IMG and Microsoft are co-sponsoring the next DevCares event taking place on March 23, 2006 in Downers Grove, IL. DevCares is a FREE half-day seminar where we will tackle the top technology topics around Microsoft’s development platform. Each month we select a particular topic theme. This month’s theme is Data Access. Please join us as we discuss advances in ADO.NET 2.0, XML in SQL Server 2005 and Developing for the SQL CLR.
Register at http://www.imginc.com/devcares.
March DevCares
March 23rd, 2006, 1PM – 5PM
Microsoft Corporation
3025 Highland Parkway, Suite 300
Downers Grove, IL. 60515
Topics
What’s New in ADO.NET 2.0
ADO.NET 2.0 provides new features for building data- driven websites and smart client applications. In this session, we’ll look at the new features in ADO.NET 2.0 and how they are used with SQL Server 2005. We’ll go over DataSets and Multiple Active Resultsets and look at DataBinding and Caching in ADO.NET
Using XML in SQL Server 2005
SQL Server 2005 now has native support for XML for improved performance and capabilities. The native XML datatype can be applied to columns, variables and parameters. New XML indexes and support for XQuery allow queries to be executed across XML without diminishing performance. We’ll look at how to use XML with SQL Server 2005.
Developing for the SQL CLR
This session covers using managed code inside SQL Sever 2005. Using your favorite .NET language, you can create stored procedures, functions, triggers and even custom datatypes. We’ll discuss how and when to use managed code inside SQL Server.
On Monday, Clemens Vasters presented a session on going from HTML to services. He touched on all the acronym buzzwords (AJAX, RSS, SOAP, REST, WS-*) and how to utilize them best to open your web application as a consumable service. The talk really got interesting when Clemens moved into the demo portion.
See, Clemens recently joined Microsoft. At some point in the near future, Clemens will be moving from his home in Germany to the land of coffee shops and grunge music. Although Clemens is looking forward to the move, he isn’t looking forward to not being able catch his beloved football (soccer) team in action. So, Clemens took the bull by the horns and solved a real world problem. How do you watch German television from half-way around the world? Well, if you’re Clemens, you use a combination of messaging technologies to build your own personal media streaming application.
He has a Windows Media Center server in place at his parent’s house in Germany that he’s using as a service to browse the programming guide and select which programs he’d like to record. Oncea program has been recorded, he’s able to stream the recordings down to his computer through Windows Media Player. Another cool aspect of the demo was that Clemens built a web page with some uses of AJAX and RSS that lives right in the Windows Media Player that gives him control to his programming guide within the player itself. Very cool demo.
If you’re interested in learning more about the application, head on over to http://www.newtellivision.tvto check it out.
Tag: MIX06
Well… after an hour and a half flight delay and a cabbie who decided to take me on a tour of the Nevada state highway system, I finally rolled into the Venetian at 2AM on Sunday..er..Monday morning. I would also like to thank the previous guest of our palatial suite who decided to set the alarm clock set for 4:30AM and to leave it on! Have you ever tried turning an alarm clock off that’s not yours, in the pitch black, with your eyes half open???
No worries…I’m finally here and I’m looking forward to seeing what the next 3 days has in store. It’s sure to be a grand time.
Tags: MIX06
I had planned to write up my notesfrom this morning’s kickoff keynote at MIX’06, but than I saw Doug Seven had already posted a compelling synapsis that I could only hope to duplicate. Therefore, other than wasting my time at a failed attempt to do one better, I’ll send you over to Doug’s post from today’s keynote.
Tags: MIX06
If you’re in the Milwaukee area on March 14th, come check out the Wisconsin .NET Users Group where I’ll be presenting a session on Visual Studio Team System – Developer Edition. Here I plan on discussing all of the cool featuresfound inTeam Developer including Unit Testing, Code Coverage, Code Analysis and maybe, if we have time, how it all integrates with Team Foundation Server.
What: A discussion on VSTS – Developer Edition
Where: Wisconsin .NET Users Group, Medical College Building, 10000 W Innovation Dr, Milwaukee, WI (Map)
When: March 14th, 2006, 7PM
Dave Bost is a Technical Evangelist for Microsoft and co-host of the Thirsty Developer Podcast.
