The Ottawa .NET Community Presents

Internet Explorer 7 - Five Long Years In The Making

The Ottawa .NET Community is pleased to invite you to a presentation on Internet Explorer 7. Browsers are an important element of any Internet application and IE7 is a feature rich browser that can significantly enhance your application’s overall user experience. Come join us for this informative discussion on how to get the most out of IE7 being given by a key member of the IE7 Team.

Internet Explorer 7 - Five Long Years In The Making
Internet Explorer 7 took us over 5 years to get out the door, we'll look at why it took us so long, and some of the challenges that the IE team faced in making sure IE7 was more standards compliant, and didn't break "the Internet". After that brief introduction, we'll look at some of the new features of IE7 and how you can use those to drive traffic to your site, and create a better user experience.

About our Speaker
Pete LePage is a Product Manager for Internet Explorer at the Microsoft Corporation and is responsible for driving communication and relationships with leading web developers and web designers. A graduate of Carleton University, and over five years at Microsoft, LePage has been designing websites since his early days in high school, evolving from the <font> tags and GeoCities to properly styled CSS managed hosting websites. Prior to joining the IE group, LePage was a tester on Microsoft's Visual Web Developer where he steered much of the web design experience. In addition to his career at Microsoft, LePage is an avid film photographer and teaches and studies at the prestigious Photographic Center Northwest in Seattle. LePage keeps a regular blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/petel.

Product Discovery Showcase
Joel Hebert will be opening this event with a brief presentation on the “Design Pattern Framework™ 2.0” from the Data & Object Factory. This unique design pattern product demonstrates the use of patterns via a real-world pattern-based ecommerce application and many detailed code samples. Following the presentation, 2 copies of the product will be given away compliments of the Data & Object Factory.

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Date: Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007 Registration: 5:15 PM - 5:40 PM Presentation: 5:40 PM - 8:20 PM Wrap up & Door Prizes: 8:20 PM - 8:30 PM Location: Microsoft's Glacier Room,                  100 Queen Street, Suite 500,                  World Exchange Plaza, Ottawa, Ontario Event Registration RSVP for this event by sending an email to Events@OttawaCommunity.NET

Regards,
Orest Hirniak
Chief Coordinator
The Ottawa .NET Community