Orlando 2008 DevConnections Talks

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I'm in Orlando this week speaking at the DevConnections conference on 3 different topics.  It's my personal favorite as far as conferences go and features a lot of cool technologies, people and events.  This week I'm covering custom ASP.NET AJAX controls, building N-Layer applications that leverage LINQ and new networking features in Silverlight 2.  If you're able to attend any of my sessions stop by and say "hi". 

Code and slides for the talks are shown next:

Published Tuesday, April 22, 2008 1:52 PM by dwahlin
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 3:02 AM by SilverlightShow.net

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# re: Orlando 2008 DevConnections Talks

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 12:34 PM by Martin McNally

Great talk today in Building N-Layer Applications with LINQ. Wish there were more sessions on layering and how LINQ is going to simplify that.

# re: Orlando 2008 DevConnections Talks

Thursday, April 24, 2008 1:23 PM by RichardT

Hi,

I was in your building N-Tier app with Linq session. I like the idea that you create data/biz class as separate tiers.

My question is that which tier will you put the cache bit of code? What I mean is the cache of object such as dataset, not the page cache.

I have been using n-tier for a long time but the problem is that every time we make a change in a DLL, it becomes a big job to update the entire apps since the dll is shared by many apps. Another issue is that many apps are written in different version of .net and some third party component are also used for certain version so it also make the global update harder.

Sorry I didn’t catch your email in the show so I just post my question here.

Thanks,

Richard

# re: Orlando 2008 DevConnections Talks

Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:39 PM by greg Hilsheimer

Re: source code for building n-layer. I attended the confernce and really enjoyed your presentation. Your demo showed a complete web app with the n-layer code. Did you intend to include the web pages and their code, because I can't find them with your posting?

Thanks

Greg

# re: Orlando 2008 DevConnections Talks

Friday, April 25, 2008 10:19 AM by Jose Villasmil

Great opresentsations, lots of substance and excellently presented!

# re: Orlando 2008 DevConnections Talks

Friday, April 25, 2008 10:27 AM by Alex , Memphis , TN

Great presentation, at the end of one of your sessions one of the persons in the row where I was sitting said you were the best presenter, I immediately agreed and all of those who heard about the comment did as well.

thanks,

# re: Orlando 2008 DevConnections Talks

Friday, April 25, 2008 2:35 PM by Dave

Dan, "Building N-Layer Applications with LINQ" was a great session.

It was so good that I wanted to download and try out your demo.

I downloaded the zip file (N-TierWithLINQ), but the N-Layer web site only seems to have a single file in it (Northwind.ldf).  Is there more, or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks again for your presentation.

# re: Orlando 2008 DevConnections Talks

Friday, April 25, 2008 3:44 PM by greg

Your demo showed a complete web site for the n-tier with link.

I can't find .aspx pages for your source

# re: Orlando 2008 DevConnections Talks

Sunday, April 27, 2008 12:33 AM by dwahlin

Sorry about the download problem.  Not sure why the aspx files weren't zipped, but you'll find the complete application at the download link now.

# re: Orlando 2008 DevConnections Talks

Sunday, April 27, 2008 12:35 AM by dwahlin

RichardT,

It depends on who you talk to as far as caching goes.  I feel that caching is a business/app rule so I normally set the cache duration and access the cache in the business layer.  But, I could see people arguing that it's a data layer task as well.  Just depends on how you want to look at it.  I like to go to one place to change "rules" which is why I like to put it in the business layer.

# re: Orlando 2008 DevConnections Talks

Sunday, April 27, 2008 12:36 AM by dwahlin

Alex,

Thanks for taking the time to attend the session and comment.  I'm glad to hear you (and the others near you) enjoyed the presentation. :-)

# re: Orlando 2008 DevConnections Talks

Monday, April 28, 2008 3:16 PM by Scott

Dan,

I wrote about you in my blog from your talks on DevConnections.  Thought you might like to see it.

www.spoiledtechie.com/.../Day-4-at-DevConnections-2008.aspx

# re: Orlando 2008 DevConnections Talks

Monday, April 28, 2008 3:25 PM by dwahlin

Scott,

Great to meet you (quick as it was) in Orlando and thanks for attending some of my sessions.  Great blog...I love the domain name. :-)