Events

Windows Communication Foundation (Indigo) India Tour

Gaurav Khanna [gaurav@wintoolzone.com] — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 18:03:00 GMT

[Original Post Date: 9th November 2005]

Windows Communication Foundation, formerly codenamed Indigo, is the future of Microsoft distributed computing platform. And to take it to the next level in India, we are having Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Tour across the month of November. The dates are as below:

City	Date
Bangalore	10th November
Pune	15th November
Chennai	17th November
Hyderabad	22nd November

In this tour, we will enable the attendee to understand WCF, its relation with service orientation and Microsoft's distributed communication platform commitment and its roadmap. It will help understand the technology better, its interoperability aspects and also understand the best practices to be undertaken today for a smoother migration from existing technologies (ASMX, Remoting, ES, MSMQ) to WCF.

For more details and registration, visit http://www.microsoft.com/india/msdn/events/.

TechED Sri Lanka Presentations

Gaurav Khanna — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 18:00:00 GMT

[Original Post Date: 17th October 2005]

Below are the presentations for the sessions delivered at TechED Sri Lanka:

India Technology Roadshow Presentations and Downloads

Gaurav Khanna — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:58:00 GMT

[Original Post Date: 14th October 2005]

Technology Roadshows, which have been on for almost a month across India, have been very successful. I have been speaking in the Developer Track on Building Performant Applications using .NET Framework 2.0 and Debugging Techniques for .NET Framework 2.0 and VS 2005.

You can download the presentations and demos from http://www.microsoft.com/india/msdn/events/presentations.aspx#sept05

Off to TechED Sri Lanka

Gaurav Khanna — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:55:00 GMT

[Original Post Date: 9th October 2005]

TechED Sri Lanka is on from 12th October to 14th October. And I am off to present there - primarily on Windows Mobile and Developer Tracks. Check the agenda here.

Technology Roadshow: September/October 2005

Gaurav Khanna — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 17:46:00 GMT

[Original Post Date: 18th September 2005]

Starting from 20th of September, Technology Roadshow starts in India. We are going to 6 different cities and doing two complete days of technical sessions across a breadth of technologies: for developers, IT professionals, Windows Mobile and Tablet PC developers and Architects. Below are the dates for the same:

City	Day 1	Day 2
Mumbai	20th Sep	21st Sep
Pune	22nd Sep	23rd Sep
Chennai	27th Sep	28th Sep
Hyderabad	30th Sep	1st Oct
New Delhi	4th Oct	5th Oct
Bangalore	18th Oct	19th Oct

I would be delivering session on Day 1 and Day 2. On Day 1, I am talking about How to build performant applications using .NET Framework, followed by the session on Debugging Techniques for .NET Framework 2.0.

On Day 2, we have sessions on SQL Mobile 2005 andIntroduction to development using Tablet PC.

For more details on developer sessions, visit http://www.microsoft.com/india/msdn/events/ and for MED/Tablet session, visit http://www.microsoft.com/india/msdn/events/med.aspx.

To register, visit http://www.microsoft.com/india/events/audience.aspx?filter=20001

After a month…

Gaurav Khanna — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 13:47:00 GMT

Its been almost a month since I last blogged - partially due to the fact that I was in Redmond, meeting key product teams and also attending TechReady - an internal technical conference.

During my trip, I met Steven Pratschner who authored Customizing the Microsoft .NET Framework Common Language Runtime - check details on this book here. Its an excellent behavioral insight into the CLR, with complete details on the new hosting APIs of CLR 2.0 and its implications. This book serves to be the complement for Don Box's book on CLR - Essential .NET Volume 1: The Common Language Runtime (details here). Both these books are a must read if you want to understand how the CLR works!

I also met Raja Krishnaswamy, the development lead in the CLR team for Code Access Security (CAS).

Now that am back, here's an update on TechED India 2005 - you can download the presentations from here. Also, starting mid-August 2005, I would be on a TechED-on-the-Road show with other developer and ITPro evangelists, where we shall be delivering few of the key TechED sessions at the following cities:

Trivandrum - 18th August
Kolkatta - 23rd August
Ahmedabad - 24th August
Chandigarh - 26th August

There are going to be two parallel tracks - one each for Developers and IT Pros. Developers should register for it here, while ITPros should go here. I would be talking about Windows Communication Foundation (formerly known as Indigo) and on Enhancements in .NET Compact Framework and Windows Mobile 5.0.

So, if you are interested in known about the future of .NET Remoting, or ASMX, or ES and understand how WCF (Indigo) is going to change the future of distributed computing, or if you are a PocketPC/SmartPhone developer, actively developing using .NET CF and Windows Mobile, then you will sure benefit from attending this event.

Last, but not the least, fellow evangelist and friend, Vineet Gupta, has started blogging here. He drives the ITPro Evangelism - so if you want to know more about our servers or have queries regarding them, get in touch with him!

TechED 2005 India

Gaurav Khanna — Fri, 27 May 2005 03:03:00 GMT

Attend India's largest technical conference - TechED 2005 India - www.techedindia.com. Key highlights include:

5 cities - Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, Hyderabad (new) and New Delhi
6 Technical Tracks - DevTools, Systems Infrastructure, Database, Smart Client/Connected Systems, Mobile and Embedded
Speakers from Microsoft Redmond, Microsoft India, Microsoft RDs, Microsoft MVPs and other industry experts (http://www.microsoft.com/india/connections/teched2005/speakers.aspx)
48 Breakout sessions
10 Hands-on labs
3 Days at each city
16+ Deep Dives

DevCon at Hyderabad

Gaurav Khanna — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 07:47:00 GMT

I love the city of Hyderabad and the weekend of 10th April is the DevCon of the Microsoft User Group, Hyderabad. I would be speaking there - do join the community; it will be fun. Registrations are free and can be done at http://www.mugh.net/devcon.htm.

Upcoming MSDN Expert Chat: T-SQL Enhancements in SQL Server 2005

Gaurav Khanna — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 00:02:00 GMT

We have a MSDN Expert Chat coming up on T-SQL Enhancements in Yukon [SQL Server 2005], on 16th Dec 2004.

You can register for it at http://www.microsoft.com/india/msdn/chat/.

Understanding the ASP.NET Runtime.. better!

Gaurav Khanna — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 03:07:00 GMT

Are you interested in knowing how you can write your own server side scripting system using ASP.NET? Or would you like to process the HTTP requests even before application level events get hold of them? Or maybe you would want to intercept the SOAP messages that pass between the SOAP proxy generated using WSDL or VS.NET and a WebService?

The upcoming MSDN Session, Inside the ASP.NET Runtime, will explain just that! Click here to register.