Part 1: News from Mix08
In the first part of his talk, Rod Paddock will report on the announcements made at Mix08 the week before. Mix is the Microsoft conference dedicated to Web development.
Some of the things that Rod will discuss will be
• Silverlight 2.0
• New features of Expression Blend
• Standards based web development
• Internet Explorer 8 Beta and what it means to developers
Part 2: Top 10 .NET Open Source tools
The title says it all. This session will cover some of the best open source project for .NET developers. Unit testing, version control, control kits, AJAX tools and so on. This session will cover a plethora of open source .NET projects.
Prizes
| Qty |
Company |
Prize |
Value (each) |
| 1 |
ComponentArt |
Web.UI for ASP.NET Subsrcription License |
$999.00 |
| 5 |
Kentico |
Kentico CMS License Voucher |
$999.00 |
| 5 |
Nevron |
Nevron Chart for .NET Lite |
$299.00 |
| 5 |
Nevron |
Nevron User Interface Ent. |
$539.00 |
Location and Agenda
Whitby Public Library - Room 1B
405 Dundas Street West, Whitby, ON, L1N 6A1
Phone: (905) 668-6531
Fax: (905) 668-7445
Email: admin@whitbylibrary.on.ca
Website: http://www.whitbylibrary.on.ca
Event Agenda
| Time |
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Title |
| 6:00 - 7:00 |
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Socialize and refreshments |
| 7:00 - 9:00 |
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Presentation |
Speaker Biography
Rod Paddock, Editor for CoDe Magazine 
Rod is president and founder of Dash Point Software, Inc. DPSI is an award winning software company based in Seattle, WA, specializing in application development and software training. Dash Point specializes in Visual Studio .NET, VB 6, Visual FoxPro, and SQL Server development. Dash Point Software was the winner of the 1999 Visual FoxPro Excellence Award and a finalist in 1998. Dash Point was also a finalist in 1996 at Windows World Open. Rod has been a very popular speaker at a wide variety of developer conferences in North America and Europe since 1995. His most recent speaking appearance was at the XML Connections conference in October 2002. Rod is the editor for CoDe Magazine and his writing credits include articles for database publications such as Data Based Advisor, FoxTalk and Dbase Advisor. He has also authored a number of books including Visual Basic 5 for Web Development, Visual Basic 6 for Web Development, and Visual FoxPro 6.0 Enterprise Development. Rod is also the V.P. of Technology for Red Matrix Technologies and the architectural visionary behind the DataClas middle-tier component and SQLAudit product lines.
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