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publication date: August 01, 2008

Keynote "Why software sucks" - David Platt - 08/01/2008
Users think that today's software sucks. Why? Because developers forget a principle of software development: KNOW THY USER, FOR HE IS NOT THEE. Customers only care about accomplishing the task that software does and not about applications. We show good and bad examples from commercial software and Web sites: those that understand their users, and those that don't. Your user is not you. We put this nation on wheels not by training the entire population as mechanics, but by improving cars so they didn't often need mechanics. The same transition needs to happen to the software industry. This talk provides sound design principles so that your software won't suck.

Introduction to Silverlight 2.0 - Daniel Moth - 08/01/2008
Last September Microsoft released its cross-platform offering for developing Rich Internet Applications (RIAs), Silverlight v1.0. In this session we introduce the upcoming Silverlight v2.0 release which in addition to XAML and script, adds support for managed development through C# and Visual Basic. The session assumes that you are familiar with either Windows Forms or ASP.NET and it makes no assumptions of any other knowledge. Come learn why you should care about Silverlight v2.0, what its capabilities are and how to get started from scratch.

	Understanding the ADO.NET Entity Framework - Mike Taulty - 08/01/2008 Entity Framework raises the level of abstraction at which we deal with relational data in applications. In this session we'll introduce the framework, its conceptual model and we'll take a good look at programming against it with/without.

WCF and WF: Integrating two key technologies of .NET 3.5 - Ingo Rammer - 08/01/2008
Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation are two cornerstones of .NET 3.5. In this session, you will learn about different ways to combine them to workflow-enable your WCF applications and WCF-enable your workflow applications. You will also learn about other new features of WCF in .NET 3.5, like DurableServices, which provide you with alternative approaches to create stateful services.

Five cool things to know and use for Smart Client development - Daniel Moth - 08/01/2008
While the world builds Web applications and developers focus on the server-side, there are huge opportunities for creating rich client-based applications for the software-plus-services world. We show five enhancements in Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework v3.5 for building smart Windows applications. Demos include Windows Presentation Foundation interoperability, ADO.NET Sync Services, Client Application Services, the Managed AddIn Framework, and customizing Office Applications (Visual Studio Tools for the Microsoft Office System v3.0).