Immerse Yourself in Focused Real World .NET Development at VSLive!

No matter what the economic situation, attending an annual conference is a major part of a developer’s job. In an industry that changes constantly, only in-person conferences provide up-to-the-second information from industry experts that you need to sharpen your skills and stay competitive.

And as one of the longest running and best known developer conferences in the United States, VSLive! is uniquely positioned to provide you with a blend of practical, pragmatic and immediately applicable knowledge and a glimpse of the future of technology.

Over four action-packed days, VSLive! Orlando will give you the information, education and solutions you seek. Expect in-depth pre-conference workshops, breakout sessions by expert instructors, keynotes by industry heavyweights, enhanced networking opportunities, and more.

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Web

Everything specific to ASP.NET programming, from old to new, is covered here. Whether your interest is classic Web Forms, utilitarian AJAX programming with jQuery, or the new MVC Framework, our Web track has it all covered. We’ll even cover advanced topics and iPhone development!

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Smart Client

VSLive! attendees know that rumors of the desktop application’s demise aren’t just exaggerated, they’re downright inaccurate. Whether you’re working in Windows Forms, moving to WPF or planning to support both, this track has your back. You’ll see general coverage of both Windows Forms and WPF, transitioning from one to the other, applying the MVVM design pattern to each one (not to mention Silverlight), and ClickOnce coverage that’s relevant to both.

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Office

As Microsoft Office matures, its roles and platform capabilities increase. Our Office track will cover workflow with SharePoint, Business Intelligence with Excel, working with Office Open XML file formats and more.

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Futures

You come to VSLive! to learn how to work with today’s technologies more effectively. But you also come for expert briefings and presentations on what’s in the Microsoft technology pipeline. Our Futures track provides that crucial intelligence report on the next versions of Visual Studio, Silverlight, the .NET Framework (including WCF, WF and data access), C# 4, VB 10, and Oslo, Microsoft’s upcoming modeling framework.

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Broader World

While the Microsoft technology platform is compelling, there’s a broader world out there, with important concepts and technologies. This track provides a window into some aspects of that broader world, covering non-technical concepts such as process and working with consulting companies, as well as non-Microsoft technologies such as Facebook. This track includes the following topics:

• Agile/XP
• Building Facebook apps
• Working with consulting firms
• Using the powerful memcache technology

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Cloud Computing

Many people believe the future of application development is in the cloud. Cloud computing offers flexible scalability and may provide a less expensive way to host many applications. Microsoft has introduced Windows Azure as their platform for cloud computing, and has many other technologies that also work well in a cloud computing environment. Even if you aren’t ready for Azure today, you owe it to yourself to become familiar with cloud computing! This track includes coverage of the following:

• Windows Azure
• Windows Azure data services
• .NET Services (including the .NET service bus)
• SQL Data Services

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Data Management

The Microsoft platform is rich with data related technologies. This track focuses on some of the most important data related technologies. The information in these sessions will enable you to manage your data for Windows, Web and Cloud computing applications. This track covers the following technologies:

• SQL Server 2008
• MySQL and SQL Server
• Sync services
• ADO.NET Entity Framework
• ADO.NET Data Services

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Connected Systems

These sessions cover the entire spectrum of using and building WCF services as the basis for your SOA and workflow-oriented infrastructure. We’ll cover both SOAP and REST services, and support of REST in WCF, starting with the basics of working with WCF and diving deep into service design, workflow integration and other advanced topics.

• WS-* Services
• REST Services
• Windows Workflow Foundation
• SOA Development

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Silverlight

Is Silverlight a digital media delivery platform, a Web development environment or a line of business rich client toolkit? It’s all of the above and more, and that’s why it gets its own track at VSLive! Orlando. We’ll give the intro material you need to get going, cover the basics of controls and animations, look at design techniques and then move right into hardcore app dev topics like data binding and doing Silverlight development with the CSLA .NET Framework.

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