Community Tech Days - 11th July 2010  [Sunday]

Visual Studio 2010 & .NET 4.0

Venue: Moksh Banquet Hall, Block-A, 22 Camac Street,  Kolkata 700016

09:30am - 10:00am    Registrations & Tea / Coffee
10:00am – 10:30am   Keynote
10:30am - 11:45am    Parallel Programming in .NET 4.0 Sankarsan Bose
11:46am - 12:45pm    Enhancement of Base Class Libraries (BCL) in .NET 4.0 Vaibhav Sharma
12:45pm - 01:45pm    Lunch
01:45pm - 03:00pm    Entity Framework in .NET 4.0 Rajiv Popat
03:00pm - 04:00pm    We are planning for MS Office Launch (Session on MS Office)
04:00pm - 04:30pm    Closing Note and Announcement
04:30pm - 04:45pm    Tea / Coffee & Networking

Parallel programming with the .NET 4.0

With the rise of multicore processors the paradigm of parallel computing is gradually going mainstream from the undergrounds of academia and research.But most of the times, designing,developing & debugging parallelized applications makes a programmer dizzy.Here, Parallel Extensions in .NET 4.0 comes to rescue.In this overview session we will take a look into the current state of parallel programming and key features of Parallel Extensions in .NET which helps a developer to write programs for multicore processors efficiently..

Speaker: Sankarsan Bose

Sankarsan is a software enthusiast,hobbyist programmer with interests in functional programming, nosql databases ,distributed file system and high performance computing.He works as Assistant Manager in a IT Services firm for his day job.
While he is not reading/writing code he loves to log his hacking experiences at http://sankarsan.wordpress.com and http://codingndesign.com.
Sankarsan can be reached at http://twitter.com/sankarsan

Enhancement of Base Class Libraries (BCL) in .NET 4.0

Base Class Library (BCL) is the standard library available for all the languages in .NET Framework. Its huge set of well designed classes and functions helps a programmer to improve code quality and productivity. Every time with launch of new versions of .NET we focus on MVC, WCF, WF… etc and poor yet powerful BCL does not get the due attention. To break this trend, this session aims to cover some of the new features of BCL & .NET Framework 4.0 including In-Process Side X Side execution, Diagnostics & Performance improvements, Data type additions,System.IO and other enhancements.

Speaker: Vaibhav Sharma

Vaibhav is a programmer who is passionate about code. He has about 4 years experience in Microsoft platform based technologies and presently working as an IT Engineer at CMC Ltd. (A TATA Enterprise).He is also an occasional blogger and notes down his arbitrary assortment of thoughts about the world of IT at http://arbitrarybytes.blogspot.com/

Enhancement of Entity Framework in .NET 4.0 

The session will start with the basics of Entity Framework and then cover the new features introduced inside .NET framework 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 as far as Entity Framework is concerned.

Speaker: Rajiv Popat

Rajiv is a technologist, software developer and blogger who loves writing code, writing about code and writing about people who write code. As a part of his day job, he is a Principal Technology Officer for eFORCE where he designs and builds banking applications. Besides developing banking applications, rajiv is also associated with multiple open source projects and is a most valued blogger for DZone. He is also an organizer for community events like TEDxCalcutta. 
 
When he is not working, Rajiv loves writing about software development, observing teams or organizations and spending time with his family. More information about rajiv can be found at http://www.thousandtyone.com/blog/AboutMe.aspx.