See how the Visual Studio product strategy will make your team's development projects predictable and successful both in the latest release and as we move toward Longhorn. Download 'Synergistic Development: From great developer tools to great development tools for the whole team'.

This session drills down into key .NET Framework enhancements for the 2.0 release. It looks at some very diverse areas including the new Generics capability, other language updates, and focuses particular attention on new Framework features that will make it easier to develop secure applications.

This session explores the exciting new tools in the integrated development environment, for both VB and C# development.

Have you ever needed to personalise a site, to keep a common look-and-feel across all the pages, or to provide different data based on someone's role? Here we look into new tools to accelerate these kinds of development, to help improve your users' experience, and to improve site management and security.

When it comes to deployment, the new "ClickOnce" utilities really do allow you to publish a self-updating application with one button click! This session illustrates the building and deployment of professional-looking smart clients.

This session covers Visual Studio Team System (VSTS), a substantial suite that addresses all "big picture" issues, providing superb communication and flow between all the phases and disciplines implicit in large-scale development.

See how SQL Server fits with Microsoft's product strategy and how central SQL Server is to the Windows Server System, Microsoft's integrated technology stack.

Find out how developers for SQL Server 2005 can write .NET code in languages such as C# and VB.NET in order to implement stored procedures, user defined functions and types and other artefacts for running inside the database server.

This session looks at the spectrum of new features that have been added to T-SQL for SQL Server 2005. If you've ever worked with the database then you'll be interested in the plethora of new fancy bits to play with such as support for pivot tables, common table expressions and much, much more.

In this session we take a long, hard look at the new XML data type in the database and how we interact with it. We'll then widen the discussion to include other XML features such as "FOR XML" enhancements, XML web service capabilities and programming XML from the client side.

This session explores all of the new features in the 2005 version, including integration with Visual Studio 2005, the work that has been done around Analysis Services, improved report interactivity and the new built-in controls for Windows Forms & ASP.NET Web Forms applications.

This session is all about taking advantage of new features in SQL Server 2005 to get your data to where you need it to be. Whether you already know Data Transformation Services or are new to the topic we think you'll be pretty excited by what SQL Server Integration Services can do for you.