http://www.microsoft.com/emea/msdn/spotlight/default.aspx Technet Spotlight en-us 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. http://www.microsoft.com/emea/msdn/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid=900 August 01 2008 David Platt 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. http://www.microsoft.com/emea/msdn/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid=901 August 01 2008 Daniel Moth 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. http://www.microsoft.com/emea/msdn/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid=902 August 01 2008 Mike Taulty 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. http://www.microsoft.com/emea/msdn/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid=903 August 01 2008 Ingo Rammer 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). http://www.microsoft.com/emea/msdn/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid=904 August 01 2008 Daniel Moth We will spend time covering the most recent crypto extension of .NET Framework 3.5: System and will explain when using one has advantages over the other. http://www.microsoft.com/emea/msdn/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid=908 August 01 2008 Rafal Lukawiecki The most important principle of user experience design is 'Know Thy User, for He Is Not Thee'. However, it is difficult to know what users think of your application - what they find easy to use, what makes sense and what doesn't. If you ask them, they don't know or don't want to admit they can't use your application. Even finding users to ask is difficult, and current techniques such as focus groups almost always produce unrepresentative results. The only way to know for sure is to instrument your application so that it reports user experiences over many sessions. This talk will discuss ways in which this can be done and the design decisions. http://www.microsoft.com/emea/msdn/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid=909 August 01 2008 David Platt In this session we'll take a look at building RESTful services with the forthcoming ADO.NET Data Services (formerly code-named 'Astoria'). We'll look at how to surface data with the framework and how to build both .NET and AJAX clients. http://www.microsoft.com/emea/msdn/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid=910 August 01 2008 Mike Taulty In this session we concentrate on applying Data Mining to add valuable decision-making logic to your software without having to code any specific rules! http://www.microsoft.com/emea/msdn/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid=911 August 01 2008 Rafal Lukawiecki The new language features in .NET 3.5 (C# 3.0 and LINQ) are not just for data access, but they have an impact on the way we architect, design and implement typical enterprise applications. This session gives you an overview of how to use LINQ in an end-to-end scenario within all layers in your application, tips and tricks, do's and don'ts and best practices. http://www.microsoft.com/emea/msdn/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid=912 August 01 2008 Krishnan Subramanian Basically every .NET developer knows the Visual Studio debugger, but only few know its little secrets. In this session, Ingo shows you what you can achieve with this tool beyond the setting of simple breakpoints. http://www.microsoft.com/emea/msdn/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid=913 August 01 2008 Ingo Rammer