Writing dynamic, high-performance Web applications has never been easier — or more important. ASP.NET combines unprecedented developer productivity with performance, reliability, and deployment. And while ASP.NET 2.0 is a ways away, you need to get work done now. Attend ASP Live! and find out how to make the most of ASP.NET 1.1 and solve today’s problems.

ASP.NET Whidbey
Rob Howard
March 25, 10:30 a.m.
ASP.NET "Whidbey" and Visual Studio "Whidbey" are the next release of Microsoft's Web platform and tools. With "Whidbey" you will be able to build powerful, scalable, and feature-rich Web applications faster than ever before. Common and never-before possible scenarios become simple allowing developers to build the best Web experience. In this session we will take a look at what the next version of the Web platform and tools will deliver.

ASP.NET DataBinding
Andrew Brust
March 25, 11:45 a.m.
ASP.NET offers Web developers some of the same RAD, data binding niceties that have long been available to Windows developers. The good news is, this helps you meet IT economy demands to get those Web database apps out the door faster and cheaper than ever before. The challenge is that stateless ASP.NET data binding works much differently from traditional Windows Forms Data Binding and you ’ll need to master those differences to use the technology successfully. Learn the ins and outs of ASP.NET Data Binding at design-time and in code and learn how to integrate strongly-typed DataSets into the Data Binding equation.

Speech-Enabling ASP.NET Applications with the New Microsoft Speech Server
Richard Irving, Microsoft
March 25, 12:45 p.m. (Lunchtime Session)

Metropolis: Trends in Information Technology
Pat Helland
March 25, 2 p.m.
This talk will examine the changes that occurred in independent and largely disconnected cities as they were rapidly connected by railroads causing dramatic shifts in standardization, manufacturing, and retail. Parallels are drawn to the current changes in information technology as independent and largely disconnected IT shops have been rapidly connected by the internet causing dramatic shifts in standardization, structured data, and business process. This analogy offers some interesting insight into where we are going in information technology and a framework to understand the current trend towards service oriented architectures and Web services in our enterprise customers.

Dig Into the ASP.NET DataGrid Control
Ken Getz
March 25, 3:15 p.m.
The ASP.NET DataGrid is an incredibly powerful control. You can load it with data from many different sources. You can format its output, and sort and filter its data. You can edit, update, and delete rows in the grid, and add event procedures to handle clicking just about anything in the grid. You can provide your own templates for columns, adding just about any control you need for a particular column's display. Find out how to take advantage of much of the power and flexibility provided by the amazing ASP.NET DataGrid control, and how to manage data using the control, as well.

ASP.NET Mobile Controls
Sanjay Shetty
March 25, 4:30 p.m.
ASP.NET mobile controls are the only technology toolset from the Microsoft platform that lets you target not only Microsoft but non-Microsoft products such as PALM, SONY, NOKIA devices. Get the inside scope of the rendering model and the controls that enable this. Learn how to customize the rendering for devices, how to build one solution, one code base, which can target the web, the phone, the PDA as well as any new device which comes out in the market. Customize and create your own custom controls. Learn whats new in Whidbey to take your mobile code to new levels.

Top 10 Tricks for a "Killer" Web Application
Ken Getz/Paul Sheriff
March 25, 5:45 p.m.
Creating a flexible Web application is more than just putting together a bunch of ASPX pages. Learn the top 10 things to do to make an ASP.NET application sizzle! See demonstrated techniques such as: configuration management, creating a base page class, and creating a data-driven menu system. See how to benefit from User Controls and effective exception management. Learn how optimizing your architecture will increase your code reuse from one ASP.NET application to another, and how it will reduce your development time! See how this worked in the real world at a major insurance company's Web site.

It's the WORLDWIDE Web: Internalization and Globalization with ASP.NET
Scott Hanselman
March 26, 10:30 a.m.
ASP.NET gives developers more power than ever before to create diverse, multilingual, multicultural Web sites. The Windows .NET Framework provide rich support for Number Formatting, Date Formatting and Resource-based Localization. However, localizing Web Pages in ASP.NET often isn’t easy. We’ll explore the complexities of Resource Files and Satellite Assemblies and how to exploit them in ASP.NET. We’ll look at how to create a Web site with localized DataGrids, Dynamic menus, DateTime and Currency information that is localized in half a dozen languages. We’ll explore localization issues in East Asian languages, as well as Right-To-Left issues when localizing in languages like Arabic. We’ll also look at how Cascading StyleSheets (CSS) can help in globalization and applying different “skins” to global sites. We’ll dig into System.Globalization and discover the hidden culture of .NET. Sprechen zie ASP.NET?

Locking Down ASP.NET Applications
Don Kiely
March 26, 11:45 a.m.
One of the scariest things about going live with any kind of Web site — Internet or intranet — is potential vulnerabilities that malicious hackers can exploit to destroy your data or disfigure your site. Security is a complex topic, with features at every level of an app from operating system to your custom code. This session will focus on one thing: locking down your ASP.NET application to make it as unbreakable as technology allows, starting with the backend database up through the user interface.

Developing Word and Excel Solutions with Visual Studio Tools for Office – Tips & Tricks
Paul Cornell
March 26, 12:45 p.m. (Lunchtime Session)
Go beyond the basics of Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System, Version 2003 by learning tips and tricks to enable you to quickly build more robust business solutions in Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003 targeting Microsoft Office Word 2003 and Microsoft Office Excel 2003. In this session, you'll learn how to debug Visual Studio Tools for Office solutions, use built-in and user-defined helper functions to make your coding tasks easier, understand how to modify .NET Framework security policy using the .NET Framework 1.1 security tools, and deploy a code-signed solution using a Setup project in Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003.

Troubleshooting ASP.NET Applications
Olga Londer
March 26, 2 p.m.
This session concentrates on some of the most common issues developers come across, and tips and tricks for resolving them. We will talk about deployment, monitoring and tuning ASP.NET applications, and how to troubleshoot common problems including memory leaks and deadlocks. Tools such as Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM), CLR Profiler, Windbg, and SOS will be discussed. Some best practices and settings will be introduced.

Extreme Exception Handling in ASP.NET
Don Kiely
March 26, 3:15 p.m.
By now everyone knows to use Try-Catch blocks in .NET code and use RemoteOnly default exception handling in web.config. Ho-hum. But how do you make your apps stronger than steel, able to outlive the most egregious problems? During this session we'll dig deep into advanced features like custom exception objects, ASP.NET and IIS configurations, and custom IIS errors, and lots more that keep users happy while your app sings.

A-Z of ASP.NET Configuration
Olga Londer
March 26, 4:30 p.m.
Do you want to know what these settings actually mean? And how they affect your applications? This session will look into the settings in web.config and machine.config files, and discuss tips and tricks to optimize, secure and troubleshoot your applications.