Schedule
Smart Clients: What's New in Visual Studio 2008?
Summary: Visual Studio 2008 is about making the rapid application development experience even easier. In this 90 minute overview we will introduce new features that allow Smart Clients to go where they never have before: including Occasionally Connected Systems, SQL Server Compact Edition, Client App Services, N-Tier Data, Click-Once Deployment enhancements, as well as out-of-the-box ways to future proof your existing applications: including Windows Forms / WPF Integration, and Vista enhancements. Add to that the designer productivity enhancements and see an exciting new wave of smart client development.
Date & Time: August 1, 2007, 14:00-15:30 Eastern Time
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Adding Mapping Capabilities to your Applications with Virtual Earth
Summary: The Virtual Earth Platform is an integrated set of services that combines unique bird’s eye, aerial, and satellite imagery with best-of-breed mapping, location and search functionality. It enables business to deliver innovative solutions and breakthrough customer experiences.
With the Virtual Earth platform, companies can create an immersive experience that enables consumers to easily discover, search, and visualize business location data and locally relevant information. Take your websites and applications to the next level by integrating the Virtual Earth Platform to deliver the highly visual and locally relevant information consumers care about most.
Date & Time: August 8, 2007, 14:00-15:30 Eastern Time
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Identity Management for Developers - Part 1
Summary: This is the FIRST of a series of webcasts to serve as a roadmap for developers and architects who want to learn how to build identity-aware applications on the Microsoft® Windows® platform. From authentication and authorization to federated identity, you will discover techniques that can be used today and in the future to leverage identity infrastructure such as Active Directory®. Throughout this series, we will guide you and direct you to other resources that provide additional in-depth detail on the different areas of focus.
In Part I we will explore Authentication, Authorization – including AzMan as a focus area.
Date & Time: August 10, 2007, 14:00-15:30 Eastern Time
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Identity Management for Developers - Part 2
Summary: This is the SECOND of a series of webcasts to serve as a roadmap for developers and architects who want to learn how to build identity-aware applications on the Microsoft® Windows® platform. From authentication and authorization to federated identity, you will discover techniques that can be used today and in the future to leverage identity infrastructure such as Active Directory®. Throughout this series, we will guide you and direct you to other resources that provide additional in-depth detail on the different areas of focus.
In Part II we will explore Identity-Enabled .Net Apps and Federated Identity.
Date & Time: August 17, 2007, 14:00-15:30 Eastern Time
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Introduction to LINQ + LINQ to SQL
Summary: Modern applications operate on data in several different forms: Relational tables, XML documents, and in-memory objects. Each of these domains can have profound differences in semantics, data types, and capabilities, and much of the complexity in today’s applications is the result of these mismatches. In this 90 minute presentation, we will explain how the Orcas release of Visual Studio aims to unify the programming models through LINQ capabilities in C# and Visual Basic, a strongly typed data access framework, and an innovative Application Programming Interface (API) for manipulating and querying XML.
Database-centric applications have traditionally had to rely on two distinct programming languages: one for the database and one for the application. In the second part of this presentation we will introduce LINQ to SQL, a component of the LINQ project designed to help integrate relational data and queries with C# and Visual Basic. LINQ to SQL enables developers to express queries and updates in terms of their local programming language without sacrificing the server-side execution model of today’s high-performance SQL-based approaches. Using these advances, database queries that previously were stored as opaque strings now benefit from static type checking, CLR metadata, design-time type inference, and of course IntelliSense. LINQ to SQL also supports a rich update capability that lets you save changes to an object graph back to the database using optimistic concurrency or transactions.
Date & Time: August 29, 2007, 14:00-15:30 Eastern Time
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Identity Management for Developers - Part 3
Summary: This is the THIRD of a series of webcasts to serve as a roadmap for developers and architects who want to learn how to build identity-aware applications on the Microsoft® Windows® platform. From authentication and authorization to federated identity, you will discover techniques that can be used today and in the future to leverage identity infrastructure such as Active Directory®. Throughout this series, we will guide you and direct you to other resources that provide additional in-depth detail on the different areas of focus.
In Part III we will explore Security in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Card Space as an identity selector, and Authorization Strategies.
Date & Time: August 31, 2007, 14:00-15:30 Eastern Time
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