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Microsoft Codename "Astoria and Visual Studio 2005 Tips and Tricks with Guy Smith-Ferrier
- Date
- Mon, 1 Oct 2007, 18:30 - 21:00 (Add to calendar)
- Venue
- BT, Newcastle Upon Tyne, GB
- Cost
- Free
The emergence of Web 2.0 technologies has brought new opportunities and caused us to solve old problems in new ways. AJAX and SilverLight applications need read/write access to data and business objects without performing full page refreshes and without dumbing down the data so much we are just left with primitives. Microsoft?s answer to this problem is Microsoft Codename "Astoria". In short "Astoria" is a data access layer for client-size technologies such as AJAX and SilverLight. This session shows how it works, how you can write "Astoria" data servers and how you can customize "Astoria" to your applications requirements.
Visual Studio 2005 IDE Tips and Tricks
Visual Studio is a treasure trove of functionality and productivity. The problem is that many developers don?t know what's there. In this session we will cover some simple and not so simple tips and tricks and improve your productivity and enjoyment of Visual Studio 2005.
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