Microsoft Developer Days 2003 (Louvain-La-Neuve
18-19 Feb 2003)
On February 18th and 19th, almost 1.000 developers, software architects and IT professionals
attended Microsoft Belux’s Developer Days 2003 event. With more than 25 in-depth
technical sessions, “AXX the Expert”, the Partner Plaza and much more, attendees
learned about the latest of .NET technology and built connections with their peers.
U2U presented the following four sessions at DevDays:
Wim Uyttersprot, "Best Practices for Object Oriented Programming in .NET (300)",
See at work how you can take advantage of the possibilities of Object Oriented Programming
(language independent, like this session); visual and component inheritance, overloading
etc. Downloads:
Presentation,
Demo
Jurgen Postelmans, "Advanced Data Access in Microsoft Visual Studio
.NET (300)", This session provides you with the best solutions for implementing
and achieving optimal performance, scalability, and functionality in your Microsoft
ADO.NET applications; it also covers best practices when using objects available
in ADO.NET and offers suggestions that can help you optimize the design of your
ADO.NET application. In this session we’ll talk about: Information about the .NET
Framework data providers included with the .NET Framework, comparisons between the
DataSet and the DataReader, and an explanation of the best use for each of these
objects, an explanation on how to use the DataSet, Commands, and Connections, information
about integrating with XML, general tips and issues. Downloads:
Presentation,
Demo
Jurgen Postelmans, "Building Scalable and High Performance Web Applications
with IIS 6.0 and ASP.NET", The session focuses on the performance and scalability
features of IIS 6.0. Topics include: taking advantage of the kernel mode cache,
performance API, workload affinitization configuration for scale-up, and scale-out
capabilities. Learn how you can use upcoming features of IIS 6.0 such as remote
administration, caching, and metabase improvements, as well as custom isolation
and security enhancements to build more scalable and reliable Web applications.
Make your ASP.NET applications faster by using the best practices for improving
ASP.NET performance and throughput. In this session, learn about using output caching
and the ASP.NET caching APIs to optimize application throughput. Explore a variety
of application authoring practices that contribute to writing high-performance Web
applications. Downloads:
Presentation,
Demo
Patrick Tisseghem, "Tips and Tricks for writing scalable and secure
Applications with Windows Server 2003", When you install Windows Server
2003, by default everything is locked (just the opposite of the former Windows Operating
Systems). In this session we will show you tips and tricks how you can ensure a
productive, secure and scalable environment with Windows Server 2003 2003.Downloads:
Presentation
Microsoft BeLux Windows .NET Server
DevCon
The Windows .NET Server DevCon was held September 3-6 in Seattle, WA. The Server
DevCon was the premier conference to learn everything about writing scalable, trustworthy
enterprise applications for the Windows server family. Designed for developers and
architects of ISVs, Enterprises and System Integrators, the DevCon offered more
than 100 highly technical sessions and provided the best training opportunity on
all the new features of Windows .NET Server. For those of you that couldn’t make
it to the Server DevCon this year, Microsoft BeLux organises a “best-off” re-delivery
day on October 22nd at Living Tomorrow 2, Brussels.
10.00 – 11.00 Building Scalable and High Performance Web Applications with IIS 6.0
and ASP.NET by Jurgen Postelmans, U2U
This session focuses on the performance and scalability features of IIS 6.0. Topics
include: taking advantage of the kernel mode cache, performance API, workload affinitization
configuration for scale-up, and scale-out capabilities. Learn how you can use upcoming
features of IIS 6.0 such as remote administration, caching, and metabase improvements,
as well as custom isolation and security enhancements to build more scalable and
reliable Web applications.
Make your ASP.NET applications faster by using the best practices for improving
ASP.NET performance and throughput. In this session, learn about using output caching
and the ASP.NET caching APIs to optimize application throughput. Explore a variety
of application authoring practices that contribute to writing high-performance Web
applications.
13.15 – 14.15 GXA: The Emerging XML Standard and the Current and Planned .NET GXA
, Implementations, by Patrick Tisseghem, U2U
The Global XML Web Services Architecture is the underlying architecture for building
Web Services. The majority of implementation work to date has been on SOAP and interoperability,
however numerous other specifications have been released and are following the standards
process. This session reviews the WS Routing, WS Referral, WS License and WS Security
specifications, and some initial implementations based on the .NET Framework Web
Service base classes.
15.45 – 16.45 .NET Programming and Component Services (COM+) Now and in the Future,
by Jurgen Postelmans, U2U
This session covers Component Services (COM+) today, in the Windows .NET Server
OS and works with managed code and how these services will evolve in the future.
In this session you learn how to create COM+ components in managed code, written
in any managed language, and how to use those components in COM+ runtime component
packages. Learn the tricks and pitfalls of mixing managed and unmanaged code in
a single COM+ package. Learn about COM+ transactions and managed code running in
the CLR. For example, does COM+ or the CLR garbage collector manage component lifetime?
MSDN Chapter ".NET
Development Best Practices"
Application Development has become more productive with Microsoft's latest development
environment, Visual Studio .NET. This MSDN Chapter will give you valuable guidance
for the new technologies and development possibilities.
This free half day event will provide you in-depth information how you can make
use of proven practices and patterns and how you can apply this with code samples
regarding data access via ADO.NET.
Finally, do not miss the sneak preview and demo of the Microsoft Tablet PC. At the
end of this MSDN Chapter we'll show you how this next generation PC will give users
& developers a whole new experience and how Tablet PC will become a new platform
for developers to target, using their existing .NET developer skills."
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