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Chairman and Chief Software Architect, Microsoft — March 24
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Corporate VP of Natural Interactive Services Division, Microsoft — March 24
Chris Anderson
Windows Client Platform Team, Microsoft —
March 25
Pat Helland
.NET Architecture Team, Microsoft — March 25
Bill Baker
General Manager, Business Intelligence, Microsoft SQL Server Business Group — March 26




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March 24
.NET Architecture Focus Day
  Kick off the day with an exciting keynote by a Microsoft Executive, and follow up with a full day of sessions on Whidbey and the latest advances in the .NET Architectecture. Then celebrate with a rousing party at a San Francisco hot spot — more details to come!

March 25 VBITS
9 a.m. Keynote: Going Mobile with .NET, XML and SOAP
10:30 a.m. Create Rich Clients with Windows Forms Application Walkthrough of "Shadowfax" Exception Handling in .NET
11:45 a.m. Dynamic UI Generation Application Design Patterns Building Asynchronous Applications
12:45 p.m. Lunchtime Session: Security and Deployment of Office Solutions Built with Visual Studio .NET
2 p.m. Metropolis: Trends in Information Technology
3:15 p.m. Create Windows Forms Controls Advanced Distributed App Design, Part I Remoting Strategies
4:30 p.m. Optimizing Windows Application Performance Advanced Distributed App Design, Part II Leverage COM from .NET
5:45 p.m. Zero-Touch Deployment Re-architecting from DNA to .NET Applied .NET Security
6 p.m. Exhibit Hall Reception
8 p.m. Midnight Madness

March 26 VBITS
9 a.m. Keynote: Using Business Intelligence in Your Applications for Fun and Profit
10:30 a.m. Best Practices for Client Design Morphing from ADO Classic to ADO .NET Production Debugging for .NET
11:45 a.m. Validating Data on the Client Advanced ADO.NET Techniques Defensive Coding in .NET
12:45 p.m. Lunchtime Session: Developing Word and Excel Solutions with Visual Studio Tools for Office – Tips & Tricks
2 p.m. Zen and the Art of Web Services: Part 1: The Philosophy Validating Data in the Middle Tier Enterprise Development in the Real World
3:15 p.m. Zen and the Art of Web Services: Part 2: The Implementation Strategies for Passing and Caching Data Building in Performance and Scalability
4:30 p.m. Zen and the Art of Web Services: Part 3: The Power and the Flexibility ADO.NET Best Practices  Build Mobile Apps Quickly with the .NET Compact Framework



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