Vista Live! / .NET 3.0

Vista Live!
Microsoft Vista is a major operating system release that will offer all Windows developers numerous opportunities and challenges over the next few years. Vista is the first operating system to ship with the .NET Framework (version 3.0), and it also includes other important features such as integrated peer-to-peer network support, speech recognition, a comprehensive RSS framework, a Windows Search API and the ability to create sidebar gadgets.

Another key benefit of Vista is its increased security and control; features which also offer challenges for developers. Applications may be impacted by the new security features, and well-behaved applications will need to run in limited user environments (UAC) and operate within other security restrictions. The Windows Vista track at VSLive! will address both the opportunities and challenges you will find when you move to Vista. You'll learn how to effectively do development in Vista, and how to build applications that run well in this new operating system.

.NET 3.0
With the arrival of .NET 3.0 last November, the .NET Framework has grown to include four new specialized technologies:

• Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) for replacing Web Services and Remoting services with a single managed code programming model that incorporates Security, Transactions and enhanced Performance.
• Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) for creating richer, more powerful presentation-tiers than are possible with Windows Forms or Web Forms.
• Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) for modeling and implementing business processes via a built-in infrastructure and runtime engine.
• Windows CardSpace for managing digital identities and providing a common user experience for doing so.

Each of these technologies run on top of .NET 2.0 (CLR and Framework libraries) on Windows Server 2003, Windows XP and Windows Vista. You can program against them with any .NET 2.0 Managed Language (such as C# 2.0 or VB2005), and leverage a great deal of what you already know about .NET when using them: you can even migrate some Services to WCF and some Windows Forms to WPF. And each of them presents powerful world-class alternatives to previously existing technologies (in the case of WCF and WPF), or powerful ways to address problems where no pre-existing technology is at hand (WF and CardSpace).

Our .NET 3.0 conference addresses each and offers the best talks and workshops to get you up and running with .NET 3.0 fast. You'll not only learn the technical details: you'll also learn the Best Practices that are already emerging from the .NET 3.0 Community.

Join us to learn the latest on .NET3.0 from some of the best developer/speakers in the industry.

Vista – .NET 3.0 Conference agenda
Vista session descriptions
.NET session descriptions

Rockford Lhotka & Richard Hale Shaw
Vista Live!/.NET 3.0 Conference Chairs

Richard Hale Shaw
Richard is the CEO of the Richard Hale Shaw Group, where he is a consultant, architect and lecturer who focuses on Managed Code development of distributed systems with the C# Language and the .NET Framework.

Richard is a Microsoft MVP for Visual C#, and since 2002, has been a member of the C# Customer Council: a group of hand-picked experts who consult to the C# Team at Microsoft regarding new features and new directions in the C# Programming Language.

In the Boston area, he’s also known as a budding jazz bassist with a deep love of the work of Miles Davis and John Coltrane.

You can reach him at: www.RichardHaleShawGroup.com.

Rockford Lhotka
Rockford Lhotka is the author of the Expert VB 2005 Business Objects and Expert C# 2005 Business Objects books from Apress. He is a contributing author for Visual Studio Magazine and he speaks at major conferences around the world. Rockford is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic Technologies, one of the nation's premiere Microsoft Gold Certified Partners.