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Visual Studio 2010 Academic Launch

Thursday, April 29, 2010 from 12:30 PM – 4:45 PM (GMT+0300)

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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Visual Studio 2010 Acacdemic Launch
Apr 29, 2010

Riyadh Community Leads are pleased to announce the Visual Studio 2010 Academic Launch Event.  This event is the first of the series of Visual Studio Launch events that will take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia during April and May.  These events are part of Global Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Launch events that will take place all over the work on 14th April 2010.  Click the Invitation header to find more information about global Launch. 

This event is targeted to students and academics for providing first look on Visual Studio 2010, SharePoint 2010 Tools, NET Framework 4.0, Silverlight, Windows Mobile Development, Web and Windows Applications.

Speakers

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Jerry Yasir – SharePoint MVP

RSUG Founder, President, SharePoint Consultant at EJADA

Jerry is Founder and President of Riyadh SharePoint User Group (RSUG.NET), Co-Owner of SharePoint Pakistan User Group and SharePoint Consultant at EJADA, Saudi Arabia. He hold a master degree in Computer Sciences and has nearly 8 Years of experience working in Microsoft Technologies including SharePoint, Microsoft .NET and Project Server.

He is currently responsible of executing and managing many large scale SharePoint implementations in Saudi Arabia. Jerry is Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and also holds MCPD, MCTS WSS 3.0 & SharePoint Server 2007, MCITP (EPM 2007) and MCSD.NET. he can be reached from http://yasirbutt.spaces.live.com

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Muhammad Halabi – ASP.NET MVP

DevLifeStyle Lead & Integration Developer

Mohamad Halabi is an experienced developer and Specialized in Solution Design, Integration, and Development based on Microsoft technologies.  He has worked with number of high profile Microsoft Partners in Saudi Arabia and Lebanon.  You can find more information about him at http://thedotnethub.blogspot.com/

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Adel Zubeir

Sr. Developer and Community Lead Windows Phone Middle East

Adil is Sr. Developer and specialized in Mobile devices. Adel has gained strong knowledge in Windows Mobile since he got his first Windows device. Adel is currently the founder of the new "Windows Phone Middle East" Community, Windows Mobile Power Group on Facebook; to spread out his knowledge on mobility.

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Hany Mahmoud

CRM Community Lead, Microsoft Products/Development Manager, Nesma

He is responsible for: Presales, proposing, R&D, consultancy, and Development team Management and Improvement with over 9 years of experience in Microsoft Platforms using miscellanies technologies such as: Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Visual Studio, SQL Server, SharePoint, TFS, VSTS tools, AJAX, XML Web Services, Enterprise Applications Using COM+ and Microsoft .Net Platform, XML, XSLT, XSD, and XPATH. He holds Masters Degree of Computer Engineering from Cairo University and certifications such as PMP, MCT, MCPD, MCTS, and MCSD.

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Nabeel Derhem

DevLifeStyle Board Member

Nabeel Derhem is a consultant specializing in SQL-Server and ASP.Net technologies. He’s been in the software world for more than ten years and has been consulted by numerous enterprises in KSA. He currently works for National information Center, Ministry of interior.

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Mohammed Mosallem

Developer Lead Nesma, Board Member – DevLifeStyle.NET

Mohamed Mosallem is a Development Lead based in Riyadh, he has been working with the .net Framework since it’s early beta in 2000, he is specialized in developing Enterprise .net Applications and Enterprise Applications Integration, Mohamed is a community board member and regular speaker at DevLifeStyle the first .net users group in Riyadh, he can be reached through his blog www.mosallem.com

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Event Agenda

Main Track

Opening Notes – Moatasm Ayash- Microsoft Academic Lead
15 Minutes

Mr. Moatasm Ayash from Microsoft Academic team will welcome the guests and will shed light on Microsoft Academic programs and events.

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What’s New in Visual Studio 2010 – Riyadh Community Leads
1 Hour

In this session Riyadh Community Leads together will highlight some of the new and improved features in the Visual Studio 2010.  They will cover of the major improvements in Web, Windows, Silverlight, Windows Mobile and Visual Studio Tools for SharePoint 2010.  Community Leads will demonstrate how students can take advantage of these improvements.

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Refreshments – 30 Minutes

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Developing Rich Web Applications with VS 2010 – Mossalam, Nabil
1 Hour

In this session Mossalam and Nabil will cover Web development concepts in ASP.NET 4.0 and what are the new Web development features in Visual Studio 2010 including ASP.NET MVC, using Dynamic Data to Create Data-Aware Web Sites Using Microsoft Ajax and Client Scripting, Creating Web Pages for an International Audience, Publishing (Deploying) a Web Sites and Creating Custom Web Site Components.

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Refreshments and Prayer – 30 Minutes

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SharePoint and Office 2010 Development with VS 2010 – Jerry, Hany
1 Hour

Jerry and Hani will describe SharePoint tools in Visual Studio 2010 and what features that will help developers in creating solutions for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010. They will cover the features like Developing SharePoint solutions, the project type and templates and project item templates, Design association and initiation forms for sequential and state workflows, Create Web parts and application pages for a SharePoint site, Browse SharePoint sites by using the Server Explorer, and how we can debug SharePoint applications by pressing F5.

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Note: Closing, Q / A  and Raffle Draws will be made after this

Location: Microsoft Innovation Center at Al-Yamama University

For Location Map (Click Here) or copy paste the URL below.

http://www.sharepointgroups.org/rsug/Shared%20Documents/locationmap.aspx

Looking forward to see you.  Please be on time :).  12:30 Sharp

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When

Thursday, April 29, 2010 from 12:30 PM – 4:45 PM (GMT+0300)

Where

Al-Yamama University
King Fahad – North Between Exit 4 and 5 Going to Al Qassim
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Riyadh Ar Riyad
SA

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After the successful February and March 2010 events,

Riyadh SharePoint User Group is pleased to announce our next User Group event to be held on April 15th, 2010 at the Microsoft Innovation Center, Alyamama University, Riyadh.

This time the event celebrate with Visual Studio 2010 Launch which will be done on April 14th and our event will cover the most interesting developer as well as topics of Architecture and administartion.  The important thing to note is that the event will be;

Two Tracked

After the success of our March Event which was multi track for the first time we have decided to go with the same stretegy of having parallel tracks.  This way we can cover more stuff and you will have choice of what you want to learn.

Why should you attend the event?:

• If you are eager to learn and get ready for SharePoint 2010
• You want to win Windows 7 Ultimate
• You want to have chance to Win XBOX 360 🙂
• Cool Give Ways including Books, USBs, and Reading Material etc.
• Chance to ask questions and get answers to your problems.
• Get SharePoint 2010 All Software Hyper V Image. 
• Get Visual Studio 2010 RTM Image (For Above please bring your USB Disk with around 20+ GB Free space)

Please note that the Registration is must.  It will help you to keep updated about event details. 

You can get Attendance Certificates in Digital format.  Please email the Hosts (both) with Full Name in English.

Note: Females are Welcome to attend the event and complete separation will be provided during the event.

Speakers

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Jerry Yasir – SharePoint MVP

RSUG Founder, President, SharePoint Consultant at EJADA

Jerry is Founder and President of Riyadh SharePoint User Group (RSUG.NET), Co-Owner of SharePoint Pakistan User Group and SharePoint Consultant at EJADA, Saudi Arabia. He hold a master degree in Computer Sciences and has nearly 8 Years of experience working in Microsoft Technologies including SharePoint, Microsoft .NET and Project Server.

He is currently responsible of executing and managing many large scale SharePoint implementations in Saudi Arabia. Jerry is Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and also holds MCPD, MCTS WSS 3.0 & SharePoint Server 2007, MCITP (EPM 2007) and MCSD.NET.

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Adel Zubeir

Sr. Developer and Community Lead Windows Phone Middle East

Adil is Sr. Developer and currently working as a Project Manager. Adel gained strong knowledge in Windows Mobile since he got his first Windows device. Adel is currently the founder of the new "Windows Phone Middle East" Community, Windows Mobile Power Group on Facebook; to spread out his knowledge on mobility.

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Hany Mahmoud

Microsoft Products Manager/Development Manager, Nesma

He is responsible for: Presales, proposing, R&D, consultancy, and Development team Management and Improvement with over 9 years of experience in Microsoft Platforms using miscellanies technologies such as: Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Visual Studio, SQL Server, SharePoint, TFS, VSTS tools, AJAX, XML Web Services, Enterprise Applications Using COM+ and Microsoft .Net Platform, XML, XSLT, XSD, and XPATH. He holds Masters Degree of Computer Engineering from Cairo University and certifications such as PMP, MCT, MCPD, MCTS, and MCSD.

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Ahmed Abuabdou

RSUG Board Member & Consultant – Sure Technologies

Ahmed Abuabdou, Senior Software Engineer & SharePoint Developer at SURE Technology & Consulting, he enjoys exploring new operating systems, platforms, technologies and programming languages, and considers programming as a hobby. He has been involved with big e-learning SharePoint portals in Saudi-Arabia and is an active member in RSUG.

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Mohammed Mosallem

Developer Lead Nesma, Board Member – DevLifeStyle.NET

Mohamed Mosallem is a Development Lead based in Riyadh, he has been working with the .net Framework since it’s early beta in 2000, he is specialized in developing Enterprise .net Applications and Enterprise Applications Integration, Mohamed is a community board member and regular speaker at DevLifeStyle the first .net users group in Riyadh, he can be reached through his blog www.mosallem.com

Event Agenda

Main Track

Social Networking Features in SharePoint Server 2010 – Jerry
1 Hour

In this session Jerry will explain the concept of social networking and how Enterprise Social networking can help companies save cost and do knowledge management. Later jerry will demo some the coolest Social Networking Features of SharePoint Server 2010 and how Social Networking can help you achieve success in business using the same tools and techologies you have before.

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Break

Architecture Track – Room 1 – After Main Track Keynote

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SharePoint and Dynamics CRM the Right Tool for the Job – Hany
1 Hour

In this session Hany will focus on the comparison between SharePoint and CRM and He  will give high level overview about CRM with a Live demo on how we can use both technologies togather to get the best out of our business.

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Upgrading SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010  (Jerry)
1 Hour

This session will cover how to prepare for upgrading from previous versions of SharePoint to SharePoint 2010 and what are the methods available to upgrade.  It will also cover the things that you need to know, things to prepare, plan and get ready for upgrading your Sharepoint 2007 portals to SharePoint 2010. 

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Developer Track – Room 2 – After Main Track Keynote

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SharePoint 2010 Large Lists – Ahmed
1 Hour

– Dealing with large lists, configuring large lists
– Batch operations to add hundred of thousands of items
– Light queries to obtain hundred of thousands of items
– Tuning tips for fast performance

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Windows Phone 7, Developers introduction – Adel
1 Hour

In this sesion Developers will have first look at Windows 7 Phone Series and how to build nice applications on Silverlight for Windows Phone.

Break

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Integration jQuery and SharePoint  – Mosselam
1 Hour

In this session Mosselam will provide a demo on how we can integrate jQuery with SharePoint sites and how developers can use it to build rich applications.

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Note: Closing, Q / A  and Raffle Draws will be made after this in Main Track Room.

Location: Microsoft Innovation Center at Al-Yamama University

For Location Map (Click Here) or copy paste the URL below.

http://www.sharepointgroups.org/rsug/Shared%20Documents/locationmap.aspx

Looking forward to see you.  Please be on time :).  12:30 Sharp

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