Microsoft Reviewed Technical Capabilities of Internet Explorer 8 at Belarus .NET User Group Meeting

The latest Belarus .NET User Group meeting, which was captivated on September 11, 2008, garnered the appearance of added humans than anytime afore in the two-year history of the user group. Almost one hundred applications were accustomed and 64 developers took allotment in the conference. Sergiy Baydachnyy of Microsoft Ukraine delivered a abstruse analysis of the latest additions to Internet Explorer 8, afterwards which Andrei Varanovich (Microsoft MVP) batten on the key capacities of SharePoint 2007. The accident was accurate by the Minsk Institute of Management and Altoros Systems, a all-around software accumulation celerity specialist that provides focused outsourced software artefact engineering, absolute Quality Assurance, and testing casework to software organizations and information-driven enterprises.

Brief arbitrary of the event
The accident kicked off at 6.45 p.m. with Sergiy Baydachnyy accoutrement the new functionality in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) and the opportunities it provides for .NET developers. Mr. Baydachnyy aswell abundant on the affinity of IE8 with the latest standards and batten about the Accelerator feature, which allows users to accomplish assorted activities with argument extracts (e.g., translate, search, or mail them) after abrogation the accepted page. To blanket up the event, Sergiy Baydachnyy answered a amount of questions about Microsoft, developer certification, and the approaching affairs the aggregation has apropos Belarus.

Andrei Varanovich, who was appointed to allege about the new capabilities of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007), bound apparent that his admirers were decidedly absorbed in Microsoft Team Foundation Server. When his allocution affected on this topic, the admirers abounding him with questions and the chat confused on to this artefact absolutely (making it one of the accessible capacity for approaching conferences). Mr. Varanovich was able to absolute the altercation aback to MOSS 2007 and its new features, such as Enterprise Content Management and Enterprise Search, and the allowances of the closing for ASP.NET developers.

Each presentation lasted for almost an hour and a half, with a fifteen-minute breach in between, during which Sergiy Baydachnyy and Andrei Varanovich answered abundant questions, while sipping tea and coffee. The affair accomplished at 10 p.m., afterwards Sergiy Baydachnyy reminded the admirers that he was about to be backward for his plane.

A abundant photo address is accessible on the association website: http://belarusdotnet.org/forums/p/73/86.aspx#86

Links to presentations and audio recordings

1. “Internet Explorer 8 for .NET developers”
Speaker: Sergiy Baydachnyy, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Ukraine, Kyiv
PowerPoint: http://belarusdotnet.org/files/folders/92/download.aspx
Audio: http://belarusdotnet.org/files/folders/95/download.aspx

2. “New Features of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007”
Speaker: Andrei Varanovich, Leader of Belarus .NET User Group, Minsk

PowerPoint: http://belarusdotnet.org/files/folders/93/download.aspx
Audio: http://belarusdotnet.org/downloads/andrei_voronovich_sharepoint_2007.wav

3. “Q&A Session and Plans Discussion”
(Andrei Varanovich and Sergiy Baydachnyy)

Audio: http://belarusdotnet.org/files/folders/94/download.aspx

Featured quotes
“Themed affairs involving arch software development companies accomplish it accessible not alone to apprentice the account of the IT industry, but aswell to get a glimpse of what the industry will be like tomorrow, as able-bodied as to accomplish a addition to basic it,” acclaimed Dr. Nikolay Susha, Rector of the Minsk Institute of Management. “I achievement that the accomplished affair of Belarus .NET User Group was our first, but not last, footfall in this direction.”

“It was abundant to apprehend absolute reviews of the meeting,” said Alex Khizhnyak, columnist coordinator of the event. “We are animated that a lot of participants were able to get their questions answered and begin advice with the speakers so useful. We would like to acknowledge the Minsk Institute of Management for the accomplished alignment and to alone acknowledge Alexander Gedranovich, Deputy Holder of the Chair of IT and Higher Mathematics, for his breath involvement.”