IndyTechFest 2007: Track 3: Tips & Tricks in a .NET World

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Track 3: Tips & Tricks in a .NET World

Tips & Tricks in a .NET World
3-1	What You Can Do In Visual Studio 2008	Stephen Fulcher
3-2	Tips and Tricks for the C# developer including C# 3	Mark Strawmyer
3-3	Tips and Tricks with AJAX (Web 2.0 in a Microsoft World)	Mark Strawmyer
3-4	Tips and Tricks for a VB developer including VB 9	Bill Steele
3-5	SQL Server Database Design and T-SQL Best Practices	Arie Jones

What You Can Do In Visual Studio 2008
Presented By Stephen Fulcher
In this session, we will go through a series of tips and techniques on getting things done more quickly and easily in VS 2008:
• Targeting specific framework versions
• New project templates
• The new database project tools
• Key language enhancements
• Building and testing WCF services
• ASP.NET AJAX tools
• ASP.NET design and style enhancements
• Mobile development with device security

Tips and Tricks for the C# Developer Including C# 3
Presented By Mark Strawmyer

This C# exclusive session will focus on tips and tricks for the C# developer. It will contain a mixture of C# specific features along with other handy how-to items such as shortcuts for working with the C# IDE that will make you more productive.

Tips and Tricks with AJAX (Web 2.0 in a Microsoft World)
This session will focus on building Web 2.0 concepts in a Microsoft based toolset. It will cover examples of building an online community utilizing ASP.NET and AJAX. It will feature a real world case study based on the Indianapolis Colts myColts.net social networking site.

SQL Server Database Design and T-SQL Best Practices

Presented By Arie Jones

One of the most frustrating aspects of database optimization can be the non-use of best practices for both database design and T-SQL coding. This session covers some of the basic and not-so basic elements involved in good database design and T-SQL coding practices. You can then be armed with the appropriate knowledge to make the right business decisions up front in the design process before moving to implementation and save your organization TCO dollars over the long term.

Tips and Tricks for a VB Developer Including VB9
Presented By Bill Steele

In this session, you will learn about several of the new features in Visual Basic 9. VB9 expands on the previous versions of VB with many enhancements, including Anonymous Types, Extension Methods, LINQ and several new XML language enhancements. In this session, we will learn about the general enhancements to the languages and see how we can use them in our day to day programming. You will also learn how to gain access to data in new ways with LINQ. Lastly, you will learn how you can integrate XML directly into your code. This session is full of fun and exciting demos.