Learn about .NET, get free dinner and free VS.NET. (Canadians only)

[Martin]

Only for canadian university students though. It doesn't say free VS.NET on the webpage, but my friend (in CS) got this offer in his email and it says everyone who attends gets a free copy.

http://www.msdnaa.net/canada/studenttour/

Microsoft .NET Student Tour
Join us in a city near you to hear the latest information on creating next-generation applications. Learn all about developing and accessing XML Web Services on the Windows .NET Framework and Shared Source CLI (Rotor). Be one of the first to check out new mobile device programming techniques and preview the upcoming Visual Studio .NET 2003.
Event Agenda
Time
4:00- 4:30 pm Registration
4:30- 5:15 pm .NET Overview
5:15- 6:00 pm .NET Languages
6:00 - 6:45 pm Dinner
6:45 - 7:45pm Shared Source CLI (Rotor)
7:45- 8:30 pm Creating an end-to-end Web Service App with mobile client.
8:30 ? 8:45 pm Tablet PC Demo & Academic Programs


All attendees will receive a variety of academic resources including white papers, tutorials and code samples. Please be aware that you must be a student with a valid student ID to attend these events.

Dinner will be provided. All events will take place in the evening of the scheduled date from 4:00pm ? 8:45 pm
For additional information, please email v-sashak@microsoft.com.
To register for a seminar, please click on the city nearest you:
Registration
To register for an event, please click on the city nearest you:
Halifax - March 10, 2003
Montreal - March 12, 2003
Toronto - March 13, 2003
Regina - March 17, 2003
Calgary - March 19, 2003
Vancouver - March 20, 2003


These events are complimentary to students enrolled in Canadian education institutions

 

[Nocturnal]

Sounds nice, too bad they don't have it where I live

 

[andrey]

wee heee, we had the same promotion in United States back in March of 2002 and everyone who attended received MS Visual Studio.NET (studen version), Windows XP Professional (full version), VS.NET T-Shirt, pen plus many more Microsoft goodies

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: andrey
wee heee, we had the same promotion in United States back in March of 2002 and everyone who attended received MS Visual Studio.NET (studen version), Windows XP Professional (full version), VS.NET T-Shirt, pen plus many more Microsoft goodies

yup! if you were slick, you got quite a few of those packages. some of my friends did that

 

[Colt45]

hrmm.. i'm not a university student and the closest one is 300km away.

 

[dighn]

Originally posted by: MartyTheManiak
Only for canadian university students though. It doesn't say free VS.NET on the webpage, but my friend (in CS) got this offer in his email and it says everyone who attends gets a free copy.

http://www.msdnaa.net/canada/studenttour/

Microsoft .NET Student Tour
Join us in a city near you to hear the latest information on creating next-generation applications. Learn all about developing and accessing XML Web Services on the Windows .NET Framework and Shared Source CLI (Rotor). Be one of the first to check out new mobile device programming techniques and preview the upcoming Visual Studio .NET 2003.
Event Agenda
Time
4:00- 4:30 pm Registration
4:30- 5:15 pm .NET Overview
5:15- 6:00 pm .NET Languages
6:00 - 6:45 pm Dinner
6:45 - 7:45pm Shared Source CLI (Rotor)
7:45- 8:30 pm Creating an end-to-end Web Service App with mobile client.
8:30 ? 8:45 pm Tablet PC Demo & Academic Programs


All attendees will receive a variety of academic resources including white papers, tutorials and code samples. Please be aware that you must be a student with a valid student ID to attend these events.

Dinner will be provided. All events will take place in the evening of the scheduled date from 4:00pm ? 8:45 pm
For additional information, please email v-sashak@microsoft.com.
To register for a seminar, please click on the city nearest you:
Registration
To register for an event, please click on the city nearest you:
Halifax - March 10, 2003
Montreal - March 12, 2003
Toronto - March 13, 2003
Regina - March 17, 2003
Calgary - March 19, 2003
Vancouver - March 20, 2003


These events are complimentary to students enrolled in Canadian education institutions

signed up last night for Vancouver

free software that is legal yum

 

[Martin]

reminder bump...

I'm going this thursday....

 

[silverpig]

Dammit, I wanna go but I have class at that time. Oh well.

 

[HamSupLo]

what's this whole .net thing? can someone give it to me in layman's terms? why is asp.net > asp, c#>c++?

 

[Bluga]

I signed up two weeks ago.

I know it's full now

 

[Descartes]

Originally posted by: jooksing
what's this whole .net thing? can someone give it to me in layman's terms? why is asp.net > asp, c#>c++?

Rather than provide yet another definition of .NET (which is multifaceted), you can find out everything you need to know here.

Also, ASP.NET is indeed superior ASP (for far too many reasons to note here); however, C# isn't necessarily better than C++. C++ still exists under .NET as managed C++. Each language takes advantage of different facilities of the .NET CLR (learn about that at the link above). Managed C++ has the ability to do more than C# in certain areas, and vice versa.

 

[Descartes]

Microsoft has given my .NET User Group countless full copies of VS.NET Enterprise Architect for giveaway (not to mention countless books, shirts, software, speakers, etc...).

I heart Microsoft.

 

[Descartes]

.

 

[Martin]

Originally posted by: jooksing
what's this whole .net thing? can someone give it to me in layman's terms? why is asp.net > asp, c#>c++?

The way I understand it, its a platform for delivering software as a service. Supposed to run on multiple platforms, but runs only windows so far (I think they are working on a windows implementation though). C# is supposed to be a Java clone and ASP.net is supposed to fix I alot of stuff with asp.

 

[Martin]

Originally posted by: Descartes
Microsoft has given my .NET User Group countless full copies of VS.NET Enterprise Architect for giveaway (not to mention countless books, shirts, software, speakers, etc...).

I heart Microsoft.

that's pretty damn cool. But the support you're building is probably worth a lot more to them than the stuff they're giving you...


What's the diff between enterprise architect and the academic one?