If you're near the Columbia, SC area on Thursday, join us for an MSDN Event! Here's a rundown of the sessions:
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: Top ten reasons your
applications will be more secure when deployed on Vista
Reputations are tough
to shake – particularly in the software industry. While Microsoft Windows has
enjoyed great market share, especially in the desktop OS space, its industry
position has made it a target for hackers worldwide. Microsoft leadership
recognized the need to develop a security engineering approach that could
withstand global Internet scrutiny, and Windows Vista is the first desktop
operating system to embody this significant philosophy shift. Vista is built
from end to end with security at the very forefront of the project. In this
session, you'll learn 10 reasons why your application is more secure when it's
deployed on Vista. We'll also cover new capabilities designed to protect memory,
minimize privilege and provide resource-oriented access control, plus a plethora
of additional security enhancements.
Session 3:
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.
To register, go to this page:
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032383409&culture=en-US