http://www.woo-hoo.net/Abstracts/Archive/ IntraWeb Studio Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:45:23 GMT http://www.woo-hoo.net/Abstracts/Archive/NET_WF.aspx Imagine building visible flow charts into your software that define behaviour, and optionally allowing your end users or customers to modify them to fit their business needs. WF provides a common reusable workflow engine that does exactly that. Learn how what WF can do, and how it can improve your software customization and improve communication with the business owners. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:24:25 GMT http://www.woo-hoo.net/Abstracts/Archive/NET_WCF.aspx WCF brings the capabilities of Web Services, DCOM, MSMQ, Remoting, Security, and Transactions into a single configurable framework built around SOA concepts. This session demonstrates what WCF is, its capabilities and how to use it in your applications. This session also discusses how to move from other technologies such as web services or remoting to WCF. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:24:03 GMT http://www.woo-hoo.net/Abstracts/Archive/NET_VS2008.aspx Visual Studio 2008 includes many new features including LINQ, WPF, .NET 3.5, Better web support, and more. Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:51:34 GMT http://www.woo-hoo.net/Abstracts/Archive/NET_WinFormsandWPF.aspx With two options for building forms, which is better to use? For the near future the answer often is both. In this session I will cover the strengths and weaknesses of each, and how to use them effectively together. Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:53:33 GMT http://www.woo-hoo.net/Abstracts/Archive/NET_Silverlight2.aspx Silverlight 2.0 goes beyond video and Javascript. Now developers can deploy .NET applications into the browser on multiple platforms easily through the browser. See the technical aspects behind Silverlight 2.0, but also how the release of Silverlight 2.0 changes the web in drastic ways. Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:38:06 GMT http://www.woo-hoo.net/Abstracts/Archive/Arch_HPC.aspx What does HPC mean? Are mainframes or super computers coming back? How can HPC be useful to me in my business? How cost effective is HPC? What types of problems can HPC solve? Who is using HPC? What are the leading HPC options? This session will discuss these questions and more from a high level. This is not a developer level session, but instead focuses on decision makers and business group owners. Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:35:26 GMT http://www.woo-hoo.net/Abstracts/Archive/Delphi_ConstructorsDestructors.aspx Because of non deterministic destruction in .net, constructors and destructors often act quite differently in Delphi under .NET. Changes to the behaviour of constructors in Delphi for . NET are often subtle and transparent. But in many cases, especially with destructors, these changes drastically change how code functions and introduce hard to find bugs. This session will cover the changes, and common problems caused by the changes. It will also cover how to solve the problems introduced by the changes. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:09:43 GMT http://www.woo-hoo.net/Abstracts/Archive/Delphi_UsingNET30.aspx The upcoming release of Delphi supports .NET 2.0. .NET 3.0 is actually just .NET 2.0 plus new libraries for WPF, WCF, CardSpace, and WorkFlow. So if .NET 3.0 is just 2.0 plus new libraries, does this mean Delphi will be able to use these new libraries? The answer is mostly yes, but for some of these the devil is in the details. In this session I will cover what the possibilities are for Delphi users with .NET 3.0. Thu, 05 Jul 2007 11:56:10 GMT http://www.woo-hoo.net/Abstracts/Archive/Indy_General.aspx I have well over a dozen Indy topics. If you are interested in Indy sessions, please contact me. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:15:08 GMT http://www.woo-hoo.net/Abstracts/Archive/NET_Silverlight.aspx Silverlight is a cross platform runtime enabling a subset of WPF (XAML) to reach beyond just Windows. With Silverlight you can build rich, interactive experiences that run in major web browsers on multiple platforms as well as on mobile devices. The combination of Silverlight and WPF will enable designers and developers to have a consistent development experience across smart clients, Web-based applications, and mobile devices. This session demonstrates the Silverlight feature set, targeted platforms and browsers, and the developer experience. Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:49:53 GMT http://www.woo-hoo.net/Abstracts/Archive/NET_VS2005.aspx Visual Studio 2005 includes many new features including generics, better data binding, and more. Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:44:45 GMT http://www.woo-hoo.net/Abstracts/Archive/NET_VSTS.aspx Learn how Visual Studio 2005 Team System enables you to drive predictability, visibility, and control into your software development process. Sat, 30 Dec 2006 15:22:55 GMT http://www.woo-hoo.net/Abstracts/Archive/Office_OBA.aspx What is an OBA? Why should you build OBA's? And lastly, how can you build OBA's? This session will discuss these questions and answers and provide starting points on building your own OBA's. The session is part overview, and leading into code in the latter half. Tue, 08 Jan 2008 16:39:44 GMT http://www.woo-hoo.net/Abstracts/Archive/Process_SeldonianPredictions.aspx In Asimov's Foundation series the fictional character Hari Seldon devices psychohistory, a massive mathematical model to predict the future on a granular scale. His predictions have political ramifications immediately and also cause existing predictions to be affected. If enough computing power and mathematics were available, would this be where we are headed? Realistically and pragmatically how much computing power is available today? What type of research and development can be done independently using readily available hardware? Can existing end of day or end of week processes be sped up to be real time or near real time? Fri, 29 Jun 2007 20:14:22 GMT http://www.woo-hoo.net/Abstracts/Archive/SQL_Editions.aspx SQL Server 2005 introduces many new versions: Compact, Express, Standard, Workgroup, Developer, and Enterprise. What are the differences? Which one do you need? How much will it cost you? And what configurations can be used to minimize your cost? This session focuses mostly on feature comparisons and scenarios enabling you to properly choose which versions suit your needs. Finally it will touch briefly on licensing of each. Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:26:08 GMT http://www.woo-hoo.net/Abstracts/Archive/SQL_SQL2005vsOracle10.aspx How do the latest versions of each database match up? What features are unique to each? Where does each one excel? This session does not aim to convince you which database is better, but instead merely gives you a view to how the latest versions from each vendor match up while highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of each. Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:29:26 GMT http://www.woo-hoo.net/Abstracts/Archive/SQL_SQLCE.aspx SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition (CE) is the next version of SQL Server Mobile. It contains many new features, but the most notable is that it can run on Windows. SQL Server CE provides easier deployment than SQL or SQL Express editions, yet the many of the same features used by desktop applications. Learn about the new features as well as when to best use SQL CE in this session. Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:08:37 GMT http://www.woo-hoo.net/Abstracts/Archive/SQL_SQLExpress.aspx SQL Server 2005 Express Edition is a free version of SQL Server. But what exactly can it do? Is it crippleware? Does it require lots of disk space and memory? How easy is it to deploy? What features and limitations does it have? What scenarios is it good for? What is the difference from SQL Server Enterprise, Workgroup, etc? How does it compare to other free databases? Learn the answer to these questions and more in this session. Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:02:29 GMT http://www.woo-hoo.net/Abstracts/Archive/SQL_SQLServerforOracleUsers.aspx Are you involved in adding SQL Server into the mix with Oracle? Or maybe you are involved in a porting of applications from Oracle to SQL Server? SQL Server 2005 offers many new unique capabilities that make it especially appealing. This session is not a comparison, but instead is a crash course in SQL Server 2005 for Oracle users to help them find their way. I know how to do this in Oracle, but how do I do it in SQL Server? I know the same concept is in SQL Server, but what is it called? I did it this way in Oracle, but it does not work that well in SQL Server? What features in SQL Server that are not available in Oracle might be of special interest? This session answers these questions and more. Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:38:48 GMT http://www.woo-hoo.net/Abstracts/Archive/SQL_SQLwithOracle.aspx Many companies already have a mix of Oracle and SQL Server. Often Oracle is the "big iron" but SQL Server has been brought in on smaller projects and grows in use. At some point the two usually have to work together to share data. In yet other cases, SQL Server is brought in for specific features and can even be used to augment Oracle's functionality, especially in .NET shops. This session demonstrates how to make the two databases most effectively interact with each other. In addition it demonstrates effective techniques to use SQL Server 2005 to augment an existing Oracle database bringing with it the features of SQL Server such as reporting services, SQLCLR, and more. Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:57:33 GMT