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Conference Agenda

 

Pre-Conference Workshops - Monday, December 8
  WORKSHOP
9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m DP1From Zero to Team System in 5 "Days" - Richard Hundhausen DP2A Day of HANDS-On LINQ: What You Need to Know to Leverage LINQ, XLINQ and DLINQ with .NET 3.5 / C# 3.0 - Richard Hale Shaw DP3SQL Server 2008 for Developers - Leonard Lobel
Conference Day 1 - Tuesday, December 9
8:30 - 9:30 a.m. KEYNOTE: Building the Infrastructure of Enterprise 2.0 - Rob Howard
9:45 - 11:00 a.m. DT1So Many Choices, So Little Time: Understanding Your .NET Data Access Options - Leonard Lobel DT2Cloud Computing for .NET Developers - Michael S. Jones DT3Developing a Provider-based Feature for ASP.NET 2.0 - Miguel Castro DT4Achieving Balance - Rockford Lhotka
11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. DT5Entity Framework 101 - John Papa DT6Bringing WCF and WF together using Workflow Services - Vishwas Lele DT7Team Foundation Server 2008 – Migrate or Integrate? - Richard Hundhausen
 DT8Introduction to ASP.NET Dynamic Data - Michiel van Otegem
12:30 - 1:45  Birds-of-a-Feather Lunch
1:45 - 3:00 p.m. DT9Applied Generics: Powerful Abstractions You Can Use for Major Re-Usability - Richard Hale Shaw DT10Build a Silverlight 2 Application in an Hour - Jesse Liberty DT11VS Tools and Techniques for Distributed Data Access in VS 2008 - Jackie Goldstein DT12Practical Use of Model View Presenter and .NET - John Papa
3:15 - 4:30 p.m. DT13Leveling the LINQ to XML Playing Field with LINQ to XSD - Leonard Lobel DT14Sexy Extensibility Patterns - Miguel Castro DT15Best and Worst Practices - SharePoint as an Application Development Architecture - David Walker DT16Real World ASP.Net MVC in one hour! - Gus Emery
4:45 - 6:00 p.m. DT17Behavior Driven Design -Raymond Lewallen DT18Using Windows Workflow Foundation to Build an Order Processing System - Robert Green DT19Building Applications using CSLA .NET - Rockford Lhotka DT20Make Your Build Work for You - Trent Nix
Evening Event: Texas .NET User Groups
Conference Day 2 - Wednesday, December 10
8:30 - 9:30 a.m. KEYNOTE: Simple Architectures for Complex Enterprises - Roger Sessions
9:45 - 11:00 a.m. DW1What's New in Visual Studio 2008 for ASP.NET Developers? - Ken Getz DW2Creating a Custom WPF DataProvider Control - Rockford Lhotka DW3Practical Use of System Transactions - John Papa DW4Agile Database Development - Richard Hundhausen
11:15 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. DW5Mixing WF and WCF - Miguel Castro DW6Silverlight Controls From Soup to Templates - Jesse Liberty DW7Building SharePoint Workflows with Visual Studio - Robert Green DW8Language-Oriented Domain-Driven Design - David Laribee
12:15 - 1:45 Lunch
1:45 - 3:00 p.m. DW9Programming the Office 2007 Open XML File Formats using LINQ to XML - Ken Getz DW10IronRuby and Silverlight, Like Peanut Butter and Chocolate - Josh Holmes DW11Building Effective Models with the Entity Framework - John Papa DW125 Things I Learned from Lean that Could Have Saved My Last Agile project - Scott Bellware
3:15 - 4:30 p.m. DW13Functional Re-Factoring: Leveraging Lambda Expressions and Generic Delegates to add Clarity and Grace to Your Code - Richard Hale Shaw DW14ASP.NET AJAX with Visual Studio 2008 - Caleb Jenkins DW15Adding Remote Authentication, Role Management and Profiles to Windows Applications - Robert Green DW16User Experience for Architects: No Longer Optional - Josh Holmes
4:45 - 6:00 p.m. DW17Practical Lean Software Development - David Laribee DW18Win & Web App Installers with WiX - Benjamin Day DW19Silverlight, SOA and Objects - Rockford Lhotka DW20ADO.NET 3.5 SP1 For Visual Studio and SQL Server Developers - William Vaughn
6:30 - 8:00 p.m. Evening Event: ALT.NET
Conference Day 3 - Thursday, December 11
8:15 -
9:30 a.m.		 DTH1Build a WPF Application in an Hour - Ken Getz DTH2SharePoint 2007 Content Types - Bill Wolff DTH3Implementing Caching Technology as One Rung of the Scalability Ladder - Josef Finsel DTH4Architect Applications End-to-End with LINQ to SQL - Benjamin Day
9:45 -
11:00 a.m.		 DTH5Better Application Design with Practical Loose Couplin - Caleb Jenkins DTH6Mashups from the Ground Up - Josh Holmes DTH7Visual Studio Reporting Technology and SQL Server 2008 - William Vaughn DTH8Building Applications with Windows Live SDK - Jackie Goldstein
11:15  a.m. -
12:30 p.m.		 VSLive! All-Stars Panel featuring: Bill Vaughn, Ken Getz and Scott Belware
12:30 -
1:45		 Lunch
1:45 -
3:00 p.m.		 DTH9Persistence Services and Windows Workflow Foundation - Ken Getz DTH10Best and Worst Practices for Building Silverlight Applications - Josh Holmes DTH11POX/REST Strategies with WCF - Michiel van Otegem DTH12Sync Services for ADO.NET - Optimizing Online, Enabling Offline - Jackie Goldstein

3:15 -
4:30 p.m.

 DTH13Custom Client Side Extenders with ASP.NET AJAX and Visual Studio 2008 - Caleb Jenkins DTH14Silverlight Design for Developers - Bill Wolff DTH15Scrum and Team System - Trent Nix DTH16Good Test, Better Code - Improving Design with Tests - Scott Bellware
4:45 -
6:00 p.m.		 DTH17Test Your ASP.NET Apps with VSTS Web Tests & Load Tests - Benjamin Day DTH18Understanding Transactions In WCF - Michiel van Otegem DTH19Leveraging the CLR in SQL Server Executables - William Vaughn DTH20Architecture in the Fast-Paced World - Todd Girvin