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Top 10 New York Sessions
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Webcontrol Development Enhancements in ASP.NET 2.0
Miguel Castro, Infotek Consulting Group, Inc. |
Embed Workflow (WF) into Your Next Application
Richard Hundhausen, Accentient |
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Programming SharePoint 2007
Bill Wolff, Agility Systems |
Datasets, Business Objects or Just DLINQ
Sahil Malik |
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Inside C# 3.0: Extension Methods, Query Expressions & Expression Trees
Richard Hale Shaw, Richard Hale Shaw Group |
Data Binding Custom Objects and DataSets
John Papa, ASPSOFT |
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Everyday Use of Generics
Deborah Kurata, InStep Technologies |
Client/Server Communication Options
Rockford Lhotka, Magenic Technologies |
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Build Distributed Object-Oriented Apps in .NET 2.0
Rockford Lhotka, Magenic Technologies |
Click-Once
Jeff Levinson, The Boeing Company |
Want more content to choose from? You can view the complete conference agenda online at www.vslive.com/newyork.
Favorite ASP.NET Sessions
Webcontrol Development Enhancements in ASP.NET 2.0
Miguel Castro, Infotek Consulting Group, Inc.
ASP.NET 2.0 brought to the table many great enhancements to increase productivity in the development of web applications. Accompanying these great new features that mainstream web developers are already familiar with, are some incredible improvements to the infrastructure for developing custom server controls. As in ASP.NET 1.1, server controls or webcontrols, as they are also known, are not additions to ASP.NET’s infrastructure; they are at the very heart of its architecture. Becoming intimate with this technology gets you closer than ever to understanding exactly how ASP.NET really works. The development of custom webcontrols has not been a technology embraced by all ASP.NET developers. With the great new enhancements you’ll learn here, maybe you too will get as hooked as I have. Learn about Template Editing, SmartTags, AutoFormatting, WebResources and the AJAX-based Callbacks, and how easy it is to integrate all of this into Webcontrols of your own. This presentation expects established knowledge of custom control development and provides a fast-paced tour through the most exciting control development features in ASP.NET 2.0.
Programming SharePoint 2007
Bill Wolff, Agility Systems
SharePoint 2007 radically changes how a developer works with SharePoint technologies. Sites now make full use of ASP.NET 2.0. Customizable site starter templates enable users to build their own sites. Pluggable service-provider models for personalization, membership, navigation and enhanced security improve extranet support. Document management with content types and enhanced policies target compliance needs. Users can configure and manage workflows without coding. Blogs, Wikis and RSS feeds are now standard lists. Lists can work in offline mode with rich synchronization. There is deeper integration with Office 2007. Managed code extensions in all new Office products enable rich extensions and custom solutions. There is also integration with the new Groove Server for offline collaboration. FrontPage has morphed into SharePoint Designer which knows ASP.NET 2.0, CSS, WWF, XSLT and XHTML standards. This talk will cover all of these features from a developer's perspective and give insight into where coding is added to visual designers and templates.
Inside C# 3.0: Extension Methods, Query Expressions & Expression Trees
Richard Hale Shaw, Richard Hale Shaw Group
LINQ, DLINQ, XLINQ – what the heck? Just what we need: more TLAs and FFLAs (fancy, four-letter acronyms). Forget all that. What you need to know is this: C# 2.0 anonymous methods are incredibly useful but require a bit of plumbing to be effective. In C# 3.0, you get an elegant, expressive syntax for generating anonymous methods called lambda expressions. Another C# 3.0 feature, extension methods, let you define a static method in one class, but use it as an instance method in some other class, all without deriving or modifying the latter. Combine the two and you can create query expressions to perform SQL-like and XQuery-like searches on collections. You can store the queries – not the results, but the query itself – in an expression tree data structures for re-use. Combined with simpler variable initialization syntax, elegant object initialization, and the ability to define types on-the-fly (anonymous types), C# 3.0 will transform your day-to-day C# development into elegant, high-level expressions. In this session, Richard will wipe away the techno-speak and show you how to leverage these new features.
Everyday Use of Generics
Deborah Kurata, InStep Technologies
You may think of generics as a Ferrari that you only take out for special occasions and when the conditions are just right. But they are better compared to your trusty pickup, perfectly suited for everyday use. This session covers the generic structures provided in .NET such as the List and Dictionary. It details how to leverage these structures to simplify your code and make it more generalized – or should I say “generic”?
Build Distributed Object-Oriented Apps in .NET 2.0
Rockford Lhotka, Magenic Technologies
Get an in-depth look at the concepts and techniques from Rockford Lhotka's Expert VB 2005 and C# 2005 Business Objects books on distributed business object programming updated for .NET 2.0. You will learn how to design Windows and Web-based applications based on distributed business objects, achieving high levels of reuse, scalability, long-term maintainability, and other benefits. Learn how to apply System.Transactions, generics, new ADO.NET features, data binding and WinFX when building distributed applications on .NET 2.0.
Most-Viewed Smart Client Sessions
Embed Workflow (WF) into Your Next Application
Richard Hundhausen, Accentient
Workflow is an important part of business software, but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to develop or describe. For the first time, Microsoft has created a workflow foundation that can be embedded into your custom applications. This general-purpose designer and engine can solve both system and human workflow problems. In this session, we will review the importance of designing proper application workflow and how to use the visual designer, debugger and runtime environment found in WinFx.
Datasets, Business Objects or Just DLINQ
Sahil Malik
Have you heard about LINQ (Language Integrated Query)? Are you more of a Dataset person, or more of a business object person? What happens to this religious war in the light of DLINQ? Come and explore a balanced view of Datasets and business objects, and what DLINQ means to you.
Data Binding Custom Objects and DataSets
John Papa, ASPSOFT
The .NET Framework introduces a new assortment of interfaces and features that make binding both DataSets and custom objects to Windows Forms easier and more powerful than ever. In this session, I will demonstrate how the binding interfaces work and how to bind different types of objects to the WinForms, and how to implement different interfaces to notify the application when specific events occur such as when a property changes.
Client/Server Communication Options
Rockford Lhotka, Magenic Technologies
Many of us need to choose a client/server communication technology for our current development. How do you choose between WCF (Indigo), Web services, WSE, Enterprise Services, Remoting, DCOM and MSMQ? In this session, you’ll learn the strengths and weaknesses of each option in terms of their use today, and migration to WCF in the future. If you are developing n-tier client/server systems, this session is a must!
Click-Once
Jeff Levinson, The Boeing Company
Have you ever wondered why everyone says the web is where it’s at? All the new applications have to be web based, but why? The answer is simple: lower cost of maintenance. No one thinks web applications are superior to desktop applications – state management is a mess, the user interface (while getting better) is hardly user friendly, and then there’s the back button on the browser. If you want a windows forms application but don’t want to pay for the cost of maintenance and the difficulty with upgrades then Click-Once is for you. Learn how to leverage the power of Click-Once to centrally deploy and update your application with virtually no effort. Learn the new security features to keep your application secure. Give your users what they want – a clean, responsive interface which is always up to date!
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