Phone 7 Development

Emerging .NET Devs is proud to invite you to the first ever Windows Phone 7 event in Karachi. Come and join us on 6th October on next user group meeting on Windows Phone 7 to get started with Windows Phone development. We have invited Mr. Munir Usman to deliver this session and share his experience of mobile development.

Agenda:

• Revolution In Mobile Application Development
• Mobile Developer Ecosystem
• Microsoft Strategy in Mobile
• Introduction to Windows Phone Development
• Discussion on Future Events on Windows Phone Development

Date, Time and Location:

Wednesday, 6th October 2010, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM at Microsoft Innovation Center, Karachi – Pakistan.

Audience:

Since very limited seats are available therefore we are looking for people who are really passionate about Mobile Development, in particular Windows Phone 7, and are committed to participate in number of future sessions. So please register with care.

Registration:

To participate, please fill the form here. Once registered, you will receive confirmation email by Tuesday 5th Oct, based on accommodation and availability of resources.

About Speaker:

Munir Usman is Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Visual C# and an active member in Microsoft developer communities in Pakistan. He has many years of experience in .NET development and has worked in Mobile, Banking and Financial sector. He is currently running his startup company Pi Labs, which develops software applications for web and mobile platform. His blog url is http://munir.wordpress.com

About Emerging .NET Devs

Emerging .NET Devs is a registered user group under International .NET Association (INETA).  The group is committed to it’s vision of disseminating information through lectures in events, sessions and to enable the developer community to collaborate with each other.

Are you a developer? Are you passionate about technology? Do you want to grasp the Ins-and-Outs of the .Net Platform? Then this is right place for you. Join us on Facebook and/or Yahoo Group to participate further!

Step in to gear up with .Net Platform!

June UG Meeting Summary

On 8th June 2010, we organized another User Group meeting on “Workflow Foundation v4”. We would like to thank Mr. Muhammad Ali Sakhi, Microsoft Certified Trainer, for taking out time and delivering a session at the meeting on Workflow Foundation v4 with Visual Studio 2010. We would also like to thank attendees for making this event very successful. The majority of the participants were from Industry.

The speaker started with the introduction to new features and improvements in Workflow Foundation 4 followed by several demos including our favorite “Hello World”

Following was the agenda of the session:

• Introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0
• Building your first Workflow
• Data-flow in workflows
• Hosting windows workflow
• Using the Flowchart in WF 4
• Introducing Workflow Services

We organized the event in Conference room as per accommodation provided by Microsoft Innovation Center and due to limited space we confirmed registration of limited people based on first come first serve, but we promise to entertain your request in future for sure!

Thank you once gain. If you have attended the event, please fill the feedback form here to help us improve in the future.

June User Group Meeting on Workflow Foundation v4

We are pleased to announce the June user group meeting on Workflow Foundation 4. This is one of our first series on .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010, we have invited M. Ali Sakhi to deliver a session on Workflow Foundation v4.

Topic Details:

Windows Workflow Foundation provides a programming model, in-process workflow engine and rehostable designer to implement long-running processes as workflows within .NET applications

Date, Time and Location:

Tuesday, 8th June 2010, 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM at Microsoft Innovation Center, Karachi – Pakistan.

Sponsors:

   

Following are the tentative event details:
Agenda:

• Introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0
• Building your first Workflow
• Data-flow in workflows
• Hosting windows workflow
• Using the Flowchart activity in WF 4
• Different Workflow usage and scenarios
• Introduction to Advanced workflow concepts
• Introducing Workflow Services and other related technologies

Registration, Fees and Audience:

To participate in the event, all you have to do is to register yourself HERE. The event is free and seats are limited, so hurry up. The targeted audience of the event are industry professionals, professional partners and student partners with some experience of C# and .NET framework. Please note that you should only register if you really intend to participate otherwise we may not entertain you next time.

About Speakers:

Muhammad Ali Sakhi is Microsoft Certified Trainer on .NET, SQL Server and SharePoint technologies. He is associated with the IT industry for 4 years and has worked on various projects including project management system, recruitment portals, human resource management and enterprise resource planning. He is currently working in New Horizon as Product Manager for Microsoft IW Solutions. He is also a Certified Secure Application Developer.

About Emerging .NET Devs

Emerging .NET Devs is a registered user group under International .NET Association (INETA).  The group is committed to it’s vision of disseminating information through lectures in events, sessions and to enable the developer community to collaborate with each other.

Are you a developer? Are you passionate about technology? Do you want to grasp the Ins-and-Outs of the .Net Platform? Then this is right place for you. Join us on Facebook and/or Yahoo Group to participate further!

Step in to gear up with .Net Platform!

Second Shot Voucher for Microsoft Certifications

Hey Folks, 
Summer is here and we have a good news for you! Yes “Second Shot Vouchers” for Microsoft certifications. Take any IT Professional, Developer, or Business Management (Dynamics) Certification exam and get a FREE retake if you fail. Customers must take their first exam and (if necessary) their retake exam before June 30, 2010.

Emerging .NET Devs will not only provide you second shot vouchers but also

• 40% Discount on MeasureUp for Practice exams
• 25% Discount on Microsoft eLearning
• Up to 45% off on Microsoft Press Books

So, What are you waiting for? This summer get certified and stand out. We have limited number of vouchers! All you have to do is request for voucher on Facebook Page! [Under Discussion- Free Second Shot Vouchers for Microsoft Exams]

Good Luck for your Exams!

Event Summary: Windows 7 for Geeks

20th March 2010, we organized first user group event of 2010 “Windows 7 for Geeks” at Microsoft Innovation Center, Karachi, Pakistan. We were please to see house full. Thank you all for taking out time to attend the event “Windows 7 for Geeks”.

Overall agenda:

• Windows 7 Intro and The New Efficiency
• Windows 7 Features
  • Taskbar
  • Jump List
  • Aero Peak and Tab preview
  • Power Management
• Windows 7 Touch Demo
• Programming Windows 7
  • API Code Pack
    • Custom Jump Programming
    • Overlay Icon
    • Progress

The event started with the talk on Windows 7 overview, importance of User Experience and the concept of “The New Efficiency” by Adil Mughal. The speaker discussed that in recent years one thing is primarily focused i.e. user experience and why it is important for your application to utilize capabilities of Windows 7 using API. The speaker also talked about “The New Efficiency” and what does it mean by optimized desktop, optimized server, unified communication and business security.

We then moved to the Windows 7 touch demo by Imran Hussain. Imran demonstrated some cool multi-touch capabilities of Windows 7 including letter recognition, zoom in and out etc. The attendees seems to be very excited looking at the touch capabilities and perhaps it was really exciting stuff.

Followed by Imran, Taimur Asad started talking about Windows 7 API Code Pack available for Managed developers and demonstrated how to program your application to utilize windows 7 features such as Progress Bar in Taskbar Icon, Icon overlay and Jump List.

At the end of Taimur’s talk, Adil resumed on Power Management in Windows 7 and why your application should be energy efficient as well.  Finally in the end there was a lucky draw for Windows 7 Ultimate We also distributed two Windows 7 caps and 8 certification discount vouchers (Thanks to Live Tech Pro for vouchers) followed by refreshments.

After refreshment, we had 15 minutes small discussion with volunteers to encourage them in participating and/or organizing user group activities. Once again we would like to thank every single one of you for attending the event. We look forward to meet you in future events. We would also like to thank Microsoft Pakistan and Microsoft Innovation Center [Karachi] Team for providing us accommodation and special treatment on weekends as well.

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