19:00 - 20:30

Speaker:    Eddie Chua, ISV Solution Architect, MSHK
Colin Shum, Developer Solution Specialist, MSHK

Windows Server^® 2008 brings new opportunities to all the web developers to leverage the rich families of open source PHP as well as ASP.NET applications that are freely available on the web space. This seminar will explore the efforts of Microsoft to make Windows^® Platform the best option for hosters and developers to host and develop PHP applications. These efforts enhance several aspects of the application in terms of performance, data integrity, rich multimedia experience, rich user experience and interoperability. The seminar will be presented with scenario-based demonstrations.

We will share some case references with the audience as well.

Key topics covered:

1. Introduction to Windows as a web hosting platform and IIS7
2. PHP on FastCGI w/ IIS7
3. Introduction to SQL Server^® & SQL Server Driver for PHP
4. Developing PHP on Windows - Expression Web 2
5. PHP with Silverlight
6. PHP interop with ASP.NET

19:00 - 20:30

Speaker:    Eddie Chua, ISV Solution Architect, MSHK
Colin Shum, Developer Solution Specialist, MSHK

With ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX and Visual Studio^® 2008, web developers can easily deliver web experience that is fast, secure and highly extensible with minimal code. This session is designed for beginners.

We will share some case references with the audience as well.

•   ASP .NET
  1. Building professional quality websites using starter kits
  2. Maintaining clean web application code by using server side controls
  3. Easy databinding and security control
•   ASP .NET AJAX
  1. Creating responsive interfaces with reusable AJAX components.
  2. Enhancing existing pages using powerful AJAX controls with support for all modern browsers

19:00 - 20:30

Speaker:    Eddie Chua, ISV Solution Architect, MSHK
Colin Shum, Developer Solution Specialist, MSHK

One of the hottest topics on the web today, RIA delivers a stunningly rich user experience that traditional web applications running HTML or Javascript simply cannot. Development of a good RIA always requires people from the designer space and the developer space to work very closely together, and Microsoft has created a seamless solution for just this kind of collaboration. So come and find out how you can build your next RIA using the most cutting-edge Microsoft^® Web Technologies. This session will cover the following topics:

• Overview of the Microsoft Web Development Platform
• Introduction and hands-on lab to explore the powerful new developer features of Internet Explorer^® 8
• How to build rich, data-driven web sites with minimal coding using ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX
• Introduction to Silverlight^™, the perfect platform for building RIA & delivering an exciting media experience
• Providing high definition media experiences in your RIA with DVD-like chaptering and targeted advertising
• Leveraging the power of Deep Zoom ¡V technology that enables smooth in-place zooming and panning of super high resolution images

19:00 - 20:30

Speaker:    Allen Ho, Application Platform Architect, MSHK

Are you a passionate developer? Did you know you can develop using Microsoft technologies for free?

Come and experience an introductory session on our completely free offerings for developers! We will show you the coolest features that come with our powerful development duo, "Visual Studio^® 2008 Express & SQL Server 2008 Express". With these two tools, developers could develop many cool and interesting applications:

• Rich client application with a sophisticated UI look & feel, and intuitive interaction
• Web application with AJAX capabilities
• Flash-like applications with high definition video streaming capabilities
• Vista Sidebar Gadgets
• Games targeting both Windows^® and Xbox^® 360
• Applications with sophisticated reports
• Deploy & upgrade rich client applications from a centralized web server

Register now and get the most out of them for free!

19:00 - 20:30

Speaker:    Eddie Chua, ISV Solution Architect, MSHK
Andy Cheung, Application Platform Architect, MSHK

Are you new to Workflow? Actually, workflow appears everywhere. As a developer, we have been programming workflows, in different ways, for many years.

The Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) started out as a general-purpose workflow engine that first came as a free component with .NET Framework 3.0 for developers. It radically enhances a developer's ability to model, develop and support business processes, and has a unique design and architecture that makes it suitable for different types of applications (rich client, web-based and mobile) in many scenarios: workflow within line-of-business applications, user-interface page flows, document-centric workflows, human workflows, business rule-driven workflows, etc.

This introductory session will introduce the basic concepts of WF and its key features according to the following topics:

What is WF?

• Types of workflows supported(sequential workflows, state machine workflows, rules-driven workflows)
• Designing, developing and debugging workflows with WF
• How to handle long-running workflows in WF
• Logging and auditing workflow activities in WF
• An end-to-end example of an application implemented with State Machine Workflow

09:30 - 17:00

Speaker:    Harry Ng, Microsoft Certified Trainer, Infocan

Integrating data from various sources with SSIS

• Learn how to integrate any data, including ADO.NET
• Increase productivity by using VSTA for script components
• Improve integration performance with Lookups

Understand package performance improvements to pipeline management

• Use data profiling to improve data quality
• Managing Slowly Changing Dimensions

Creating Flexible and Rich Reports in SSRS

• Learn how to accelerate authoring with an improved designer - Report Builder 2.0
• Create more flexible reports with Tablix
• Add rich data visualization to reports
• Using SSRS Management Tools for Supportability and Manageability Understand architectural changes
• Review scale-out options

Leveraging SSRS Programmability in Your Applications

• Accelerating SSAS Design and Performance
• Learn how to accelerate database design with improved cube and dimension designers
• Work with best practices alerts to improve database design
• Add aggregations with the new aggregation designer

Monitoring and Managing an SSAS Server with New Tools

• Learn how to use resource monitoring components
• Understand query performance by reviewing an execution plan
• Review improvements to SSAS database backups
• Understand scale-out options

Demonstration of Data Mining capabilities in SQL Server 2008

• Learn how to use the Data Mining Add-ins for Microsoft Office 2007
• Use the new Time Series data mining algorithm

09:30 - 17:00

Speaker:    Harry Ng, Microsoft Certified Trainer, Infocan

Come see how you can beef up your web experience with Visual Studio 2008, Silverlight 2.0 and ASP.NET 3.5. The following topics will be covered:

AM Session
Introduction and hands-on lab to explore the powerful new developer features of Internet Explorer 8:

• Developing Accelerators
• Developing Web-Slices
• Better AJAX Development with AJAX Navigation, DOM Storage, Connectivity Events, etc.
• Developer Tools in Internet Explorer 8

Creating rich interactive applications with Silverlight 2.0 and Visual Studio 2008
Silverlight is a cross-platform, cross-browser plugin that lights up the web with next generation media experiences and rich interactive applications. We will cover the following scenarios using Silverlight 2.0 SDK and Visual Studio 2008:

• Programming Silverlight 2.0 using C#, e.g. handling user input, layout, threading.
• Create reusable controls.
• Interactivity between web browser and Silverlight 2.0 applications.

PM Session
Creating rich interactive applications with Silverlight 2.0 and Visual Studio 2008 (continue)
Continuing from the morning session, we will cover the following scenarios:

• Communication techniques with a variety of remote data sources, e.g. WCF web services.
• Data binding and LINQ to XML.
• Deep Zoom technology for smooth in-place image zooming and panning.

Building ASP.NET 3.5 web sites with Model-View-Controller (MVC) patterns
Model-View-Controller is a very successful architectural pattern used in modern web applications. Model represents domain specific data, View renders the model into suitable user interface elements and Controller processes and responds to user actions. We will show you how to use MVC in ASP.NET 3.5 by covering the following:

• ASP.NET MVC framework overview
• Create controllers, views and data models for an ASP.NET web site
• Advanced techniques such as create reusable behavior, customization of controllers, etc.