The 2007 release of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) is an amazing platform for solving a great number of difficult problems for companies. Workflow, Excel Services, enterprise search, forms services, and much more all provide a wealth of resources to do things from automating review processes...

Solid testing is vital to any development effort if you want stable software that does what the customer expects the software to do. Visual Studio Team Systems' testing functionality is powerful, but it's not the end-all for every testing task. Open source tools can help you get more out of your testing...

Did you know that you can easily create a Pivot Table using a SQL Server query? Ever wonder if you could store XML documents in a field in your table, and then be able query data directly from the XML in all rows at once? How can you utilize Regular Expressions in order to help make querying data even...

While there are many frameworks for AJAX applications, an understanding of what is going on under the covers will go a long way in evaluating what AJAX can and can't do for you. We'll look at methods for developing and debugging XMLHttpRequest, DOM and JSON solutions to help you get the most out of your...

You've developed your database and deployed your code. Now you need to add the features everyone else wanted. The more you add to the scope of the project, the more you realize your database design isn't going to cut it. You refactor your code-why not refactor your database. Come to learn practical ways...

Caching has been part of ASP.NET since its inception. Pages, page fragments, and arbitrary data elements can all be cached to increase performance. This session will go beyond the basics to demonstrate caching in a real web application. We will show how to use post-cache substitution in a real application...

A well designed object oriented program consists of a number of small, collaborative objects working together to accomplish the goals of the software system.ÿ Programs designed in this manner are amazingly flexible, but poise special challenges for testing.ÿ If an object works in collaboration with other...

Join Bill in this session where he will introduce us to Microsoft's new Robotics Studio. Microsoft Robotics Studio is an end to end set of tools that allows tinkerers and hobbyists a way to build robotic solutions that integrate various types of processors and sensors. In this session, Bill will demonstrate...

Join Bill in this session where he will introduce us to Microsoft new Game Development platform, XNA. XNA is a two part product, the XNA Framework and XNA Express. The XNA Framework is a cross platform execution environment that allows you to run a game developed with XNA Express on either the Xbox 360...

Windows Communicationÿ Foundation (WCF) is Microsoft's new platform for developing distributed applications. It is a unification of the existing communication technologies, like Remoting and web services, into a single, simplified programming model. This presentation will introduce you to WCF. We will...