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Registration |
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| 8:30 |
Breaking Away from the Web |
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John Ptacek from Skyline Technologies |
| Overview |
Rich Internet Applications (RIA) are a new generation of web-based applications that require us to break away from the traditional notions associated with web development. John Ptacek will assist in beginning your journey into this new world by introducing Microsoft® Silverlight™, a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in designed specifically to simplify the development of these next generation applications.
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| 9:45 |
Break |
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| 10:00 |
What's New in Visual Studio 2008 |
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Edward Chaltry from Centare Group Ltd |
| Overview |
On November 19th, 2007, Microsoft released a slew of cool new products for developers. These products included Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio Team System 2008, and Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2008. I will be conducting a high level overview of all the new technologies included with this triple release, and providing some demonstrations of a few of my favorite new features.
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| 11:30 |
Lunch |
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| 12:30 |
What's New in Web Development |
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Larry Clarkin from Microsoft |
| Overview |
New features in Visual Studio 2008 (CSS/HTML, Javascript intellisense and debugging), .NET 3.5, Silverlight 2.0, Virtual Earth, ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions |
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| 1:45 |
Break |
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| 2:00 |
Applying Entity Framework |
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Mark Johnson from Fujitsu |
| Overview |
Entity Framework is Microsoft’s latest technology targeted at simplifying application development by reducing the impedance mismatch between in-code data models and relational data models. It’s a basic Object-Relational mapping technology that we’ll explore by comparing it to a standard 3-tier architecture using ADO DataSets as the Data Access Object. We’ll also look briefly at LINQ, a set of extensions bringing query capability into native .Net languages, as an enabling technology to further abstract the connection between application data and database persistence.
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| 3:15 |
Break |
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| 3:30 |
WCF Services: How to Secure |
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David Zey from ZyQuest |
| Overview |
This session will explore the .NET 3.0 Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), formerly code-named Indigo. The session will spark discussion around the architecture of WCF, the essentials of WCF security, and how to implement security on a WCF service. Not only will the session be informative but provide several examples of commonly used security scenarios and recommended practices.
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