The event fired off with a Key note by Sana Arshad, emphasizing the importance of knowledge sharing and the impact it can have on our careers. She also discussed the Objective of this community and highlighted its aims and underlying purpose.

Microsoft had launched Visual Studio 2010 a day before our event, so Muhammad Aurangzeb availed the opportunity to talk about this exciting launch, and discussed how Microsoft had improved upon this IDE and added many interesting features and controls, much to all .NET developers delight.

Next in line was a discussion on the ground-breaking product release of Visual F#, a succinct and expressive typed functional programming language. Sharing his experience, Faheem Sohail emphasized on its strong support for parallelism and concurrency, through its support for immutability.

The release of Silverlight 4 had been welcomed with much agitation and enthusiasm by developers all over the world, and surely it has received an animated response. Hussain Ahmed was among the many people who had been waiting anxiously for its release and he shared with us a detailed analysis of its improved version.

Everyone has heard of the term called Cloud Computing, but many of us are still unaware of the power it has unleashed for the IT community. The fact that cloud computing is becoming a growing focus of attention right now seems to be no accident. Nauman Khalid addressed the guests on the basic concepts of cloud computing and its use through Windows Azure Platform.

(Credit: Sana Arshad)