4 Intensive Full-Day Workshops

Choose from a broad range of topics by expert presenters. VSLive!?s pre- and post-conference workshops give you more technical content than most development conferences? entire programs.

Pre-Conference Workshops ? May 4

Build a .NET App in One Day
Ken Getz and Brian Randell
The .NET platform provides a number of different opportunities for distributed application development. From Web Services, ADO .NET, ASP.NET, to Windows Forms, and COM interoperability, .NET development has lots of facets. In this workshop, you?ll see an application built from the ground up, taking advantage of many of the .NET features with explanations of the features and the application as it?s built. By the end of the day, you?ll have a working application to which you can add your own functionality, and you?ll have a good grasp of much of the excitement surrounding Visual Studio .NET and its associated technologies.

ASP.NET Jumpstart
Rockford Lhotka
ASP.NET and Web Forms move server-side Web development to a whole new level. Attend this full-day seminar and you will learn how to construct ASP.NET pages using both text editors and Visual Studio .NET. You?ll learn how to work with common UI elements in Web Forms, including HTML tags, and advanced Web Forms controls such as the Repeater and DataGrid. We?ll explore the basics of retrieving and updating data using ADO.NET, and see how data binding can dramatically simplify the code in your pages. We will also cover the infrastructure and framework behind ASP.NET, including the basic compilation model, the runtime model, security and deployment. In short, this workshop will take you from zero to productive in one day.

Post-Conference Workshops ? May 7

C# as a Better C++: A Tutorial for C++, COM and VB 6 Developers
Richard Hale Shaw
The vast majority of Windows developers using C++, COM and VB 6 remain unaware of the superiority of the .NET Framework over COM and raw Windows, and the productivity gains of C# as development language for implementing N-tiered and desktop applications, and components. In this 1-day tutorial, we'll explore the features of the C# language from the perspective of a seasoned Windows/C++/COM developer. We'll start by examining C#'s program structure and elegant syntax, and investigate the role of rich type information (metadata) in creating more robust programs. Next, we'll delve into C# and .NET support for leveraging existing DLLs and COM servers, and the performance differences between COM and .NET. You'll even learn how to build new COM objects using C#. We'll examine the underlying Intermediate Language code, and appraise the C#-.NET exception-handling model; and even learn why Debugging C# is a Joy ? and not a chore.

Architecture and Design for .NET
Keith Pleas and Billy Hollis
This workshop starts with an application architecture framework and then drills down into specific .NET designs and implementations. Using design patterns, you will learn how to build a user process that targets both Web and Windows Forms, adapt N-tier designs for distributed smart clients, and distribute data with the client. You?ll also learn techniques for encapsulating and re-using code, building a data access layer, error handling strategies, and instrumenting applications for management and control.

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