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.NET Focus Day
Monday, January 30
VSLive! starts with a full day brought to you by the Microsoft development team. With the release of Visual Studio 2005—one of the most significant releases in the history of the Developer Division—comes the opportunity to experience “personalized productivity”. Learn how to ease the development of Windows, Web, and Office solutions while reaching out to a wider variety of roles and skill-sets. Microsoft’s .NET Focus Day provides all attendees the fundamentals for getting the most out of succeeding VSLive! breakout sessions and events.
Database Application Development Using SQL Server Express
and Microsoft Visual Basic 2005
Jay Schmelzer, Microsoft
Do you want to start quickly developing WinForms-based database applications? Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Express is a great new combination that has many new features and tools to allow you to very quickly build “bread and butter” database applications. Rather than digging into any particular technology, this session walks you through the process of building a small, but representative application, introducing you to the tools and techniques you’ll use to be productive right from the beginning. This includes installing and administering the database with the Express Manager, designing and implementing DataSet-bound forms, and generating reports with SQL Server Reporting Services.
Windows Forms: An In-Depth Look at Windows Forms in Visual Studio 2005
Jay Roxe, Microsoft
Building professional looking applications with Windows Forms has been greatly simplified due to new Controls delivered in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. This session demonstrates how to customize the new Windows Forms ToolStrip, DataGridView and Layout components to build Outlook-, Money- and Messenger-looking applications. This session also takes an in-depth look at the new Windows Forms data features and demonstrates how to use these features to bind custom business objects to Windows Forms controls. In addition, see how you can leverage a new asynchronous component to build more responsive user interfaces. Finally, this session touches on Windows Forms enhancements targeted at making it easier to build localized applications.
.NET Framework 2.0: Being More Productive with the .NET Framework
Kit George , Microsoft
There is much more to development with the .NET Framework than the raw aspects of the technology. This session shows how to deal with common real-life hurdles, and how to effectively utilize the .NET Framework and Visual Studio, by presenting a set of tools, tips, tricks, best practices, utilities and ideas that can enhance your productivity significantly. This content-packed talk includes little known utilities, Visual Studio tips, Windows Forms techniques, thread management, interface factoring techniques and more (time permitting). All the techniques presented are used in real-life projects.
Enterprise-Class Version Control with Visual Studio Team System 
Michael Leworthy , Microsoft
Evolve from Source Safe and improve the predictability and reliability of delivering mission-critical solutions. This session covers using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System features focused on improving your source control including advanced SCC, integration with work items, branching, merging, promotion, access control and policies
Building Mission Critical Software
Ajay Sudan, Microsoft
Over the past decade, we have been witness to several spectacular software failures. In 1998, a division by zero error brought a Navy warship to a standstill. In 1999, the Mars Climate Orbiter was lost because the decision to use the Metric system versus the Imperial system was not communicated to the team.
These two examples illustrate the wide spectrum of ways an organization’s attempt to build robust and reliable software can be undermined. A miscalculation by a single developer can bring an entire ship to a stand still. The lifework of an accomplished team can be ruined because a simple decision was not communicated.
Visual Studio 2005 Team System was designed from the ground up to provide a collaborative environment to help teams communicate and work productively. This session will illustrate how each discipline, everyone from Project Managers, to Architects, to Developers and Testers benefits from technology designed to make them more productive, as well as technology that helps them work together.
VIRTUAL TRACKS
 Black Belt
Visual Studio Team System
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