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Be among the first to prove your Microsoft .NET design and development skills when Microsoft launches the new Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) for Microsoft .NET certification at VSLive! From February 11-13 from 12pm to 8 pm. Register now to take MCSD for Microsoft .NET exams—core and elective exams are eligible—at VSLive! for $62.50, which is half the regular price. MCSD attendees can take the new exam 70-300: Analyzing Requirements and Defining Microsoft .NET Solution Architectures onsite at VSLive! at no cost! See VUE registration site for details. Please note this is only available to registered VSLive! attendees. Space is limited so register early.

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.NET Focus Day Tuesday, February 11, 2003
9 a.m. Visual Studio .NET: Built for Today, Ready for Tomorrow
Eric Rudder, Senior Vice President of Developer and Platform Evangelism, Microsoft
10:15 a.m. Building Windows Applications with Visual Studio .NET
Microsoft
11:30 a.m.
Visual Studio .NET Data Access
Microsoft
12:30 p.m.
Lunch
1:30 p.m. Web Application Development in Visual Studio .NET
Microsoft
2:45 p.m. Building and Consuming XML Web Services
Yasser Shohoud, Microsoft
4 p.m. Middle-Tier Component Development in Visual Studio .NET
Microsoft
5.15 p.m. Deploying Visual Studio .NET Applications
Microsoft
6.30 p.m. Building Office Solutions with Visual Studio .NET
Microsoft
 
VSLive! San Francisco Wednesday, February 12, 2003
8 a.m. Microsoft and Partners Breakfast Session: Award Winning Apps with VS.NET and .NET Framework
Sponsored by: Microsoft
9 a.m. Best Approach to Software Management: A Discussion
Point/Counter-point Discussion, Featuring Interaction Design Guru Alan Cooper, and Rational Software's Alan Brown
 
 
Visual Basic Advancements
Data Access
.NET Framework
ASP Live!
SQL Live!
C# Live!
10:30 a.m.
VB .NET OOP for the VB 6 Developer
Deborah Kurata, InStep Technologies

Migrating from ADO to ADO .NET
Jackie Goldstein, Renaissance Computer Systems LTD.
Fill the Gaps with WMI
Ken Getz, MCW Technologies
Exception Handling in ASP.NET Applications
Don Kiely, Third Sector Technologies

SQL Live! San Francisco begins on Thursday, February 13
Multi-Threaded .NET Clients
Chris Sells, Sells Brothers, Inc.
11:45 a.m. Objects in the Real World
Billy Hollis, Guided Design
Accessing the Oracle Database from .NET
Alex Keh, Oracle Corporation
Threading with Visual Basic .NET
Jon Rauschenberger, Clarity Consulting
Build Transactional ASP.NET Pages and Web Services
Juval Lowy, IDesign
Instrumenting Your C#/.NET Application with System Diagnostics
Martin L. Shoemaker,
Martin L. Shoemaker Consulting
12:45 p.m. Special Lunchtime Presentation: Practical .NET Architecture: A Discussion
Deborah Kurata, InStep Technologies
Lunch Hour Presentation: .NET Speech SDK
Ken Getz, MCW Technologies and Marty Schaeferle, AppDev
Lunch
  Smart Client Data Access Framework
ASP Live!
C# Live!
2 p.m. Creating Rich Clients with Windows Forms
Brian Randell, MCW Technologies

Accessing, Caching and Updating Data
Bill Vaughn, Beta V Corporation
The .NET Framework for VB Developers
Keith Pleas, Guided Design
Use ASP.NET to Simplify Web Site Maintenance
Phil Weber, FTPOnline
Build a Distributed, Plug-In Object Broker, Part l: Attributes, Metadata, Reflection and WeakReferences
Richard Hale Shaw, The Richard Hale Shaw Group
3:15 p.m. Designing Highly Scalable Distributed Apps with .NET, Part 1
Rockford Lhotka, Magenic Technologies

The DataSet Unplugged
Jackie Goldstein, Renaissance Computer Systems LTD.
Leveraging the .NET Framework Using Visual Basic .NET
Keith Pleas, Guided Design
Dynamic Graphics and Charting in ASP.NET
Jonathan Goodyear, angryCoder.com
Real-World Enterprise Web Application Development
Dominic Selly, Capella University
4:30 p.m. Optimizing Windows Application Performance
Billy Hollis, Guided Design
Data Containers for .NET
Jimmy Nilsson, JNSK
Visual Basic .NET and the Win32 API
Dan Appleman, Desaware
Dig into the ASP.Net DataGrid Control
Ken Getz, MCW Technologies
Advanced Custom Controls for Windows Forms and Web Forms
Andrew Troelson, InterTech-Inc
5:45 p.m. Zero-Touch Deployment
Andrew Brust, Progressive Systems Consulting
Disconnected Datasets and Synchronization
Josef Finsel, G.A. Sullivan
Save Yourself with .NET Serialization
Ken Getz, MCW Technologies, LLC
Templates and Code Re-use in ASP.NET
Jonathan Goodyear, angryCoder.com
Advanced .NET Development Techniques: How .NET Assembly Loading Really Works
Chris Sells, Sells Brothers, Inc.
6:30 p.m. Exhibition Evening Reception
8 p.m. Midnight Madness
sponsored by  
 
VSLive! San Francisco Thursday, February 13, 2003
9 a.m. Database of the Future: A Preview of Yukon and Other Technical Advancements
David Campbell, Product Unit Manager, SQL Server Engine, Microsoft
 
  Debugging Framework Mobile Application ASP Live! SQL Live! C# Live!
10:30 a.m. Debugging with Visual Basic .NET
John Robbins, Wintellect
Implementing .NET Remoting
Richard Grimes, Author
Building Mobile Apps Quickly
Andy Wigley, Content Master
ASP.NET DataBinding
Andrew Brust, Progressive Systems Consulting
Designing for Performance: General Database Optimizations
Kimberly L. Tripp, SYSolutions
.NET Remoting in C#
Richard Hale Shaw, The Richard Hale Shaw Group
11:45 a.m. Tracing and Logging in .NET
Dan Appleman, Desaware
.NET Security Techniques
Juval Lowy, Idesign
Smart Device Extensions
Dan Fergus, Wintellect
Apply IHttpHandler and IhttpModule
Michiel de Bruijn, CodeV Technologies
Securing Your SQL Server: Security from Every Level
Girish Chander , Microsoft
Inside IIS & ASP.NET: Intercepting HTTP Requests
Michele Leroux Bustamante, IDesign Inc.
12:45 p.m. Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Hour Presentation: Best Practices for ASP.NET
Chris Kinsman, Guided Design
Lunch Hour Presentation: BI for Everyone: Leveraging the benefits of BI across the Enterprise
Kamal Hathi, Group Manager, SQL Server data warehousing team
Lunch
  Web Migration Application Design ASP Live! SQL Live! C# Live!
          Performance & Development Business Intelligence & Replication  
2 p.m. ADO .NET and XML
Andrew Brust, Progressive Systems Consulting
Upgrading VB 6 Apps to Visual Basic .NET
Keith Pleas, Guided Design
Designing Highly Scalable Distributed Apps with .NET
Rockford Lhotka, Magenic technologies
User Authentication in ASP.NET
Michiel de Bruijn, X42 Development and Consultancy
Designing Efficient User-Defined Functions in SQL Server 2000
Fernando G. Guerrero, QA plc, UK
Data Transformation Services: Achieving Re-usability
Trey Johnson
Build a Distributed, Plug-In Object Broker, Part ll: .NET Remoting and Events
Richard Hale Shaw, The Richard Hale Shaw Group
3:15 p.m. ASP.NET Globalization
Michele Leroux Bustamante, IDesign Inc.
Migrating from COM to the CLR
Brian Randell, MCW Technologies, LLC
Ultra Compressed Design
Christopher Duncan, Show Programming of Atlanta
Postback: Creating and Handling Events in Custom Server Controls
G. Andrew Duthie, Graymad Enterprise, Inc.
The Need for Speed
Robert Patton, PurchasingFirst
Optimum Error Handling and Auditing within DTS
Trey Johnson
Analyzing, Architecting, and Modeling N-tiered C# Applications
Martin L. Shoemaker, Martin L. Shoemaker Consulting
4:30 p.m. Advanced Web Services Development
Aaron Skonnard, DevelopMentor
Exception Handling in .NET
Richard Grimes, Author
In-Depth Transaction Design
Jimmy Nilsson, JNSK
Design-time Support for Custom Server Controls
G. Andrew Duthie, Graymad Enterprise, Inc.
Max Rows/Sec: How to Optimize Data Loading Performance
Gert E. R. Drapers, SQLDev.Net
Merge Replication: Strategizing, Part I
Mike Hotek
WinForms Over the Web
Chris Sells, Sells Brothers, Inc.
5:45p.m.         Pedal to the Metal: Maximize your SQL Server’s Performance
Gert E. R. Drapers, SQLDev.Net
Merge Replication: Strategizing, Part II
Mike Hotek