Microsoft’s new ADO.NET Entity Framework by Julia Lerman
Spend the day learning about Microsoft’s new ADO.NET Entity Framework, Microsoft’s new core data platform, with Julie Lerman, the leading independent authority on this technology and author of O’Reilly’s Programming Entity Framework. Julie has been working with Entity Framework since it was first announced by Microsoft, writing and teaching about it and working with the Entity Framework team to help shape the product.
Building Business Applications with Silverlight 2.0.
Make plans to stay an extra day after the conference to take advantage of this opportunity to join veteran software developers Rod Paddock and Jim Duffy as they give you a head start down the road to developing business-oriented Rich Internet Applications (RIA) with Microsoft Silverlight 2.0. In case you just crawled out from under a rock, Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in positioned to revolutionize the way next generation Rich Internet Applications are developed. Microsoft’s commitment to providing an extensive platform for developers and designers to collaborate on creating the next generation of RIAs is very clear and its name is Silverlight 2.0. In this intensive, full-day workshop, Rod and Jim will share their insight and experience building business applications with Silverlight 2.0 including a review of some of the Internet’s more visible Silverlight web applications. Make it a priority to not let yourself or your organization get left behind. Come join Rod and Jim as they provide an in-depth look at the future of Rich Internet Application development with Microsoft Silverlight 2.0.
Query and Index Tuning in SQL Server 2005 and 2008 by Itzik Ben-Gan
This seminar teaches you how to optimize problematic queries by tuning indexes and writing efficient code. The seminar covers in detail internal structures and index access methods, which are the fundamental building blocks that you need to be familiar with in order to master the art of query tuning and optimization. One you get familiarized with those fundamental building blocks, you will learn how to put your knowledge into action by benchmarking various indexing options, analyzing their performance, and choosing the most ideal design. The seminar will also teach you how to tune and optimize your solutions by applying query revisions that can yield improvements in orders of magnitude in many cases. The seminar will also teach you how to get rid of cursors when set-based solutions are most appropriate, and how to identify the uncommon cases where cursors are the last resort that will yield better performance than set-based solutions.
