With TechEd 2006 less than a week away, I was looking through the session schedule and I thought I'd list some of the sessions I'm most looking forward too. I'm excited about all of the SharePoint Products and Technologies related sessions, but here are a few that I think will be particularly useful (or just fun)...
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OFC201 The 2007 Microsoft Office System: Clients - Overview and What's New
Speaker(s): Mark Alexieff
The innovations in the 2007 Microsoft Office system client applications are significant and range across every aspect of the programs. This session provides an intense high-level tour of these major areas of innovation, including 1) demonstrations of the most important new capabilities in each of the client applications, 2) insights into migration and coexistence with the new Microsoft Office Open XML file formats, 3) examples of client integration with the new Office SharePoint Server 2007, and 4) a fast-paced overview of the new streamlined Microsoft Office User Interface. In addition, learn about important advances in making the Microsoft Office desktop applications easier to deploy and manage. This session concludes with a Tech·Ed Roadmap to help you identify the product-specific technical sessions, detailed hands-on labs and other content on the 2007 Microsoft Office client applications.
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OFC406R Windows SharePoint Services (version 3) Development 2: ASP.NET, Web Parts, Master Pages, Field Types, and More
Speaker(s): Ted Pattison
This action-packed session takes a deep dive into the architecture of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) to examine how it has been redesigned and integrated with ASP.NET 2.0. See how WSS embraces master pages from ASP.NET 2.0 and learn how much easier it is to customize and brand sites. The session includes an in-depth discussion of the new Web Part infrastructure focusing on how it was designed to run Web Parts targeting for ASP.NET 2.0, as well as Web Parts targeting the previous version of WSS. Along the way there is a best practices discussion with tips and tricks for writing Web Parts showing you how to execute cross-site queries, how to bind SharePoint lists to the new SPGridView control, as well as how to host ASP.NET User Controls. The session shows you how and why to create extensible field types with managed code in Visual Studio 2005 and how to deploy them for use within a WSS Web Application.
Well, really there's too many to list. I plan to blog while I'm there, we'll see how much I do.