My Talks:
Load Balancing your Web Servers using IIS 7
Length: 60 minutes
Tags: IT Professional | Developer | IIS | Load Balancing | Windows Server 2008
Have you ever wondered how to load balance IIS so that your web applications scale better? During this talk, we'll discuss several ways to load balance IIS. We'll talk about the benefits and drawbacks of each and a few tips to ensure that you'll have minimal to no downtime.
Building Web Applications Using Today's Microsoft Toolset
Length: 90 minutes
Tags: ASP.NET | Microsoft
It's difficult to keep up with the changing times in technology. New emerging technologies come out and become quickly popular. Over the past few years, Microsoft has really grown their development space. They've started to build features around design and development patterns such as MVC. They've looked at ways they can put information in the hands of site visitors by adding enhancements to Internet Explorer. They've even stepped towards the unthinkable -- embracing third party tools such as jQuery. During this session, we'll take a look at all of these and more as we build a functional website showcasing these technologies.
Providing Your LINQ to SQL
Length: 60 minutes
Tags: Application Development | LINQ | SQL
One of the issues many developers have is generating a solid data layer for their applications. Microsoft realized this and developed LINQ (Language Integrated Query). LINQ can be used to provide the data layer for nearly anything including XML, Objects, and SQL Server. During this talk you'll see how to use LINQ to SQL, build Lambda expressions, and provide a complete data layer with doing very little work.
ASP.NET Membership and Profiles
Length: 60 minutes
Tags: Developer | ASP.NET
ASP.NET 2.0 introduced a few new APIs including Membership, Role Management, and Personalization. During this talk you'll learn about these APIs and various techniques to manage your users and their profiles for your web application.
Using the Design Controls in ASP.NET
Length: 60 minutes
Tags: ASP.NET
During this talk, you'll learn how to use Master and Content Pages, the Themes folder, and more! We'll jump into both Visual Studio and Microsoft Expressions Web to show how ASP.net pages should be layed out and designed.
Real World AJAX and Preview to Microsoft Silverlight
Length: 60 minutes
Tags: Web | AJAX | ASP.NET | Silverlight
Whenever any technology is released, the most common statement I hear is "That's great. But, how will that benefit me?" During this talk, you'll see how AJAX (asynchronous javascript) can benefit you. We'll see some real world examples of how to use AJAX as well as learn some caveats of using AJAX.
Developing Applications and Add-Ons in SBA 2006
Length: 45 minutes
Tags: Office | Small Business Accounting | Developer
During this presentation, you will receive a demonstration of creating a Visual Studio .NET add-on for Microsoft Small Business Accounting 2006.
An Overview of Microsoft Small Business Accounting 2006
Length: 45 minutes
Tags: Office | Small Business Accounting | IT Professional
During this presentation, you will learn what Microsoft Small Business Accounting is and how to use it. We'll talk about how to use third party add-ons and services with it as well.
Understanding Membership and Profiles in ASP.NET 2.0
Length: 60 minutes
Tags: ASP.NET 2.0
Three of the most useful features in ASP.NET 2.0 is the Membership, Role Manager and Personalization providers. During this presentation, we'll pick apart each of these APIs and the controls that they contain. We'll also see ways to use this to our advantage by creating custom providers.