Web Programming Concepts with ASP.NET

We are excited to share with you that DevNext volunteers at NED University organized a session  on “Web Programming Concepts using ASP.NET” on 3rd April, 2010. If you attended the event, please take out few minutes to fill the feedback form.

The event was exclusively for NED Students and focused on understanding on how web works and what is going on behind the scene when you create a web page and call it with browser. In this regard, we invited two speakers from Industry 1) Adil Ahmed Mughal, who is also DevNext user group leader and 2) Namrah Arif, who works at folio3 and a graduate of NED University.

We were pleased to see participation from the NED students. Even though the room was full, some of the students attended the event by sitting on the floor. We really appreciate your interest and that really boost us in organizing community events.

The session agenda was divided in two parts. First, the web programming fundamentals and Second, ASP.NET.

The speakers started the discussion by introducing HTTP Request and what happens under the hood when a client browser request for the web page followed by the discussion on HTTP GET/POST commands, HTML Forms and Role of Web Server. The session become really interactive as the students were asking plenty number questions to speakers.

The second part covered the discussion on ASP.NET Features and how ASP.NET facilitates programmers by automatically handling underlying things and provide other facilities to programmer such as Tooling/designer, Postbacks, Event driven, HTML forms, Viewstate, Controls abstraction, Rapid development etc.

Last but not least, Adil elaborated about the difference between ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC and also which is appropriate in which situation.

We would like to thank speakers and all the students for taking out time and interest in participating in the event. We also like to thank all the DevNext volunteers for their passion in organizing event and finally to NED University of Engineering and Technology [Karachi – Pakistan] for supporting us. If you attended the event, please take out few minutes to fill the feedback form.

 Special Thanks to DevNext User Group Volunteers