VSLive! Orlando 2008

Conference Agenda

Pre-Conference Workshops - Monday, May 12, 2008
	WORKSHOP
9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m	VPR1WPF and Silverlight: A Pragmatic Introduction	VPR2Windows Workflow: A Gentle Introduction	VPR3Making the Tough Choices: Selecting the Right Techniques

Conference Day 1 - Tuesday, May 13, 2008
	.NET DAY
8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.	Keynote: Breaking Through Development Challenges with Visual Studio 2008 - Jay Roxe
	ALM and Development Process	Tools and Languages	Web
9:45 - 11:00 a.m.	VM1A Lap around Visual Studio Team System 2008	VM2Visual Studio 2008: RAD for Today’s Line of Business Application Developer	VM3Building a Real-World Web Application with Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5
11:15 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.	VM4Improving Team Development	VM5Visual Studio 2008: Leveraging the Office Platform and Visual Studio 2008 to Build Office Business Applications	VM6Introduction to the New ASP.NET Model View Controller (MVC) Framework
2:00 - 3:15p.m.	VM7Build Better Software – Tools & Tips to Improve your Applications	VM8Visual Studio 2008: LINQ Deep Dive and Best Practices	VM9Developing Data-Driven Applications Using ASP.NET Dynamic Data Controls
3:30 - 4:45 p.m.	VM10Microsoft Visual Studio in Cross-Platform Environments	VM11Visual Studio 2008: WCF Tools Deep Dive	VM12Building Rich Internet Application using Microsoft Silverlight 2.0

Conference Day 2 - Wednesday, May 14, 2008
	ASP.NET Live!	Server System Live!	VSTS Live!	Core .NET Live!
8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.	Now That Longhorn's Here... How Did They Do? Mark Minasi
9:45 - 11:00 a.m.	VA1 What's New in Visual Studio 2008 for ASP.NET Developers?	VS2Useful Evolution: Programming the New Features in SQL Server 2008	VT3Mastering MSBuild	VC4Introduction to Silverlight Programming	VC5Using and Extending the Typed DataSet and TableAdapter
11:15 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.	VA6Working with Silverlight	VS7Top 10 T-SQL Features in SQL Server 2008	VT8Team Build 2008	VC9Lower Maintenance Costs While Increasing Productivity: LINQ Applied to an N-Tier World	VC10More Best Kept Secrets in .NET
12:30 - 2:30 p.m.	Lunch and Exhibit Hall Open
2:30 - 3:45 p.m.	VA11Securing User Identity Using Windows CardSpace	VS12Essential SharePoint Development	VT13De-Mystifying TFS Reporting	VC14Creating Custom WCF Behaviors	VC15VS Tools and Techniques for Distributed Data Access in VS 2008
4:00 - 5:15 p.m.	VA16Data-Driven ASP.NET AJAX	VS17SharePoint 2007 Forms and Workflow	VT18Load Testing Your ASP.NET Applications	VC19Investigating LINQ over XM	VC20Generics, Anonymous Methods, and Delegates
5:15 - 7:30 p.m.	Exhibit Hall Reception
7:45 p.m.	Midnight Madness

Conference Day 3 - Thursday, May 15, 2008
	ASP.NET Live!	Server System Live!	VSTS Live!	Core .NET Live!
8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.	VA21Introducing the ASP.NET MVC Framework	VS22Developing Office Business Applications: From the Client to Server and Beyond	VT23Managing Software Releases with Visual Studio Team System	VC24C# 3.0 Under-the-Hood: a Better C# (or C++) than C#?	VC25Data Enhancements in Visual Studio 2008
10:00 - 11:15 a.m.	VA26Exploring the AJAX Control Toolkit	VS27Excel and Excel Services as a BI Platform	VT28Efficient SCM with TFS - Best Practices	VC29Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF): Build a WPF Application in an Hour	VC30Creating Advanced Custom Windows Forms Controls
11:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.	VA31Win & Web App Installers with WiX	VS32Intro to PerformancePoint Server Monitoring and Analytics	VT33Build Better Applications with VSTS for Database Professionals	VC34LINQ to SQL (DLINQ) for ADO.NET Developers	VC35Embedding Presence in Your Applications
12:45 - 2:45 p.m.	Lunch and Exhibit Hall Open
2:45 - 4:00 p.m.	VA36Customizing the Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Framework	VS37SQL Server 2008 Reporting and Dashboards	VT38Serious Team Foundation Server Source Control	VC39Exposing Workflows as Services Through WCF	VC40Codeplex's Greatest Hits
4:15 - 5:30 p.m.	VA41Silverlight, SOA and Objects	VS42Service Development and Intergration with BizTalk	VT43Beyond VSTS 2008: Rosario	VC44Have It Your Way – REST and SOAP in WCF Solutions	VC45Doing Something Useful with Enterprise Library 3.0

Post-Conference Workshops - Friday, May 16, 2008
	WORKSHOP
9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m	VPO1SQL Server 2008 for Developers	VPO2Order from Chaos: Leveraging .NET 2.0 to 3.5	VPO3VSTS 2008 for the Busy Developer

Virtual Tracks:
= Black Belt Virtual Track
= Best Practices Virtual Track