BOF in PDC 05

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Visual Studio 2005 Team System — Blessing or Anathema? Visual Studio 2005 Team System clearly plays a role in increasing the productivity and predictability of software development through the careful integration of tools and process. There are many positive aspects the product suite professes that may very likely herald a new era of efficiency for software architects and developers. Is all what Team System promises a good thing? Are there drawbacks to this approach? Join us to discuss what you feel are the best and worst things about the Team System vision.
Submitted By: Michael C. Pelletier, Three Pines

Avalon Extreme – New GUIs made possible Come explore what types of user interfacess can be built on Avalon that couldn’t be built before now. Beyond eye candy! Let’s discuss what new options are available for UIs and what that means for the future.
Submitted By: Michael Latta, Tallan

Distributed Architecture: SOA vs. WinFS Reliable networks of Web services are challenging to implement. Caching such services essentially involves taking snapshots of resources. Instead, why not use WinFS-WinFS synchronization to distribute data to local machines, thus avoiding the speed-of-light constrained latencies associated with web service calls? In such a model, how can distributed security be abstracted out of the application while supporting federated identities? Could the payback from a richer client UI justify a move from from SOA to WinFS sync? Would it be better to write Vista apps that bind to distributed WinFS data than to write web apps?
Submitted By: Colin Reid, Projux

DirectX – Graphics and Games How does DirectX fit into the world of Windows Graphics Framework (Avalon) and Vista (Longhorn)? What about DirectX.Next? Can you really write games in managed code? Do you have a problem you need to ask about? Come and talk about the past, present and future of DirectX both managed and native.
Submitted By: Andy Dunn, TheZBuffer.com

.NET Code Protection If your current project is closed-source, you probably have good reasons for that choice. Whether your company’s future depends on the success of your next software product, or you’re simply trying to protect your licensing scheme, or you’re hoping to thwart competitors from seeing your secrets, protecting your code is a real problem. Let’s discuss some simple active steps to protect your program. This BoF will explore ways to protect your .NET application from reverse engineering and simple steps you can make to make it more secure.
Submitted By: Gabriel Torok, PreEmptive Solutions

Help! I Have To Manage Programmers! Let’s face it – managing people like us is hard. And although we’d all rather be writing code than performance reviews, sometimes we find ourselves handed the task of leading or managing other programmers. If you find yourself wearing the «lead» or «manager» hat in your team, don’t despair – you’re not alone! In this BoF session, we’ll swap tips and techniques for surviving in your new role — and maybe a horror story or two!
Submitted By: John Moody, CliniTech Information Resources

Team Development with NTeam Get an inside look at the first bits for the NTeam OSS project. NTeam is a free productivity tool for Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 which provides process management, work item tracking, build automation, and unit testing tools. Designed to provide a subset of tools similar to Visual Studio Team System for multiple source control and development environments.
Submitted By: Ron A. Buckton, Bennett Adelson, Microsoft Solution Center

When to Use SQL Server 2005 Service Broker and How to Get the Most Out of It Have you thought about how the introduction of the Service Broker in SQL Server 2005 will affect the way you currently do things with MSMQ? How about the new opportunities present for asynchronous distributed manipulation of data? Is this something that may enhance your technical infrastructure? This BoF session will explore where the opportunities are for this technology, and how to best roll out its capabilities within your organization.
Submitted By: Joshua Thomas, Two Degrees Consulting

Software Factories — What’s the Big Deal? Software Factories as described by Jack Greenfield and Keith Short try to industrialize software development. While the theory sounds good, there are a lot of questions on how we can take on the Software Factories methodology today and in the near future. In this BoF we would like to discuss the potential, the reality and the best practices identified by practitioners to realize parts or entire Software Factories today.
Submitted By: Gunther Lenz, Siemens Corporate Research

Tablet PC: If You Build It, Will They Come? The Tablet PC SDK has been around for a few years now and has some great innovations for developers to write really cool inkable applications. But where are our users? This BOF is a chance for Tablet PC developers to get together to discuss their shared passion for this incredible technology and their shared frustrations with the slow growth of the Tablet PC market.
Submitted By: Julie Lerman, The Data Farm

Using Enterprise Library in the Real World The patterns & practices Enterprise Library is a library of application blocks designed to assist developers with common enterprise development challenges. This is an open session in which you are invited to share your experiences using Enterprise Library, as well as learn about how your peers are using Enterprise Library. Tim will be accompanied by Enterprise Library experts and enthusiasts to join in on the discussion.
Submitted By: Tim Shakarian, Avanade

Writing Partially Trusted Code Writing partially trusted code can be tricky. But a lot of people feel that it’s an important tool in our security arsenal: by running with only the permissions we need, the CLR puts walls around our apps to help ensure we can’t be tricked into doing something we didn’t intend to do. Come discuss the pros and cons of running under partial trust. There are a lot of gotchas, so if you’ve had experiences, we’d love to hear about them. And if you’re just considering taking on the challenge of writing partially trusted code, you’ll get a great head start by joining us.
Submitted By: Keith Brown, Pluralsight

.NET and Java Integration Do you need to integrate your .NET application with Java or vice versa? There are a number of ways to do this, and several have been discussed in articles and presentations. But which ones are best for you? Come and discuss your own experiences with .NET and Java integration, share your favorite techniques, and listen to your peers across the industry.
Submitted By: Leo Shuster, Ohio Savings Bank

Unifying Object-First and Data-First Software Design Object-first developers start designing an application using a domain model representing business objects, while data-first developers start designing the relational database model to describe entities of the business domain. The two approaches end up creating software with very different architectures. Come explore and discuss if it is possible to create a new software design paradigm that will unify both approaches.
Submitted By: Mario Cardinal, Dot Net Expertise

Passing the Joel Test Daily builds. Testers. Written specs. Joel Spolsky’s famous (infamous?) list of best practices for software teams (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html) is great advice – and often hard to implement in the real world. We all need some help to get those daily builds humming, convincing the boss to hire testers, and keeping the schedule in line with reality. If you’re trying to move your team from a 1 or 2 to a perfect 12 on the Joel Test — or even a 5 or 6! — this BoF session is for you. If your team is a 12, this BoF session is for you too — the rest of us need to know what you know!
Submitted By: John Moody, CliniTech Information Resources

Writing Secure Code Bring your questions as well as your experiences to this interactive discussion. Participants share what techniques they are using to ensure bulletproof implementations, including third party tools. Also on the agenda are the top threats that developers need to worry about when writing code. Remember, it’s not just the guys calling security APIs that need to worry about this! Anyone writing code to access valuable assets should care about this topic, so let’s have a big turnout!
Submitted By: Keith Brown, Pluralsight

Mort’s guide to the PDC What does this PDC mean for Mort? Is it a .NET PDC (i.e., will it change your world) or is it a Hailstorm PDC (i.e., much sound and fury, signifying nothing)? Come discuss the impact of Microsoft’s latest technology with other Morts. You can bring your Elvis and Einstein friends, if they promise to behave themselves.
Submitted By: John Cavnar-Johnson, Administaff, Inc.

Oracle on .NET and Windows Have questions about using Oracle on .NET or Windows? Want to learn more about using Oracle for Microsoft platforms? Come to discuss these topics with Oracle experts and your peers to get answers to your questions, learn about best practices, or just network with other Oracle users.
Submitted By: Alex Keh, Oracle

Agile vs. Non-agile Development The agile software development approach has taken the IT industry by storm. Is it living up to its promises? And is it yielding the results that it so adamantly promotes? Is it truly better than all the previous methodologies? Does it really work? Come and discuss your experiences with agile development. Share your successes and your horror stories.
Submitted By: Leo Shuster, Ohio Savings Bank

Going Solo Have you ever thought of going independent? This session aims to bring together independent developers with those who have toyed with the idea to share advice, lessons learned and more.
Submitted By: Julie Lerman, The Data Farm

Integrating P2P into Applications Integrating P2P technology into an application takes more than programming, it takes design and concept. Generally an application needs to be thought of differently when making P2P a core part of the value proposition. Come discuss how P2P affects the whole software development effort.
Submitted By: Michael Latta, Tallan

Components and Services and Metadata, Oh My! Your company is starting to realize that its mainstay 1997-era COM/ATL/MFC desktop app is looking a little long in the tooth. Ditto the enterprise web offering. Time to re-architect: bring services to the desktop, and smart client capabilities to the enterprise on a common architecture. Maybe we could even get rid of some of those COM layers. A man can dream, can’t he? If your present or near future includes Indigo, Avalon, domain specific languages, C++/CLI and lots of legacy C++ and COM, you will find kindred spirits here.
Submitted By: David Glaubman, RMS, Inc

Free Source SharePoint Tools Community meeting open to all developers and users of free source SharePoint tools and solutions. Come share your favorites and learn about others.
Submitted By: Michael Herman, OpenCanal Corporation

So Many Tools… But Which to Choose? Microsoft supports a huge set of varying, and often overlapping technologies. There are vast resources available for helping developers solve certain problems using certain tools, but very little help with choosing the right technology to begin with. For example, a developer wishing to start a new database application could use Access, FoxPro, InfoPath, VB, C#, etc.; not to mention the many sub-choices to be made within each of these. This session will objectively survey these technologies and attempt to make some key recommendations.
Submitted By: Nathan Allan, Alphora

SQLCLR – Best Practices SQLCLR integration creates great opportunities to develop and define your own datatypes, aggregates and functions. But these opportunities also have a dark side, so it is very important to discuss principles of architecture, deployment, versioning and especially defining/checking the compliance to SQL – Standard rules of custom datatypes and functions.
Submitted By: Gerald Schinagl, ORF Austrian Broadcasting Corporation

Your Favorite Design Patterns The idea of this session is to give the audience an opportunity to talk about their favorite design patterns in .NET, and how people can benefit best by using them. The patterns do not have to fit the designs mentioned in the «Gang of Four» book, they just have to be something that can be used for day-to-day problems faced by developers. The patterns should focus more on increasing developer productivity than just be cool. I am more than willing to moderate 🙂
Submitted By: Manohar Kamath, Avanade

.NET vs. Java All zealots are welcome! Let the religious wars begin! What’s better, .NET or Java? Is one stealing ideas from another? Both platforms have recently released new versions, which one provides better strategic vision and foundation for development? Join our friendly debate.
Submitted By: Leo Shuster, Ohio Savings Bank

Extensibility Architectures for Applications This session will focus on concepts and ideas for making applications «extensible,» similar to the extensibility provided by Microsoft applications. The discussion will look at extensibility through scripting and plug-in architectures for .NET applications. Time will also be spent examining the security implications of building extensible applications and how to integrate security into the application architecture. The goal of the session is to come away with more ideas on how to best implement extensible application architectures.
Submitted By: Michael Collins, JDA Software Group

High Performance and Scalability ASP.NET 1.1 Application with SQL Server 2000 Let’s talk about best practices for deploying .NET solutions of transactional systems, that are both scalable (i.e., in a clustered environment,) and high performance (e.g., capable of processing over 2000 web connections and over 1000 database transactions per second.) The BOF explores an integrated approach of development patterns on .NET Framework and SQL Server to minimize CPU, memory, and network bandwidth. It also explains a software development life cycle that involves architecture, design, development, functional testing, and performance testing. Join us and share your experience.
Submitted By: Eric Ho, Deloitte

Internationalization of Intranet Applications for the Globally-Oriented Company Discuss ways to make applications return «smart» information when dealing with multiple nationalities that need to be viewed at the global level as a common entity, but at the regional level as the local nationality. Discussion could include currency exchange conversions (how to implement, when to convert), combining data from different systems, and more.
Submitted By: Robert Bolin, Xomox Corporation

DotNetNuke – The Migration to ASP.NET 2.0 In this session we will talk about our roadmap for migrating the DotNetNuke® open source platform to ASP.NET 2.0. Core Team members responsible for planning the integration of each major ASP.NET 2.0 feature will be present at this session and will provide in depth coverage of their research and analysis. The goal of this session is to familiarize professional developers with the benefits of the DotNetNuke® web application framework and emphasize the fact that we are actively preparing for the evolution to ASP.NET 2.0.
Submitted By: Shaun Walker, Perpetual Motion Interactive Systems Inc.

Fans of VB Club Come here if you are a fan of VB and tell us why and where. Talk about the sense or nonsenes of OO, pattern, UML, use cases, agile, extreme, waterfall, 3-tier, SOA and so on. Feel free to tell us how you develop and what is good and what is bad.
Submitted By: Hannes Preishuber, ppedv AG

Modeling vs. Coding What makes modeling different from coding? Why should we produce models of software rather than just coding it?
Submitted By: Michael Latta, Tallan

Refactoring in VB .NET 2005 Discussion of the capabilities of the refactoring tool for VB .NET 2005.
Submitted By: Fred Beiderbecke, Broadspire Services

Distributed Atomic Transactions – Wishful Thinking? Web Services, via SOAP, is the preferred choice of doing wide-reaching distributed communications today. However, one of the few factors that has hindered its adoption in the enterprise today is its lack of ability to handle transactions between remote un-trusted (independent) boundaries. There are two schools of thought today with regards to transactions — The Atomic Way or The Compensating Way which pretty much takes out the atomicity of ACID. Indigo supports WS-AT via Microsoft DTC. Will this be widely adopted in the enterprise collaboration space? Or are we living in Fool’s Paradise?
Submitted By: William Tay, Softwaremaker.NET

Future of the Deep Coder A recent article proclaimed that deep coding is on the decline with little chance of revival. The days of locking yourself in a room and exclusively coding are slowly fading. The industry seems to be moving toward systems driven by «software connectors» allowing users to customize programs to their needs with less developer intervention. What is the future of developers who thrive in the depths of code? How scarce will jobs for deep coders become? How will these developers adapt to a more modularized and component based future of software development? And, finally, is the future of software going to become a plug-and-play proposition where the need for deep coding is gone? No answers here, but many questions to explore.
Submitted By: Doug Adams, Anadarko

Getting Maximum ROI on .NET 2.0 So, your company committed to .NET in 2003 and has a product written in v1.1 that works great. BAM! .NET 2.0 comes along with all sorts of new features available to make development easier and improve the user experience. Let’s discuss which areas are ripe for your company to make an initial investment and see huge benefits, while being consistent with a long-term plan for overall migration. Performance, user interface, data access, and developing with Visual Studio 2005 are a few areas that come to mind.
Submitted By: Joe Christopher, HealthStream, Inc.