.NET Technology Road Map - Making Sense of the Technology Avalanche

With these rapidly changing times, developers have a lot more on their mind and on their plate than they did at any point in recent time. Although the Visual Studio and the .NET Framework both provide tools that yield an overall increase in productivity during the development cycle, the avalanche of technologies that builds upon these foundations can seem overwhelming if not insurmountable at times. This workshop will take you through a guided tour of the Microsoft technologies available today, tomorrow, and into the foreseeable future...and enable educated decisions on aligning your product road map with upcoming technologies.

Topics

• Language and platform trends for .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0 and beyond
• Designing the data access layer with ADO.NET 2.0, ADO.NET vNext, LINQ
• Approaches in Windows development with Windows Forms, ClickOnce, and WPF
• Essentials for ASP.NET web development and the relevance of AJAX and Silverlight
• Communication stacks like Remoting, Enterprise Services, ASMX and their future applicability towards WCF
• Approaches in workflow and Business Process Management (BPM), choosing between WF, SharePoint or BizTalk Server
• Claims-based and federated security platforms and tools such as ADFS and CardSpace
• Hosting and platform directions from IIS 6.0⁄Windows Server 2003 to IIS 7⁄Windows Server 2008
• Windows Vista and application consumers
• Directions in development tools: from Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio Team System to Visual Studio 2008 and the Expression designer tools

 

In this intense, one–day briefing, you will see numerous demonstrations of these technologies, we will assess the benefits and advantages of the forward trends and you will gain an overall picture of each technology’s place in your development efforts today and tomorrow–for each respective discipline. Developers, architects, and technical leads who would like to gain some perspective on the Microsoft road map, the applicability of each technology, the choices and the trade–offs, will greatly benefit from this workshop.

 

About Michele Leroux Bustamante

Michele is not only an IDesign Chief Architect, she is also Microsoft Regional Director for San Diego, Microsoft MVP for Connected Systems and a BEA Technical Director. In addition, Michele is a member of the board of directors for the International Association of Software Architects (IASA). With over 15 years of experience designing enterprise systems, prior to IDesign Michele has held senior executive positions at several corporations. Michele is a member of the International .NET Speakers Association (INETA); a frequent conference presenter at major technology conferences such as Tech Ed, PDC, SD and Dev Connections. Michele is a conference chair for SD West; and she regularly publishes in several technology journals. Michele specializes in training, mentoring and high-end architecture consulting services focusing on scalable and secure architecture design for .NET, federated security scenarios, web services, interoperability and globalization architecture. She participates in Software Design Reviews for products in the Microsoft roadmap, including WCF and CardSpace. During the Beta 1 phase Michele participated in prototyping elements of the CardSpace technology for the product team. Michele’s latest book is Learning WCF (O’Reilly, 2007). Visit her book blog at www.thatindigogirl.com or her main blog at www.dasblonde.net.