The EMEA team are hosting some of the most popular talks we've given over the past while as webcasts. Topics included are Martin Woodward’s very popular ‘Source Control with Team Foundation Server’, Rob’s favourite: Avalon as well as Kieran’s overview of Atlas and Johan’s session on creating Windows Forms withVisual Basic 2005 – a follow-on to the VB Product Team tour. If you missed any of the recent live events covering these topics - this is an excellent opportunity to hear the content again and get any further questions answered.
Check out this link for the full details (expand the paragraphs for session abstracts, bios and lovely speaker pics! :). By the way, if you can’t get to the Live Meetings themselves, check back after the event and the recordings should be there! Note that the event times on the page itself are in CET not GMT.
Sessions:
Kieran Lynam - A Lap around Atlas - June 20th, 3:00pm - 4:30pm GMT
Session description:
ASP.NET "Atlas" is a framework for building next generation, cross-platform, browsing experiences.
The webcast will show how easy it is to create highly responsive, client-centric AJAX-style Web applications using "Atlas". Also, learn about "Atlas" controls on the server-side; and the "Atlas" modern object-oriented library on the client.
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Martin Woodward – Source Control with Team Foundation Server – June 22nd, 3pm-4:30pm GMT
Session description:
In this session, Martin explains version control using Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, how this differs from other source control systems such as VSS, CVS or Subversion and how to get the best out of it in your day to day development.
He also talks about how to adopt Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server to manage all the source code of your company including Visual Studio 2003, Visual Basic 6 or Java projects.
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Robert Burke – Raising the Stakes with Avalon, the Windows Presentation Foundation – June 27th, 3pm-4:30pm GMT
Session description:
Why should you care about adding a groundbreaking User Experience to your applications?
Answering that question (in style!) is where we'll begin, and this developer-oriented presentation will proceed on a whistlestop tour of the Windows Presentation Foundation, formerly codenamed Avalon.
WPF allows you to leverage the power of your local PC and managed languages (including Visual Basic.NET) to provide a unified framework for next-generation user interface, media, documents, and even 3D graphics.
Until WPF, incorporating those concepts has effectively been the dark art of the game development shop. No more!
· We'll look at the WPF unified architecture, and then dive into several specific developer concepts you'll need to know to get started building applications.
· We'll explore the declarative markup language XAML and how it maps to your VB.NET code, and show how it is being used to facilitate tools that will bring designers into the development picture.
· We'll look at the concepts of Styles and data binding for your controls.
· We'll move through animation, talk about interop with classic WinForms, and if time permits, we'll even get a glimpse at adding video and 3D.
Finally, the presentation will conclude with links to useful resources for getting started with WPF, hooking into the community, and learning more.
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Johann Grabner – Powerful and easy – Creating a Real World application with Visual Basic 2005 – July 4th, 3pm-4:30pm GMT
Session description:
In this webcast we create a real world windows forms application with Visual Basic 2005. Whilst creating that sample application you gradually get to know some of the new features of Visual Basic 2005. You learn how you can use these features to create applications quickly, and besides you experience new ways to reduce coding effort. We start with covering syntax enhancements in VB 2005, and while the application is growing we move on to more advanced topics like generics and the my namespace. To speed up development time you will see the usage of code-snippets and the new controls, tools and techniques to make windows forms applications with databinding easier. At the end of the session you find out how to debug a Visual Basic application, and how easy it is to deploy your application with ClickOnce.
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