Anti-Patterns - The Top 10 List

Design Patterns are in vogue these days, but unfortunately Anti-Patterns seem to prevail. Here's a light-hearted and satirical look at the common ways architects and developers shoot themselves in the foot.

Software Factories and the Microsoft Domain-Specific Language Tools

Software factories are an exciting innovation that provide a more agile and reliable approach to software architecture and development. This session demonstrates how you can use the new Microsoft Domain Specific Language (DSL) tools in Visual Studio 2005 to build your own custom graphical designer from which you can generate code for rapid and reliable application development. It also helps you understand the concept of software factories and how model-driven development can assist you to overcome common development problems that are not solved by object-orientation.

Get RAD: Extending Visual Studio 2005

This session contains in-depth information that will help you get the most out of Visual Studio 2005 by extending it with templates, add-ins, wizards, and builders. This is NOT a high-level overview, but a how to session with real-world examples that will help you turn VS 2005 into a RAD tool that suits your needs.

Utilizing .NET Cryptography

Learn how to leverage the .NET framework's cryptography classes. Discover practical uses for hashing, digital signatures, and symmetric/asymmetric encryption. Review an application of hashing to secure querystring parameters and using asymmetric encryption to protect information collected on public web servers.

Dataview webpart/learning XSLT easy way

This session discuss how to build a webpage to show data ( from any source , SQL/ODBC/XML/WebService). And then allow end users to sort data, filter data , group by and do custom search on all the data. Session will also show how to easily apply formatting, Conditional formatting, Paging and Custom paging. There is NO coding (.NET Code/Visual Studio) involved, All the above things are done visually using XSLT ( using Windows server 2003 (WSS)/Frontpage 2003 as the visual editor).

Intro to Programming Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), part of .NET 3.0, provides you with the capability to integrate across multiple platforms, interoperate with existing investments and build secure, reliable, transacted and distributed solutions. This presentation will provide you with the fundamentals and the A. B. C.'s of WCF, as well as, showing you how easy it makes the development of service-oriented systems.