MSDN Events Unleashed
Posted by Dan Rigsby on August 15th, 2008
Bill Steele is back out and speaking again. Bill is a Microsoft Evangelist for the Heartland District, but he is an “adopted” evangelist for the Midwest District too (Indianapolis is in the Midwest District). If you haven’t heard Bill speak before, you simply have to attend this event. He is a phenomenal speaker full of wit, charm, and valuable insight and knowledge. He is definitely one of my speaker role models. If you had heard Bill speak before, I think you will agree that he is reason alone to come to this event. Plus the topics looks fairly interesting.
The Indianapolis MSDN Event will be held:
Wednesday, September 17, 2008 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM Eastern Time
Welcome Time: 12:30 PM
At:
Microsoft Offices
500 E. 96th Street – Suite 460
Indianapolis Indiana 46240
Click here to register:
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032386193&culture=en-US
Check out Bill’s blog or the MSDN Event site for other locations:
http://blogs.msdn.com/wsteele/default.aspx
http://www.msdnevents.com/
Event Details:
Session 1: Demystifying WPF
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.
Session 2: Developing Applications with Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1
Service Pack 1 and Visual Studio 2008 introduce a wide variety of new features for targeting Windows, Office and the Web. This includes more controls, a streamlined setup, improved startup performance, fresh graphics features, improved AJAX support, and much more. We’re also introducing the ADO.NET Entity Framework and ADO.NET Data Services, which are designed to simplify application data access by providing an extensible, conceptual model for data from any source, while enabling this model to closely reflect business requirements. Don’t miss this lively session and learn how to use these powerful new features in your applications.
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