Hi friends,

 Sorry for the delay in writing the post about the session on 17th Nov.

 First one is on c# 3.0 enhancements taken by Wriju Ghosh .

 Its one of the good demos. He explained through demos.So really one can get the advantages of c# 3.0

c# 1.0 concentrated on Managed Code ,2.0 on Generics and c# 3.0 (ie new one) Language Integrated Query.

c# 3.0 is pure programming language. It means there are no APIs. So in future if new version is released there wont be any breaks and compatibility issues.

It has functional programming constructs ( like old Haskell language) ie we have Lambda Expressions in c# 3.0

In c# 3.0 we have

• Linq to Objects
• Linq to Datasets , Linq to Sql, Linq to Entities ( will be released in Oct 2008)
• Linq to XML

Now people are writing applications with MSN, Sharepoint using Linq

He explained an example in C# in different flavours like first with Predicates, then with Anonymous Method and Inegrated Query and with Lambda Expression. and how Microsoft is helping the developer in reducing the time.

New features like closure,var anonymous type ,automatic properties, extension methods..

dbml -- database model language a new template was introduced.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

2nd one: Service Broker by Amit Banswal

One of the nice sessions.

It will help the people to start with Service Broker.

It is some bit like a EAI tool like Biztalk.

But Biztalk acts as Enterprise Application Interface which helps coordinating between different systems like a Siebel and a CRM

But if both are Sqlserver then go for Service Broker.

I got so much information in Service Broker.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I am requesting both the speakers to upload the presentations.

Wriju Ghosh can be wghosh@microsoft.com

Amit Bansal can be ab@amitbansal.net

abwrites.blogspot.com

amit.bansal@peoplewareindia.com

I am requesting both the speakers to give some more sessions.Guys dont miss these sessions. 

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Vic and Khashi announced that some sessions will be there  on Biztalk (December for 3 days) and Silverlight (In January)

Condition is you should be active in the group.

So gain knowledge and help others at the same time.

Thanks

Sreedhar Ambati

http://ambatisreedhar.spaces.live.com

http://ambatisreedhar.wordpress.com ( for knowing the latest events in Bangalore)

From so many months I am seeing these softwares  VPC (from Microsoft) and VMWARE (from VMWare) with SriRam and read about them.

Then I got a doubt whether Microsoft  is doing more on Virtualization areas.

Then I got this...

What is SoftGird?

“Using SoftGrid, IT pros can deploy applications that are not installed on the machine and do not require regression testing against other software, yet are available wherever and whenever the user needs them and can run alongside otherwise conflicting applications”

Microsoft  received the application virtualization technology of SoftGrid from its acquisition of Softricity, Inc.

See the demo.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/enterprise/demo/index.html

Really I like this demo.

Prakash J (http://peeyes.spaces.live.com) secret of success.

He implemented it for building a successful team and is working well for successful completion of the project.

Thanks Steve for posting this useful information which we use regularly in our project.

Referred from : http://aspadvice.com/blogs/ssmith/

AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML

CAPTCHA - Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (Carnegie Mellon)

CI - Continuous Integration (see also CruiseControl.Net, Team Foundation Server 2008)

DI - Dependency Injection (see also MSDN)

DRY - Don't Repeat Yourself - aka Once and Only Once - no duplicate code or information.

IoC - Inversion of Control (not to be confused with DI, above)

MVC - Model View Controller (see also recent videos of MS MVC Framework)

MVP - Model View Presenter (also, Microsoft's Most Valuable Professional award)

SoC - Separation of Concerns - Acronym version of McConnell's low-coupling-high-cohesion philosophy

TDD - Test Driven Development - aka Test First Development.  See also Red-Green-Refactor

YAGNI - You Ain't Gonna Need It - Agile development practice suggesting you build only what you need right now.

Botnet is a jargon term for a collection of software robots, or bots, which run autonomously and automatically. They run on groups of "zombie" computers controlled remotely by crackers. This can also refer to the network of computers using distributed computing software.

While the term "botnet" can be used to refer to any group of bots, such as IRC bots, the word is generally used to refer to a collection of compromised computers (called zombie computers) running programs, usually referred to as worms, Trojan horses, or backdoors, under a common command and control infrastructure. A botnet's originator (aka "bot herder") can control the group remotely, usually through a means such as IRC, and usually for nefarious purposes

Got from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet

Botnets are group of PCs infected with malware designed to steal information. They are web robots.