Webcast Series: Atlas (20 Jun), Team Foundation Server (22 Jun), Windows Presentation Foundation (27 Jun), VB.NET 2005 (4 Jul)
There's a series of four afternoon webcasts coming up about new developer technologies, and you're very welcome to attend.
- 20 Jun: Irish MVP Kieran Lynamon ASP.NET Atlas,
- 22 Jun: TFS expertMartin Woodwardon Team Foundation Server,
- 27 Jun: Avalon junkie Rob ("Me") Burke on the Windows Presentation Foundation, and
- 4 Jul: Experienced Austrian VB.NET developer Johann Grabner on Building apps with VB.NET 2005.
It's always great to attend a presentation in person, but sometimes there's nothing better than a good old-fashioned webcast. You get the content delivered straight to your screen, and if you're watching live, you can participate and ask questions. All from the comfort of your home, office, or Wifi-enabled coffee shop, no matter where you live.
In the run-up to his Atlas presentation tomorrow, Kieran has been publishing a series of tutorials on his blog. If you'd like to see Atlas in action and ask a few questions, definitely tune in tomorrow at 3. I'll see you there!
Important: In case you're wondering, you needn't be an expert to appreciate these webcasts! I've seen Kieran and Martin present before, and they are both eloquent, knowledgable and passionate speakers. And I look forward to hearing Johann, who is an esteemed presenter in Austria. Me? I just like to play with graphics :) So, this is a great opportunity to be introduced to these technologies and see them in action.
Here are the details and registration links.
Kieran Lynam: A Lap around Atlas
June 20th, 3:00pm - 4:30pm GMT
Session description:
ASP.NET "Atlas" is a framework for building next generation, cross-platform, browsing experiences. This webcast will demonstrate how easy it is to create highly responsive, client-centric AJAX-style Web applications using "Atlas". Also, learn about "Atlas" controls on the server-side; and the "Atlas" modern object-oriented library on the client.
Follow this link for more information and free registration
Martin Woodward: Source Control with Team Foundation Server
June 22nd, 3:00pm-4:30pm GMT
Session description:
In this session, Martin explains version control using Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, how this differs from other source control systems such as VSS, CVS or Subversion and how to get the best out of it in your day to day development. He also talks about how to adopt Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server to manage all the source code of your company including Visual Studio 2003, Visual Basic 6 or Java projects.
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Robert Burke: Raising the Stakes with Avalon, the Windows Presentation Foundation
June 27th, 3:00pm-4:30pm GMT
Session description:
Why should you care about adding a groundbreaking User Experience to your applications? Answering that question (in style!) is where we'll begin, and this developer-oriented presentation will proceed on a whistlestop tour of the Windows Presentation Foundation, formerly codenamed Avalon. WPF allows you to leverage the power of your local PC and managed languages (including Visual Basic.NET) to provide a unified framework for next-generation user interface, media, documents, and even 3D graphics. Until WPF, incorporating those concepts has effectively been the dark art of the game development shop. No more!
We'll look at the WPF unified architecture, and then dive into several specific developer concepts you'll need to know to get started building applications. We'll explore the declarative markup language XAML and how it maps to your VB.NET code, and show how it is being used to facilitate tools that will bring designers into the development picture. We'll look at the concepts of Styles and data binding for your controls. We'll move through animation, talk about interop with classic WinForms, and if time permits, we'll even get a glimpse at adding video and 3D. Finally, the presentation will conclude with links to useful resources for getting started with WPF, hooking into the community, and learning more.
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Johann Grabner: Powerful and easy – Creating a Real World application with Visual Basic 2005
July 4th, 3:00pm-4:30pm GMT
Session description:
In this webcast we create a real world windows forms application with Visual Basic 2005. Whilst creating that sample application you gradually get to know some of the new features of Visual Basic 2005. You learn how you can use these features to create applications quickly, and besides you experience new ways to reduce coding effort. We start with covering syntax enhancements in VB 2005, and while the application is growing we move on to more advanced topics like generics and the my namespace. To speed up development time you will see the usage of code-snippets and the new controls, tools and techniques to make windows forms applications with databinding easier. At the end of the session you find out how to debug a Visual Basic application, and how easy it is to deploy your application with ClickOnce.