FM's Operation Graduation

2nd Session:

We took the second session of Mr. Clemens Vasters on "Avalon (Longhorn Client) Overview". He said that as the Avalon, WinFS and Indigo are the constituents of Windows Longhorn as this was said in 2003 PDC but they are a bit change now. He said that as the Longhorn will be realeased most of the work will be on platforms of Win XP and Server 2003 and they will not immediately shift to longhorn so Avalon and Indigo are planned for XP and Server 2003. As the current windows make use of almost no Video Drivers or Graphics Card Capabilities, Longhorn will take use of it, though some features of Avalon might not work in XP. Avalon will take full advantage of media and graphics and sound capabilities of PC. Avalon based on Vector Engine and its three model consists of Application Model , Graphics Model and Documentation Model. He said furthur that programming is easy in Avalon and he showed us the demo. The demos were amazing. They used the language XAML. It has its compiler. He showed us the beatles CD and played with it in 3 Dimension. It was amazing bcuz that is hard to do in current windows. Application can be same however their styles can be customized. So in the end Mr. Clemens adviced that write win applications today and when Avalon arrives , integrate them with it. The presentation was great , especially the demos. Amazin stuff Mr. Clemens. After this session we headed for lunch.

3rd Session (Post Lunch Session):

I went to attend the session of "Programming with Master Pages, Themes/Skins and Navigation Control in ASP .NET 2.0" by Goksin Bakir. He told us about the master pages and how to apply a master page to a slide.He told us about the Page_PreInt() function which works before the controls are loaded. Played with strong typing and weak typing. Master Pages can be nested and we cannot put web part manager in master pages. He then discussed about Themes and Skins. Themes is nothin other than collection of Skins and Skins are basically the attribute of control. The told us how to apply them to a site (Page.Theme = "Basic Blue" ;) easy isnt it ..haan :)...He told us about the global themes and how to enable themes ,then about object datasource and wizard controls and then in the last about Call back. ASP.NET 2.0 with 50 new controls is cool thing to play with ;).

4th Session:

I went to attend the session of "Indigo: Whats next for Connected Applications and Web Services" by Mr. Clemens Vasters. Mr. Clemens began by saying that Indigo is near to his heart and said that indigo is infrastructure for distributed systems. Productivitiy, Interoperatbility and Service Oriented Deployment is the goal. Unified Programming Model includes WSE which includes WS-* specifications , message oriented programming blah blah... He said that service orientation is basically to share meta deta and to avoid coupling. In service and clients he reffered to Mr. Steve and said that we cant use UDDI. He told us about the end points and to remember ABC ( not Alpha,Bravo and Charlie :P:P) but ABC for (Address , Binding and Contract). Address is basically base address , Binding is transport details i.e TCP , http e.tc. and contract is how to communicate and what to communicate ???? (Gettin it ? ;). He discussed about the structure which stars from Flow Protocol then to Reliability Protocol and then to Security Protocol and then to Encoding and then to Transport...doh...Encoding can be of UTF -8,16,32 or Binary (in binary the XML data will be converted to binary 1's and 0's ..how intresting the combinations will be of 1's and 0's i wonder...hmm) and offcourse MTOM. He showed us the demo. Each class has a service host and the type is of interface. We always have to remember ABC and take care of it and provide addressing, binding and contracting. He said that main aim of Indigo is to make super complex things look easy. He concluded that the enthusiam he saw in Pakistan regarding learning new stuff is not anymore in Germany.Thanks Mr. Clemens for that. Mr. Clemens is a man of immense knowledge and he impressed everyone in Karachi.

Closing Session of PDC 2005:

The Cheif Guest Acting President of Pakistan arrived and the session started right away. Proceedings started with the recietation of Holy Quran and then the Host Rahat Qazmi invited the IT Minister of Province Sindh to deliver the speech. He took 15 mins approx. and told us about the future plans and what has happened till now then came the Acting President of Pakistan and he gave a nice speech and asked every Pakistani to work with great spirit to achieve success in every field. He pledged to give his full support for IT activities in Pakistan. Mr. Jawad Rehman Country Manager of Microsoft in Pakistan said that they will try their best to make Karahchi --Cyberachi ..isnt that kewl???...Cyberachi name rocks!!!. Sheilds were given to the Speakes and the Sponsers. When Mr. Clemens came to receive his sheild the whole arena just gave such a clap in appreciation that really Mr. Clemens deserved. His knowledge is great and his informative speech and style was brilliant which impressed everyone . He came last year as well and he is no doubt one of the many best speakers of PDC. After that a book originally signed by the creator of C# came all the way from Washington for 9-year whiz girl from Pakistan, that is great honour for our country..way to gooooo (y). She was called on and so was the box filled with lucky coupons.Everyone waited for X-boxes for such a long time and there they were , 8 of them and probability for each candidate was 1/2000 :P (think abt it ;)). * numbers were called and lucky winners were quite astonished and at the same time delighted that they won the prize and they took it from Mr. Jawad Rehman and the Acting President of Pakistan and the IT Minister of Sindh.

In the end just wanna mention it: I would like to thank the PDC Speakers for coming to Pakistan inspite of all their doubts, i hope after they came here the doubts would have been nullified. The people of Karachi were honoured that you guyz came here.All of the speakers were great and we hope to see you guyz all next year as well. Especially Mr. Rafal Lukawiecki,Mr. Stephen (we missed you the next 2 days) , Mr Clemens the techie guy, Karachi will be waiting for u guyz....Helll Yeah...We are waitin for PDC 2006!!!!!

bye bye PDC 2005!
Goodbye :)