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Getting to know ASP.NET 2.0

2005-09-05T14:38:00.000+05:00

When Microsoft released the .NET Framework 1.0 Technology in July 2000, it was immediately clear that Web development was going to change. The company’s prior technology, Active Server Pages (ASP) launched hundreds of books, articles, Web sites and components, all aiming to make the development process easier than before. However, what ASP did not have, was an application framework - it was never an enterprise development tool. Everything in ASP was code oriented - but it simply wasn't possible to avoid doing work without writing codes.
ASP.NET was designed to counter this problem. Right from its initial release as a preview technology, Microsoft ASP.NET has been a huge success. For those people developing web sites using Microsoft technologies, ASP.NET provides a rich programming model, allowing sites to be easily constructed. There has been a lot of talk since its release, but ignoring all the hype and press, .NET really is a product for developers, providing a great foundation for building all types of web applications. One of the key design goals of ASP.NET was to make programming easier and quicker by reducing the amount of code that needed to be created. This phenomenon operates when one enters the era of declarative programming model, rich server controls, large class libraries, and support for development tools from the humble Notepad to the high-end Visual Studio .NET.

Yup thats an excerpt from my latest contribution for Spider Magazine. See their September 2005 issue, page 47 if you want to read more. Visual Studio Team System, SQL Server 2005 and Smart Clients are on the list for future publications for both Spider and Dawn Sci-Tech. Feel free to share your comments and suggestions.

Design Patterns : Dependency Injections (DI)

2005-09-03T01:39:00.000+05:00

Today there is a greater focus than ever on reusing existing components and wiring together disparate components to form a cohesive architecture. But this wiring can quickly become a daunting task because as application size and complexity increase, so do dependencies. One way to mitigate the proliferation of dependencies is by using Dependency Injection (DI), which allows you to inject objects into a class, rather than relying on the class to create the object itself.

Read the rest of this article and download the source code from here.

.NET Pakistan : Where Paki Geeks Hangout!

2005-08-24T01:01:00.000+05:00

What is .NET Pakistan

.Net Pakistan will initially be a blogging site that will evolve as a .NET Portal and a discussion forum. At .NET Pakistan you will be getting daily dose of technology updates, code snippets, tutorials, best practices, and solutions for their posted problems.

Blogging at .Net Pakistan will be done by experienced .Net Professionals from around the globe. The list of bloggers will increase with time. If you are interested in blogging for us then do write us at (dotnetpakistan@yahoo.com) about your self, experience, and areas you would like to write on.

Behind .Net Pakistan

Wajahat Abbas has worked for the last three years as a Software Engineer. He is currently working as Technical Lead in Kalsoft (Pvt) Ltd, Pakistan, a software consulting firm focused on .NET development and consulting. Wajahat is an Executive committee member of INETA Pakistan. He has also worked for Microsoft Consulting Services for .NET development. He can be approached at wajahatabbas@yahoo.com. For more details visit his blog : http://www.wajahatabbas.com.

Hammad Rajjoub is a Software Engineer by profession. He is a Microsoft MVP for XML Web Services. He is also a MCP. He has been working on .Net platform since its beta release. He is also an Executive INETA committee member and member of INETA MEA speakers bureau. He is currently working as Technical Lead in Kalsoft (Pvt) Ltd, Pakistan, a software consulting firm focused on .NET development and consulting. Hammad has spoken at a number of seminars and conferences. He can be reached at hammad.rajjoub@ineta.org. For more details visit his blog : http://dotnetwizards.blogspot.com.

Where is .NET Pakistan

Right here : http://www.dotnetpakistan.com

Whats new in .NET Framework 2.0

2005-07-24T00:17:00.000+05:00

International .NET Association Pakistan Chapter and NED.net User Group invites you to attend a free seminar on Whats New In .NET Framework 2.0 by Hammad Rajjoub.

Note:
This event has been delayed. An email will be send to all those who registered for this event about the new date. Agenda and venue will remain the same as mentioned below.

Agenda:
2:00pm - 3:00pm - Talk on .NET Framework 2.0
3:00pm - 3:15pm - Q&A Session
3:15pm - 4:00pm - Refreshments

Event Registration:
Registration is closed for this event.

Venue:
Lecture Theatre - Department of Computer and Information Systems Engineering
NED University Of Engineering and Technology Karachi.

About Event:
.NET Framework 2.0 has gained quite popularity amongst the professional as well as student developers from the day of its first beta release. With the new additions to the framework like Generics, Partial Classes, support for 64 bit computing and the very famous XML classes, everyone is keen to know what the hype it all about? Your wait is over now as our presentation will cover all the details about the new framework.

About Speaker:
Hammad Rajjoub is working as Technical Lead with Meezan Bank Limited . He holds a BS Computer Science degree from Karachi University and has MCP.NET certification (as well as a number of Brain Bench Certifications). He is member of ACM( http://www.acm.org) since 2002 and was Chairman of ACM-CSKU Chapter(http://www.csku.edu.pk/acm) for the year 2002. He has been working on .Net since its Beta 1 release. His areas of interest include Distributed Computing, Service Oriented Architecture, Aspect Oriented Programming, Design Patterns and Quantum Computation.
He has developed number of enterprise scale applications using C#, ASP.Net and SQL Server. He is a .Net Evangelist and speaks frequently at knowledge sharing sessions. He has hosted number of sessions at local as well international conferences. He has written a number of articles for local as well as international publishers. He has also written a case study for Wrox Publishers (http://www.wrox.co.uk). He also trains people at software houses on .Net and helps them migrate from VB/VC to VB.Net/VC#.
He is also a user group leader of .NetWizards which is an INETA (http://www.ineta.org) chartered user group. He is a member speakers bureau INETA Pakistan, and member of INETA Pakistan Executive Committee. He teaches at Dept. Of Computer Science, Karachi University and PAF KIET as a visiting faculty member. He spends his spare time learning and evangelizing .NET. For more details visit his blog at: http://dotnetwizards.blogspot.com

Master Pages and Themes in ASP.NET 2.0

2005-07-24T00:06:00.000+05:00

I spend a wonderful time during my presentation for NED.net on "Master Pages and Themes in ASP.NET 2.0." This is the first time that I am not going to say that "the speaker was absolutely amazing and the presentation was just awesome." I am not being too modest, this is what usally happens when you are speaking for the first time. This was just the beginning and I have to walk a long way to become a good speaker.

I started by giving a very brief introduction about ASP.NET 2.0. Talked about the Visual Studio enhancements, new compilation and code-beside model, new deployment methods etc. Then I moved toward the main topic of presentation "Themes in the new version of ASP.NET." I have shown demos all along the slides to give the audience a better look at how to use these new technologies that are introduced in ASP.NET 2.0 for the first time. I really like the concept of applying themes to the sites which really ease the burden of giving "CSSClass" or "Class" refrences to all the contents of your site. You just have to include <% @ Page Theme="SmokeAndGlass" %> and thats all. All your controls will be given a consistent look to your site.

Then we moved on towards the Master Pages. Master Pages are introduced for the first time in ASP.NET 2.0 and its all about giving a consistent layout to your website yet with almost no line of code at all. You just have to define the looks of your site in the master page with <% @ Mater %> tag, define the layout of your pages in just one file and throw some contentplaceholders which will be used to pass contents from content pages <% @ Page MasterPageFile="Master.master" %>. No more usercontrols for defining the layout of the site and placing the controls in all of you pages one at a time. You can also nest 2 or more master pages together to make the figure a bit more complex yet recommended for big project and portal style websites.

It was a nice start for me today and I have learned one thing. Never throw a bad joke during your presentation, you will loose some pretty looking audiences :) . The audience were amazing, they throwed some really good questions and have rated my 3.5 out of 5 which is not bad for my first attempt. I want to thank Usman especially for working with me in the lab and helping me in setting up the machine for my ugly demos, Sir Saqib Ilyas for allowing me to use his laptop and helping me during the arrangements, Faisal Nasim, Muhammad Yahya, Sarfaraz Soomro, Fahad Majeed for doing all the nasty work behind the scene and arranging the foods and drinks and the feedbacks offcourse. Last but certainly not the least, I would like to thank Hammad and Adnan bhai for being there for my support and helping me in the Q&A session. You guys just are just awesome and this event wouldn't have been possible without your help.

Thank you once again!

You can download the slides from here. I have also included some Theme files along with the slides. You just have to copy them in the Global Themes folder which I mentioned during the presentation and you are all set to go. All previous presentations can also be download from here.

Another Free XAML Designer

2005-07-23T20:29:00.000+05:00

Aurora XAML Designer is another free designer after XAM3D available for developers to get their hands dirty with XAML for Visual Studio 2005. It can also work in a stand-alone environment) .

Aurora for Visual Studio 2005 integrates seamlessly into the Visual Studio environment to provide a visual designer for XAML content. Developers no longer have to spend countless hours manually coding simple XAML content. Now the equivalent content can be created visually in minutes within the Visual Studio environment using the integrated Aurora XAML Designer. Aurora for Visual Studio 2005 improves developer workflow by allowing the developer to maintain their XAML documents visually within the Visual Studio 2005
environment; an integrated development environment that is familiar to millions of developers worldwide.

Recap of important features:

1. Aurora integrates into Visual Studio 2005
2. XAML content created visually within Visual Studio 2005
3. Content created in one environment improves developer workflow

Mobiform is the first company to provide visual designer software for maintaining XAML documents. Now Mobiform is the first company to provide a visual designer that integrates directly into the Visual Studio 2005 environment.

Downlaod the free designer from here.

Seminar on Master Pages and Themes in ASP.NET 2.0

2005-07-12T01:56:00.000+05:00

International .NET Association Pakistan Chapter and NED.net User Group invites you to attend an hour long seminar on Master Pages and Themes in ASP.NET 2.0 by Zeeshan Muhammad on July 23, 2005.

Event Registration:

Registration closed for this event.

Venue:

CIS Lecture Hall, NED University of Enigneering and Technology, Karachi.

Date and Time:

Saturday, July 23, 2005 at 2pm.

Seminar Details:

Almost all websites use a similar graphical layout for all their pages. This doesn't happen by chance, it grows out of accepted guidelines for design and usability. For some websites, the layout consists of the header, body and footer; for others, it is a more sophisticated aggregation of menus, buttons and panels that contain and render the actual content. The question is, how can you effectively build such Web sites? Both classic ASP and ASP.NET 1.x provide good workarounds for this type of issue, but neither tackles such a scenario openly and provides a definitive, optimal solution. ASP.NET 2.0 faces up to the task through a new technology "Master Pages" and basically exploits the ASP.NET Framework's ability to merge a "supertemplate" with user-defined content replacements.

In our seminar we will discuss how ASP.NET 2.0 aids in the design and consistency of sites. From the development perspective, generating a site that is consistent isn’t so hard, and there are plenty of ways it can be achieved. However, these are all custom solutions, not part of the underlying .NET Framework. ASP.NET 2.0 brings a solution that not only improves ways of providing UI reuse but also aids in maintenance of the site.

Note:

Registration is necessary for you to avoid enterance issues at our campus. Current NED Students and Faculty members do not need to register for this event.
Registration closes on July 18, 2005.
Give-aways for audience.

Looking forward to welcoming you at our event.

Code Run 2005 :: Huge Success

2005-06-07T01:37:00.000+05:00

INETA Pakistan arranged a Speed Programming Competition named "Code Run 2005" for NED Students. The competition is a huge success. Students participated from both BCIT and CIS departments of NED. In the beginning we received about 20 registrations for Code Run from which we selected senior most 15 students from both departments. Later on with the availability of more computers in our CIS Computational Lab, we selected 2 more teams, giving chance for junior students to participate and prepare for such future events.

The event started at about 11:15 AM with the introduction by Faisal Naseem on the contest. I then followed by introducing the prizes for the winning team and the runner ups. Questions papers were given to the teams and the clock start ticking. They were given 2 and a half hours to solve 5 mind juggling questions to prove their skills to be amongst the best coders in NED.
Pizzas and Sodas were served to the participants and teachers during the competition. 3 judges were assigned to moniter and approve/reject the enteries send by the teams. The competition ended at 1:45 PM. The remaining enteries were checked and the winners were declared. The team which end up in solving 4/5 questions were from Third Year CIS Department. BCIT ranked 3rd in the competition. In the ending ceremony we gave Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 and ASP.NET Web Matrix Book to the winning team. VS Beta 2 were given to the runner ups and all volunteers. It was an exciting event and I am sure everyone enjoyed whether they were writing codes, judging enteries or serving the lunch or completing their last minute assignment :) .

I would like to thank Sir Saqib Ilyas - Country Leader INETA Pakistan, Code Run volunteers, organizing committee and all participating teams for making this event a huge success. See the event pictures on the contest blog here.

An interview with Rafal Lukawiecki

2005-06-03T15:10:00.000+05:00

One of the experts invited to this year’s PDC (Pakistan Developers Conference) is Rafal Lukawiecki. As strategic consultant and director at Project Botticelli Ltd, a small consulting company based in the United Kingdom, Lukawiecki is responsible for analysing, planning and forecasting changes in the field of information technology (IT). Lukawiecki was one of the highlights at PDC 2004, and is this year expected to focus on security, study of programming models and management of large software development projects through frameworks. Spider catches up with Lukawiecki to discuss trends in security and Pakistan’s role in the IT world at large.

Read the complete interview online here, or buy June 2005 issue of Spider Magazine. And yes don't forget to read my article on Longhorn in the pipeline section.

.Net Framework Compatibility Testing

2005-05-28T16:25:00.000+05:00

Microsoft Corp. is looking for a few good men … and women, and, ultimately, applications that can help the company check for compatibility between the current version of the .Net Framework and the version coming in Visual Studio 2005.

The software giant is in recruiting mode, looking for independent software vendors, enterprise customers, developers, end users and others who would like to have their .Net applications tested for compatibility with the upcoming version of the .Net Framework.

Read complete article here.

Code Run 2005 Important Update

2005-05-22T21:00:00.000+05:00

The contest date has been resheduled and it will going to happen on Saturday, June 04, 2005 at CIS Computational Lab. The list of approved teams will be displayed on this blog on Tuesday, May 24, 2005. All the approved teams will be notified through email about the latest news and contest guidelines.

Send your queries and suggestions to coderun2005@gmail.com

Visit Code Run 2005 Blog here.

Microsoft E-Learning Course Give Away

2005-05-20T00:39:00.000+05:00

Microsoft Learning and MSDN are giving away two of MSPress's most popular ASP.NET books and a US$349 eLearning course for free. Seriously, you get the Developing Microsoft ASP.NET Web Applications Using Visual Studio .NET eLearning course and the eRef version of Microsoft ASP.NET Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003 Step by Step and Building Web Solutions with ASP.NET and ADO.NET for free, no strings attached. Go over to the eLearning Access site and enter the access key: 8317-MSDN-6595. Fill in some basic info, and voila, tons of great ASP.NET info.

Source : Orlando .NET User Group

Geekswithblogs.net

2005-05-07T00:14:00.000+05:00

Want to be a part of this community for bloggers "Geekswithblogs.net?" The registration process now became more easier. Interested people can now register their blogs by filling out a simple form rather then sending an email to Jeff which ocassionaly went unnoticed. You can register your blog by going to the following url:

Register your blog here.
Read INETA Pakistan blogs here.
Home of INETA Web Blogs.
Geekswithblogs.net

MSDN Forums Beta

2005-05-04T22:52:00.000+05:00

Microsoft is now offering MSDN Forums for the Geeks to hangout. Check out the forum here:

MSDN Forums Beta
MSDN Forums Welcome Message and Posting Guidance

Code Run 2005

2005-05-01T21:07:00.000+05:00

We'll be having a Speed Coding and Quiz competition for NED students on May 28, 2005. This is a joint event by INETA Pakistan, NED.net User Group and IEEE NED Student Branch. More details are on the contest blog.

Visit Code Run 2005 blog here.

Take a look at our contest poster.

Want to become an MVP?

2005-04-29T04:52:00.000+05:00

You think you have what is takes to be a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP)? Been involved in any community activities? Actively participating in news group? Well if you think you have a passion of becoming an MVP then you will find this post by Robert McLaws quite handy.

How to Become a Microsoft MVP.

Learn more about MVPs here.

PC Design Competition

2005-04-25T22:04:00.000+05:00

As Microsoft Windows celebrates its 20th anniversary, Microsoft and IDSA want to envision the future with you by offering a unique challenge. Whether you're an established design team, and independent designer, or a student, here's your chance to help shape the future of the Windows-based PC experience and to win up to $125,000 USD, the recognition of the industry, and a distinction unlike any other. Download the design kit today - online submissions begin May 18, 2005!

Eligibility

Open to designs and designers worldwide in Microsoft .NET Passport-supported countries and regions.
Entering party, either individual or team representative must obtain a valid Microsoft .NET Passport.
Open to students in any industrial design program.
Student entries can be submitted in any category, even if the design is in research or corporately funded.
Employees of organizations and students at schools represented on the jury may not participate in the competition.
Entries may be sponsored by corporations. Entries already in production are ineligible.
Designs must adhere to entry kit criteria. Entrant names and the names of their consulting firms or schools may not appear anywhere in the entry kit except the Design Credit List doc. Failure to abide by this rule results in immediate disqualification.
Use of Microsoft and/or IDSA and/or ICSID branding, the Microsoft Windows flag, and/or copyrighted Microsoft elements not provided in the entry kit are strictly prohibited and may result in disqualification.

Judging Criteria

The Judge's Award, Chairman's Award, and Public's Choice Award* judgments are based on the following five criteria:

Innovation: is the design new and unique?
User Experience/Interaction: does the design make the PC easier to use?
Aesthetics: does the appearance enhance the emotional appeal of the product?
Technical ability: is the design enhanced with new technologies?
Ecology: is the design environmentally responsible?

Consideration given to the challenges of manufacturability including thermal cooling and noise reduction may also be considered as a part of the general judging criteria.

Peripheral component design concepts (e.g. Cell Phone, Digital Media Receiver, Printer, Portable Media Player, etc.) are not required, but may be included with concept designs to help aid in answering the challenge statement.

Submission Process and Deadline

Submission will take place in two parts:

Online Submission
Supplemental Mailing

Online submissions will be open between May 18th 2005 and 5:00pm EST, October 3, 2005. Details on online submission criteria can be found in the Entry Kit.
Once a submission is approved, a confirmation email will be provided with an entry ID number and a postal address to send supplemental material including essay question responses in English, CD/DVD submission of print-ready images (300 dpi or higher) and/or videos supplemental information must be received within a week of submission. Please see Entry Kit for complete details.

Please do not send your entry to IDSA's office or Microsoft. You must submit your entry online between May 18th 2005 and October 3, 2005 5:00 pm EST, followed up with print and supplemental materials mailed to Microsoft office within one (1) week.

By submitting your entry, you agree that any or all of the material may be published and utilized by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), Microsoft, and any other party authorized by IDSA and/or Microsoft in connection with the awards.

All decisions by the jury and/or Microsoft in conjunction with IDSA are final.

VS 2005 Beta with Free Books

2005-04-21T19:29:00.000+05:00

Register Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2, get a free online book from MS Press

Microsoft Learning has partnered with the Visual Studio team to provide developers with additional incentive for registering Beta 2. Developers who register their copy of Beta 2 will have access to a free developer title from Microsoft Press. After downloading the Beta they receive an email telling them about the benefit, and encouraging them to register their Beta. When a user completes the registration process they will receive an email with a link to the online books, and an access code. Each user will have access to one book per code. Developers who register multiple SKUs of the Beta will receive additional access codes, giving them access to more books. The offer is available worldwide, books are English-only.

Detailed breakdown of free online books available for each VS Beta SKU:

VWD Express and VB Express

Introducing ASP.NET 2.0, English
Introducing Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2005, English
Writing Secure Code, 2nd Edition, English

J# Express, C# Express, C++ Express and SQL Express

Writing Secure Code, 2nd Edition, English

Visual Studio Standard, Visual Studio Professional, Visual Studio Team Suite and VS Premier Partner Edition

Introducing ASP.NET 2.0, English
Introducing Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2005, English
Writing Secure Code, 2nd Edition, English

Distributed Computing with XML

2005-03-30T23:04:00.000+05:00

International .NET Association Pakistan Chapter, IEEE NED Student Branch and NED.net User Group invites you to attend an hour long seminar on Distributed Computing with XML Web Services using .NET by Muhammad Saqib Ilyas on Saturday April 9, 2005 at 2 pm. Registration closed.

Venue:

Lecture Theatre, Department of Computer and Information Systems Engineering, NED University Karachi

Seminar details:

This seminar will provide a realistic, hands-on, comprehensive coverage of developing Web services using ASP.NET and C#. Web services are an evolving series of standards that enable programs on various computers to communicate with other programs on similar or disparate computers transparently over the Internet. The speaker will talk in detail the skills needed to program Web services using ASP.NET. It also examines the fundamentals of SOAP and WSDL essential for creating interoperable Web services. The discussion will include the various security issues and technologies in Web services such as Basic HTTP, HTTPS, (SSL 3.0), XML Signature, XML Encryption, XML Key Management Specification (XKMS), Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and WS-Security. Click here to become a member of our .NET user group community at NED.

MapPoint with C#

2005-03-23T03:43:00.000+05:00

This guide is to kick start your work with Microsoft MapPoint.

Download it from here.
File Size : 2.27 MB

Run MonoDevelop on Monoppix

2005-03-15T00:47:00.000+05:00

In order to run MonoDevelop in Monoppix you need to do the following. Goto Start Applications, Quick Broweser, Root Directory, KNOPPIX, usr, bin and choose /KNOPPIX/usr/bin and select "Open In Terminal". In the console window write "monodevelop" without quotes to start the IDE.

I really like the IDE, still exploring it, but according to me its my Mono VS :). However I am still unable to compile and run applications, but will give it another try sometime later.

Country Leader Speaks at NED.net

2005-03-14T14:00:00.000+05:00

I would like to take this moment to thank the attendants of our user group event which ws held on March 12, 2005 on Open Source Implementations of .NET where we discussed the various open source implementations of the CLI(Common Language Infrastructure), namely,
OCL from Intel, Mono from Ximian, DotGNU from the GNU project and SSCLI from Microsoft.

We also took a look at the components of the Mono project, namely, the mono runtime and JIT compiler, the mono documentation, and the XSP ASP.NET clone web server. In this event, I
showed the audience the RPMs for the project, and the source tarballs and gave a brief demo of how to install an rpm. I also displayed how to build and install mono-1.0.2 from source. Due to the complex nature of the system, I couldnt build the entire system from either RPM or source, which is fact of life when you are working on Linux, so some people were not very clear about it.

I also mentioned the Monoppix product, which is a free tool that has an ISO image which you can burn on a CD-R and boot your machine off it. It would boot into a gnome X-Window session with mono and XSP running. Due to the varied Linux skill level of the audience, I believe that the session was not universally equally useful. I once again thank you for your presence during the session and your feedback (both positive and negative). I am going to make sure that I
incorporate your useful suggestions in my future sessions and if you would like to make any other suggestions or criticism on email, please feel free to do so on our mailing list or directly to me here.

Unfortunately, I have had a nagging cough for the last week or so, so I was unable to quite effectively deliver the content as effectively as I usually do. I hope to get over that in the next session. I would also like to inform you at this time that I am planning a full-blown workshop on Linux basics in April. The workshop will be for beginners. It will not be free, it will have a very small token fee. The participants will be provided with a certificate of attendance. Those who are not so comfortable with Linux should watch out for that. The registration for that workshop will be on first come first served basis.

By,
Muhammad Saqib Ilyas.
INETA Pakistan Country Leader.

Open Source with .NET

2005-03-02T01:56:00.000+05:00

International .NET Association Pakistan Chapter, IEEE NED Student Branch and NED.net User Group wants to invite you to attend a free seminar on Working with Open Source Implementations of .NET by Muhammad Saqib Ilyas on Saturday March 12, 2005 at 2 pm. Registration has been closed for this event.

Venue

Lecture Theatre, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems.
NED University.

Description

The Mono open-source .NET project is led by Linux and UNIX software firm Ximian. The group is working on an open source implementation of the .NET framework that you can use on UNIX and Linux machines, as well as Windows. Mono includes a compiler for the C# language, a Common Language Runtime (CLR) for the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) and a set of class libraries. It also has implementations for both ADO.NET and ASP.NET. The goal is to provide a rich set of class libraries which are not only compatible to Microsoft .NET implementation but also provide much more functionality for the end user.

About Speaker

Muhammad Saqib Ilyas graduated from NED University with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Systems Engineering in 1997. He holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA, with majors in computer networks. He has served as a Lecturer and then Assistant Professor at Department of Computer and Information Systems Engineering, NED University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi from October 1998 to July 2000 and from Dec 2002 to date respectively. He has also done freelance software development in Microsoft Visual C++ 6 for a company based in the USA developing drivers for database migration without code recompilation or affecting the front-end. He has taught courses in Fault Diagnosis and Reliable System Design, Object Oriented Programming, Internet Computing, Routing and Switching, and Computer Network Security. He is a member of IEEE and IEEE Communications Society. He has been a member of the Executive Committee of IEEE Karachi Section and has held the position of Chair, Student Activities Committee since 1998. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of Graduates Of the Last Decade (GOLD) affinity group of the IEEE Karachi Section. He has been instrumental in organizing various international conferences and seminars under the umbrella of IEEE. He is also serving as the IEEE Student Branch Counselor at NED University of Engineering and Technology. He is now serving as a country leader for INETA Pakistan. For more information visit his blog: http://msaqib.blogspot.com/

Hoping to see your there!!

Enter the 2005 Windows Mobile Application Contest

2005-02-26T20:06:00.000+05:00

Contest details

Compete against participants around the world in a contest to find the best applications for Windows Mobile-based Pocket PCs and Smartphones. Entries will be judged on usability, innovation, marketability, and platform optimization. Submissions must be sent to a Mobile2Market logo-testing partner by May 31, 2005.

Prizes

2 Grand Prize Winners receive $25,000 USD and application distribution.
4 Category Prize Winners will receive a $5,000 USD developer prize package and featured application promotions.
20 Finalists receive featured promotions through Mobile2Market.

* Enter by March 31, 2005, and receive free logo-testing (a $500 value).

For more information on this Contest, visit:
http://www.mobile2marketcontest.com/index.asp?s=M2MSK

ASP.NET 2.0 Online (Multimedia) Training

2005-02-20T15:50:00.000+05:00

If you are interested in learning ASP.NET 2.0, then this MSDN page is an excellent starting point. It compiles a lot of ASP.NET 2.0 resources - including a series of presentations by Jeff Prosise of Wintellect.