Will you be in Amsterdam at TechEd? thinktecture will be there and we'll cover a lot of aspects for distributed applications, globalization and application extensibility. I am really looking forward to meeting you there! --Ingo

Monday

19:30 - 20:45 "Distributed Applications - Today and in the Future" (Ingo Rammer)
(Right before this session, our friend Juval Lowy from IDesign talks about Enterprise Services. Rumors are that Christian Weyer will also be around at that .NET User Group Meeting. It's definitely going to be "Distributed Application Night" over there --- TechEd attendance is not required and this meeting is of course free!)

Tuesday

16:30 - 17:45 [CHT024] Remoting versus Enterprise Services (Ingo Rammer)
In this Chalk-&-Talk, we'll discuss the trade-offs when selecting a distributed application technology for your applications today. We'll discuss implications and requirements as performance, scalability, and security and provide an outlook towards future technologies in this space.

18:15 - 19:30, [CHT010] Design Choices in Distributed Applications (Christian Nagel)
There are many choices with the design of distributed solutions: should I use a DataReader, or the DataSet? Should the communication to the components be done by using .NET Remoting or ASP.NET Web Services? Or the old protocol DCOM? For the user interface, what are the advantages of using Windows Forms compared to ASP.NET? There is not a clear choice that you should always prefer one technology to another one. Every technology has advantages and disadvantages that will be discussed here, so you can select the technologies that fit best for your solutions.

18:15 - 19:30, [CHT011] And You Thought You Knew about Web Services?! (Christian Weyer, Beat Schwegler, Terry Leeper)
Many people apply Web Services techniques in a RPC-based fashion. But this doesn't justify the use of Web Services standards. Web Services are about messaging and messaging is all about the message! Come and join us to discuss what actually makes Web Services 'service like', how you can apply service-oriented principles with existing Web Services platforms as well as the motivation for the up-coming WS specifications! Yes, we care about messages... how about you?

Wednesday

14:45 - 16:00, [CHT011] (Repeat) And You Thought You Knew about Web Services?! (Christian Weyer, Beat Schwegler, Terry Leeper)
Many people apply Web Services techniques in a RPC-based fashion. But this doesn't justify the use of Web Services standards. Web Services are about messaging and messaging is all about the message! Come and join us to discuss what actually makes Web Services 'service like', how you can apply service-oriented principles with existing Web Services platforms as well as the motivation for the up-coming WS specifications! Yes, we care about messages... how about you?

Thursday

Tech Ed Party
Not that we'd have too much to do with that one. But we'll definitely be there ;-)

Friday

08:30 - 09:45, [DEV319] Creating Efficient, High Performance XML Web Services (Christian Weyer)
A lot of customers have one same dream: improving Web services performance. XML-based Web services are adhered to the mysterium of being 'somewhat slower' than other communication means and cannot scale out well. This session tries to clear up some of the prejudices and leads you through a series of measures to improve the overall responsiveness of your ASP.NET Web services. Key to this is to understand the architecture of ASMX Web services and the anatomy of a Web service request from both the client and server-side perspectives. See a set of key Web service design considerations followed by essential Web service performance and scalability issues. Learn how to configure, tweak and program for the best results you can get out of the ASMX engine today.

16:15 - 17:30, [DEV404] Creating a Klingon Culture - More about Globalization and Resource Management (Christian Nagel)
.NET has great built-in support to internationalize and globalize applications. More than that, .NET allows extending the localization support. This session demonstrates how the localization support can be extended using the Klingon culture. You will see how to adapt a calendar, create a custom resource reader to read resources from the database, define a custom format output for your classes, and more. You can use the techniques shown here to create a new culture that is not part of the framework, and create sub-cultures for small local regions. Looking at how to extend the Framework you will also see the relationships of the different classes so you can work with globalization and resource management very efficiently. This session also covers .NET 2.0 features for globalization and localization.

16:15 - 17:30 [DEV401] Building Extensible Applications using Attributes, Reflection and Code Generation (Ingo Rammer)
Wouldn't it be great to extend your applications with scripting and plug-ins? This would allow having several versions or customer specific versions, or even the possibility for power users to extend the application. In this session Ingo Rammer will demonstrate how you can use .NET technologies (Attributes, Reflection and CodeDom) to realize these plug-ins and scripting capabilities to extend the application.