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Learn how to ease the development of Windows, Web, and Office solutions while reaching out to a wider variety of roles and skill-sets. Microsoft’s Focus Day provides all attendees the fundamentals for getting the most out of succeeding VSLive! breakout sessions and events.
KEYNOTE: Windows Vista, the 2007 Office system, and ASP.NET AJAX
Prashant Sridharan
9:00 a.m.
Windows Vista and the 2007 Office system provide a wealth of new capabilities that enable you to build dynamic solutions more productively. ASP.NET AJAX helps you create compelling Web sites with a richer and more interactive user experience. Accompanying these updates to the Microsoft application platform are a number of developer tools for building a breadth of Windows, Web, and business solutions on a secure and dependable environment. This keynote will provide you with an overview of these latest advances for building these applications, and the tools for helping you become more productive and achieve better results faster. In addition, you’ll learn about the next release of Visual Studio, code-named “Orcas”, and how it will further improve the development experience.
Windows Vista Overview for Developers
Nima Dilmaghani
10:30 a.m.
Windows Vista provides a wealth of new user experiences that enable users to have greater confidence in their PCs, clear ways to work with information, and more options for connecting to applications, people and data. In this session, we'll review our Top 10 list of developer calls to action by walking through several out-of-the-box experiences and illustrating how you can provide similar experiences in your applications.
Real World SOA using WCF and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)
Paul Andrew
11:45 a.m.
Welcome to the world of Service Oriented Architecture. SOA isn’t new but represents a substantial shift in how we build our applications. Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) radically change the face of distributed programming for developers using the Microsoft® .NET Framework. WCF unifies the existing suite of .NET distributed technologies into a single programming model that improves the overall developer experience through a consistent architecture, new levels of functionality and interoperability, and all the extensibility points you could want. But the real world is about workflow as well. Windows Workflow is the new programming model for building workflow enabled applications. This session is about building real world applications that both include WCF and WF.
Windows Vista for Managed Code Developers: Beyond .NET Framework 3.0
Nima Dilmaghani
2:00 p.m.
Windows Vista brings with it a fantastic platform for managed development, namely .NET Framework 3.0. However, there are many new native APIs outside of the .NET Framework in Windows Vista. In this session, you'll discover how managed code developers can take advantage of this new functionality. This demo-driven session, will teach you how to make your application feel like a real extension to the Windows Vista platform and not just a ported application that just runs on it.
Growing Your Business Using Office as a Development Platform
Steven Fox
3:15 p.m.
Microsoft Office is the leading suite of productivity tools for information workers and Microsoft Visual Studio is the leading toolset of choice for a vast majority of developers. Given the wide distribution of Microsoft Office, there are tremendous opportunities to build applications for your customers that leverage their investment. This session introduces you to the overall Office development story, and you'll learn about some of the new features the 2007 Office system provides that enables developers to build people-ready business applications. The session then focuses on using Visual Studio Tools for Office to combine the benefits and advantages of the Visual Studio development environment and the robust features of Microsoft Office to create intuitive, scalable line of business solutions for your customers.
An Overview of Database Development using Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals, Introductory
Duncan Davenport
4:30 p.m.
Learn how you can use Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals to manage a full product life cycle for database development. This session is a sprint through the product feature set.
Maximum Performance: ASP.NET + Team System Test Edition
Brian Randell
5:45 p.m.
Nothing's more depressing than building a wonderful, data-driven, dynamic web application and having it crash and burn when it moves from your workstation to production. Don't be one of the sad ones, come to this session and learn ASP.NET performance tricks to make your site run faster. Then learn how to use the rich load testing tools in Visual Studio Team Edition for Testers to beat it up in private so you work out the kinks before you embarrass yourself and your team in public.
