Microsoft is holding it’s first MSDN chapter meeting in Colombo on the 13-Jan-2004 at the Colombo Plaza. You can pre-register online by visiting the site here http://www.vista.lk/microsoft/events/pre.php

 

The following is the agenda for the event.

 

Agenda

8.30 Registration

 

Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual Basic.NET Comparison

 

9.00 Introduction - Harish Hariharan, Microsoft

9.10 Best practices for upgrading VB 6.0 projects to VB.NET - (Edmund Quek)

 

Migrating existing Visual Basic 6.0 projects to Visual Basic.NET

 

10.10 Language enhancements in Visual Basic.NET - (Edmund Quek)

11.10 Coffee Break with mingling with speakers

11.30 Upgrading and deploying windows forms applications to Visual Basic.NET - (Matthew Hardman)

12.30 Lunch

 

Visual Basic.NET & New Technology

 

01.15 Developing Pocket PC applications using Visual Basic.NET - (Matthew Hardman)

02.15 .NET Connected Logo and Windows Verification Program - (Matthew Hardman)

 

02.30 Evaluation Form collection and Prize draw.

 

So what are you waiting for? Go register soon, it’s very rarely that you see guys from Microsoft coming down to Colombo, so let’s make the best use of it.