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SharePoint is an awesome tool. It allows you to build web sites, manage lists of data, collaborate on documents, and so much more – all done through a simple, easy to use, web interface. When you need to go beyond the built in capabilities of the product, SharePoint also provides a rich set of APIs to code against. This session explores the most commonly used features in the Windows SharePoint Services developer APIs, as well as the types of components and applications in which they can be utilized. Topics covered include the WSS object model, WSS web services, creating simple web parts, and adding event handlers to lists.

An overview of what ASP.NET AJAX brings to web services and how that can be used to develop web applications using a new, client-centric paradigm. Examples will be given of building and using simple ASP.NET AJAX web services, as well as of their use with client-centric component.

So, you’ve created a slick ASP.NET web application, but the performance isn’t what you were expecting. In this session I will demonstrate tools to help find the bottlenecks and offer advice on resolving them.

This presentation presents simple but well proven design principles to simplify managing dependencies between elements composing a .Net program. At the end of this presentation you will understand how to design for testability using service locator, dependency injection, IoC container, dependency inversion and single responsibility principle.

You’ve embraced LINQ to SQL (or are considering) but in a few weeks Microsoft will be releasing The Entity Framework, including LINQ to Entities. Come and learn why this is a better LINQ to SQL and how to migrate from LINQ to SQL over to the Entity Framework. We’ll also examine patterns of building isolated and reusable data access layer components using the Entity Framework.

• Creating and Manipulating a Virtual Earth map
• Building a GeoRSS feed with ASP.NET.
• Debugging a Virtual Earth application
• Overlaying custom tiles using MapCruncher
• Applying Silverlight to a Virtual Earth map using Expression Blend and Visual Studio 2008

Visual Studio 2008 provides a simple way to integrate both technologies using the built-in activities: ReceiveActivity and SendActivity. Making the analogy with WCF conventional services; in WCF you create a service interface (ServiceContract) and then you implement it with a regular class. With Workflow Services you create the interface but the implementation is the workflow itself.

 This session examines some of the most common Design Patterns in software development. Design Patterns provide simple, understandable, and sound solutions to often-daunting problems in class design and coding. Each problem will be examined before introducing its corresponding Design Pattern solution. Design Patterns covered include:

• Model View Presenter – separating user interface logic from the user interface to make the logic reusable and testable
• Factory - separating an object’s construction from its population and maintaining the Single Responsibility Principal
• Singleton – globally accessing connections, settings, and other objects in a manageable way without global variables
• Adapter – creating a common way of using different classes and libraries with different interfaces
• Façade – wrapping complex functionality into an easy-to-use package
• Lazy initialization – improving performance by delaying expensive processes until the first time they are needed

Visual Studio 2008 finally brings integrated support for building SharePoint Workflows out of the box. During this session of mostly all demos, we’ll explore this new development environment for design time support of workflows, integrated deployment to a SharePoint server and integrated debugging for stepping through your workflows. We’ll explore many of the new SharePoint aware workflow activities that make creating custom workflows a breeze in VS 2008. We’ll also review some other tips & tricks for taking advantage of .NET 3.5 and VS 2008 features such as LINQ and the improved Ajax and JavaScript capabilities for the SharePoint developer.  This session will be co-presented by Rob Windsor.

This webcast will demonstrate from start to finish, the process of creating an application with Dundas Chart for ASP.NET Enterprise Edition.  From the start of a new project, every step along the way will be covered, including Chart customization and Data Binding, to create a fully data bound instance of our Chart control in an asp.net application.

Log4net is a fast and easy to use open source .NET logging library.  This session will give you the information you require to quickly add logging to your web or windows applications.

The session will begin with an overview of the license, features and capabilities of log4net, including log levels, log hierarchies, log targets, logging contexts, configuration and filters. 

We will then dive into code by adding logging to a simple application. Next, we will configure the logging to output the logs to multiple destinations. We will end by discussing best practices for logging with log4net and answering questions.

Windows Mobile provides a set of managed APIs available for the .NET Compact Framework developer to integrate within their mobile application.  During this session we will explore the features available to the managed developer such as accessing Outlook Mobile data to taking a picture with the device camera to being notified of device state changes.  You'll not only learn what is available but how easy it is to integrate platform specific functionality into your application without to give your application a better user experience.

In this session we'll explore different scenarios for integrating SharePoint and Silverlight. SharePoint 2007 is an amazing framework that has an incredible set of built-in features such as Web Parts, Collaboration, Workflow, Security, LOB integration, Search, etc. In this session we'll demonstrate how to leverage some of these features to create a real Rich Internet Application (RIA) using SharePoint and Silverlight together.

In this session we'll take a look at the nuts and bolts of building ASP.NET Server Controls and how it has evolved with technologies introduced in recent versions of the framework as well as the impact of AJAX and Silverlight on the construction of those controls.

The ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview is a new release that provides new functionality being added to ASP.NET 3.5 and ADO.NET in 2008. This release delivers a set of new features that target:

1. Enabling High Productivity Data Scenarios - including MVC, Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services and dynamic data
2. Supporting Test Driven Development - including a powerful and extensible MVC framework
3. Creating the best server for Rich Clients - including Ajax history support and Silverlight controls for ASP.NET

At its heart, SharePoint is a web site provisioning engine – pick a template, click a button, and voila you have a feature rich web site that can be highly customized. Please join me for a whirlwind tour of WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 product capabilities. This session is ideal if you have not yet seen the product and find out what all the excitement is about! We’ll visit just about every feature in the box from the Site Administrator’s perspective to show you how the product works and can be configured. We’ll review basic features such as Web Parts, Lists, Document Libraries, site creation, workflows, and content types. We’ll review Enterprise Services such as InfoPath Forms, Business Data Catalog, Excel Services, and Search. We’ll then go behind the scenes on the product architecture and show how the developer goes about deploying their own custom features. This is the perfect primer for Rob’s talk to follow….

In the world of SOA it is useful to classify your services into two types: Business Activity Services and Resource (or sometimes Entity) Services. In this demo-centric session we’ll look at how Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow (WF) can be used within this classification system. More specifically we’ll look at how WF is an ideal choice to use “inside the boundary” of your Activity Services to carry out the long-running work the service represents.

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As our ASP.NET Web applications become more and more successful we switch our focus from adding features to performance, scale, and management. Richard has been in the lab studying the scaling habits of the average domestic ASP.NET solution and has emerged to discuss his findings (no applications were actually harmed during the capture of this data). Come and learn where ASP.NET stumbles and how to get it back on its feet. In this session you will learn about the web acceleration equation, identify common ASP.NET bottlenecks, explore solution alternatives, uncover the secret sauce, and determine a reasonable strategy for scaling ASP.NET applications.

What is SQL Server Service broker (SSB)? What does it do? Which version of SQL Server can use SSB? What kind of application can use this? Does it scale between servers? Why use SSB over MSMQ? What are the advantages and disadvantages of SSB over MSMQ, BizTalk and WSE and WCF? Is it complicated to use SSB? This session will answer all the questions. 

Windows Presentation Foundation and SIlverlight