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A Day of .NETSession Descriptions
The Next Generation Developer Tool
Visual Studio .NET Launch
Visual Studio .NET is the next generation of the world's most popular developer tools. And now the best part…it's shipping! Join Bill Gates and Anders Hejlsberg in a celebration of the availability of Visual Studio .NET. You'll see how it can be used to build the next generation of XML Web services and Windows and Web solutions, lean what's new in the .NET world and get a peek at what's coming. And you'll have some fun.
9 a.m.
Putting .NET to Work: Architecture and Best Practices
Rockford Lhotka, Magenic Technologies
Get ready for an exciting tour of the large and powerful .NET Framework. We'll discuss when to use Web Forms vs. Windows Forms, when to use Web services vs. Remoting, and how to minimize deployment costs while maximizing scalability to achieve high levels of code reuse. We'll focus specifically on practical issues related to architecting, designing and building applications with the .NET Framework.
2 p.m.
.NET and Data: What You Need to Know
Bill Vaughn, BetaV Corporation
Come and find out how .NET can help a COM-based ADO developer. We'll discuss the new ADO .NET Managed Providers included in the System.Data namespace provided with .NETand one that's not. We'll show you how ADO .NET helps create procedures to fetch and modify your datawith or without parameters. We'll demonstrate the construction of hierarchical result sets and how ADO .NET makes it easy to populate, navigate and update these data structures. We'll also discuss how Visual Studio can make development of .NET applicationsboth Windows Forms-based and Web-based. If you are a developer working with COM-based ADO and want an in-depth look at ADO .NEThow it's different, how it's the same and how to get the best performance from itthen this talk is for you.
3:10 p.m.
Web Services Applications
Yasser Shohoud, Deep Training
We'll go beyond the hype surrounding Web services and show you how to leverage them with practical applications. Assuming you already know the basics of Web services, we'll start by examining types of applications that could benefit from using Web services. We'll then examine an example application of each type including application integration, business-to-business integration, and content delivery. We'll spend a greater part of the hour examining working code to understand the techniques and challenges of applying Web services.
4:20 p.m.
Putting Visual Basic.NET to Work
Dan Appleman, Desaware
Visual Basic.NET and C# (and most .NET languages) are virtual equals - to learn to program in one is to learn to program in all. But Visual Basic. NET differs from the other languages in two important areas: its ability to migrate VB 6 code using the migration wizard, and its tight integration with the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace and traditional Basic keywords. Together we'll explore porting issues and answer your questions about the migration wizard and the code it produces. We'll discuss whether you should use the traditional VB keywords or .NET object methods; the traditional VB error handling or the new exception syntax; and decide what, if anything, needs to be done about Option Strict.
5:30 p.m.
Intro to C#
Brent Rector, Wise Owl Consulting
To introduce you to C#, we'll first concentrate on the differences between the different programming languages and demonstrate the new .NET features. For example, interface inheritance in the .NET world means something quite different than it does in COM. Memory and other resource management operate quite differently than in C/C++. The .NET runtime treats types that represent values quite differently than types that represent classes. We'll dive into all these issues and others to get you up to speed in C# as quickly as possible.
5:30 p.m.
Party at the Metreon
Visual Studio .NET is set to ship; time to have some fun! Celebrate from sunrise to sundownand beyondat VSLive! San Francisco, and join us at Microsoft's Visual Studio .NET Launch Party at Metreon. With an abundant amount of festive music and challenging games, cocktails and San Francisco's finest hors d'oeuvres, the Visual Studio .NET Launch Party is sure to be an adventure you don't want to miss!
8 p.m.
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