Microsoft Community Summit 2008
Orange County Convention Center, June 7 and 8

Sessions

Show sessions for:
SessionDescriptionSat or SunMore info....
.NET 3.5 Services - DotNet University Doug Turnure's flagship series of structured courses geared to bring you up to speed on a particular topic.

NET University presents Services U - a 1-day technical seminar on building services with the .NET Framework 3.5. Join Coskun Cavusoglu, Bayer White, Glen Gordon, and Noah Subrin, who will show you how to take advantage of the service capabilities of the .NET Framework.
Topics will include:
  • WCF Intro
  • Workflow Intro
  • Web programming in WCF (REST, JSON, etc.)
  • Workflow Services Intro
(All course material is downloadable from http://www.dotnet-u.com)
The course will include take-home labs (also downloadable from http://www.dotnet-u.com). Attendees will receive a .NET U *Alumni* t-shirt and certificate of completion.
Sunday Doug's blog entry on ]inbetween[ dotnetu - http://blogs.msdn.com/dougturn/archive/2008/05/06/huge-weekend-community-event-in-orlando-wedged-between-teched-weeks.aspx

Registration info:
http://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=128291
.NET CodeCamp Some local speakers, some speakers we shanghaied from the regular TechEd Event (in no way associated with Tweener of course). Including some members of the product teams.

Track Leads: Dave Noderer, Shawn Weisfeld, and Shervin Shakibi
Saturday
Session Schedule: http://www.fladotnet.com/FloridaCodeCamp_2008_20080408.mht
Registration: http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=128059
Biztalk DotNet University - BizTalk Basics: with bonus presentation on RFID! Doug Turnure's flagship series of structured courses geared to bring you up to speed on a particular topic.

NET University presents BizTalk Basics - a 1-day technical seminar that teaches the fundamentals of BizTalk Server 2006 RC2. BizTalk guru extraordinaire Jeff Barnes will take you on a tour of BizTalk, including (PPTs downloadable from http://www.dotnet-u.com):
  • BizTalk Intro
  • Publishers and Subscribers
  • Binding and Rule Engine
  • Deployment
As a bonus, Jeff will also cover RFID and BizTalk!

The course will include take-home labs ( downloadable from http://www.dotnet-u.com ). Attendees will receive a .NET U *Alumni* t-shirt and certificate of completion.
Sunday Doug's blog entry on ]inbetween[ dotnetu - http://blogs.msdn.com/dougturn/archive/2008/05/06/huge-weekend-community-event-in-orlando-wedged-between-teched-weeks.aspx

Registration info:
.NET U presents BizTalk Basics - http://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=128288
Day of Agile Jim's wife has been scheduled for an early baby delivery on the inbetween day so we're going to have to cancel this session. Its been replaced with regular codecamp sessions, and should be a ton of fun anyway.
Got a passion for Agile? Jim Zimmerman and Chris Chandler have put together a full day of Agile topics ready to go.
Saturday Session and registration information have been pulled
Day of Silverlight III If you’re interested in Silverlight, you won’t want to miss this event. Join three of the top Silverlight speakers for a morning of great content. We start off with Microsoft MVP and professional trainer Walt Ritscher giving an introduction to Silverlight 2. Next, acclaimed speaker Andy Beaulieu covers data access including using WCF, LINQ to SQL, and data binding. Finally, Microsoft MVP Bill Reiss covers Expression Blend tips and tricks and some of the latest features in Silverlight. SaturdayRegistration: use the codecamp registration info at http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=128059
DotNet University Doug Turnure's flagshihp series of structured courses geared to bring you up to speed on a particular topic.  Three separate all day courses are being offered, including Sharepoint, Service Oriented Development in .NET 3.5 Services, and BizTalk. Something for almost everyone! Sunday Doug's blog entry on ]inbetween[ dotnetu - http://blogs.msdn.com/dougturn/archive/2008/05/06/huge-weekend-community-event-in-orlando-wedged-between-teched-weeks.aspx

Registration info:
.NET U presents BizTalk Basics - http://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=128288
.NET U presents SharePoint Fundamentals - http://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=128289
.NET U presents Service Oriented Development in .NET 3.5 University - http://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=128291
DotNetNuke OpenForce University The Dean of Education for DotNetNuke University, Brian Scarbeau, has hustled up the very best DotNetNuke speakers he could get for a full day of exciting DNN action. Sunday Registration and session info are at http://www.openforce08.com
Exam Crams Cram for your developer or ITPro exams with the trainer and cert teams from redmond. Then go take your exam at a discount! Both Days Registration and more information - exam_cram.aspx
IT Professional Camp A first for the state and maybe the country? The very first Microsoft ITPro Camp.
Track lead: Santos Martinez.
Both Days http://itprocamp.com/default.aspx has both session info and registration info.
Office Communication Server University OCS MVP Keith Kabza and Tom Cross will get you up and running on Office Communication Server in a day. Well, most of the way there anyway. Sunday Registration and session information - ocs_university
OpenSpace Four corners of a room with whiteboards. Sign up for a 30 minute talk on whatever topic you want. Track Leads: Nikita Polyakov, Jeff Barnes Both Days See http://openspace.devfish.net for more info...
Party and Social Party and Social! Saturday, June 7th - Being run by our very own Jessica Sterner and Eugene Chuvyrov. You know it won't be boring. 700p to 1000p. Saturday You've got to have a ]inbetween[ badge to get into the party. Have your significant other register for the codecamp if they're coming to the party.

Destiny Nightclub
7430 Universal Blvd
Orlando, FL 32819
Phone 407.351.9800
Fax 407.351.9803
Map and directions: here
Web: http://www.destinynightclub.net
Sharepoint Fundamentals DotNet University Doug Turnure's flagship series of structured courses geared to bring you up to speed on a particular topic.

NET University presents SharePoint Fundamentals - a 1-day technical seminar that teaches the fundamentals of Windows SharePoint Services 2007. Join SharePoint gurus Josh Carlisle, Mikhail Dikov, Jacob Sanford, Doug Ware, and Ted Pattison, who will take you on a tour of SharePoint from the ground up. Topics will include:
  • Installation
  • What's new in 2007
  • Core Concepts
  • Building WebParts
(All course material is downloadable from http://www.dotnet-u.com)
The course will include take-home labs (also downloadable from http://www.dotnet-u.com). Attendees will receive a .NET U *Alumni* t-shirt and certificate of completion.
Sunday Doug's blog entry on ]inbetween[ dotnetu - http://blogs.msdn.com/dougturn/archive/2008/05/06/huge-weekend-community-event-in-orlando-wedged-between-teched-weeks.aspx

Registration info:
http://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=128289
SQL University Andy Warren is putting together some of his very best training on SQL Server to get you up to speed quick. If you've been to a SQLSaturday, you know they are good. So here's an opportunity to learn from some of the best. Sunday Registration and session info available at http://www.sqlsaturday.com/eventhome.aspx?eventid=6
SQLSaturday Best of the SQLSaturday events with some special product team reps attending.
Track Leads: Andy Warren, Pam Shaw, Wes Dumey
Saturday
Home page and reg link: http://www.sqlsaturday.com/eventhome.aspx?eventid=5
Session List: http://www.sqlsaturday.com/schedule.aspx
The Toolshed Russ's Toolshed has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. There are, however, a ton of great sessions on Sunday available. Check out the agenda for other options on Sunday!
Russ Fustino and Stan Schultes come together with encores of "Its all about the Tools" episodes 1 and 2, plus all new episodes 3 and 4
Sunday
Session and registration information have been pulled
Train the Trainer (MCT) Bill 'the evil duke' Chapman returns to Florida, bringing us some MCT sessions for dev, itpro, and dba types. Both Days Registration and more information - ttt.aspx
VSTS University Richard Hundhausen and is taking time to educate us on a variety of VSTS topics during this almost full day event. He's got a five o'clock flight so expect this session to shut down around 2:30p. There's plenty of other stuff you can hop over to on the agenda

Richard hasn't quite decided on what he's going to talk about, but he has the morning and sent us this list of possible sessions he may draw from. A pared down list will be posted as soon as its available. But here's what he's capable of discussing: Customizing and Extending Visual Studio Team System 2008, Get Ready for Visual Studio Team System Rosario, Team Foundation Server 2008 – Migrate or Integrate?, Team Foundation Server 2008 Best Practices, From Zero to Team System in 5 Days, Enhancing Team System through Add-Ons, Add-Ins, and other Widgets, Agile Database Development, Assuring Software Quality using Visual Studio Team System 2008, Visual Studio Team System 2008 Worst Practices, and Parallel Development in Visual Studio Team System 2008.
Sunday Registration: https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=129111