Preliminary Agenda Announced

Sneak a Peek at the types of Sessions, Workshops and Events that will make up VSLive! Orlando
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May 14 Pre-Conference Workshops
9 a.m. -
6 p.m.
 VSTS for Everyone: Best Practices for the Whole Team Black-Belt session Build Distributed Object-Oriented Apps with .NET 2.0 Professional VB Development Agile Management

May 15 Conference Day 1: .NET Focus Day
Presented by Microsoft
9 a.m. Keynote: Visual Studio: The Next Generation Development Platform
10:30 a.m. Visual Basic 2005 Application Development Tips and Tricks
11:45 a.m. Visual Studio 2005 Team System:
Advanced Testing Techniques to Improve the Quality of Your Applications
12:45 p.m. Lunch
2 p.m. Delving into Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server
3:15 p.m. C++: IDE Features for VS 2005
4:30 p.m. Directions in Language Innovation: Language Integrated Query

May 16 Conference Day 2
9 a.m. Keynote: What Goes Into the Sausage:
Lessons from "the Factory Floor" on How Microsoft Does Software Engineering
Smart Client Live!
 ASP Live!
 SQL Live!
10:30 a.m. Client/Server Communication Options Building .NET Office Solutions Using Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005 Five Management Essentials with VSTS Black-Belt session ATLAS: Ajax-Style Development with ASP.NET 2.0 What’s So Good About SQL Server 2005 OLAP?
11:45 a.m. Keeping Secrets in .NET Applications Data Access Strategies and Tactics Best Practices for Creating ReUsable Managed Code Libraries Black-Belt session Attack & Defense Securing ASP.NET 2.0 Applications OLAP Application Development with ADO MD.NET: An API Smörgåsbord
12:45 p.m. Lunch
2 p.m. General Session
3:15 p.m. Advanced Object Data Binding Techniques Black-Belt session Plugging .NET Framework Gaps with WMI InfoCard: Ushering in the Identity Big Bang Membership Features in ASP.NET Reporting Innovations in SQL Server and Visual Studio 2005
4:30 p.m. Requirements Patterns with VSTS Black-Belt session Building in Manageability Inside ASP.NET 2.0 Security Features Tracking Users with the New Personalization Features in ASP.NET SQL Server Integration Services: Patterns and Practices for the Real World
5:45 p.m. Best Practices for Testing and Debugging Managed Code: VS 2005 & VSTS Black-Belt session .NET Worst Practices: What's Wrong With This Code?! Implement Rights Based Not Role Based Security in ASP.NET Trick Bag: ASP.NET Report Builder: The Unified Approach to Consuming Cubes and Relational Data
6:30 p.m. Exhibitor Reception
8:30 p.m. Midnight Madness

May 17 Conference Day 3
9 a.m. Keynote: Software Architecture on the Edge: Moving Beyond SOA
Smart Client Live!
 ASP Live!
 Bridging Web 2.0 to SOA
10:30 a.m. Basics of Control Creation with WPF TableAdapters 101 Implement .NET Object Mapping with Nhibernate Black-Belt session Large Scale ASP.NET Rendering and Enterprise Control Development Windows Live, Part 1
11:45 a.m. Smart Data for Windows Forms Exploiting System.
Transactions and ADO.NET 2 		Best Kept Secrets in VS 2005 and .NET Black-Belt session Asynchronous Pages and Tasks in ASP.NET 2.0 Windows Live, Part 2
Lunch
2 p.m. Keynote: Evolution of the Rich Web UI
Smart Client Live!
 ASP Live!
 Bridging Web 2.0 to SOA
3:15 p.m. Leveraging .NET 2.0 Security Features Black-Belt session Databinding Tasks in Windows Forms Master Pages and Themes Databinding in ASP.NET 2.0 Hot Topic
4:30 p.m. Avalon: Vector Graphics Come Alive Black-Belt session New Debugging Features for Visual Studio 2005 WebControl Enhancements in ASP.NET 2.0 CSS for the ASP.NET Developer Hot Topic


May 18 Post-Conference Workshops
9 a.m -
6 p.m.
 Advanced C#: Patterns and Practices in C# 2.0 and .NET 2.0 Black-Belt session Advanced Windows Forms Building Data Driven Solutions: Developing with ADO.NET 2.0 Increase Your Predictability of Success with Team System


This agenda is a peek at the selection of topics we’ll cover in Orlando and subject to further improvements as we add to our growing list of sessions, workshops and events.

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