Sponsorship: This event is sponsored by INETA
Parking: Free
Snacks: Pop and coffee are free, Pizza is sponsored by INETA
Registration: not required
Prizes: DevTeach & SQLTeach will give away one registration to the June 9-11 Vancouver conference (valued at $1,250) + 1 bag (valued at $25) + 1GB USB Key
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Microsoft Canada Development Center
Topic: Using jQuery with ASP.NET
Web 2.0 is here to stay. jQuery is a JavaScript library that abstracts away all of the gory details of working with JavaScript for web applicatons. This session will demonstrate how to add jQuery to your ASP.NET applications today. This session will focus on proper uses of jQuery including how to organize your JavaScript code, how to use selectors in jQuery and how to manipulate your web content dynamically. Along with uses of the standard jQuery library, time will also be spent exploring some of the most useful jQuery plugs-ins.
Speaker: Rod Paddock, Dash Point Software, Inc.
Rod Paddock is president and founder of Dash Point Software, Inc. DPSI is an award winning software company based in Seattle, WA. Dash Point Software specializes in application architecture, development and software training. Clients include Six Flags, First Premier Bank, Microsoft, The US Coast Guard and US Navy.
Dash Point specializes in Visual Studio .NET (C# and VB.NET), Visual Basic, Visual FoxPro, and SQL Server development. 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 DevTeach 2008 conference in Montreal Canada. Rod is an MSDN Canada Canada speaker (2004 to present) and is currently a Microsoft VB.NET MVP.
Rod is also editor in chief for Code Magazine (www.code-magazine.com) and has written numerous articles and books on software development.
Rod can be contacted via his web site www.dashpoint.com or his blog http://blog.dashpoint.com