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Pre-Conference Workshops - Monday, October 13

	WORKSHOP
9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m	VLP1SQL Server 2008 for Developers	VLP2WPF and Silverlight: A Pragmatic Introduction	VLP3Order from Chaos: Leveraging .NET 2.0 to 3.5

Conference Day 1 - Tuesday, October 14

	Web Development	Rich Clients	ALM	Data Access
8:00 - 9:15 a.m.	KEYNOTE: How Microsoft uses Visual Studio Team System - Stephanie Saad
9:30 -10:45 a.m.	VLT1Test Driven Development with ASP.NET MVC	VLT2Creating Business Applications in WPF and SilverLight	VLT3Beyond VSTS 2008: Rosario	VLT4Implementing the Entity Framework in Existing Applications
11:00  a.m. - 12:15 p.m.	VLT5Real World ASP.Net MVC in one hour!	VLT6Tricks, Traps, and Techniques in Migrating VB6 Applications to .NET	VLT7Team Foundation Server Customization	VLT8Introduction to the Entity Data Model
12:15 - 2:15	Birds-of-a-Feather Lunch & Exhibit Hall
2:30 - 3:45 p.m.	VLT9 Deep dive into the ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel	VLT10WPF Meets the iPhone Interface	VLT11De-mystifying TFS Reporting	VLT12Investigating LINQ to XML
4:00 - 5:15 p.m.	VLT13What's New in Visual Studio 2008 for ASP.NET Developers?	VLT14"How did you do that?": Surprising Windows Forms Techniques	VLT15Load Testing Your ASP.NET Applications	VLT16Entity Data for Multiple Applications
5:15 - 7:30 p.m.	Exhibit Hall Reception

Conference Day 2 - Wednesday, October 15

	Web Development	Rich Clients	ALM	Data Access
8:00 - 9:15 a.m.	VLW1Jumpstart Your Web Site with ASP.NET Dynamic Data	VLW2Build a WPF Application in an Hour	VLW3Team Foundation Server Work Item Tracking Use and Customization	VLW4Linqing to Data
9:30 -10:45 a.m.	VLW5Data-Driven ASP.NET Ajax	VLW6Win & Web App Installers with WiX	VLW7Enhancing Team System through Add-Ons, Add-Ins, and other Widgets	VLW8Super-Optimized Microsoft LINQ: Indexed Objects
11:00  a.m. - 12:15 p.m.	VLW9Creating a custom ASP.NET DataSource Control	VLW10Custom Control for Silverlight 2.0	VLW11Managing Software Releases with Visual Studio Team System	VLW12Queryable Data Services
12:15 - 1:45	Lunch and Exhibit Hall
1:45 - 3:00 p.m.	KEYNOTE: MVC and Dynamic Data - Scott Hanselman, Senior Program Manager Developer Division, Microsoft Corporation
3:15 - 4:30 p.m.	VLW13Distributed Caching for ASP.NET Applications	VLW14WPF Data-Binding Tidbits	VLW15Test Driven Development	VLW16LINQ Under-the-Hood: the Whys and Whens of rolling-your-own LINQ Query Provider
4:45 - 6:00 p.m.	VLW1710 Secrets of Creating Real World Dynamic Data Applications	VLW18Styling Your UI – WPF Styles and Templates	VLW19Efficient Branching Strategies (BP)	VLW20Useful Evolution: Programming the New Features in SQL Server 2008

Conference Day 3 - Thursday, October 16

	Web Development	Rich Clients	ALM	Core.NET
8:15 - 9:30 a.m.	VLTH1Tips and Tricks to Customize ASP.NET Dynamic Data App	VLTH2Managing Data with SilverLight	VLTH3Using TeamBuild in the "Real" World	VLTH4F#: The Business Case
9:45 - 11:00 a.m.	VLTH5Best Practices in ASP.NET 2.0/3.5: Defending Yourself From Worst Practices	VLTH6Creating a Custom WPF DataProvider Control	VLTH7Managing Change with Visual Studio Team System	VLTH8Implementing RESTful Services With Windows Communication Foundation 3.5
11:15  a.m. - 12:30 p.m.	Panel Discussion
12:30 - 1:45	Lunch
1:45 - 3:00 p.m.	VLTH9The Zen of ASP.NET and MVC	VLTH10Silverlight, SOA, and Objects	VLTH11Implementing X-Language Builds in a Microsoft TFS environment	VLTH12Functional Re-Factoring: Leveraging Lambda Expressions and Generic Delegates to Add Clarity and Grace to Your Code
3:15 - 4:30 p.m.	VLTH13Internet Explorer 8 and its Impact on Your ASP.NET Web Sites	VLTH14Spice Up User Experience With Silverlight 2.0	VLTH15Team Foundation Server 2008 – Migrate or Integrate?	VLTH16Applied Generics: Powerful Abstractions You Can Use for Major Re-Usability
4:45 - 6:00 p.m.	VLTH17Extending IIS 7 with HttpModules and HttpHandlers - Robert Boedigheimer	VLTH18LOB 2.0 with Silverlight and AJAX	VLTH19Programming Team Foundation Server: Advanced	VLTH20Open Source Tools Every .NET Developer Should Use

Hands-on Workshop - Friday, October 17

	WORKSHOP
9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m	VLHWA Day of HANDS-On LINQ: What You Need to Know to Leverage LINQ, XLINQ and DLINQ with .NET 3.5 / C# 3.0