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WCF FirestarterSaturday, September 18, 2010 from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM (ET)Malvern, PA |
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Event Details
| September 18 | WCF Firestarter |
| Saturday Malvern, PA |
A special monthly meeting will be held at the Microsoft Greater PA Office
in Malvern, PA on Saturday, September 18 from 8:30-5:00. Refreshments are
provided courtesy of Microsoft. We have some great meetings lined up for the next few months. Please take a look at the upcoming schedule on the web site. |
| 8:30 | Dani Diaz, Microsoft Registration, Breakfast, Opening Remarks |
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Learn how to build cutting edge service based applications using Windows Communications Foundation. This full day of training covers WCF from the ground up and inlcudes the latest data access technologies. These skills are critical for enterprise application development and cloud integration. |
| 8:45 | Miguel Castro, SteelBlue Solutions Intro to SOA & WCF |
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Jump right in to understanding what service orientation is and how WCF is the preferred technology for this architecture. You'll see how services get written in WCF from scratch and using best practices from the beginning. Miguel Castro is a principal consultant and trainer with SteelBlue Solutions and specializes in building and teaching how to build, .NET solutions. He is a Microsoft MVP, INETA Speaker, Conference Speaker, contributor to CoDe Magazine and DevSource.com, as well as an active blogger, and has been a software developer for over 20 years. With a Microsoft background that goes all the way back to VB 1.0 (and QuickBasic in fact). Miguel has spoken at numerous user groups, code camps, and conferences around the country. He has also been featured on the Internet Radio Talk Show, .NET Rocks, .NET Rocks-TV, Microsoft’s ARCast (Architecture Podcast), and The Polymorphic Podcast on numerous occasions. His blog and other things of potential interest can be found at http://www.steelbluesolutions.com, where you can obtain his new CodeBreeze code-generator. He currently resides in Lincoln Park, NJ with his wife Elena and his daughter Victoria. |
| 10:15 | Miguel Castro, SteelBlue Solutions Most Common WCF Usage Configurations |
| WCF has many characteristics, each with several options. There are however some optimal settings for the most common scenarios. In this session you'll learn the whys and hows for configuring WCF services to work optimally in the areas of instantiation, concurrency, transactions, security, and bindings. | |
| 11:45 Lunch | Meet your peers. Refreshments and drinks courtesy of Microsoft. |
| 12:15 Q&A | Bill Wolff, philly.net leader, ask questions, get answers from your peers! |
| 12:30 | Dani Diaz, Microsoft REST Programming With WCF |
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With .NET 3.5 came the addition of the System.Service.Web assembly and the addition of REST capabilities to WCF. REST is an HTTP-based messaging protocol that is common in web applications today and even more common in non-.NET services that expose API (think Twitter & Google). In this session, you'll learn how to expose your services using REST and also how to consume non-.NET REST APIs using WCF. Danilo Diaz, aka Dani, is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft's Mid-Atlantic State district. In this role, he helps developers understand Microsoft's product offerings and strategy. Prior to joining Microsoft, he worked at Perficient Philadelphia where he helped establish their Mobility Practice. Dani has over 8 years of experience in the IT industry. His ability to identify and utilize the right blend of technologies to solve business needs has been an asset on all projects he has worked on. Dani's first .NET project was a Web-based eLearning application which was built on ASP.NET 1.0 Beta 2. As a consultant he has served the roles of system architect, technical lead, developer and mentor on various large and small projects. He has worked on SOA-based applications, Web applications, Windows applications and mobile systems. |
| 2:00 | Bill Wolff, LiquidHub WCF Data Services |
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You have seen all the various ways you can leverage WCF, but what if all you want to do is expose your data via HTTP? In that case, you can simplify your development, by using WCF Data Services. In this session we will learn how to easily expose your data using Entity Framework in a RESTful fashion using WCF Data Services, how to consume WCF Data Services. Bill Wolff is Principal Architect at LiquidHub. He has worked for three decades as a consultant, trainer, and architect specializing in Microsoft development technologies. He served as a Solutions Architect in the Microsoft Practice at Unisys Corporation. He ran the consulting firms Agility Systems and Wolff Data Systems for 25 years and directed armies of consultants in the dot com world. Bill is founder and President of the philly.net user group, a previous INETA board member where he served as Vice President, Speaker Bureau, and involved in several other user communities. Bill was a contributing author on several books. His certifications include trainer, systems engineer, developer, and Microsoft MVP. |
| 3:30 | Miguel Castro, SteelBlue Solutions What's New With WCF 4.0 |
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No Day-Of-WCF would be complete without letting you know what's new with .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. This session will give you a heads up on several new and powerful features introduced in WCF 4.0. Among these are "Configuration-less Hosting", "Discovery", "Routing", and an intro to the new Azure Service Bus. |
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| 5:00 Closing & Raffle! | Books, software, and other goodies! |
When & Where
Microsoft Mid Atlantic
45 Liberty Boulevard
Great Valley Corporate Center, Suite 210
Malvern,
PA 19355
Saturday, September 18, 2010 from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM (ET)
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