This is your chance to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty with Visual Basic 2005. This event is two intimate days of lecture, hands-on labs, and experience with Visual Basic 2005 with six lectures and six labs. This is a select event that will be open to very few people in each city and is designed to help you jumpstart your development in Visual Basic 2005 and your upgrade from Visual Basic 6.0.

In addition to the lectures and labs, you’ll have an opportunity to spend time working one-on-one with Brian A. Randell, a Visual Basic MVP and expert developer, to plan how to upgrade and utilize your company’s Visual Basic 6.0 assets in Visual Basic 2005.

Microsoft Corporation

7000 North State Highway 161

Irving, TX 75039

Wednesday, September 21, 2005, 9am to 5pm

Thursday, September 22, 2005, 9am to 5pm

Register at:

http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/eventdetail.aspx?culture=en-US&eventid=1032279249&x=18&y=20

Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Basic 2005

This lecture and lab introduce Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Basic 2005. You will learn about the great development features that Visual Studio 2005 has to offer like cross-process debugging, error-correction, code-snippets and data visualizers. You get introduced to all the great Visual Basic 2005 language features like inheritance, overloading, generics and more.

Data Access with ADO.NET

This lecture and lab will bring you up to speed with data access using ADO.NET and SQL Server 2005. You’ll quickly realize that much of your existing experience will move forward for all of the things you already do like execute stored procedures and return resultsets. In addition, you’ll learn how you can take advantage of the many great features in ADO.NET such as asynchronous query execution, persisting datasets, and query notifications.

GUI Development with Windows Forms

The bread and butter of any Visual Basic developers is the user interface. In this lecture and lab, you’ll get to see the magic that is Visual Basic 2005 GUI development. From snap lines to smart tags to the new modern controls, you’ll be amazed at the professional and compelling UI’s you can build without writing a line of code. Add just a bit of custom code and you’ll be able to add custom drawing with ease (and no Win32 API calls).

Web Development with ASP.NET

If you’ve avoided the web because you didn’t want to work with HTML, welcome home. In this lecture and lab you see how easy ASP.NET 2.0 makes web development. You can build rich, interactive web sites that support membership features, dynamic data, and professional looking interfaces. And best of all, there’s no weird configuration magic to debug. It just works.

Windows Services

How many times have you wanted to have a program run in the background and perform processing when some interesting event occurred like a new file in a drop box folder? In this lecture and lab you learn how to write Windows Services in Visual Basic 2005. This was something that was almost impossible to do before and now you see that it’s done with a couple clicks of a mouse.

Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic 2005 Interoperability

While Visual Basic 2005 is where you’ll want to write all of your code, you still have an investment in components that you can continue to use. This lecture and lab will show you how you can expose a .NET component to a Visual Basic 6 client. You also learn how to call your existing COM and COM+ components from Visual Basic 2005.

Deploying Visual Basic 2005 Solutions

Now that you’ve built a great application, how do you deploy it? In this lecture and lab you’ll learn how Visual Basic 2005 helps you solve DLL Hell. You’ll learn how to do simple XCopy style deployment, build MSI-based setup programs and all about ClickOnce. ClickOnce makes deploying rich Windows applications as easy as deploying a web page. Yes really.

Brian A. Randell is a senior consultant with MCW Technologies, LLC – a Microsoft Certified Partner. Over the last 18 years, Brian has helped companies and developers to create solutions that leverage a wide variety of Microsoft technologies from RPG and COBOL and HP 3000 minis to Paradox for DOS and Windows. Today, Brian teaches Microsoft .NET Framework-based technologies to developers; works with new and emerging technologies like Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio Team System and consults worldwide for clients including Microsoft American Honda and Dell. Brian has spoken at numerous events such as VSLive!, TechEd, and the PDC. He’s the co-author of Effective Visual Basic and the forthcoming Tom and Huck’s Guide to Visual Basic Express (both from Addison-Wesley). You can reach Brian at http://mcwtech.com.