Get to know the Microsoft Visual Studio Team System inside out - Team Foundation Internals, managing the software lifecycle with VSTS, Building secure and personalized web applications with ASP.NET 2.0, Make your application localized using the new features in .NET Framework 2.0, Get to know about the security enhancements in Visual Studio 2005, Introduce yourself to Avalon - Microsoft's next generation presentation subsystem.

To meet ever growing business demands, IT operators and administrators are being tasked with increasing the security, availability and manageability of their IT environments. Learn from the experts how to address and solve these critical IT challenges by diving into Windows Server 2003, the foundation of the Windows Server System. Through sessions spanning Windows Server 2003, MOM 2005, Data Protection Server and IPSec, such as identity management, server consolidation and storage solutions, you’ll discover how Windows Server Systems give you the ability to develop, deploy and operate your IT infrastructure more efficiently.

Discover and learn how you can deliver breakthrough performance, securely and reliably with the most powerful and productive suite of tools to manage SQL Server across your enterprise. Get up to speed on the powerful new developer features in SQL Server 2005, including many new and updated services that go beyond the traditional database features and can significantly enhance developer productivity. Learn how these new and updated services enhance the development environment of Windows Server Systems.

Connected Systems are becoming pervasive as a result of current economic and technological drivers for companies to be more agile, drive down costs, and integrate heterogeneous, globally dispersed systems. Today, applications need to be designed to be a part of a connected network of services to build systems that span multiple machines and reach beyond corporate firewalls, while streamlining information flow between services that carry out business operations. The Connected Systems & Smart Clients track is designed to help you understand how to design, implement, secure, deploy, and manage connected systems on the Microsoft platform for automating your company’s information flow to achieve streamlined operations and greater levels of business agility. Architects, Developers, and IT Operators will learn about our existing and next generation distributed systems technologies for building Connected Systems covering the Windows Server System, process management with BizTalk Server 2004, and our unified messaging infrastructure for Indigo. Also, learn the latest techniques for designing, developing and deploying the next generation of smart client applications leveraging local resources to deliver high fidelity user experience, intelligent integration with data sources via Web services, offline capabilities inclusion, and simplified network-based deployment and management. Get in-depth information on building rich, responsive and compelling smart client solutions using Windows Forms, Visual Studio 2005 and XML Web Services.

Learn about mobile application development platforms and embedded operating systems from Microsoft – whether you are building devices based on Windows CE 5.0 or Windows XP Embedded, whether you are developing “killer” mobile applications using Windows Mobile platforms or Visual Studio, or deploying devices in enterprise settings, the “Mobile PC, Mobility and Embedded” track at Tech.Ed 2005 events is designed to provide you with insights into all the questions and queries that will help you achieve your project goals today as well as in the future. The event provides you with an opportunity to see the latest platform advances in: Mobile PC platform, Tablet PC platform, Windows Mobile platforms, Windows CE operating system, Visual Studio, .NET Compact Framework, SQL Mobile, et al. Labs are offered at each of the 5 locations to help you learn hands-on with the latest development tools for building new devices and applications for Windows Embedded platforms.

Get to know how to use the Enterprise Library in your applications, understanding the patterns used in SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), working with Data in SOA, using the Domain Specific Languages Tools in VS 2005, Understand how to use Visual Studio Team System Architect Edition, and finally, understand how to leverage Integration Patterns in your application design.