Kolkata Chapter Developer Day Official Recap

We recently concluded the first Developer Day of our Kolkata Chapter on 1st June, 2013. This is a recap of the event. The event kicked off at the scheduled time at Microsoft office in Kolkata and we had only 5 attendees to start with. Out of 40 registrations, seeing only 5 was a bit heartbreaking. But within 30 minutes, we had a packed room and we were short of space. It seemed that if a few more candidates turned up, we might need to tell them to attend the event by standing.

Session 1

Language Internals of C# by Abhishek Sur

Agenda:

• Delegates
• Events
• LINQ
• Iterators
• Dynamic

Session 2

Developing Windows Store apps using HTML & JavaScript

Agenda:

• Understanding Apps
• Understanding Windows Store Apps
• Why should you write Windows Store Apps
• Default Project templates provided for Windows Store apps using HTML & JS
• Basics of Windows Store Apps using HTML & JS
• WinJS & Promises
• Build an app
• Use of AppBar/Flyout controls

Attendees at the event

After the session, we had a small quiz and prizes event. A few of the prizes the attendees won were:

• "Under the Hood" - a book on SQL
• T-shirts from Redgate
• Pen Drive from Redgate
• ".Net Cookbook" from Abhishek Sur