4 Intensive Full-Day Workshops

Choose from a broad range of content 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, Wednesday, April 13

Build a VB.NET Application in One Day
Ken Getz, MCW Technologies; Paul Sheriff, PDSA Inc.
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. 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.

Introduction to ASP.NET 2.0
Fritz Onion, Pluralsight
With more than 40 new server-side controls and many new pieces of Web infrastructure, ASP.NET 2.0 brings more new features than any Web development technology in recent memory. We'll offer an introduction to the new features of ASP.NET 2.0. Leave with a solid understanding of the new features in 2.0 and the preparation to make the right design and implementation choices when the switch to 2.0 is made.

Pre-requisites: some experience building Web applications with ASP.NET 1.1

Post-Conference Workshops, Saturday, April 16

Team-Based Development Using Team System
Brian Randell, MCW Technologies
Got team? If your team writes managed code in Visual Basic or C#, you'll want to check out the new Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System. You'll learn about the new Enterprise-level source code control features, how to track design issues, features requests, and -- yes -- bugs, with the new work item-tracking feature. You'll also learn about new testing features. Discover how the new SOA and Class designers help you design and write better solutions. In addition, we'll show you the new project tracking features and how they can be used to keep your solution on target. Naturally, this product is still in beta form, so we'll also talk about the options you have today from both Microsoft and the community to do tasks such as source code control, unit testing, and project management.