Vancouver DotNet CODER

Nice hotel, nice conference, there were over 2000 attendees. Amazing.

Location: Westin Bayshore Resort & Marina
Room: Grand Ballroom
City: Vancouver


Start Date: 14/06/2005
Start Time: 01:15 PM


End Date: 14/06/2005
End Time: 05:00 PM

http://msdn.microsoft.com/canada/MSDNSpringTour2005/

Windows Form Designer – simplifying the development process

New controls – allowing you to deliver professional applications more quickly

Click Once – simplifying application deployment

ADO.NET – data access made easy

SQL Server 2005 – easily integrate and leverage the enterprise strength of SQL Server 2005

http://channel9.msdn.com/ Interesting site. Nice interface, powered by asp.net forum, works well in mozilla and FF.
Btw, I seen some FF users just scream when they are forced to use IE again by poorly coded web site. FF and Mozilla are very addictive.

http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php

standards-based presentation using XHTML and CSS;

dynamic display and interaction using the Document Object Model;

data interchange and manipulation using XML and XSLT;

asynchronous data retrieval using XMLHttpRequest;

and JavaScript binding everything together.

Wehhost4life.com gets very good package (dotnet and SQL database)for a low price, but seems they are getting more troubles as well as negative comments, especially in blogsphere.

1and1.com 's price is not bad too, a very big company, a lot good comments from users, but seems you can not connect to SQL server with Enterprise Manager, and multiple IIS Application for one domain seems have some problem .

In Vancouver, there are 2 big web hosting companies in town, one is NetNation.ca, anthor is radiant.net, both of them are decent company, all provide dotnet web hosting, but there price is much higher for the same package from Webhost4life or 1and1.

Hmmm....

from msdn again : ASP.NET 2.0: A Step Up from the ASP.NET .NET Starter Kits

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/SKinVS2005.asp

Summary: The ASP.NET Starter Kits are five sample ASP.NET applications that provide code to accomplish common Web development tasks. This article looks at how the new features in ASP.NET 2.0 could be used to simplify the Starter Kits. (14 printed pages)

MSDN asp.net 2.0 sections

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/shared/deeptree/asp/deeptreedl.asp?dtcfg=/library/deeptreeconfig.xml&id=dnaspp2&xmlsrc=/library/en-us/toc/dnaspp/dnaspp2_.xml

http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/whidbey/

(Vancouver, BC) – “We just wanted to do something to help,” says Wild Rice co-owner Andrew Wong of his and partner Tom Poirier’s decision to raise money for the Tsunami Relief Fund. “We decided that the easiest way for us to help was to donate a portion of our receipts to the Canadian Red Cross,” says Poirier. “From there it was a matter of ‘who else can we include?’ We called a few friends and colleagues and quickly came up with 11 other restaurants willing to participate. Everyone we called was enthusiastic about the idea and eager to get involved.”
-http://www.urbanvancouver.com/node/view/1470

from : http://www.wildricevancouver.com/TsunamiRelief2.pdf
Participants in Restaurants for Relief are:

Banana Leaf - 820 W. Broadway 604.731.6333

Banana Leaf on Denman - 1096 Denman Street 604.683.3333

Bistro Pastis - 2153 W.4th Avenue 604.731.5020

Elixir - 350 Davie St. 604.642.0557

Fiction - 3162 W. Broadway 604.736.7576

Lucy Mae Brown - 862 Richards St. 604.899.9199

Monsoon Restaurant - 2526 Main St. 604.879.4001

Montri’s Thai Restaurant - 3629 W. Broadway 604.738.9888

Rubina Tandoori - 1962 Kingsway Avenue 604.874.3621

Provence Marinaside - 1177 Marinaside Crescent 604.681.4144

Provence Mediterranean Grill - 4473 West 10th Avenue 604.222.1980

Tamarind - 1626 W. Broadway 604.733.5335

Tangerine - 1685 Yew St. 604.739.4677

Wild Rice - 117 W. Pender 604.642.2882