ASP.NET 2.0 Tips and Tricks by Rob Howard (consistently rated a top presenter)

Intended Audience:
Software developers with some prior experience with ASP.NET 2.0 to advanced web developers.

Description:
In this session, we'll look at ten tips and tricks for ASP.NET 2.0 that you can immediately put to practical use. For example, we'll use the Master Pages functionality of ASP.NET 2.0 to show off how you can extend it with inheritance. We'll also show off great tips like how to maximize SQL cache invalidation in your application.
Topics covered will include:

• Cross Page Posting
• Validation Groups
• Wizard Control
• Connection Encryption
• Output Cache
• Callback Event Handler
• File Explorer
• Blog Reader
• Url Rewriting
• SiteMap Path

Presenter:
Prior to founding »telligentsystems Rob Howard was employed by the Microsoft Corporation where he was a member of the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0, 1.1, and 2.0 team; specifically contributing to ASP.NET. Rob Howard was a Program Manager on the Microsoft ASP.NET team. He has presented at many software developer conferences including: Microsoft PDC and TechEd; Borland's BorCon; ASP.NET Connections; and VSLive! and is consistently rated a top presenter. Rob is also the author of several books, most recently A First Look at ASP.NET v 2.0; ASP.NET Coding Strategies with the ASP.NET Team. Rob's new company, »telligentsystems, is a solutions company specializing in building high-availability and high-scale software solutions. In addition, it also is building out a Knowledge Management product line whose first release is Community Server which brings together and integrates some of the most powerful .NET solutions such as the Forums (used on forums.xbox.com) and .Text (used on blogs.msdn.com).

Topics:
ASP.NET 2.0

Links:
http://weblogs.asp.net/rhoward/
ASP.NET 2.0 Tips and Tricks Demo Code

What is on the Calendar?

Description:
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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.