Audiocasts & Webcasts
Watch and listen to industry experts discuss hot IT topics.

Achieving Reliability in a Services World As SOA continues to soar in popularity, preventing epic failures of essential systems becomes increasingly challenging. Find out how you can write and test air-tight error-handling code that will make these pitfalls a thing of the past. FTPOnline and Compuware, February 15, 2005 See the slides and listen to the audio

Service Orchestration — Cornerstone for Building Service-Oriented Architecture Service-oriented architecture is rapidly becoming the cornerstone for enterprise infrastructure. Learn how leading IT organizations are switching to SOA to help cut costs and increase responsiveness. FTPOnline and Oracle, December 16, 2004 See the slides and listen to the audio

10 Ways to More Effectively Secure Active Directory Now more than ever, the security-conscious organization must lock down Active Directory to address both internal and external threats. This presentation will give you the tips you need to achieve higher levels of security in your day-to-day Active Directory operations. FTPOnline and NetIQ, August 26, 2004 See the slides and listen to the audio

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John deVadoss Solutions Architect and Director of Microsoft's Solutions Architecture Team
	Best Practices for SOA In his keynote at VSLive! Orlando, John deVadoss explored SOA design challenges and best practices you can use when building your own service-oriented architectures. September 15, 2004 Watch the video

Brian Randell Senior Consultant, MCW Technologies

New Tools in Visual Studio 2005 Team System In his Visual Studio 2005 Team System session at VSLive! Orlando, Brian Randell introduced VSTS's new tools and demonstrated how you can use them to build service-oriented solutions. September 15, 2004 See the slides and listen to the audio

Rockford Lhotka Principal Technology Evangelist, Magenic Technologies

Team-Based Dev Tools and Techniques In his session at VSLive! Orlando, Rocky Lhotka showed how you can use various Microsoft Application Blocks, open source software, and other tools for team-based development. September 15, 2004 See the slides and listen to the audio

Walt Ritscher Scandiasoft

What's New in VS 2005 Forms In his two-part session at VSLive! Orlando, Walt Ritscher covered new controls and features in .NET Framework 2.0 that will support dynamic layout, more powerful data binding, and richer editing and formatting. September 15, 2004 See the slides and listen to the audio

Mike Hernandez, Rockford Lhotka, Steve Lasker, Don Kiely, Billy Hollis, and Andrew Brust
	Panelists Discuss Yukon Pros & Cons In this panel discussion at VSLive! Orlando, participants consider Yukon's features and answer questions about the importance of a fully programmable database, Yukon Service Broker in comparison to Indigo, and more. September 14, 2004 Watch the video

S. "Soma" Somasegar Corporate VP, Microsoft Developer Division
	The Future of Microsoft Development Tools At his VSLive! Orlando keynote, Microsoft's S. Somasegar introduced Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition and presented the company's roadmap for its developer tools. September 13, 2004 Watch the video

Dave Mendlen Director of Web Services Technical Marketing, Microsoft Developer Platform and Evangelism Division
	Connected Systems and Service Orientation Web services is one of the core technologies impacting development of SOAs. Microsoft's Dave Mendlen explains how Microsoft views service orientation and how you can get started with it. He also gives a sneak preview of Indigo. September 13, 2004 Watch the video

Stephanie Saad Visual Studio Program Manager, Microsoft
	The Microsoft Developer Platform Today and Tomorrow During S. Somasegar's keynote at VSLive! Orlando, Microsoft's Stephanie Saad demonstrated Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition's no-reg COM wrapper feature. September 13, 2004 Watch the video

Bill Gates Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect
	Gates' Visual Studio 2005 Vision "Seamless Computing" theme stresses VS.NET integration with mobile devices and Speech Server 2004. March 24, 2004 Watch the video

Chris Anderson Architect, Microsoft Windows Client Platform
	Whidbey Beefs Up Mobile Development Chris Anderson gives a peek into upcoming Visual Studio 2005 features for devices. March 25, 2004 Watch the video

Bill Baker General Manager, Business Intelligence, Microsoft SQL Server Business Group
	Use BI in Your Apps for Fun and Profit Bill Baker outlines SQL Server 2005's Business Intelligence features. March 26, 2004 Watch the video

Pat Helland Architect, Microsoft .NET Enterprise Architecture Team
	IT Trends and Industrial Evolution Pat Helland compares current IT operations to past processes and human behavior patterns. March 26, 2004 Watch the video

Amanda Silver Program Manager, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Team
	Advanced Language Features in VB Whidbey Learn the ins and outs of Generics, operator overloading, and more.   March 26, 2004 Watch the video

Rob Howard Program Manager, Microsoft ASP.NET Team
	Building ASP.NET Web Applications Whidbey enables rapid construction of dynamic Web applications. March 25, 2004 Watch the video

Steve Lasker Program Manager, Microsoft Visual Studio Team
	Data Access and XML From 2- to N-Tier Whidbey helps you perform data access tasks in fewer steps and fewer lines of code. March 25, 2004 Watch the video