Full Day Workshops

Choose from a broad range of content and topics by expert presenters. VSLive!’s pre-conference workshops give you more technical content than most development conferences’ entire programs.

Pre-Conference Workshops

Sunday, September 7

VP1VSTS 2008 for the Busy Developer
Brian Randell
9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Sunday, September 7
For what was going to be a minor release, Visual Studio Team System 2008 and Team Foundation Server 2008 turned out to be much more. In this workshop you’ll learn how to upgrade your clients and server to the new 2008 release. More importantly, you’ll learn why you should upgrade as well as the possible issues you might have. You’ll learn about all the new VSTS specific enhancements by designing and building a simple solution that highlights the best practices for using Team System. You’ll learn about server changes like the totally revamped Build Server, enhanced version control features, and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 integration. You’ll see how new profiling features, integrated AJAX recording, and top-down system design can help you build better distributed solutions. By the end of the feature packed day you’ll be ready to return to work and get busy with Team System 2008.

VP2Order from Chaos: Leveraging .NET 2.0 to 3.5
Rockford Lhotka
9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Sunday, September 7
At a time when many people are just moving to .NET 2.0, Microsoft has released .NET 3.0 and 3.5. The rate of technology change is outstripping our ability to keep up. How do you find order in all this chaos?

Join author and .NET expert Rockford Lhotka for answers. In this workshop you will learn how all the parts fit together, and how you can leverage them as you are ready over time. Whether you are using .NET 2.0, 3.0 or 3.5 today, this workshop will help you be more productive and create better applications in .NET.

Learn how to achieve high levels of reuse and maintainability for Windows Forms, Web Forms, WPF and Silverlight applications. Find out how to leverage SOA and Workflow, without abandoning the performance and simplicity of n-tier or client/server concepts. This workshop will give you an architecture and design model, along with programming techniques, that will make order out of chaos.

VP3Windows Workflow: A Gentle Introduction
9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Sunday, September 7
Ken Getz & Robert Green
Windows Workflow makes it possible to incorporate workflow behaviors into your own applications, without needing to provide your own infrastructure and "plumbing". This workshop introduces the basics of Windows Workflow, and demonstrates how to create, debug, and host workflows within your applications. Using the workflow extensions for Visual Studio 2005, you’ll learn how to take advantage of Windows Workflow, create new workflow activities, react to events, and host the workflows. If you’re interested in adopting this powerful new technology, you need to attend this workshop.