DevConnections sessions I'd really love to be able to attend...
DevConnections is just around the corner--I just submitted yesterday the final deck of slides for my control development workshop. As my travel plans come to a final stage, I started looking into sessions being held there that are of greatest interest to me now. Here's a list.
Applying Object-Oriented Principles and Design Patterns to Web Development. I find out that I've been using patterns for years without realizing that. However, more often than not I find out that I still need a little bit more of formalization to come up with patterned and replicable solutions working and well architected. Markus promises to bring a full bag of goodies for this talk.
Caching Features in ASP.NET 2.0 with SQL Server 2005. Obviously, the possibility of using SQL Server changes to invalidate cached data is great. I still need to see described and applied this in real-world and realistic scenarios. I tried it a couple of times and found out that there are quite a few caveats. It's not that trivial in most cases. Steve, show me the way...
Why You Need to Use a Code-Generator in ASP.NET. To save time, I suppose. And time is money. Code generators seem to be a quick and effective way to come up with good code with little effort. But if there's more, I'm here to learn. BTW, in ASP.NET 2.0 with code-generators and build providers might be quite a powerful duo...
Asynchronous Pages in ASP.NET 2.0. I'm surprised how elegant is this feature in its core implementation. (PS: I spent a week trying to reverse engineer most of steps it takes a request to be fully processed async-ly.) And I might have quite a few questions for Dmitri--one of the MS brains behind it.
Migrating from Web Services to SOAs. This is not exactly my core business at this time. I have a lot to learn.
Synchronous and Asynchronous Web Services in .NET 2.0. The interest for this is related to the previous two talks.
Unit Testing and Build Management in .NET Applications. Along with design patterns, unit testing is another aspect of development that is hot for me these days. And thanks to msbuild I'm finally seeing most of old dreams coming true.
Performance Tuning and Monitoring your ASP.NET Applications. A classic session for most conferences. As Don Box said to me once, two people can say the same things, but the perspective of each remains unique. You might conclude that such a session is poor for you; but it is always important to take a closer look. Moreover, in ASP.NET 2.0 the health monitoring is quite interesting...
More information and abstracts and speaker info here.
This said, I'm quite sure I won't be able to attend most of them because of simultaneous talks of mine or other business. :(