C# Track Schedule

2006  Web Application Development with IntraWeb
Jason Southwell — Arcana Technologies

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Beginning.
This session is an introduction to the development of Web applications with IntraWeb. It begins with a brief overview of Web applications in general and available frameworks, such as ASP.NET. In addition, IntraWeb is compared and shown in-depth with several examples. After the very first "Hello World" example, the session management of IW is explained and questions such as "When does a session terminate and how do we handle that?" are answered. Data-bound Web applications are covered as well as special topics such as threading, SSL, compression, JavaScript, and more.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Ballroom 6

2020  Introduction to ECO  
Malcolm Groves — Borland

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Beginning.
Enterprise Core Objects (ECO) brings the power and productivity of model-driven development to the Delphi and C# languages. This tutorial equips you to start exploiting this technology in your applications and covers: the class designer; object constraint language; derived attributes and derived relationships; association classes; persistence; ECO services; UI support, including data binding and the ECO Extender components; and more.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of object-oriented concepts, as well as Delphi or C# skills. No knowledge of Bold, ECO, or MDA required.
Room: Continental Ballroom 4

1000  ASP.NET Fundamentals
Lino Tadros — Falafel Software, Inc.

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: All.
This tutorial covers user controls, caching, state management, session management, database access, ViewState management, templates, Web Service integration, security, performance, optimization, and just plain having fun with ASP.NET.
Prerequisites: Any Web technology background is recommended. Some Microsoft .NET Framework knowledge helpful.
Room: Continental Ballroom 6

3008  Developing Database Applications with the Microsoft .NET Framework
Cary Jensen — Jensen Data Systems, Inc.

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Intermediate.
Get a head start on developing database applications for the Microsoft .NET Framework in this fast-paced introduction to ADO.NET. This tutorial describes and demonstrates the roles of the most common classes in ADO.NET. Topics include connecting to databases, executing queries, working with result sets, navigating data, creating calculated fields and aggregates, persisting datasets, using views, and synchronizing visual controls. Special attention is paid to best practices in .NET database development. Examples in both Delphi and C# are shown.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with database development issues.
Room: Continental Ballroom 4

3018  Applying ECO to ASP.NET  
Malcolm Groves — Borland

Type: Preconference Tutorial. Level: Intermediate.
Enterprise Core Objects (ECO) offers developers an incredible boost in productivity while also enabling them to maintain a well structured architecture. However, many demos only cover the basics of using this technology. This session delves into leveraging ECO with ASP.NET and attempts to go beyond the basics. Based on an ECO/ASP.NET application that has been in production for more than 6 months, we cover such topics as ASP.NET state management and ECO, databinding, authentication, performance issues, ECOSpace pooling, background threads, and more.
Prerequisites: Basic ECO experience and basic understanding of Web development, ASP.NET in particular, required.
Room: Continental Ballroom 4

1102  What's New in Delphi  
Allen Bauer — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: All.
This session covers most of the new features in the Delphi IDE such as VCL Designer Guidelines, Live Templates, Block Completion, HTML Tag Editor enhancements, Delphi Win32 language enhancements, VCL enahancements, and many others.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Ballroom 5

9100  Integrating Help with Borland Products  
Stuart Norton and Nils Tikkanen — Borland

Type: Birds-of-a-Feather. Level: Beginning.
This session presents information on how to integrate your help with Borland products for Delphi, C++, C#, and Java development. This is important for vendors of plug-in tools and code libraries who want to enable their customers to access the documentation for those libraries as they would access any other help in the IDE. Also presented are techniques for using the XMLDoc tool for generating API documentation from code comments, using both developer comments and independent, writer-developed documentation files, and a discussion of how to customize the XMLDoc tool for other output formats and stylistic conventions. See demonstrations of how to use the XMLDoc tool and HelpInsight tool in conjunction to create pop-up help.
Prerequisites: None.
Room: Continental Ballroom 6

3112  StarTeam SDK New Features
Randy Guck — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
The StarTeam SDK allows you to write custom applications in Java, the Microsoft .NET Framework, and COM languages. With the StarTeam 2005 R2 release, new SDK features have been added that make it easier to write event-based applications, store credentials for auto-logon applications, leverage the StarTeamMPX Cache Agent, and more. In this session, learn about these new StarTeam SDK features and see coding samples on how to use them.
Prerequisites: Basic StarTeam and programming knowledge.
Room: Continental Parlor 7

2166  ECO: Basic Concepts  
Malcolm Groves — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
Enterprise Core Objects (ECO) bring the power and productivity of model-driven development to the Delphi and C# languages. This session provides an overview of the technologies ECO provides, giving you enough background so that you can explore this exciting technology further, either at other sessions in the conference or afterward.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of object-oriented concepts, as well as Delphi or C# skills. No knowledge of Bold, ECO, or MDA required.
Room: Continental Ballroom 5

3114  Effective Delphi for .NET and C# Unit Testing with NUnit
Charlie Calvert — Falafel Software, Inc.

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
Learn how to create applications that are easy to test and how to write tests that are easy to maintain. Unit testing is a fascinating technology that is designed to encourage developers to create easily reusable objects that promote the proper object-oriented techniques.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Microsoft .NET Framework development in Delphi or C#.
Room: Continental Ballroom 4

3118  Developing Custom .NET Components
Ray Konopka — Raize Software

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
This session focuses on extending the Microsoft .NET Framework component hierarchy by creating custom .NET components. In addition to describing the steps involved in creating a new .NET component, this session focuses on several key aspects of the .NET component architecture including the .NET Component Model, the new graphics subsystem (GDI+), user controls and custom controls, and supporting events through delegates.
Prerequisites: Experience creating VCL components helpful, but not necessary.
Room: Continental Ballroom 6

4104  WinForm User Interface and the Delphi ECO Framework
Fredrik Haglund — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Advanced.
An in-depth description of how data binding with all different ECO handles works, and ECO Extender components and how to extend them yourself. Learn how to replace the default auto forms with your own. An example of how to write a custom tree-view control that uses data binding is presented.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of the Delphi Enterprise Core Object (ECO) Framework.
Room: Continental Ballroom 5

3128  Securing ASP.NET Web Applications
Lino Tadros — Falafel Software, Inc.

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
This session presents countermeasures to defend against threats. Topics include input validation; best practices when working with Microsoft SQL Server, including the use of parameterized commands, stored procedures, accounts with limited privileges, Microsoft Windows; authentication versus SQL Server logins, and secure storage of connection strings; HTML-encoding of user input; vulnerabilities specific to ASP.NET forms authentication and forms authentication cookies; use of encrypted view state rather than hidden fields to maintain state between requests; storage of password hashes rather than passwords for added security; and more.
Prerequisites: Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 and ASP.NET knowledge preferred.
Room: Continental Ballroom 4

4106  Developing Custom .NET Component Designers
Ray Konopka — Raize Software

Type: Regular Session. Level: Advanced.
This session focuses on how to enhance the design-time interface of a Microsoft .NET Framework component through custom designers. Specifically, learn the details of creating custom Type Converters, UI Type Editors, and Component Designers. In addition, this session highlights some of the new designer functionality coming in the next version of the Microsoft .NET Framework.
Prerequisites: Experience creating .NET components.
Room: Continental Ballroom 6

3132  Delphi Productivity Features for ASP.NET Developers
Jim Tierney — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
Overview of Delphi productivity features that apply to ASP.NET developers. Topics include refactoring, deployment, markup validation, code templates, modeling, and add-ins.
Prerequisites: Exposure to developing ASP.NET applications with Delphi is required.
Room: Continental Ballroom 5

3134  Introduction to .NET FCL
Lino Tadros — Falafel Software, Inc.

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
This session provides an introduction to the Microsoft .NET Framework FCL (Framework Class Library). After an overview of the major namespaces that comprise the FCL, the remainder of the session focuses on concrete examples that utilitize FCL classes. Examples provided include exceptions, debugging, string manipulation, file I/O, collections, graphics, etc.
Prerequisites: VCL and OOP knoweldge preferred.
Room: Continental Ballroom 4

3192  Developing for SQL Server 2005  
Euan Garden — Microsoft

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
This session demonstrates some of the myriad of new developer-orientated features in SQL Server 2005 using examples (and very few slides) in T-SQL, C#, and Delphi for .NET.
Prerequisites: Understanding of RDBMS and the Microsoft .NET Framework.
Room: Continental Parlor 1-2

3182  Preview of ASP.NET 2.0 in Delphi  
Jim Tierney — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
This session provide an preview of ASP.NET 2.0 features to be supported in Delphi Highlander. Topics include master and content pages, themes and skins, code separation, application services, project management, and Delphi language support.
Prerequisites: Exposure to developing applications with ASP.NET recommended.
Room: Continental Ballroom 5

2158  Building Distributed Database Applications in .NET  
Ramesh Theivendran — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
The Microsoft .NET Framework provides various frameworks for building distributed applications like ASP.NET, Web Services, Remoting, and Messaging. This session introduces these frameworks and mainly focus on .NET Remoting and Messaging for building distributed applications.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 and some C# programming.
Room: Continental Ballroom 6

4112  Building Scalable ECO Applications  
Fredrik Haglund — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Advanced.
Learn how to write scalable multi-user applications with the ECO Application Framework in Delphi. We take a closer look at the synchronization service, threaded applications (like ASP.NET applications), the EcoSpace pool, database searching, and finally, when to use lazy or eager fetching.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of the Delphi Enterprise Core Object (ECO) Framework.
Room: Continental Ballroom 4

3150  A Developer's Perspective on Patterns
Paul Gustavson — SimVentions, Inc.

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
This session explores the real benefit of patterns as it applies to software development. We briefly explore the various types of patterns and how to build software more effectively and efficiently using patterns. Tools used in this session include Borland Together to illustrate patterns in UML and the Borland Delphi IDE (using the C#, C++, and Delphi personalities).
Prerequisites: Some familiarity with object-oriented software development.
Room: Continental Parlor 8

3152  ASP.NET User Interface and the Delphi ECO Framework
Fredrik Haglund — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
Learn how to write ASP.NET user interfaces for your ECO applications. The session covers ECO handles, EcoSpaceProvider class, and using synchronization.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of the Delphi Enterprise Core Object (ECO) Framework. Attendance to "Building Scablable ECO Applications" is recomended.
Room: Continental Ballroom 4

2146  ADO.NET: BDP 2.5
Ramesh Theivendran — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
This session introduces what's new in Borland Data Providers (BDP) 2.5 and covers most of the ADO.NET 2.0 features. See how the BDP 3.0 feature set will evolve for .NET 2.0.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Microsoft .NET Framework, ADO.NET 1.x, and C#.
Room: Continental Ballroom 4

2102  Integrating Help with Borland Products  
Stuart Norton — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Beginning.
(This session has been moved to a Birds-of-a-Feather session.)
This session presents information on how to integrate your help with Borland products for Delphi, C++, C#, and Java development. This is important for vendors of plug-in tools and code libraries who want to enable their customers to access the documentation for those libraries as they would access any other help in the IDE. Also presented are techniques for using the XMLDoc tool for generating API documentation from code comments, using both developer comments and independent, writer-developed documentation files, and a discussion of how to customize the XMLDoc tool for other output formats and stylistic conventions. See demonstrations of how to use the XMLDoc tool and HelpInsight tool in conjunction to create pop-up help.
Prerequisites: None.

3176  Insider Tips for Debugging Win32 and .NET Applications   
Chris Hesik — Borland

Type: Regular Session. Level: Intermediate.
Learn tips and tricks for debugging Win32 and Microsoft .NET Framework applications with the new features of the product from the engineer who implements the debugger at Borland.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with Delphi, C++, and/or C#.