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Architecture - Architecting Demand-Load Add-in Frameworks (Mark Miller)
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Do your applications take forever to start up? Learn how to convert your traditional static .NET executable into a truly nimble application that starts up to ten times faster and with more flexibility. This session will dispel at least one popular myth about performance and granularity, and we'll take a look at other benefits delivered by add-in architectures like the ability to outsource portions of your code to off-site developers while keeping intellectual property safe inside the company net.
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Architecture - Distributed Computing, Today and Tomorrow (Rockford Lhotka)
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Distributed Computing, Today and Tomorrow Rockford Lhotka, Magenic Technologies Weve come a long way from creating custom TCP socket protocols, or using raw RPC, to build distributed applications. The technologies of today, and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) tomorrow, make coding much simpler than in the past. But how much has changed from an architectural perspective? Are todays applications using Web Services much different from MTS based applications from 10 years ago? Will applications based on WCF be radically different from those of today? Learn how distributed computing continues to change and evolve, as service-orientation promises to merge the concepts of client/server, n-tier and message-based architecture into something new and exciting!
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Architecture - Object Modeling with the Visual Studio 2005 Class Designer (Kevin McNeish)
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You may be missing out on some of the best new features of Visual Studio 2005 if you are not using the new Visual Class Designer and Object Test Bench to architect your applications! This session takes you through the steps of designing a business layer object model for a simple application and in the process provides in-depth information on working with the Class Designer, Object Test Bench and Visual Studio 2005 design-time expression evaluation. It will also demonstrate Microsoft’s PowerToys add-in that contributes great new features to the Class Designer such as the ability to customize it.
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Architecture - Software Factories and the Microsoft Domain Specific Language Tools (Kevin McNeish)
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Software factories are an exciting innovation that provide a more agile and reliable approach to software architecture and development. This session demonstrates how you can use the new Microsoft Domain Specific Language (DSL) tools in Visual Studio 2005 to build your own custom graphical designer from which you can generate code for rapid and reliable application development. It also helps you understand the concept of software factories and how model-driven development can assist you to overcome common development problems that are not solved by object-orientation.
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Web - Top Ten ASP.NET 2.0 Tricks and Gotchas (Scott Mitchell)
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More than other technologies, ASP.NET 2.0 is full of dark corners that are rarely discussed in books, articles, and online. In some dark corners you find nifty little tricks to boost your productivity; in others, sinister gotchas lurk, ready to complicate your development process or hamper your application's performance. In this interactive talk, ASP.NET MVP and prolific author Scott Mitchell shares his top 10 ASP.NET 2.0 tricks and gotchas with you!
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Web - Creating ASP.NET 2.0 Custom Providers (Russ Nemhauser)
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Using the Provider Approach in your ASP.NET Applications ASP.NET 2.0 introduced the provider model, a powerful new way of plugging in functionality for membership, roles, personalization, and profiles. This session begins by examining how the provider model works and how to create your own custom providers for these built-in ASP.NET 2.0 functions. This provider approach can also be a powerful technique to provide flexibility for the Web applications that you design. You'll learn how to create a class with abstract methods to access different custom providers which are created by subclassing from the ProviderBase class and selected via your own web.config section.
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Web - Integrating RSS Feeds into ASP.NET 2.0 Applications (Reza Madani)
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This session starts by a review of the RSS phenomena discussing different versions available out in the industry and future potential trends. It then dives into two effective ways of leveraging this technology for solving day to day business needs: One by creating a custom http handler to create an RSS/Atom server from a database data source. The other by developing a RSS/Atom news feed parser and aggregator. Podcasting, blog servers, Wiki servers are among the topics of review and analysis from a practical usage standpoint. This presentation includes plenty of hands on code and examples using Visual Studio 2005 and .NET 2.0 framework.
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Web - Top Ten List of Atlas Features (Scott Stanfield)
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If you’re a Web application developer, you likely already know about the excitement that has been generated around AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) over the past year. But what if you’re an ASP.NET developer? Are you going to be locked out from the richer client-side behavior enabled by this latest innovation? Fortunately, Microsoft’s upcoming “Atlas” technology will provide a framework that extends the current server-based development platform of ASP.NET 2.0 to leverage AJAX techniques toward a new generation of richer, more interactive, more responsive, and highly personalized cross-browser Web applications. In this not-to-be-missed session especially created for this conference, renowned Web expert, ASP.NET Insider and MVP, Scott Stanfield, will take you on a tour through his personal selection of the top new features and capabilities of the “Atlas” technology.
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Data - Reporting with Visual Studio 2005 (Bill Vaughn)
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Get the inside scoop on how to get the most from the new ReportViewer control included in Visual Studio 2005 from the co-author of the acclaimed book - Hitchhikers Guide to the SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services. This session will discuss how to leverage your Reporting Services skills to create application-based reports and how to manage the myriad of issues that come when trying to emulate Reporting Services functionality like parameters, connections, pick-list population and much more.
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Data - SQL Server 2005 CLR Executables (Bill Vaughn)
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Now that SQL Server 2005 can host the .NET 2.0 CLR (common language runtime), powerful programmability options are opened up for developers. In this session, the renowned author of industry-standard books on SQL Server and ADO.NET programming will discuss what kinds of executables make sense and which dont. He will walk you through the development process of creating CLR executables and most importantly, show you exclusive examples that really push the CLR executable technology to the limits.
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Data - Inside ADO.NET vNext (Mickey Williams and Chris Rolon)
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The next version of ADO.NET will include powerful new abstractions for data access. This talk explores the three programming surfaces exposed by ADO.NET vNext: the Object Services layer, the Map Provider layer, and LINQ to Entities. We'll walk through the current CTP release, and you'll see how to use Entity SQL (eSQL) as well as the object service layer. We'll also demonstrate how the Entity Data Model (EDM) enables developers to be much more explicit when describing schema.
Finally, we'll close with a discussion of features planned for future releases after the current CTP.
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Data - The Missing LINQ? (Markus Egger)
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After decades of ongoing development, the common model for building software today has evolved separate language paths for our application logic and data access. This dichotomy is directly addressed by one of the most important new features coming in the next version of Visual Studio. Language Integrated Query (also known affectionately as LINQ) will enable developers to use data-oriented constructs like SELECT statements as part of the native Visual Studio languages (Visual Basic and C#, in particular). There is significantly more capability to LINQ than just what its name suggests at face value though. In this session, we’ll look at using LINQ to query not only traditional data sources like relational databases and XML data, but also just about anything that exposes structure, including objects and collections of objects. On the flip side, we’ll also see how LINQ is capable of creating any object construct as the result set. If your application code involves any data handling, this is a session that you won’t want to miss at the conference!
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.NET 3.0 - Using Windows Workflow in Your WinForm and ASP.NET Applications (Adam Calderon)
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Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF) is Microsoft's application level workflow framework within their .NET 3.0 architecture. This in-depth session will delve into the details of how the framework and its activities work. You'll learn how to create custom activities and what Sequential and StateMachine workflows are and when to use them in your applications. The session will feature detailed code walkthroughs of a Windows Forms application that uses a StateMachine workflow to control an order entry process and an ASP.NET Web application that uses both Sequential and StateMachine workflows to perform dynamic page navigation.
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.NET 3.0 - Assessing Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) (Rockford Lhotka)
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Assessing Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Rockford Lhotka, Magenic Technologies Do you use Web Services, WSE, Remoting, Enterprise Services or MSMQ? Should you be building client/server, n-tier or service-oriented applications? Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is a key component of Microsoft .NET 3.0, and it is the next step in the evolution of all these technologies and concepts, providing a unified API for all this functionality. Learn what WCF is and the basics of using the technology. This knowledge will help you decide whether WCF will be useful to you, and how it will impact you as time goes on.
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.NET 3.0 - Is There a Microsoft Expresssion Interactive Designer in Your Future? (Bernard Wong)
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You’ve likely already heard about the forthcoming Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and the eXtensible Application Markup Language (XAML). If you haven’t, be sure to catch Markus Eggers’ preceding presentation on what will be the impact of this pairing upon the future of application user interfaces. But what’s up with this new Microsoft Expression line of tools and in particular, the Expression Interactive Designer? What does an interactive whatssit do and where does it fit in the creation of the next generation of user interface design? If you don’t have succinct cocktail party responses prepared for these questions already then you’ll need to attend this session. We’ll eschew conceptual philosophizing and prognostication to focus instead on demonstrations selected to vividly show exactly how this product is used and what it can uniquely do. At the end of this session, even if you decide this product just isn’t applicable to your current needs, you’ll be knowledgeable and confident handling your next awkward cocktail party discussion about the Microsoft Expression Interactive Designer and its role in the software creation process.
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