Rio Hotel & Casino | October 15-18, 2007

Conference Agenda


 
Pre-Conference Day — November 12
  WORKSHOPS
9:00a -
6:00p
Maximizing WPF: Silverlight Getting the Most Mileage out of Team System:
A Developer’s Perspective
5:30p -
7:30p
Austin .NET User Group Meeting -
Resistance is Futile: The Productivity Gains of Moving to LINQ (and XLINQ and DLINQ)

Richard Hale Shaw
Conference Day 1 — November 13
  ASP.NET LIVE! BEST PRACTICES LIVE! LINQ LIVE! .NET 3.0 LIVE!
9:00a Keynote: Mapping your way through Microsoft’s Managed Data Access
Michael Pizzo
10:30a Silverlight for Business Applications Visual Studio Team System Futures LINQ, DLINQ, XLINQ: What's it all about? Introduction to Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation
11:45a Exploiting the ASP.NET Adapter Architectur Serious Team Foundation Server Customization Investigating LINQ over XML Styles and Data Templates in WPF and Silverlight
  Lunch
2:00p Build a 3-Tier Data Driven Website Building Applications with Windows Live SDK VS2008 Deep Dive WCF for .ASMX and Remoting Developers
3:15p Serious WebPart Customization Create Managed Code for Office 2007 in Visual Studio 2008 Introduction to C# 3.0 A Programmer’s Introduction to Expression Blend
4:30p Exploring the AJAX Control Toolkit Using and Extending the Typed DataSet and TableAdapter Introduction to the Entity Data Model Creating Custom Workflow Activities
Conference Day 2 — November 14
  ASP.NET LIVE! BEST PRACTICES LIVE! LINQ LIVE! .NET 3.0 LIVE!
9:00a Keynote: Take on Your Toughest Challenges with Visual Studio 2008
Sam Gazitt
10:30a Introduction to ASP.NET 2.0 Security Testing Web Applications with Visual Studio Team Suite (Orcas) C# 3.0 and LINQ Under-the-Hood Contracts with WCF
11:45a ASP.NET/Ajax/Silverlight - Which One to Use, and When? Serious Team Foundation Server Source Control Generate an Entire Web Site with Dynamic Data Controls (BLINQ)
Using Visual Studio and the Expression Suite to Build Great User Experiences
  Lunch
2:00p IIS 7 for Web Developers Create your own Configuration Management System Worshiping Linq to SQL (DLINQ): Is it Wrong? Building State Machine Workflows
3:15p Architecting ASP.NET Applications Managing Software Releases with Visual Studio Team System LINQ Provider Internals Best Practices for WCF
4:30p. Building Custom Providers VS Tools and Techniques for Distributed Data Access - Today and Tomorrow What Every Developer Should Know: Visual Basic 9.0 Putting it all together with .NET3.0: Presentation, Services and Workflows

Post-Conference Day — November 15
  WORKSHOPS
9:00a -
6:00p

Building Applications with Windows Work flow Foundation

Advanced C#: Moving up to LINQ, VS2008 and Framework 3.5