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| Breaking Away from the Web |
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John Ptacek from Skyline Technologies |
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John Ptacek is an Associate at Skyline Technologies where he focuses on Information Worker solutions using Microsoft® Sharepoint™. John has been actively delivering value enhancing web applications to clients for the last 10 years and has been exploring Silverlight over the last year.
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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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Powerpoint Slides
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| What's New in Visual Studio 2008 |
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Edward Chaltry from Centare Group Ltd |
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Edward Chaltry a Partner and CTO for Centare Group Ltd., a Brookfield WI based software consultancy. Ed brings 20 years of software development experience with strong interest and expertise in Agile techniques and application architecture . Ed also holds certifications in multiple technologies including MOSS 2007, Certified Scrum Master, Java, and is an IBM Certified Instructor.
As CTO, Ed spearheads Centare’s initiatives to research and utilize new software tools and technology solutions. This knowledge helps ensure Centare consultants are in tune with leading innovations and receive the training necessary to maintain a high competency in when working with new applications and technologies.
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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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PDF - What's New in VSTS 2008
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| What's New in Web Development |
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Larry Clarkin from Microsoft |
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Larry Clarkin is a technology evangelist for Microsoft.
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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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Powerpoint Slides
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| Applying Entity Framework |
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Mark Johnson from Fujitsu |
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Mark Johnson is a Senior Consultant with Fujitsu Consulting with 12 years of experience in Microsoft development technologies, 9 years in the Fox Valley. Mark’s current role is Application Architect in ASP.Net web applications.
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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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Powerpoint Slides
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| WCF Services: How to Secure |
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David Zey from ZyQuest |
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David Zey has worked in the Information Technology field since 1995. He has served as a Project Manager, Systems Architect, Systems Analyst, Programmer/Analyst, and Software Developer. David is an experienced developer in UNIX, Microsoft, and Internet environments using Java, .Net, XML, Visual Basic, ASP, C++, Oracle, and DB2.
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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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