August and the next couple of months looks
really busy. I’ll be teaching WCF at
UCSD and will be attending the following conferences along with doctoral
cluster meeting. Therefore I am seriously considering “The Terminal” style living.

KDD 2008, 24 – 27 Aug 2008, Loews
Lake Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV
The
annual ACM SIGKDD conference is the premier international forum for data mining
researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to share
their ideas, research results and experiences. KDD-08 will feature keynote
presentations, oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, tutorials,
panels, exhibits, demonstrations, and the KDD Cup competition.

IASA
Connections, October 6 – 8, 2008, San Francisco Marriott, San Francisco, CA
I’ll be speaking to IASA connections
conference in San Francisco on Aspect Oriented Programming in Distributed
Systems. More details here.

Microsoft PDC 2008 – 27 – 30 Oct, Los Angeles
Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA
Since
1991, the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) has been Microsoft’s premier
gathering of leading-edge developers and architects. Attend the PDC to
understand the future of the Microsoft platform and to exchange ideas with
fellow professionals. You’ll learn about upcoming products, meet Microsoft’s
leaders and top engineers, write some code, and be inspired! Unplug for a few
days and think about the future.  

Programming
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) (Summer 2008)
Sa, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
8/9/2008 – 8/23/2008
Room 134, UCSD Extension Complex, 9600 N Torrey Pines Rd, La Jolla

Programming
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) (Fall 2008)
Sa, 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
10/4/2008 – 10/18/2008
Room 110, UCSD Extension Sorrento Mesa Center, 6925 Lusk Blvd, San Diego

I’ll be speaking to IASA connections conference in San Francisco on Aspect Oriented Programming in Distributed Systems.

Following are further details.

Conference Page
October 6 – 8, 2008
San Francisco Marriott
San Francisco, CA

IASA02: Service
Aspects—Aspect Orientated Designs in Distributed Enterprise Architecture
Adnan Masood
Aspect Oriented Programming and Aspect-Oriented software development (AOSD)
support the software development paradigm which leverages separation of concerns,
especially cross-cutting concerns as a next step to modularization. Separation
of concerns can be defined as breaking down a program into distinct parts that
overlap in functionality as little as possible. The similar concerns are
factored and defined as aspects which are separated out from the main logic
making the implementation more maintainable. In this session we approach the
service orientation as an aspect of a distributed system. Using attribute
oriented design for aspect implementation, this presentation focuses on merits
of exposing service end points from business objects by using AOP practices.
The attendees will: gather the understanding of AOP, a fast growing research
and development area in modern software development; understand the state of
affairs of AOP in the current IDE’s and programming languages especially with
Spring, AspectJ and Aspect.NET; explore the rationale of aspect-based nature of
services and deep dive into the open source ServiceAspect CodePlex project for
a sample implementation. This session’s focus is the architecture and design
practices that AOSD brings to the enterprise architecture. Best practices and
design patterns followed in AOP will be discussed with a demo of Aspect.NET and
ServiceAspect, which is used to publish business objects as WCF services using
attributes.

List of  Speakers

List of Sessions

Dan Wahlin’s sessions were also recorded.
Video: ASP.NET AJAX, XML and Web Services (with a little Virtual Earth)
Video: Minimize Code with TableAdapters and Strongly-Typed DataSets
-Dan Wahlin and Spike Xavier

Some pertaining posts with slides and samples.

• DevConnections Conference Wrap-Up
• Migrating from Web Services to Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs)
• Minimize Code with Strongly-Typed DataSets and TableAdapters
• Generate Dynamic Maps: .NET 2.0 XML and Web Services
• Microsoft AJAX, XML and Web Services: How it all Fits Together (Updated for Beta 2)

Microsoft IronPython for ASP.NET CTP is available; I’ll be trying it out shortly.

And for you “Heavy .Netal” music fans, pleasure for your ears, not.

No More DLL Hell – The Song
Written and Performed By:   Spike Xavier & Dan Wahlin

Couple of good white papers I encountered from MSR & MS.

Can Abstract State Machines Be Useful in Language Theory?
Yuri Gurevich; Margus Veanes; Charles Wallace
Microsoft Research

Windows Workflow Foundation – Performance Whitepaper
Performance Characteristics of Windows Workflow Foundation
Microsoft Corporation.

And last but not least, food of thought for your <substitute your favorite player here>.
Free Academic Podcasts;
145 podcasts for your educational pleasure.

“Plumbing is evil. Developers are inherently disadvantages by plumbing. ”
-Juval Lowy

Juval Löwy is the founder of IDesign and a seasoned software architect specializing in system architecture and large applications design. He is the author of Programming .NET Components and upcoming Programming WCF Services. As a post conference session, I attended Joval Lowy’s “Mastering WCF in a Day”. It was a crash course in all things WCF with the following agenda.

• Service Orientation
• WCF Essentials
• WCF Architecture
• Data Contracts
• Instance Management
• Operations and Calls
• Transactions

The entire day presentation was essentially what Joval has described in this article “WCF Essentials-A Developer’s Primer” however, his concise examples and simplistic explanation has made a significant difference in understanding windows communication foundation (WCF).

I’ll discuss topics discussed in his session in detail as a separate post; following are the code samples, links and references to further explore WCF.

The IDesign WCF Coding Standards can be downloaded from here.

Books and References

           
Programming WCF Services
by Juval Lowy (On Safari Rough Cuts)

To request the WCF Resource CD, click this link and check the CD Checkbox:

WCF Essentials-A Developer’s Primer

IDesign Downloads

Vista Series: Windows Communication Foundation

WCF Downloads and Samples

Discover Mighty Instance Management Techniques For Developing WCF Apps

What You Need To Know About One-Way Calls, Callbacks, And Events

WCF sample: Chat room client and server for .NET Framework 3.0

Windows Communication Foundation Architecture Overview 

Windows Communication Foundation Part 1.

MSDN TV: Windows Communication Foundation Bindings and Channels

Distributed .NET: Learn The ABCs Of Programming Windows Communication

Thursday was the last day of the conference, tiring but enlightening
nevertheless. We however had one more day of Post Conf. session before we could head
home. Following are the chronicles of the last day of the conference.

Implement a Data Access Layer with the Visual Studio 2005 Dataset Designer
Brian Noyes

Brian Noyes is a software architect, trainer, writer, and speaker with IDesign. His presentation on the data access layer design was a masterful explanation of how easily this tool can facilitate a decent workable design.

The demos and slides are available here.

Real World ClickOnce:  Slides   Demos
Workflow Driven Windows Applications:  Slides   Demos
Implement a Data Layer with the VS 2005 DataSet Designer:  Slides   Demos

The presentation is also available from the devConnections website. Noyes_VDA302_DataSet Designer

Preparing Code for Debugging
Kathleen Dollard

I tried to attend most of Kathleen’s sessions because she is to-the-point, concise and stay away from the trivial.

My litmus test selection for a speaker usually comprises of the following two rules.

• Has done development, real development and not a those-who-can’t-do,-teach trainer.
• Stay away from trivial and address real world problems.

Following are the salient features of her presentation. It was a nice reminder of things you ought to do.

• The best architecture is a simple architecture.
• Build structural short routines.
• Use FxCop; you’ll be amazed to see what you’ve been missing.
• Use Generics to improve your designs.
• Always use Source Control Management and do build planning.
• Use XML Comments to document your code
• Use Class designer to keep your design understandable and readable.
• Integrate exception management, Tracing and logging to your code.
• Use Code Templates to enforce the standards.
• Use Visualizers to get better understanding of your object
• Use the
  Try
  { }
  Finally

Pattern to allow global catch of exception in a single place. The class library should inform the calling application what exception has occurred.

• Build your library of code snippets and use it.
  GotCodeSnippets.NET: THE online source for Visual Studio code snippets
• Use Trace points; it will save you lot of time debugging.

After this interesting session we had lunch break and harley raffle.

Black-belt Data Binding
David Sussman

David Sussman did an intermediate course in data binding and how to use it with .NET 2.0 controls.

The code samples will be available here. http://www.ipona.com/samples/. Here is an interesting topic which David discussed in his last presentation.
SiteMapPath and URLs with spaces

Unit Testing in the Real World
Kathleen Dollard

With quotes like

“The concept of what happen in Vegas stays in Vegas does not apply for this Conference”,

“Test early, after and forever”

and

Every bug replaces two bugs

• The bug which was found and is being fixed.
• The bug in the system which let your bug goes through in the first place.

Kathleen did another excellent presentation on Unit testing as the last presentation of the conference. I felt as this presentation was in conjunction with the previous “Preparing code for debugging” session but this time she emphasized on usage of the enterprise templates, Cruise control (build management) and following Sprints style life cycle approaches.

The big question which was posed in the session was, “Why unit testing?” The answers which came from audience was as follows.

• To Catch complex logical errors
• Unit testing is repeatable and hence can be used over the span of multiple releases.
• It reduces the amount of bugs (of course).
• To better understand the problem domain
• To perform regression testing to ensure that the latest fix did not break any existing functionality.
• Help documenting the use cases.
• Makes it easier to gauge progress percentage/
• Feedback is a powerful thing; it helps making better software.

Providing unit testing guidelines, Kathleen dug into the team system unit testing tool which raised an important question of, who is using team system.

Audience ubiquitously said that they are unable to take advantage of the Team System unit testing tools because of the pricing and still working with the open source alternative, NUnit. The speaker recognized this as a problem and asked us to blog about it, hence here it is. I believe testing is an integral part of SDLC and to capitalize on it might seem like a good idea but in the long run, it is going to hurt the platform.

There were several other good sessions for instance designing distributed application using the application designer. Pertaining links are as follows.

Designing a Distributed Application using the Application Designer
Designing Applications with Application Designer
Workflow Across Distributed System Designers

Mark Miller @ DevXpress stall in the expo.

During the ice-cream break we got the tasty Häagen-Dazs and then headed to the Q&A closing session.

With the questions as straight as

• For how long we would have to Google to find out information on Microsoft website?
• What are the strategies you’d recommend to Information
• Why is vista licensing so ridiculous?

I found the Q&A session to be a big disappointment. The questions were not being taken seriously and there was virtually no Microsoft representative on stage to take the lead and answer things in a decent appropriate fashion. Some speakers did a good job in explaining the future strategy and “why’s” of things but overall it wasn’t nearly as good as last year’s Q&A.

With Alex Homer

Digital Guru Book Store

Conference presentation updates are available here.

ASP.NET Connections
VS.NET Connections

Wednesday was a good day @ dev connections; interesting, informative, useful talks all day long. The details of talks I attended follows but first let me tell you about a quote I found on a session attendee’s T-Shirt yesterday.

#!/usr/bin/perlprint "Content-type:text/html\n\n";  

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I’ had to google it right there and then and it turned out to be the following quote of Larry Wall.

“The three great virtues of a programmer:
 Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris.
— Larry Wall”

A Data Driven Approach to internationalization with ASP.NET
Rick Strahl

We have been managing multi-lingual (bi-lingual) applications for over two years by using resource files. As easy at they sound, resource files are not all that great. The management, the changes, the satellite assemblies and providing that there is no auto-extraction of elements in 2003, they could be quite painful. Therefore Rob and I were really looking forward to this session and were not disappointed. Rich did an excellent job explaining the internationalization in a non-trivial, in-depth style. His presentation included (but was not limited to) the following topics

• Benefits of using data driven approach to localizationApplying SQL queries against resourcesLookup for existing values and back ups (management)Customer Resource Provider model and ResourceProviderFactoryTypeApplication resource localizationImporting the resource file to the databaseClient script and ajax localization samplesLiteral values for escape sequences in localization.
• Writing a resource provider; basic data driven resource provider (configuration etc needs to be handled manually)

Rick highly recommended the following book from Addison Wesley
 
.NET Internationalization (Addison Wesley)

References and Links

• Rich said that the presentation will be uploaded here; the link is not working yet so I’m hoping by EOD today it probably would.Localization Practices for .NET (MLB Articles)Microsoft Enterprise Localization ToolkitwwHoverPanel AJAX samplesResourceProvider Localization SampleCustomer List AJAX sample
• Resource Provider

ASP.NET 2.0 Navigation
David Sussman

Last I saw David speak was in 2003 in a London .NET User group meeting. This time he has flown across the pond for our user group meeting (Thanks David) and talked to us about navigation in ASP.NET 2.0. The topic was interesting and different because it was not a demo of Sitemap data source / controls of ASP.NET 2.0 but more like real world scenarios, making it data driven etc. David discussed topics like ASPXMLSitemap provider, handling of nodes, gotchas, using treeviews, adapter framework, staticsitemapprovider, multi-threading and locking when explicitly handling the paint, using cache invalidation for posting the updates, CSS Menu and much more to list here.He highly recommended [Danny Chen]- Blog of an ASP.NET QA tester blog for reading up on ASP.NET 2.0 features and issues.

The samples will also be available from his website. http://ipona.com/samples/

For the presentation download, David has said that he is going to clean up the code and will upload it on the conference website shortly. Looking forward to play with his samples and build a new sitemap provider from, lets say an object data source reading from a menuing web service! Lame? Or cool…you decide.

The home of Al and Dave
ASP.NET 2.0 Illustrated

Layout and Navigation in Windows forms 2005
Kathleen Dollard

“Winforms are going to stay; they still have a life of about 3-5 years before WPF takes over” says Kathleen Dollars during her powerful presentation on Layout and Navigation in Winforms during which she presented tons of useful information on the following

• Effectively adding and managing Controls to winforms Splitter controls, docking and anchoringGotchas in the design and how to work around them/fix themTree view control and Owner drawing using GDI+Panels, fixed panel properties, docking, autosizing, OnDrawNode, Utility SyncADA compatibilityLocalization in table layout and flow layoutMonitoring the selection change
• Merging during the menus and strips

the best thing about Kathleen’s presentation was that it was practical and she addressed the usual blues one would encounter during Winforms development.

Her blog can be reached here.

ASP.NET 2.0 tips and tricks
Rob Howard

Rob Howard, former Microsoft ASP.NET team member discussed multitude of cool techniques, tips and tricks during his presentation including but not limited to

• Making application offline via App_Offline.htmLoad testingSQL DependencyIHTTPModule usage and register it with IIS for background service.Output cacheHTTP debug proxy
• IIS 7.0 URL Re-writing / mapping

Rob Howard’s Blog
code.CommunityServer.org

Writing Reliable Code with .NET Framework 2.0
Stephen Toub

This was an in-depth, down to the CLR insightful session providing that you do “unsafe” development otherwise its still something to keep at the back of your head while development. Steve discussed topics like managed debugging assistants, ThreadAbortException, reliability MDA, PrepareConstrainedRegion, safe handles, handle recycling attacks, reliability constraints, escalation procedures, constrained execution regionsm fail fast etc.Very interesting things to explore; Steve’s articles and blog links are as follows.

Stephen Toub’s blog
High Availability: Keep Your Code Running with the Reliability Features of the .NET Framework  (MSDN Magazine)
.NET Matters: Debugger Visualizations, Garbage Collection  (MSDN Magazine)
Bug Bash: Let The CLR Find Bugs For You With Managed Debugging Assistants  (MSDN Magazine) 

Chalk Talk Session – Ajax.NET
Microsoft Corp.

The chalk talk session was a last minute announcement from 7:00 – 9:00. The topic was good but the speakers lost us in first ten minute so Rob, Ajit and I ended up heading to Mandalay Bay Buffet where tasty salmon was waiting for us.

Alex Homer addressing the Enterprise Library

Brian Noyes on Windows Workflow foundation.

The updated slides and samples for devConnections are/will be posted here.

VS.NET Connections
http://www.devconnections.com/updates/LasVegasFall%5F06/VS%5FConnections/

ASP.NET Connections
http://www.devconnections.com/updates/LasVegasFall%5F06/ASP_Connections/

and last but not least, a fellow attendee and MS MVP Bil Simers writes about DevConnections Day 2, the tweleve days of Vegas

Following is the order in which I attended the sessions and some details about each of them.

Web Development of IIS 7.0. Integrating IIS into ASP.NET Development Process
Eric Woersching and Andrew Lin

Eric demonstrated Microsoft’s new approach of integrating ASP.NET with IIS 7, the new and improved control panel and ease of tasks administration with the new IIS console.

Their presentation included

• Using IHTTPHandler class to add a copyright message to the jpegs using an HTTP module and adding a module using IIS 7.0
• Failed request event buffering as IIS 7.0 diagnostic tools
• Customizable Tracing and  logging in IIS 7.0
• HTTP errors, Tracing & logging web based control
• web.config and integrated management tools API
• Rich diagnostics in IIS 7.0
• Adding roles in IIS 7.0 and configuring forms authentication for it.

He recommended www.IIS.net as a prime resource for all things IIS 7.0 and ASP.NET.

Be more productive with SQL Server 2005 tools
Michael Raheem

This was a developer focused and quite informative session about SQL Server 2005 tools.
Michael showed demos for SQL Server Management Studio, SQL Agent, Profiler and Database Engine Tuning Advisor. If you have been using SQL Server 2005 or its client tools for some time now, you probably already know part of these things but some of the things I found new or cool are listed below.

• Writing MDX query from management studio without any extra prep, just like a typical SQL query, select measures and the whole bit.
• Show execution plan which is quite a neat tool available in 2000 is now much improved and can be used for collaboration. You can pass around the query execution plan and optimize it treating it more like a visio class diagram (analogy).
• Object explorer connection features and multi-threading i.e. multiple expansions and connections can happen at the same time.
• You can apply filters on the meta data retrieval. (most filters stays active only as long as your session is active)
• Use the object explorer details and it can perform multi-select on tables. (SP2).
• xmla can be used and executed from query analyzer (xml for analysis)
• database mirroring, failover mirroring, disaster recovery protection is quite easy with a witness server providing maximum downtime during upgrades
• Activity monitor refresh is configurable for you to monitor what’s going on undercover.
• Additional filter in activity monitor for block and unblock checks (new role added to grant monitoring)
• Dashboard for analysis services jobs
• SQL Server alerts can now collaborate with WMI alerts
• One can build comprehensive maintenance plans and process flow using GUI
• Trace properties and profilable events are almost doubled and therefore things like catching deadlocks is quite easy.
• Database engine tuning adviser allows you to easily improve performance of query on the server and provide recommendation on index etc.

This was more of a demo session in which Mike demonstrated different features of SQL 2005 tools.

I had to go for our company’s data center visit to I ended up missing lunch and 1:30 sessions. The next session I attended was the following.

Data Warehousing with SQL Server 2005
Eric Hanson

I was quite interested in learning the basics of data warehousing using SQL Server 2005 so I decided to take this session and it was well worth it. Eric Hanson described best practices for relational data warehousing with SQL Server 2005 along with the following.

• How to use the SQL Server 2005 engine as a data warehouse, in coordination with transactional data sources
• SQL Server Integration Services for ETL best practices
• Use of partitioning to manage the sliding window scenario for large fact tables.
• Best practices in bulk loading and removal.
• Management of statistics, Index and indexed view designs.
• Writing queries to get good query plans, creating conditions to support star join optimization, and recognizing star join plans.
• Multi-user workload, hardware sizing and selection.
• Use of the scalable shared database technology for scale-out of a read-only database.

 His suggestions about not creating PK and FK’s on large warehouse DB’s to speed up ETL too some time to settle in. Similarly the idea of using OLEDB instead of SQL managed provider in events of imports; quite an interesting topic but when I left the session, I was equating flat files with DW approach, bizarre, isn’t it?

Tips & tricks for building websites with Visual Studio 2005, ASP.NET 2.0 and IIS 7
Scott Guthrie

For those of you who know Scott Guthrie, unlike most of the other product managers he is a hardcode development guru at heart and an excellent presenter. His sessions are no fluff, period. Like Rob said, “if you miss something during his session, you know something else you didn’t know is coming shortly”. Scott’s presentations are a balance of demo’s and power points, the best I have seen so far.

This particular presentation was full of ‘wow’ and ‘aha’ features, even for a topic like ASP.NET 2.0 which has been presented many times now. Even though Scott focused on Ajax feature-set during most part, he also provided a non-trivial discussions of master pages, themes/skins, site navigation, SQL output caching, personalization, membership, role management, Web site administration, IIS7 management and Web deployment process. I came in quite late after attending the data warehousing session but from what Rob and Ajit said, it was quite interesting.

Scott said he will be posting the slides and sample source on his blog. His blog can be found here.
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/

Developing Data Driven Applications with .NET Integrated Language Query (DLINQ)
Scott Guthrie

This was quite an interesting topic and spark up a debate. Rob got all hyped up about it seeing how cool it was and kept saying that “this will revolutionize the way we code” and “here comes the demise of all ORM tools, I can just see it”. However Ajit was skeptical of having bunch of DLINQ statements laying around and felt like it won’t be a good enterprise architecture, analogous to having dynamic SQL in the code. I was thinking more towards

How does it work under the covers: While doing a project recently I got a chance to actually run reflector on DLINQ assemblies to see what it really does? Common understanding is that it builds a SQL query and let the relational engine of SQL server 2005 take over however I believe its wrong. From what I saw it provides its own set of relational operations and perform them on the returned result set, I have to further investigate it.

Further details on LINQ from Scott’s blog on the following links.

Tips/Tricks and LINQ Slides+Demos from my Talk in Dallas
Using LINQ with ASP.NET
Using DLINQ with ASP.NET
DLINQ with Stored Procedures
Tip/Trick: Handling Errors with the UpdatePanel control using ASP.NET AJAX

Later on there was vendors exhibition in the expo hall from 7:00 -8:00 PM and Microsoft unplugged night later during the evening. We got bunch of swag including T-shirts (special thanks to xmlspy guys), product DVD’s, cool toys and so on. Code Smith rep has almost promised me a license so I’m looking forward to it.

The internet kiosk @ DevConnections.

The Three Musketeers; Adnan Masood, Ajit Kumar and Rob Walling.

Microsoft @ the Expo Hall

Microsoft Unplugged Event.

Crew filming about Pet-Peeves you ever had with Microsoft.

Looking forward to another busy learning day…

I attended DevConnections last year and found it to be quite
informative developer educational event. The program includes simultaneously running
conferences on ASP.NET, Visual Studio.NET, SQL Server, Office and Mobile development. With well recognized and renowned speakers
like Scott Guthrie, Michelle Bustamante, Juval Löwy, Dino Esposito and lots of
more to mention, it’s a must place to be.

So thanks to my employer, Green Dot Corporation, I’ll be
there this year as well with Rob Walling and Ajit Kumar. My program looks like this.

5^th
November – Pre-Conference Workshop – Windows
Forms—Beyond the Basics by Ken Getz 

Conference
Sessions (November 6-9)

10^th
November – Post-Conference Workshop – Mastering
WCF in a Day Juval Löwy

See
you there!

Thanks everyone for sharing their presentations, slides and experiences. As Owen Arthur said “Often, we are too slow to recognize how much and in what ways we can assist each other through sharing such expertise and knowledge.”

Following is the list of presentations, slides and notes compiled by participants and speakers.

Brandon Satrom’s Mindmaps; excellent mind manager notes, will make you feel like you were almost there.

Michele Leroux Bustamante

• Dev Connections APF301: Performance Tuning and Monitoring your ASP.NET Applications


• DevConnections AGN351: 10 Essentials for a Professional ASP.NET 2.0 Application


• DevConnections ADX352: Beyond Drag & Drop Data Access: How to Decouple ASP.NET 2.0 Data Binding from Presentation


• DevConnections VPO357: Best Practice Approaches to .NET 2.0 Localization Architecture


• DevConnections VID307-Designing Services With Indigo & VID304: Indigo and Security: Experience the Magic


• DevConnections VPR203: Return of the Smart Client – What the heck do I do now?


• DevConnections VPR203: Return of the Smart Client – What the heck do I do now?

Brian Noyes

• VSM356: Build Custom Data Bound Business Objects and Collections Slides   Demos


• VSM351: Secure Smart Client ClickOnce Deployments Slides   Demos


• VID306: Build Event-Driven Applications with Indigo   Slides   Demos


• VID309: Connect Smart Client Applications with Indigo  Slides   Demos|


• Connecting Smart Client Applications with Indigo: Slides   Demos

Paul Litwin’s
(Thanks for the custom assemblies additional slides Paul, congrats on getting Microsoft Ace award!)

• Download SQL Server Reporting Services for Devs samples


• View ASP.NET 2.0 Data Controls slides


• Download ASP.NET 2.0 Data Controls samples


• View SQL Server Reporting Services for Devs slides


• View Additional slides (Not Presented) on Using Custom Assemblies

Steven Smith

• Visual Studio 2005 Web Deployment Projects Public Beta


• Unit Testing and Build Management in .NET 2.0


• Unit Testing and Build Management in .NET 1.x


• Caching in ASP.NET 2.0 with SQL2K5

Markus’ Avalon (WPF) Examples

Dan Wahlin

New XML Features in .NET Version 2

Work with RSS Feeds using the System.Xml Assembly

Asynchronous Web Service Options in .NET V2

And the following non sequitur links on security

Twenty Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities.

Security Practices: ASP.NET 2.0 Security Practices at a Glance

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