Tanzim Saqib on .NET discovery

As you probably know from the earlier posts or you might have attended already Microsoft Day, I spoke on Development in ASP.NET [WebForms, LINQ, Dynamic Data, Futures] on June 20th. Some of the enthusiasts still communicating with me even after the Microsoft Day @ Dhaka. I really appreciate your passion guys. One of them just told me that after my session and private Q&A with me on LINQ, he could successfully convince his supervisor to welcome change to the existing architecture they were working on. They are going to replace their data access model with LINQ to SQL. Feels so good to hear that! I am happy because at least some people found it useful and are actually utilizing the knowledge in real life, they learned from the event. This is how community contributions add value to the industry.

Not everyone in the event was ASP.NET developers there that day. There were also business decision makers and developers who are switching to Microsoft stack of tools and technologies lately. Three persons personally met me after the session, owner/supervisor of their companies/engineering teams, to identify the opportunities with Dynamic Data and LINQ for their businesses and/or as prototyping tool.

I also talked in general about the event with the people who were attending the event. One really positive point they made was its a wonderful opportunity for them to do business networking with the industry's developers. one of them showed me bunch of his business cards he brought that day with him! They thanked Microsoft for bringing them all under the same umbrella. They said they were looking forward to such events in future. It was also a great get together for me with the industry experts and MVPs. I personally received a lot of good, positive and not-so-positive ;) feedback on the event. Despite the criticisms on some of the Level 100 sessions, the guys I've just talked about and the success story were the answer to those. However I would like to thank those who attended the event and provided with really constructive feedback no matter positive or negative. But, it still was a huge success!!

I hope this event is just the beginning, not the end. I would feel lucky if I could present in the same event next time. Its always fun working with the community. Thanks again guys for attending and making it a huge success.