Agenda Updates for Lansing Day of .Net

The following changes have been made to Saturday's schedule:

Timeslot Changes
Tim Golisch's session on The Entity Framework has been moved from 3:30p to 8:30a.
Len Smith's session on Data Access with NHibernate has been moved from 8:30a to 3:30p.

Lansing Day of .Net Sessions Start at 8:30am

Notice to all attendees: the first sessions for Saturday's Lansing Day of .Net will begin at 8:30am.

Originally, we had planned to start the day at 9:00am, but due to the number of speakers that submitted for LDODN, we expanded the day to have six sets of sessions starting at 8:30am. Before this decision was made, registration confirmation emails still stated the original 9:00am start time. Please note the new 8:30am start time for sessions. Registration still opens at 7:30am.

Three more days left until Lansing's first Day of .Net. We hope to see you there!

Agenda Updates for Lansing Day of .Net

The following changes have been made to Saturday's schedule:

Timeslot Changes
Tim Golisch's session on The Entity Framework has been moved from 8:30a to 3:30p.
Josh Holmes's session on Distilling the DLR has been moved from 3:30p to 8:30a.

Philip Japikse's session on TDD in C# has been moved from 1:00p to 9:45a.
Joe Kunk's session on LINQ for SQL has been moved from 9:45a to 1:00p.

Topic Changes
Alan Stevens's session has changed:
Introduction to Test Driven Development With the ASP.NET MVC Framework
In this session, we will introduce the ASP.NET MVC Framework (MVC Framework) architecture and development style. One of the core requirements for the design of the MVC Framework is to enable effective Test Driven Development. We'll introduce the core principles and practices of Test Driven Development (TDD). Because this is an introductory talk, we will limit our demonstration of TDD to exclude mock objects and dependency injection frameworks. This talk will focus on understanding the concepts behind the MVC Framework architecture and the practice of TDD.

Lansing DODN Agenda Posted

The day's agenda for Saturday's Lansing Day of .Net has been posted. Registration will open at 7:30am with the first session starting at 8:30am. There will be 24 sessions throughout the day, spread across 4 rooms and 6 timeslots. Sessions will be divided by a 15 minute break, and an hour break for lunch. The final session will end at 4:30, when the closing and final raffle will be held.

Saturday's schedule:

7:30 - 9:00 - Registration and Check-in
8:30 - 9:30 - First Sessions

• Programming with Literal XML and Embedded Expressions (Paul Kimmel)
• The Entity Framework (Tim Golisch)
• Data Access with NHibernate (Len Smith)
• MicroISV: Start Your Own Software Company (Patrick Foley)

9:45 - 10:45 - Second Sessions

• Well, Isn’t That Spatial… [SQL Server 2008 Spatial Data Type] (Jason Follas)
• LINQ For SQL - CRUD! (Joe Kunk)
• An Introduction to Castle ActiveRecord, or Stop Writing CRUD! (Michael Eaton)
• Regular Expressions can be your friend (Vijay Jagdale)

11:00 - 12:00 - Third Sessions

• IronRuby, the DLR and Silverlight (Carey Payette)
• Windows Live: An API for Web 2.0 (Martin L. Shoemaker)
• Everyday Inversion of Control (Jay R. Wren)
• Structure and Guidance for Organizing Applications within Visual Studio (Keith Elder)

12:00 - 1:00 - Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 - Fourth Sessions

• Be a Rules Follower: Windows Workflow Rules Engine (Michael Wood)
• Test Driven Development in C# (Philip Japikse)
• Monorail: An MVC Implementation on ASP.NET (Patrick Steele)
• Manage Complexity With Agility (Alan Stevens)

2:15 - 3:15 - Fifth Sessions

• Enhancing Windows and Web Applications with Microsoft Presence (Chris Woodruff)
• Introduction to WPF (Jennifer Marsman)
• Introduction to Dependency Injection using Spring.NET (Ryan Montgomery)
• Agile Games (Amanda Laucher)

3:30 - 4:30 - Sixth Sessions

• Agile Project Management with Scrum (Dan Rigsby)
• SQL Server 2008 for Developers (Sam Nasr)
• Distilling the Dynamic Language Runtime (Josh Holmes)
• Getting Started with WCF (James Bender)

4:30 - 5:00 - Closing and Raffle

LDODN Speakers and Sessions Chosen

The list of speakers for Lansing Day of .Net 2008 has been finalized, including the sessions that each speaker will present. The Speaker List and Session List is now available on the LDODN site.

Sessions topics include:

• Dependency Injection
• Linq
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008
• Windows Communication Foundation
• Windows Workflow
• and more...
  

LDODN Site Online

The Lansing Day of .Net site is online : http://www.dayofdotnet.org/Lansing/

Use the site to:

• Register for the event
• View sessions details and the event agenda
• Find out who will be speaking at LDODN08 or to get information about speaking there.
  
• Learn about event sponsors or to learn how to sponsor the event.
• Get a blog badge to place on your own site and let the world know that you'll be there!
  

Announcing Lansing Day of .Net 2008

Lansing Day of .Net 2008 is a one-day conference on all things .NET organized by developers for developers. This event is being offered at no cost to anyone interested in .NET development, and will take place on Saturday, June 21, 2008 at Lansing Community College, West Campus in Lansing, MI.

More information is coming. Keep an eye on this site, glugnet.org, and dodn.org for more information.