3D Construction Basics in WPF

by Mike Hodnick

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Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is Microsoft's next-generation tool for developing rich user interfaces, including the ability to render UI elements in 3D. Learn the basics of building 3D objects and viewing 3D scenes in WPF. See a real WPF application render a 3D scene from real data. With a touch of 3D theory, this session will drill into the .Net 3.0 classes and XAML used to construct 3D meshes and models.

Bring the Power of Windows Desktop Search to Your Applications

by Arian Kulp

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!

CSLA .NET 3.0 Preview

by Rockford Lhotka

Microsoft .NET 3.0 is here, and it includes WCF, WPF and WF. Learn how these technologies are used and supported by Rocky's CSLA .NET framework. See how WCF can be a drop-in replacement for Remoting, web services or Enterprise Services, and how you can use business objects with WCF to build service-oriented applications. Get a look at how to use business objects behind WPF forms to get the interactivity of Windows Forms, and the flexibility of using markup (XAML) to design your pages. And see how to create workflow activities using business objects, so your workflows have all the power and capabilities offered by CSLA .NET.

Delegation and Kerberos in the Enterprise

by David Baldauff

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.

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

by Andy Morrison

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.

Developing for Windows Vista using Visual Studio 2005

by Cory Smith

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.

Extending Microsoft Office 2007 as a Platform

by Scott Yokiel

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.

Gathering and Managing Requirements

by Tim Wold

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.

If Darwin Could Write Code

by Jacob Good

Charles Darwin had an idea: that over time, species of animals adapted; evolved. Later, in the 1950s, computer scientists thought , "Hey, why not model natural selection on a computer?" With that, genetic algorithms were born! This talk will introduce (softly, I promise) genetic algorithms... applications of genetic algorithms, and hopefully some takeaway concepts and frameworks so you can try your own.

Inside the WCF Web Service Software Factory

by Dan Mork

The Microsoft Patterns and Practices group created the Web Service Software Factory (WSSF) to assist developers and architects quickly and consistently build services which follow sound architecture principles and design patterns. WSSF helps automate common tasks such as project layout, message design, service interface design, message validation, and domain object/data contract translation. In this session, we will build a simple application with WSSF (WCF version) to demonstrate its usage, strengths and weaknesses.

Reflection in .NET: Hacking and Futzing With IL

by Jason Bock

Reflection is a powerful way to dynamically inspect assembies at run-time to determine the structure of its contents, invoke methods, and change private field values (among other interesting tricks). But it doesn't stop there - .NET gives you the power to create code at run-time via its reflection infrastructure as well. In this presentation, I'll cover the essentials of the System.Reflection namespace (along with the changes that were added in 2.0), how to emit code at run-time, and other libraries that go far beyond what .NET can currently provide (FxCop's CCI library for introspection and Mono.Cecil for full assembly reading/writing).

Simple Data Access with Subsonic

by Chris Sutton

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.

An Introduction to Subversion

by Steve Baker

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.

There Must be Fifty Ways to Unit Test Your Software

by Jon Stonecash

Unit testing is a critical activity in producing quality software. Developers should apply unit testing in parallel to the development of the software. Because unit testing is so important, it should be easy to perform unit testing. The developer should be able to focus on the "what" the unit tests demonstrates rather than the "how" to demonstrate the result. There are a fairly large number of unit testing tools that can greatly simplify the unit testing process. Many of these tools are free. This session would include a "dash" of unit testing philosophy plus a lot of code that demonstrates the use the "core" unit testing harnesses such as NUnit, MbUnit, and MsTest as well as related testing tools such as NUnitForms and NUnitASP. The session will also address the use of tools to replace dependent elements with dummy units, stub units, and mock units. The types of units to be tested will include: Logic, Window Forms, Web Pages, Databases, XML Files, JavaScript, and Ajax functionality.

Web Developers Guide to IIS 7

by Robert Boedigheimer

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.

What Ruby on Rails can Teach .NET Developers

by Dan Mork

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.

World of Warcraft Add-on Development

by Michael Dunn

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.

CPU and Game Emulation Design

by David Pinch

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.

An Introduction to PowerShell

by Neil Iversen

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.

Practical iBatis Implementations using C#

by Mark S.

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.