All About Visual Studio “Whidbey”
All day on Wednesday, March 24, starting at 10:30am

Bringing all VSLive! attendees together for an insider’s look at the advancements Whidbey promises and how you can benefit today. Join the Microsoft Visual Studio development team on Wednesday afternoon, March 24.

Building and Deploying Windows Forms Applications
Jay Schmelzer, Microsoft
10:30 a.m.
Visual Studio "Whidbey" and the Windows Forms classes empower developers with the full power of the Windows client PC. In this session, see how the Windows Forms designer and application deployment model will be radically enhanced. See how a host of new controls, components, control designers and tool windows will simplify data access, form layout and more.

Building ASP.NET Web Applications
Rob Howard, Microsoft
2 p.m.
Experience the most productive and powerful development environment for building ASP.NET Web applications. Visual Studio "Whidbey" combines simplified Web data access, rich site layout features, dynamic Web projects, and an array of additional features that enable rapid construction of dynamic Web applications. In this session, learn about enhancements to the visual designers and coding tools, as well as features that facilitate code reuse, visual consistency, and aesthetic appeal across your Web sites.

Data Access and XML From 2 to N-Tier
Steve Lasker, Microsoft
3:15 p.m.
Visual Studio "Whidbey" leverages existing ADO.NET and XML investments, and enables developers to perform data access tasks in drastically fewer steps and fewer lines of code In this session, explore creating data access components complete with custom validation logic, consuming data from databases and the middle tier, and rapid integration of data with Windows Forms and Web Forms. Then see the new XML editor that enables enhanced validation against XSD and DTD schema, XSLT debugging, and more.

Building Office Solutions with Managed Code
Eric Lippert, Microsoft
4:30 p.m.
Visual Studio "Whidbey" delivers unprecedented support for developers building solutions based on Office. In this session, discover new features that enable the construction of powerful business solutions using Visual Studio "Whidbey" and Office. From the new schema-based programming model and no touch deployment, to the ability to host Office applications within the Visual Studio designer, this session gives you the inside scoop on Office solution development with Visual Studio "Whidbey".

Advanced Language Features
Amanda Silver, Microsoft
5:45 p.m.
Visual Basic .NET introduced VB developers to a number of advanced language features from inheritance to multithreading. In this session you will discover how in “Whidbey” Visual Basic developers will have access to an even larger set of advanced features within the language and the development environment and learn the ins and outs of generics, operator overloading, XML Doc comments, partial types, and more!