11/1/2010

APR01: Building Applications with ASP.NET MVC (9:00AM - 4:00PM)
Add'l Fee $399
Scott Allen
This workshop will focus on providing you with all the knowledge you need to start building applications with the ASP.NET MVC framework. We’ll look at building controllers, views, and models. We’ll also see how to use jQuery and AJAX with MVC to build rich, responsive applications. Throughout the day we’ll see a number of tips and tricks you can use to make your job easier, but in addition to tools and technologies, we'll also discuss some of the decisions you need to make in building an application that will best meet your business goals.

SPR201: Database Best Practices for the Involuntary DBA (9:00AM - 4:00PM)
Add'l Fee $399
Paul Randal
Kimberly L. Tripp
Have you been nominated as "the SQL person" on your team? Are you a developer who’s suddenly found their test database has become critical for your company’s business? Have you become a DBA even only involuntarily – and do you find yourself managing SQL Server database(s) more and more? Are you sure your data is protected? Are you sure your applications can scale? The one thing you NEED now, to manage this system correctly – is knowledge! Paul and Kimberly will run you through their top-ten database maintenance recommendations with a lot of tips and tricks along the way. These are distilled from almost 30 years combined experience working with SQL Server customers and are geared towards making your databases more performant, more available, and more easily managed (to save you time!). Everything in this session will be practical and applicable to a wide variety of databases. Topics covered include: data and log file configuration, tempdb, backups, consistency checking, database settings, statistics, and much more! Focus will be on 2008 but we’ll explain where there are key differences for 2005 as well. This workshop is great for databases you create, implement and manage yourself as well as third-party databases you manage.

SPR302: Day of Scripting: Plumbing The Depths of SQL Server / PowerShell Integration (9:00AM - 4:00PM)
Add'l Fee $399
Bob Beauchemin
PowerShell is an object-oriented shell that is part of the Windows Common Engineering Criteria. This means PowerShell support is central to administration of many Windows server products, from Exchange, to SharePoint, to IIS, to SQL Server. PowerShell lowers the bar for generic administrators by providing a common language for all administrative tasks. This workshop presents an introduction to programming in PowerShell (including new features in PowerShell V2), but we’ll spend most of our time programming SQL Server-specific PowerShell code. PowerShell is used with SQL Server in conjunction with SMO, the SQL Server Management Object libraries that support all facets of SQL Server administrative programming. There’s a SQL Server PowerShell provider, PowerShell cmdlets, and PowerShell integration with SQL Server Management Studio. This includes the multi-server management and Data Tier Applications in SQL Server 2008 R2. Here is a subset of the SQL Server-specific tasks we’ll be covering: administrative tasks (create/alter objects, backup/restore), running PowerShell scripts with SQL Agent jobs, network configuration and other WMI tasks, Policy-Based Management, Performance Data Collection, deploying to a list of SQL Servers, configuring Multi-Server Management, managing Data-Tier Applications, and monitoring StreamInsight. See you for an action-packed day of scripting!

VPR01: Essential Business Desktop Programming with .NET (9:00AM - 4:00PM)
Add'l Fee $399
Paul D. Sheriff
Are you constantly struggling to keep up with all the new technologies coming out from Microsoft? Are you finding that you are avoiding conferences because you do not understand the sessions being presented? If you wish to learn the basics of some the new desktop technologies then this workshop is for you. The intent of this workshop is to prepare you for the sessions at the main conference. If you are fairly new to .NET, or have been doing desktop or Web development with .NET for awhile and you wish to learn the essential elements behind the new technologies like WPF, Silverlight, WCF and Unit Testing, you will find them here. In this one day, you will be exposed step-by-step to each of these technologies so you will feel comfortable moving on with more advanced topics.

VPR02: Every Class as a Service – WCF as the New .NET (9:00AM - 4:00PM)
Add'l Fee $399
Juval Lowy
Contrary to common wisdom, service-orientation is not just for high-end applications. Every application should be service-oriented, and Windows Communication Framework (WCF) is the .NET runtime for developing, deploying and consuming service-oriented applications. But what is service-orientation really about? What does it mean for mere developers? Is there substance behind the hype? In this comprehensive one-day workshop, Juval will first demystify service-orientation for you, and introduce the basic motivation for service-oriented applications and their operating principal and concepts. In that light, Juval will then describe what WCF is and how it is designed, and demonstrate its advantages over traditional .NET programming. You will see that WCF is more than just the next generation platform for building connected systems. In many respects, WCF is the next development platform for Windows applications, providing system features that are presently crafted by hand on top of .NET and Windows. With WCF, every class automatically benefits from these system features, from security to transactions to tracing and logging and much more. To maximize the use of these off-the-shelf plumbing aspects you should push the service boundary down into your system, but taken to its ultimate conclusion – should every class be a WCF services? And what about performance? The workshop will next demonstrate the power and productivity of WCF, contrasting WCF used granularly on every class with classic .NET in terms of performance, throughput and scalability, and will substantiated the provocative claim that every class can and should be a service. Don’t miss on this unique opportunity to understand SOA and WCF from Juval Lowy who has been part of the strategic design effort for WCF from the beginning, and who offers a profound insight on the methodology, the technology and its application.

HPR01: SharePoint 2010 Professional Development Workshop (9:00AM - 4:00PM)
Add'l Fee $399
Eric Shupps
Robert Bogue
SharePoint 2010 provides a range of new features and functionality for building custom applications. In this intensive, one-day workshop, you will learn how to build dynamic, scalable and secure solutions using proven real-world techniques. Covering the complete application lifecycle from designing data architecture to packaging and deployment, topics include user experience design, artifact selection, information architecture, branding and customization, security, page and data access performance and application testing. This workshop delivers a deep-dive into enterprise SharePoint development and is ideal for mid-to-senior level developers, development team leads, and experienced .NET developers interested in learning more about SharePoint programming.

VPR301: Shawn Wildermuth’s “Building Apps with Windows Phone 7”  (9:00AM - 4:00PM)
Add'l Fee $399
Shawn Wildermuth
Writing apps for a phone was never so easy. If you’ve been tempted to write for the iPhone or the Android phone, you don’t have to. With Silverlight you can build applications for the Windows Phone 7 Series as easy as you can build a web widget. When you’re ready to dive into building applications for phones, this is the workshop for you.

Designing for the Phone
• Metro Explained
• Working with Screen Sizes
• Integrating Touch
• Why Panorama Applications Make Sense
• Making sense of the Page Model
• Understanding Connectivity
• Understanding the App Lifecycle
• Integrating with the AppStore

Silverlight on the Phone
• Sizing Your Application
• Intermittent Network Access
• Memory Size Issues
• Scaling to Phone Performance
• Understanding the Input Model

Building for the Phone
• Working with Phone Services
• Orientation Changes
• Geo-Location Integration
• Contact List Access
• Making Calls
• Accessing the Accelerometer
• Hardware Buttons
• Working with the Notification Service
• Creating Live Hub Icons

We’ll sponsor a Windows Phone 7 app contest as part of the workshop. Details will be distributed at the workshop.

LVR201: Silverlight 4 Development Workshop (9:00AM - 4:00PM)
Add'l Fee $399
Dan Wahlin
Silverlight 4 provides a powerful framework that can be used to build Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) that look and feel much like a desktop application yet are deployed like traditional web applications. In this full-day workshop, Silverlight MVP Dan Wahlin will walk you through different features and tools that can be used to build Silverlight applications. Topics covered include XAML fundamentals, using layout and data entry controls, data binding, retrieving data from remote services, animations, out-of-browser options, printing, MVVM architecture concepts and more. If you’re looking to jump-start your Silverlight development projects, this is the workshop for you!

Post-Conference

11/5/2010

HPS301: Advanced SharePoint 2010 Administration with Todd and Shane (9:00AM - 4:00PM)
Add'l Fee $399
Todd Klindt
Shane Young
This full-day workshop covers some deep topics that there just wasn’t time for during the conference. We will cover Service applications in depth, including a demo of sharing service applications between farms. We will also go over SharePoint 2010’s Remote Blob Storage support and demo installing it and moving your content in and out of it. We will cover how to manage your site collections from a storage and scale standpoint. Alternate Access Mappings seem to be a common stumbling block for SharePoint admins, so we’ll tear them apart and explain them in great detail. Since everyone loves PowerShell, we’ll also demo a lot of PowerShell scripts and explain how they work. If you want nitty gritty details about SharePoint 2010 from the Admin point of view, don’t miss this workshop.

APS01: Building AJAX-Enabled Applications with jQuery (9:00AM - 4:00PM)
Add'l Fee $399
Dan Wahlin
Building cross-browser AJAX applications can be a fun yet challenging proposition. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to put the joy back into AJAX development using the jQuery script library. Learn how jQuery selectors can reduce code and simplify the process of finding DOM elements, how chaining can be used to accomplish multiple tasks with a single line of code and how cross-browser AJAX calls can be made using built-in jQuery functionality. Other topics covered include using client-side templates as well as built-in plugins. If you’ve wanted to learn jQuery but haven’t made the time, this is the workshop for you since we’ll take you from the ground floor all the way to the top.

HPS01: Business Connectivity Services Deep Dive (9:00AM - 4:00PM)
Add'l Fee $399
Scot Hillier
Business Connectivity Services is the set of components used to access external data from SharePoint 2010. In this workshop, students will learn all about BCS architecture and how to develop a broad spectrum of solutions. Learn to create simple no-code solutions, intermediate declarative solutions, and full-code advanced connectors and add-ins. Along the way, you’ll also learn how to search external data and deal with all manner of security from Windows authentication to claims. If you want to create solutions in SharePoint 2010 that utilize data in external databases, services, and systems, then this is the one-day workshop for you.

HPS302: Dan Holme’s Windows Administration Master Class (9:00AM - 4:00PM)
Add'l Fee $399
Dan Holme
Join best-selling author and world-famous consultant Dan Holme for a master class in administration. A full day of best practices, tips, tricks, and tools that will enable you to accelerate, automate, secure, and manage your Windows clients, servers, and Active Directory. From his work with dozens of enterprises large and small, Dan Holme has amassed a wealth of experience and expertise—solutions which enable you to deliver real-world administrative best practices within the constraints of real-world budgets and technologies.

This workshop will feature:

• Provisioning Applications and Configuration: Workflows, tricks, and tools to provision applications and configuration to users effectively, whether you use Group Policy, System Center Configuration Manager, another management tool, or the “do it yourself” application management tools you’ll learn to build.
• Role-Based Management Extreme Makeover: You will discover how to implement role-based management, in which users are defined by their business roles and where resource access and configuration are instantly, accurately, and auditably applied. Empower your enterprise to enable a documented, auditable structure for resource security, asset management, and more.
• Advanced Active Directory & Administrative Delegation: Rethink the way you delegate and manage administrative tasks by applying concepts of role-based management and least privilege to administrators themselves. Learn what you can do to lock down and provision AD, client, and server administration and to create an effective administrative hierarchy.
• Administrators’ Idol: Tips and Tricks for Administrative Automation and Brilliance: Dan Holme shares with you dozens of highly practical ways to increase the productivity of your administrators. Learn to automate and facilitate administrative tasks through the creation of powerful, customized scripts, HTAs, and MMC consoles. Explore the real-world example of tools Dan has built to support NBC during the Beijing and Vancouver Games.
• Ten Years Later: Best practice administration and design for Active Directory. Now that Active Directory is (more than) 10 years old, it’s time to re-evaluate your design, your implementation, and your administrative practices. Explore a punch list of best practices—some easy, some more challenging—including notification-based intersite replication, schema modification, computer account recycling, effective OU and GPO design, and more.

VPS01: Federated Identity Essentials (9:00AM - 4:00PM)
Add'l Fee $399
Michele Leroux Bustamante
Federated security models and claims-based access control are key to modern distributed systems, enabling business scenarios that are very difficult to implement otherwise. Federation allows users to authenticate in their own domain while being granted access to applications and services that belong to another domain or environment. This removes the need to provision and manage duplicate accounts for a single user, reduces overall application complexity, and enables Single Sign-On (SSO) scenarios loved by all users. Claims-based access is central to a federated security model whereby applications and services authorize access to features and functionality based on claims from issuers (the STS) in trusted domains. Claims can contain information about the user, roles, or permissions – and this makes for a highly flexible authorization model. Together, federated security and claims-based access enable a range of integration scenarios across applications, departments, and partners in a wider ecosystem. During this workshop, you will learn how to apply claims-based and federated identity and the relevant architectural scenarios. The workshop demonstrates the rich features of WIF for supporting claims-based identity and federation in your ASP.NET and WCF applications; explains how to work with identity providers in a federated scenario; provides the foundation for building custom STS with WIF and how to work with ADFS V2; and discusses scenarios where managed information cards and CardSpace play a key role. The class offers not just the technical but also the business perspective and the practical reasons to leverage claims-based and federated identity – while utilizing numerous demonstrations and original tools and utilities.

SPS301: Indexing Strategies and Analysis (9:00AM - 4:00PM)
Add'l Fee $399
Paul Randal
Kimberly L. Tripp
Building on what we’ve talked about during the conference, this post-conference workshop will continue from there and dive into specific indexing strategies that help different types of queries as well as tips and tricks using the plethora of tools available to understand if your indexing strategies are working. We’ll look at the tipping point, covering, filtered indexes, statistics (including filtered stats), indexed views, DMVs and best practices around using tools such as DTA. This workshop will be fast-paced and will not overlap with the content of the conference. For the best coverage of content, you should attend these sessions at the conference: Index Internals (Kimberly) and Index Fragmentation (Paul) as well as possibly GUIDs (Kimberly). The combination of these sessions and this workshop will give you a complete and comprehensive approach to better performance and availability.