Middleware Summit
Windows Communication Foundation ("Indigo") Day

You’ve heard the buzz about “Indigo,” Microsoft’s unified programming model for building distributed applications. Now here’s your chance to get the goods straight from the source. Sessions following a dynamic all-conference keynote will include:

A Lap Around the Windows Communication Foundation (“Indigo”)
Ami Vora, Microsoft
Windows Communications Foundation (WCF, formerly codenamed “Indigo”) is Microsoft’s new platform technology for building distributed applications, bringing the best of ASP.NET Web Services, .NET Remoting, Enterprise Services, WSE, and System.Messaging into one unified framework. This session introduces the core concepts in the WCF programming model. A must-see introduction to WCF!

Building Peer-to-Peer Apps Using WCF
Ravi Rao and Ram Pamulapati
The WCF (formerly codenamed “Indigo”) provides everything you need to rapidly develop scalable P2P solutions. This session demonstrates sample P2P applications and shows how they are built using the new PeerChannel feature of WCF. You’ll leave the session with an understanding of the different types of P2P applications, how to build P2P apps, and the P2P features provided by WCF.

Building Secure Distributed Applications with WCF
Richard Turner , Microsoft
Do you need to incorporate authentication and authorization into your Web Services?  Do you wonder when to use transport vs. message security? Come to this session to hear about the security features built into the WCF (formerly codenamed “Indigo”). This session covers Internet, intranet and federated security scenarios, discusses the relative merits of different token types and shows how to get great security and good performance, and much more.

WCF for ASP.NET Developers
Steve Maine , Microsoft
Come and see how WCF integrates with today’s ASP.NET applications and can help you build the web-based applications of tomorrow. Topics such as hosting, REST and AJAX will be discussed as they relate to WCF and ASP.NET. The rich flexibility of WCF will be explained and demonstrated in this talk, which will show the power of WCF to handle the latest technologies and integrate into the web-based application space. Today’s ASP.NET developers looking to code the next generation of web applications should consider this a must see.

What’s New in Web Services Enhancements 3.0 (WSE)
Param Shodjai , Microsoft
Want to get on the fast track to building WCF applications? WSE 3.0 is a supported add-on to Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0 that enables developers to build secure Web services based on the latest Web services protocol specifications and standards.  In this session, you’ll learn how to build Web services that incorporate end-to-end message-based security.  We’ll drill into security, policy, addressing, transport independence, new support for MTOM-based attachments and more.