Rocky Lhotka - Build an App with both WinForms and WPF UIs

Note that meetings will start at 6PM, starting in 2007.

Intended Audience:
Software developers with some prior experience with WinForms

Description:
With planning and foresight you can build a Windows Forms application today, and preserve your business logic when you move to WPF in the future. Using .NET technologies like data binding, you can build a formal business layer that implements your validation, authorization and other business logic, and still retain a highly rich and interactive user experience. The result is to minimize the code in the UI, reducing your effort as you move from Windows Forms to WPF. In this session you'll learn how to create such a business layer, and see how to create both Windows Forms and WPF interfaces.

Presenter:
Rockford Lhotka is the author of numerous books, including the Expert C# 2005 Business Objects, Second Edition. He is a Microsoft Software Legend, Regional Director, MVP and INETA speaker. Rockford speaks at many conferences and user groups around the world and is a columnist for MSDN Online. Rockford is the Principal Technology Evangelist for Magenic Technologies, one of the nation's premiere Microsoft Gold Certified Partners dedicated to solving today's most challenging business problems using 100% Microsoft tools and technology.

Topics:
Winforms 2.0
WPF UI

Links:
Rockford Lhotka
Author of the Expert VB 2005 and C# 2005 Business Objects books
Microsoft Regional Director and MVP

What is on the Calendar?

Description:
The Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is the “now” generation messaging platform for .NET that unifies the programming model for how components communicate: be they distributed or not, accessible beyond firewalls, or available through interoperable interfaces.

Contracts are a critical part of service-oriented system design. This session will provide practical guidance for designing service contracts, data contracts and message contracts. You'll learn how and when to work with code-first and contract-first approaches; learn how to deal with advanced scenarios for type serialization that may require more control than data contracts provide, for example, working with raw messages and IXmlSerializable types; and you'll learn how to approach contract versioning based on the level of strictness in your environment. For those needing an introduction to WCF, at the beginning of this session I'll provide a brief overview of the technology, and how to create and consume services.

Presenter:
Michèle Leroux Bustamante is Principal Software Architect of IDesign Inc., Microsoft Regional Director for San Diego, Microsoft MVP for XML Web Services and BEA Technical Director. She has over a decade of development experience development applications with VB, C++, Java, C# and VB.NET and working with related technologies such as ATL, MFC and COM. At IDesign Michele provides training, mentoring and high-end architecture consulting services, focusing on Web services, scalable and secure architecture design for .NET, and interoperability. She is a member of the International .NET Speakers Association (INETA), a frequent conference presenter, conference chair for SD's Web Services and .NET tracks, and is frequently published in several major technology journals. Michele is also Program Advisor for UCSD Extension, and is the .NET Expert for SearchWebServices.com. Reach her at mlb@idesign.net , or visit www.idesign.net  and www.dasblonde.net .  Her book, Windows Communication Framework (O'Reilly) is scheduled to release in the first half of 2007.