Feburary 2001 Meeting

DATE: Monday February 4, 2002 TIME: 6:00pm - 8:00pm TOPIC: Introduction to the .NET Framework

The Vancouver Delphi Developers Association is pleased to present Dejan Cvetkovic, Principle Technology Specialist for Microsoft Canada. Dejan Cvetkovic graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in April 1991. He joined Microsoft Workgroup Canada in April 1993, as a Software Design Engineer on Exchange Server 4.0. From April 1994, until November 1995, Dejan worked as a CORBA System Architect in Microtel Pacific Research and rejoined Microsoft in November 1995, as a Microsoft Consultant. Dejan spent most of his time involved in system architecture on distributed application development projects. These projects were based on Microsoft Middle-tier products interoperating with legacy systems. In January 1999, Dejan shifted his focus to systems engineering and took the role of Technology Specialist with Microsoft Canada. With the focus on enterprise application development, Dejan's major customer is the Government of British Columbia.

What is .NET?
The Microsoft .NET framework is a platform for building, deploying and running Web Servers and applications. It provides a highly productive, standards-based, multi-language environment for integrating existing applications with next-generation applications and services as well as the agility to solve the challenges of deployment and operation of Internet-scale applications.

Presentation Outline:
-Overview of the .NET Vision and Framework:
The Common Language Specification is a set of constructs that serves as a guide for library writers and compiler writers. It allows libraries to be fully usable from any language supporting the CLS, and for these languages to integrate with each other.

-VisualStudio.NET and its Languages:
Dejan will show live examples of building web services using VisualStudio.NET, used for building web services in a cross language development environment. He will also demonstrate how to build a sample web application using web services and ASP.NET using C# and VB.NET. It is a business decision which development tool is used. You have a choice, depending on your environment, skill set and the type of services being built.

-The Future of .Net Including VS.Net, Servers and Services:
Rapid application development environment is again the goal of Visual Studio.NET. Learn how to quickly develop a business solution and let the .NET framework provide the infrastructure and plumbing required for the integration.