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.

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

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.