U2U, Gold Sponsor of Tech Days 2008

U2U at the Microsoft Tech Days 2008 in Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg

Microsoft Developer & IT Pro Days 2007, sponsored by U2U, developers and IT pros were prepared for the next "The Connected Generation" of applications and systems.

The U2U sessions @ TechDays 2008 in Belgium

U2U presents the following sessions:

Building RIAs for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 (Patrick Tisseghem & Karine Bosch)

In this session you’ll learn how to leverage Web 2.0 technologies to deliver a rich and interactive end-user experience for SharePoint sites and content. Topics that will be covered are: building ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 enabled Web Parts; creating and consuming SharePoint Web Services that are AJAX-enabled; Web Parts hosting Silverlight 1.0 and 2.0 applications; techniques to have the Silverlight applications communicated back and forth with SharePoint content such as items in lists and libraries, user profile information and search results; samples of how publishing portals can be enriched with Silverlight navigation controls and enhanced page layouts; demos on how to build Vista Gadgets that display SharePoint content using traditional UI techniques as well as using Silverlight.

New Enterprise Search Technologies: Microsoft Search Server 2008, Federated Search and Faceted Search (Patrick Tisseghem)

The Microsoft search space has been extended with a number of important products and technologies. The goals of this session is to give you an overview of the latest features from a developers point of view. Following topics will be covered: search administration with the Microsoft Search Server 2008, Federated Location Definition files and how to use them to create new federated search locations, customization of the Microsoft Search 2008 Search Center, deep-dive in the XSL that is used to transform the search results into the HTML representation displayed in the browser, faceted search, refinement of the search results and the delivery of options to have users execute a search within the search. This session is also an opportunity for Patrick Tisseghem to highlight the topics that are covered in his latest MS Press book “Inside the Index and Search Engine” out in the shops around April 2008.

The ABC of building services with WCF (Peter Himschoot)

In today’s highly connected world being able to communicate is very important, especially for your applications. But how? Web Services? Remoting? Enterprise Services? WCF is Microsoft’s unified framework for building communication into your application, ready for the future. In this session we will look at building services with WCF, getting our hands dirty through building a service live, in front of your eyes. After this session you should have a clear understanding of the development life-cycle for WCF, the advantages of using WCF and how to proceed with it yourself.

An overview of Visual Studio 2008 (Peter Himschoot)

Explore all the new Visual Studio 2008 features, from language enhancements; improved designers; Web and smart-client development tools; to Visual Studio Team System, a suite of software lifecycle management tools poised to transform how you deliver software for Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, and the Web.

Building Applications for Windows Vista and Office 2007 with Visual Studio 2008 (Peter Himschoot)

The 2007 Microsoft Office system has evolved into a business application platform that developers can use to build and deploy Office Business Applications (OBAs). This session demonstrates how developers can use Visual Studio 2008 to build OBAs, customize Microsoft Office applications, and utilize the Microsoft Office platform. This session also new features and improvements introduced in Visual Studio 2008 for smart client development. Secondly, we demonstrate how you can leverage both Windows Presentation Foundation and Windows Forms in a single application to build the right experience for your customer. Finally, we show feedback-driven improvements to existing features in Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, and ClickOnce.

Running externalized Business Rules in any .Net application (including Sharepoint) with the Workflow Foundation Rules Engine (Serge Luca)

As an important subsystem of the .Net Framework 3.0 and 3.5, Windows Workflow Foundation provides 2 engines: a Workflow Engine and a Rules Engine. The Rules Engine is a very interesting way to isolate the Business Rules from the other parts of the application which will be therefore much easier to maintain; the Rules Engine also manages interaction between rules thanks to its forward chaining feature; another benefit is that a business analyst or a power user can modify the business rules without having to recompile the application. In this session, we will have an overview of the Rules Engine , you will see how to store business rules in a repository , how to use rules without workflow , how to organize the code and how to use the Rules engine in any application. We will take the case of Microsoft Windows Sharepoint Services 3 or MOSS 2007 web parts.

The U2U sessions @ DevDays 2008 in Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

U2U presents the following sessions:

Building RIAs for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 (Patrick Tisseghem)

New Enterprise Search Technologies: Microsoft Search Server 2008, Federated Search and Faceted Search (Patrick Tisseghem)

Building a Silverlight 2.0 application: End-to-End (Peter Himschoot)

In this session you will learn how we can use Silverlight 2.0 to build applications that run inside the browser. We will cover calling Web services to retrieve data, do data binding to display and modify this data, and how to customize controls with styles and templates. At the same time you will see the new controls available in Silverlight 2.0 and how we can use animations to create smooth experiences. And finally we will look at Microsoft’s exciting new technology called DeepZoom.

WCF on the WEB: Using REST and JSON with WCF (Peter Himschoot)

Microsoft has been advocating SOAP as the best way of building Web services. And although SOAP can be used anywhere, there are alternatives. In this session we will look at the alternatives JSON and REST, how we can build these services (and their clients such as ASP.NET AJAX and Silverlight) with Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation. We will also cover guidelines on how to choose between SOAP, JSON and REST.

Getting your SharePoint Code Deployed (Jan Tielens)

Het schrijven van SharePoint-code valt best wel mee, maar veel developers ondervinden moeilijkheden om hun code te deployen naar de SharePoint-servers. Deze sessie behandelt alle topics die hieraan gerelateerd zijn: Features, Solutions, upgrading etc. Bovendien wordt ook een aantal best practices, Visual Studio templates en handige tools voorgesteld, die het leven van de SharePoint-ontwikkelaar aanzienlijk vergemakkelijken.

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