3D Construction Basics in WPF

Bring the Power of Windows Desktop Search to Your Applications

Do you think that Windows Desktop Search (WDS) is just about finding that long-lost spreadsheet? See how to integrate search features into your own applications to provide more power to your users. Take advantage of the search index to see files and other entities in a whole new light with less effort than you might imagine. You may never use the file open dialog again!

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Arian Kulp is an independent software developer working in the Midwest who has created developer presentations, hands-on-labs, sample code, and articles for a wide variety of products such as LINQ, ADAM (Active Directory Application Mode), ASP.NET 2.0, and VSTO. He is also currently one of the authors for the MSDN Coding 4 Fun series of hobbyist articles. He has been coding since the fifth grade on various platforms, and also enjoys photography, nature, and spending time with his family.

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CPU and Game Emulation Design

Techniques for creating CPU and hardware emulators for classic operating systems and arcade games. The presentation will focus on a working emulator for the Intel 8080 processor running under .NET 2.0. The Intel 8080 was the processor used in the original Altair computer system that inspired the founding of Microsoft. The discussion will include an overview of standard computer components, techniques for emulating CPU instructions and hardware, and recommendations for testing and performance. Source code and technical documentation will be available for download.

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David Pinch

CSLA .NET 3.0 Preview

Delegation and Kerberos in the Enterprise

This presentation will describe Kerberos at a high level, and then go into detail on how to setup Delegation and Kerberos authentication using SQL Server, IIS and a client. Additionally we may delve into delegation across two SQL instances and a client. The presentation will include a review of the tools necessary to setup delegation and Kerberos and the debugging techniques used to resolve Kerberos authentication problems. If you are looking for a way to improve your security, eliminate the need for SQL authentication and understand the tools needed to do this, then this presentation is for you. If you know what a double-hop is and could never quite find a way around the problem before, then this presentation is for you. And, if you ever wondered how to get a client app authenticated through IIS to SQL server and maintain auditing, then this presentation is for you.

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David Baldauff is a consultant with Digineer, a Microsoft Gold Certified and Managed Partner consulting firm in the Twin Cities. David specializes in data architecture, data-driven application development and database design and deployment. Since the release of SQL Server 2005 David has worked on several SQL Server 2005 deployments - in each case utilizing SSIS as the key tool for ETLs. David has over 14 years experience in the IT industry.

Developing Business Activity Monitoring Solutions with BizTalk Server's BAM Features

Are you constantly troubleshooting business processes embedded within and between your custom applications? Would you like to learn more about those processes so that you can improve them and spend less time troubleshooting them? If you answered yes to either of these questions then BizTalk's Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) might be for you. BAM is used to instrument your processes, from both a technical and business perspective, so that you can enhance the processes as well as alert users and technical staff when certain conditions are reached. This session will introduce you to BAM through presentation and coding demonstrations. The focus will not be on BizTalk itself but rather on its BAM features which can be used from beyond BizTalk with a single BizTalk license.

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Andy Morrison is an Enterprise Consultant with Digineer, a technology and management consulting firm. Andy specializes in BizTalk Server, co-founded the Twin Cities BizTalk User Group and is a member of the Microsoft BizTalk Virtual Technical Specialist Team.

Developing for Windows Vista using Visual Studio 2005

There's more to Windows Vista than Glass and Sidebar. Learn what Vista has to offer you as the developer, what you can take advantage of to enhance your customers user experience and how you leverage many of these new features using the tools you have today. This presentation is more about the features in Windows Vista, how you can leverage them and how you can interact with them using interoperability; as many of the new features in Vista are not .NET native (such as Aero/DWM, Windows Experience Index information, etc.). Some examples show how to "skin" the .NET 2.0 TreeView control to look and feel like the Vista Explorer / Windows Mail applications and modify the behavior of a WinForms menu to show and hide similar to Windows Vista counterparts.

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Cory Smith is the founder of XboxFriends.com, maintains a .NET related blog at AddressOf.com and is very active in the .NET community. His community involvement includes: Vice President of the Fort Worth .NET Users Group, VBInsider Member, Microsoft MVP, and member of the South Central District Developer Guidance Council. A veteran developer (professionally writing software for over 15 years) working on projects ranging anywhere from major e-commerce sites such as RadioShack.com and InterstateBatteries.com to applications that are at the heart and soul of over 4600 radio stations around the world. His work history includes working for Tandy/RadioShack, Rare Medium, Inc., Electric Works Corp., Scott Studios Corp. and Shiny Stone Digital.

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Extending Microsoft Office 2007 as a Platform

With the advent of Office System 2007, the world of office development takes a leap ahead in power and flexibility. Come see how you can use .Net and Office to open a whole new set of tools for your enterprise. Extending Outlook, creating apps in Excel and Word and creating custom workflow solutions in SharePoint are just of the few of the things you can do.

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Scott Yokiel is a consultant at RBA Consulting. He has been in the IT space for 7 years with the last 4 dedicated to Microsoft .NET. He has served in many rolls in his career from BA to developer; currently he is concentrated in the asp.net space and looking to leverage 3.0. Outside of developing software Scott enjoys skiing in the winter and camping in the summer, as long as there is no wi-fi access he’s a relaxing.

Gathering and Managing Requirements

You can’t write code if you don’t know what it’s supposed to do. We’ll talk about how to get requirements out of the "domain experts" and then how to manage them with a tool you most likely already have on your computer, Word.

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Tim Wold is a Principal Consultant with Magenic Technologies; a Minneapolis based consulting firm specializing in Microsoft Technologies. Over the last 17 years he has been on teams large and small.

If Darwin Could Write Code

Inside the WCF Web Service Software Factory

An Introduction to PowerShell

PowerShell is Microsoft's latest command line shell, formerly codenamed Monad. Learn how to interact with PowerShell and leverage its powerful scripting capabilities into your own environment. Discover how PowerShell can help you automate repetitive tasks, work with the registry and aid in debugging. This session will cover the basic syntax of PowerShell, delve into common usages and explore graphical interfaces for working with the command line.

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Neil is a developer for Inetium and frequent speaker at the Minnesota SharePoint User Group.

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Practical iBatis Implementations using C#

As we all know, the application/database relationship domain is one of the hardest, most time consuming, and complex areas of applications. iBatis is one solution that is filling the gap and making these relationships as painless as possible. iBatis consists of two pieces. One which allows robust mapping between database and application domain objects. As well as another piece that provides abstraction of the data access layer all together. iBatis is a good greenfield development tool, however, it's even more useful in legacy system additions and rewrites, when connecting to existing databases where the schema can't be changed.

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After moving to Milwaukee from the Pacific Northwest, Mark joined Quad/Graphics Inc. in 2002, where he currently works on the Development Infrastructure team. Recently he has been getting his hands dirty with C#, iBatis, TDD, Mocks, and Continuous Integration as he helps build a new enterprise platform for future software development. Mark was introduced to iBatis about a year ago, and soon became interested in leveraging its capabilities. Since then, he has been an ardent supporter and plans to contribute to the iBatis project in the near future.

Reflection in .NET: Hacking and Futzing With IL

Simple Data Access with Subsonic

Subsonic is an elegant Active Record implementation for the .Net Framework that can save you significant development time. It uses a powerful query engine to pull data into well designed generic collections. At the end of the day you can use more energy in the design of your pages and their business logic since your focus is not on building yet another data access layer. I'll walk you through how to get started with SubSonic to get the most out of the tool, show you how to go beyond the basics and will demonstrate how to rapidly build out a web site.

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Chris Sutton is a Technical Trainer and Consultant in Eastern Iowa. He is an instructor with New Horizons of Cedar Rapids and loves developing for the web with C# and ASP.Net.

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An Introduction to Subversion

Many Windows developers have used Visual SourceSafe their entire career. Most of us know there are other source code control tools out there but have never had any exposure to them. In this session I will introduce Subversion, a free, open source version control system. First we will take a look at what tools are available for use with Subversion (command line, TortoiseSVN, AnkhSVN). Next we will cover some basic concepts about versioning models and Subversion's implementation and then walk though how a developer works with Subversion on a daily basis. After looking at daily developer usage we will dive into some more advanced topics Subversion administrators will need to understand and power users will want to know about including branching, merging, creating and applying patches, repository setup and structuring, and integration with issue tracking systems.

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Steve Baker is an MCSD.NET certified advisory consultant and partner at Paradigm Solutions Inc. Steve specializes in introducing and building agile development environments. In addition to implementing environments, Steve has spent considerable time training teams in "best practices" and software configuration management patterns. Paradigm Solutions specializes in business and Information Technology (IT) resources for both large and small business.

There Must be Fifty Ways to Unit Test Your Software

Web Developers Guide to IIS 7

Effective web developers understand not only how pages are created but how they are executed. IIS 7 has been modularized so functions can be removed or extended as needed. Learn how to extend IIS with ASP.NET, and how the pipelines have been integrated which allows Forms Authentication to be applied to all files including images, documents, and HTML files. See how to replace built in functionality like directory browsing, and how to provide redirects that allow wildcards and work with directory names. Discover how to trap failed requests to help troubleshoot production problems.

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Robert Boedigheimer works for The Schwan Food Company providing business solutions with web technologies. Robert has been designing and developing web sites for the past 10 years including the early days of ASP and ASP.NET. He was the lead architect, designer, and developer for the schwans.com rewrite with ASP.NET, and recently implemented a large ASP.NET 2.0 project. He is a columnist for aspalliance.com, an "Early Achiever" MCSD for .NET with C#, an MCPD: Web with C#, and a 2nd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Robert has spoken at industry conferences including the Heartland Developers Conference, Microsoft's Visual DevCon 2005, and several other national and international events.

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What Ruby on Rails can Teach .NET Developers

Ask a Rails developer how she would tackle a simple business problem. She'll tell you. Put your database scripts here, your functional tests here, html markup here, controller logic here, your unit tests here, and put your model here. To validate your model, add a few lines here. And because of some simple and reasonable naming conventions, it all plays well together. Ask a .Net developer how to tackle the same business problem. She'll start thinking. Well, the UI seems pretty obvious, but from there it gets difficult. You might start by doing the "simplest thing that can possibly work," and drag a dataset onto your screen. But where do you put your database scripts? And how do you test your business logic? Or your UI controller logic? And how do you name things? If this developer has been around for a while, she probably has a few favorite patterns in her toolbox. Maybe she's even got some of the pieces covered with reusable code libraries. But she doesn't have a solid, well-tested, common framework for completing even a simple business scenario. She should! In this presentation, we'll describe how Rails removes many of the common barriers to getting real work done – and discuss how the .Net community might do the same.

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Dan Mork is a Lead Consultant at Inetium, a Microsoft partner in the Twin Cities. He has twelve years of experience in software development for companies ranging from obscure startups to Microsoft. His interests includes agile development, service-oriented development, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Ruby on Rails.

World of Warcraft Add-on Development

World of Warcraft is probably the largest online game in history, with over 8 million current players from hundreds of countries. In this session I will show you how to the development add-ons for World of Warcraft using LUA Scripting and the WOW APIs. This session will also Cover developing a custom UI for your mod along with creating basic macros for easy game play.

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Michael Dunn is a Consultant for Magenic Technologies; a Minneapolis based consulting firm specializing in Microsoft Technologies. He currently holds his MCSD and MCITP.

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