Mohammad Ali Jinnah University Offers Meeting Place.

I am glad to share this information with you that Mr. Sibghatullah of Mohammad Ali Jinnah University has offered us a meeting place for our periodic User Group Discussions.
I have conveyed my thanks to him and his university for such a generous offer.
For now I am planning to have our user group meeting .I will share the details soon insha Allah.

Dot Net Wizards 1.1 (re-launch)

By today evening i.e. 28 June 2004. we will be sending invitations to potential .NET Wizards User Group members.

URL Rewriting in ASP.Net

This is an excellent article and it examines how to perform dynamic URL rewriting with Microsoft ASP.NET. URL rewriting is the process of intercepting an incoming Web request and automatically redirecting it to a different URL. Discusses the various techniques for implementing URL rewriting, and examines real-world scenarios of URL rewriting.

SOA Discussed.

I was discussing SOA implementation with a friend of mine this morning and he told me about the architecure that he is using to develop his application.And then I told him about how/what I think of SOA i.e. message oriented communicaiton,loose coupling, find/bind and exucute logic. He reffered me Microsoft reference architecure at GotDotNet based on SOA. SOA is really some thing that promises loosely coupled computing.Here it is a defination for SOA.

What's on the Minds of Microsoft Developers?

What's on the Minds of Microsoft Developers?
Visit Channel 9 and get the inside scoop on the latest technologies, share your thoughts, and take a peek into the minds of the folks at Microsoft.

Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability

Last night i downloaded MSDNTV episode titled "Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability". It was a real good stuff. There was a guy in the presentation "Ashish Babbar" of InfoSys india who did the breifing about this new guide at Patterns and Practices site.Part III of the guide is best suited for developers, it addresses performance issues related to Enterprise Services,Interop,ASp.Net Web Services, ADO.net, XML etc.
I think its a must read for any serious developer, team lead and application architect.

An Introduction to Programming Outlook 2003 Using C#

I was browsing MSDN today and found this interesting article by Andrew W. Troelsen. Although I did not dig deep into it but still while skimming it I found it really cool. Go through it if you want to to learn about Outlook Programming with C#.

PDC 2004

PDC 2004 was really a succesful event. Almost all the speakers were great specially Rafal Lukawiecki,Clemens Vasters,Gosking Baker and Farhan Muhammad impressed me the most (and I guess the whole crowd). I really enjoyed sessions on SOA, Threat Modeling,ADO.Net best practices, Web Application Security,Indigo, and MSF.
During PDC I got to learn a lot about SOA, Threat Modeling. And Microsoft Solutions Framework is something that has found my interest.

Things to do:

Following are things on my Agenda these days.
1- Trade Finance Application for my Bank.
2- Dot Net Wizards user group revamping.
3- MCAD/MCSD.

Let the Blogging Begin!

As Salam O Alekum Readers,
Here I am writing my first blog. I have created this blog as a kind of log for my ILikeDotNet interface. I will keep wrting about my .Net User Group as well.I will also be sharing new things (as well as the old things) about Dot Net in particulat and Programing in general.
I hope you will have good time reading it.
best regards,
Hammad.Rajjoub.