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Microsoft
invites you to attend:
MSDN Freedom
Roadshow
8:30 to 9:00 – Breakfast
and Registration
9:00 to 10:30 – Windows
Presentation Foundation Demystified
Today’s applications need to do more than simply work. They
need to draw in the user, and provide a differentiated experience. This means
moving beyond battleship gray forms, boxy UIs, and providing a positive user
experience. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) provides powerful
capabilities to develop a compelling user interface, the kind that makes an
application stand out. In this session, we’ll examine the core concepts
of WPF such as layout panels, data binding, styles and control templates, and
we’ll use them to develop an application UI from the ground up.
10:30 to 12:00 – Implementing
RESTful services with WCF 3.5
This session will focus on the new capabilities in WCF 3.5 for
implementing REST architectures. We’ll examine the new webHttpBinding and see
how to build services as resource endpoints, as well as how to map HTTP verbs
onto WCF services. We’ll also see how to specify the format of data exchanged
with the service and consume these services is Microsoft technologies like
ASP.NET AJAX and Microsoft Silverlight.
12:00 to 1:00 – Lunch
1:00 to 2:30 – Exploring the ADO.NET Entity Framework
Abstraction in software development can
improve flexibility, independence, and the ability to compose higher-level
concepts. The ADO.NET Entity Framework, now shipping as part of Visual
Studio 2008 & .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1, helps you create models of your
data that enable a familiar object-oriented programming experience. Entities
map flexibly to data sources while providing insulation from schema changes
at the same time. LINQ makes an appearance as well, using the familiar syntax
we’ve seen with LINQ to Objects, SQL, and XML to query entities.
2:30 to 3:15 – A Developer’s Guide to Internet Explorer 8
The next version of Internet Explorer 8 is
now in beta. This session will examine all the new consumer features,
but also cover additional points that are specific to you as a
developer. We’ll see how accelerators and web slices can be a
differentiator for your company, see the new wave of compatibility features
and options, and unearth the tools available for developers designed to aid
in the confusion that is web development.
3:15 to 4:00 – UI, UX, U Confused?
One thing not missing from Microsoft’s
development offerings is a choice of options. In this session, we’ll compare
and contrast the various .NET technologies available for building client
experiences (Windows Forms, WPF, XBAP, ASP.NET, Silverlight, and Windows
Mobile) to give you some insight in to making the best choices for reaching
your applications’ target audience.
4:00 – Wrap Up and Raffle
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Register NOW!!!
Location
Microsoft Office – Pittsburgh, PA
30 Isabella Services Center
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
412-323-6700
November 19, 2008
9:00
AM–4:00 PM
Click
here to register or call 877.673.8368 with event ID 1032392361
If
you have questions, please contact Jana Underwood at
v-janau@microsoft.com.
Dani Diaz’s Blog:
http://smallandmighty.net/
Lindsay Rutter’s Blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/lindsay
David Solivon’s Blog:
http://msdn.com/beaudreaux
Facebook URL:
http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=26234374612
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