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Keynote Presentations and General Sessions
Visual Studio 2005: More Power with Less Code Now
BJ Holtgrewe , Lead Product Manager for Visual Studio, Microsoft and Eric Lee, Product Manager, Visual Team System, MIcrosoft
Monday, October 10, 9 a.m.
  Explore all the new VS ’05 features, from language enhancements, improved designers, and smart-client development tools to Visual Studio Team System, a suite of software lifecycle management tools poised to transform how you deliver software. Learn how to improve your projects and save time with this watershed release.
BJ Holtgrewe is a lead product manager for Visual Studio® at Microsoft Corp. He is responsible for product planning and marketing for Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft® Office System. Holtgrewe came to Microsofts Developer Division after spending almost three years with Microsoft Research working in the Smart Personal Objects Technology Group. There he was involved in the creation of the MSN® Direct network and Smart Watches for MSN Direct. Before joining Microsoft Research, Holtgrewe was the senior product manager and technical evangelist for the Microsoft Business Tools Division, where he worked on MapPoint® business mapping software. Eric Lee graduated from the University of Windsor Ontario in 1998 and joined Microsoft shortly afterwards. He has spent his career at Microsoft as a tester, developer, and now product manager for the Developer Tools division. Eric previously held positions on the Windows Server 2003 team, where he contributed to Enterprise UDDI Services.
Next-Generation Database Application Development
Bill Baker, GM of SQL Server Business Intelligence, Microsoft
Tuesday, October 11, 9 a.m.
 Learn how SQL Server 2005 will change the way you build and deploy reliable, high-performance data-driven applications. This keynote will provide an overview of key technologies and innovations for application development such as the deep integration with Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET framework; native support for standards such as Web Service and XML; powerful sub-systems for guaranteed message delivery and caching; and rich support for data integration and reporting.
Bill Baker heads the Business Intelligence Unit within the SQL Server product development group. His team designs and develops SQL Server Integration Services, SQL Server Analysis Services, SQL Server Reporting Services and the SQL Server Administration tools. He joined Microsoft in 1996. Bill has managed the Internet Application Server Group with responsibility for the Internet Information Server, Active Server Pages, ODBC and OLE DB and the Component Object Model (COM) including the Microsoft Transaction Server.
Introducing the Windows Communication Foundation
Richard Turner, Web Services Strategy, Microsoft
Wednesday, October 12, 9 a.m.
 The Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), formerly known as “Indigo,” is Microsoft’s unified framework for building service-oriented applications. It enables developers to build secure, reliable, transacted solutions that integrate across platforms and interoperate with existing investments. WCF combines and extends the capabilities of existing distributed systems technologies, including Enterprise Services, System.Messaging, .NET Remoting, ASMX, and WSE to deliver a unified development experience spanning distance, topologies, hosting models, protocols, and security models. This keynote will provide an overview of WCF and show you how WCF will radically simplify the development of distributed applications.
Richard Turner is program manager in Microsoft's Distributed Technologies Group -- the team responsible for COM+ & .NET EnterpriseServices, MSMQ & .NET System.Messaging, .NET Web Services (ASMX), .NET Remoting, and Windows Communication Foundation. Richard spends a great deal of his time talking to customers about Microsoft's distributed systems technologies and providing guidance and assistance in how to best use these technologies in order to smooth the path to WCF in the future. Prior to moving to Redmond in January 2003, Richard was a Principal Consultant in Microsoft UK and was involved in a number of projects including the implementation of the UK Government Gateway as well as helping customers make best use of Microsoft's enterprise technologies such as COM+ and SQL Server.
ASP.NET 2.0 and Sql Server '05 on 64 Bits: AN MSDN Case Study
Larry Jordan, Development Manager, Microsoft.com Application Team
Wednesday, October 12, 2 p.m.
 MSDN is the critical resource for developers working with Microsoft tools and products. We'll demonstrate the new MSDN website which been newly architected to offer superior scale and productivity for developers. The MSDN team bet huge on 64 bit Windows Server 2003, SQL Server 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0 and the launch will be coordinated with the release of Visual Studio 2005 family of products. The new site and library will be 100 percent data driven based on SQL Server 2005 and we will be demonstrating our latest Web Services interfaces and diving deep into other details of the system.
Larry Jordan is the development manager for the MSDN and TechNet websites and core Microsoft.com infrastructure. His team is responsible for site-wide applications consisting of rendering, personalization and large volume technical publishing for Microsoft’s Developer and IT Professional audiences. He considers himself a customer of Microsoft products and is dedicated to improving Microsoft enterprise applications in one the world’s most demanding IT environments.
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