Conference Overview

An at-a-glance view of the sessions, workshops and events that will make up VSLive! Toronto

Apr 24	Pre-Conference Workshops
9 a.m. - 6 p.m.	Advanced Windows Forms	Professional VB.NET Development	Increase Your Predictability of Success with Team System	Advanced C#: Patterns and Practices in C# 2.0 and .NET 2.0

Apr 25	Conference Day 1: .NET Focus Day Presented by Microsoft
9 a.m.	Keynote: Developing with Microsoft Tools: Past, Present and Future
10:30 a.m.	Integrate VSTS & TFS into Your Software Development Process
11:45 a.m.	Threat Modeling
12:45 p.m.	Lunch
2 p.m.	Enterprise-Class Version Control with Visual Studio Team System
3:15 p.m.	Lap Around Visual Studio 2005
4:30 p.m.	Biz Talk for Developers

Apr 26	Conference Day 2
9 a.m.	Keynote: The Future of Programming Languages
	Smart Client Live!		ASP Live!		SQL Live!
10:30 a.m.	Build a Smart Client Construction Kit	Smart Data Clients 2.0	Best Practices for Testing and Debugging Managed Code with VS2005 Team System	ASP.NET Security Features	Developing with SQL Server 2005
11:45 a.m.	Building in Manageability	Windows Forms Tips and Tricks	Make the Most of Master Pages	Async Triple Threat — ASP.NET 2.0 Async APIs, Atlas and AJAX	SQL Reporting Services
12:45 p.m.	Lunch
2 p.m.	Hard Core Coding with ADO.NET 2.0	Table Adapters 101	Debugging with Visual Studio 2005	Using Enterprise Library with ASP.NET	Managed Code in SQL
3:15 p.m.	Building .NET Office Solutions Using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office	Avalon: Vector Graphics Come Alive	Designing Scalable Web Applications	ASP.NET Profiles	Exploring T-SQL in SQL Server
4:30 p.m.	Creating Custom Windows Forms Controls	Composite Smart Client Design	Extending Microsoft p&p ObjectBuilder	SharePoint for Developers Overview	Using SQL Service Broker
5:30 p.m.	Exhibitor Reception

Apr 27	Conference Day 3
9 a.m.	General Session: Expert Panel Answers Your Questions
	Smart Client Live!		ASP Live!
10:30 a.m.	Threading in Windows Forms	Occasionally Connected Smart Clients	Membership Features in ASP.NET 2.0	Windows Workflow and ASP.NET
11:45 a.m.	Adding Reliability with Message Queuing	Advanced Custom Windows Forms Controls	In-depth Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX/GAT)	Thousands of Users, Personalized Service – Portals and Web Parts in ASP.NET 2.0
12:45 p.m.	Lunch
2 p.m.	Click-Once Deployment — Beyond the Basics	Generics for Application Developers	ASP.NET Databinding	Cryptography 101 for ASP.NET
3:15 p.m.	Best Practices for Creating ReUsable Managed Code Libraries	Effective Data Caching	CSS for the ASP.NET Developer	Great New "Concealed" Features of ASP.NET 2.0
4:30 p.m.	Windows Forms Developers Guide to WPF	Advancements in Data Access	Configuration Files for ASP.NET 2.0	A Lap Around Virtual Earth & MapPoint: Building Next Generation Mapping and Location-Aware Solutions