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	Please note that you need to be logged in for the Register button to be enabled. You can use the icon next to the topic on the agenda to plan your day by selecting the sessions you wish to attend. Also note the number of seats available at each track (room); individual session registrations are not limited by that number, sessions will be moved to a bigger room if required based on the number individual session registrations. Please be sure to post any questions on the forums. Special thanks to Chris Dufour for developing the Code Camp Event Module. It was very helpful.

CodeCamp

	Dallas Code Camp V2
	Saturday, April 21, 2007 - Saturday, April 21, 2007

	Second Dallas Code Camp (04/21/2007)

CodeCampAgenda

Saturday, April 21, 2007
Time	Track 1 (100 seats)	Track 2 (100 seats)	Track 3 (18 seats)	Track 4 (18 seats)	Track 5 (18 seats)
8:30 AM to 9:00 AM	Registration
9:00 AM to 9:20 AM	Opening / Logistics / Schedule
9:30 AM to 10:40 AM	Using Generics in .Net Ken Byrd	Introduction to Silverlight (Code name "WPF/E") Mark Smith	Enterprise Library Extensibility and Configurability Zewei Song	DotNetNuke Primer Jason Kergosien	Community Launch Track Introduction and Cardspace Shane Holder and Trent Nix
10:50 AM to 12:00 PM	C# v3.0 Tim Rayburn	Introduction to LINQ Claudio Lassala, MVP	Software Development Outsourcing Randy Walker	Content Managed Web Sites Using Web Parts (the DotNetNuke counterpart) Jeff Townes	Community Launch: WCF Abraham (Abe) Saldana
12:00 PM to 1:00 PM	Lunch and "Going Independent" Panel Discussion Larry Linson, et al
1:10 PM to 2:10 PM	Community Launch: WPF Ed Blankenship	Design Patterns in .Net Claudio Lassala, MVP	Creating an Add-in for Visual Studio 2005 Durant Rodrigue	SharePoint Mash-Ups Brian Orrell	Software Development Processes Chalk-Talk Dave McKinstry, MVP
2:20 PM to 3:20 PM	Improving Developer Productivity Dave O'Hara	Developing Custom Client Side Extenders with ASP.NET AJAX Caleb Jenkins	Services and Workflows - WCF and WF David Walker	XML Inside out Michael Perry	Cross Platform .NET Development with Mono Joseph Hill
3:30 PM to 4:30 PM	Managing Software Releases with Visual Studio Team System Chris Menegay, MVP	Developing for Windows Vista Cory Smith, MVP	SEO: Designing Web Sites for Search Engines Mark Leon Watson	**Community Demand (Repeat Session)	**Community Demand (Repeat Session)
4:40 PM to 5:40 PM	ADO.Net Connecting Mr. William (Bill) R. Vaughn	Building Middle Tier Solutions with .NET (Level 200) Scott Dockendorf	**Community Demand (Repeat Session)	**Community Demand (Repeat Session)	**Community Demand (Repeat Session)
5:55 PM to 6:30 PM	Closing / Surveys / Door Prizes
	Track 1 (100 seats)	Track 2 (100 seats)	Track 3 (18 seats)	Track 4 (18 seats)	Track 5 (18 seats)

CodeCampSessions

ADO.Net Connecting
Track 1 (100 seats)
April 21, 2007 04:40 PM - 05:40 PM Room: DCC1
Mr. William (Bill) R. Vaughn , Beta V Corporation
We'll see how to determine which servers are visible, how to make servers visible (and hide them), how to determine if they're running or stopped, how to know when they go down and what to do when it happens. We'll touch on MARS and several new ADO.NET 2.0 enhancements that address some long-standing connection issues.

C# v3.0
Track 1 (100 seats)
April 21, 2007 10:50 AM - 12:00 PM Room: DCC1
Tim Rayburn, Sogeti USA, LLC
Visual Studio Codename Orcas is the next version of Visual Studio and the first to implement the C# 3.0 specification. This talk will overview the new features being added to the language including dynamic typing, lambda expressions, extension methods and much more. All hands on, in Visual Studio.

Community Launch: WPF
Track 1 (100 seats)
April 21, 2007 01:10 PM - 02:10 PM Room: DCC1
Ed Blankenship, Infragistics
In this session, we'll go into more in-depth topics with WPF including: ensuring your apps will run as an XBAP, exception handling techniques, Microsoft Expression Blend and Visual Studio interaction, and a new (much-needed) control that will be made available to all attendees for FREE.

Improving Developer Productivity
Track 1 (100 seats)
April 21, 2007 02:20 PM - 03:20 PM Room: DCC1
Dave O'Hara, Alt-N Technologies
We can all use a helping hand when developing and the DevExpress tools do just that - and more. As an experienced user of CodeRush, Dave knows a lot of the ins and outs and will show some off the major features of the CodeRush and Refactor! Pro plugins as well as some less well known but equally helpful ones. If you'd like to produce more code with less typing and in less time than it currently takes you, this is the session for you.

Lunch and "Going Independent" Panel Discussion
Track 1 (100 seats)
April 21, 2007 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM Room: DCC1
Larry Linson, et al
A panel discussion on leaving your day job and becoming an independent consultant / contractor. Panelists from different backgrounds will have views on different aspects: legal, easing into independence by subcontracting, options for replacing your employer's insurance, running your business, and marketing your services.

Managing Software Releases with Visual Studio Team System
Track 1 (100 seats)
April 21, 2007 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Room: DCC1
Chris Menegay, MVP, Notion Solutions, Inc.
Team Foundation Server offers a wealth of tools to support new application development projects. But how do they apply to applications that are already released and need ongoing maintenance? What about the existing applications that you've migrated into TFS? Or even your new applications once they've reached production? In this session we'll look at branching, build and work item strategies to help with managing and auditing the rollout of releases and fixes for existing applications. Some of the techniques that we will examine are: promotion modeling, "merge by work item", cherry-picked merges, and builds based on branches. This approach will take into account application code, database schema and data changes.

Using Generics in .Net
Track 1 (100 seats)
April 21, 2007 09:30 AM - 10:40 AM Room: DCC1
Ken Byrd, Tech Quality
Learn to use the power of Generics in your .NET applications and see how they can improve the testability and maintainability of your code! We'll begin with a brief introduction to Generics and quickly move into the ins and outs of using generic interfaces, collections, predicates, actions and more.

Building Middle Tier Solutions with .NET (Level 200)
Track 2 (100 seats)
April 21, 2007 04:40 PM - 05:40 PM Room: DCC2
Scott Dockendorf, Telligent, Inc.
Building Middle Tier Solutions with .NET Level 200 Is your new feature-rich ASP.NET website more successful than you ever imagined, but you’re starting to notice performance issues? Customers complaining of slow response time with your application? Attend this session to learn how to reduce the user interface bottlenecks by implementing asynchronous workflow processes to offload processing from your application. In this demo-heavy session, we will highlight the use of Serialization, Web Services, MSMQ, and Windows Services with .NET v2 to integrate custom workflow into your applications.

Design Patterns in .Net
Track 2 (100 seats)
April 21, 2007 01:10 PM - 02:10 PM Room: DCC2
Claudio Lassala, MVP, CoDe Magazine
Design Patterns are often used every day by every developer in one way or another. A basic understanding of patterns and how to implement them is very useful for all .NET developer, and this session tries to clarify design patterns in a way that everybody can understand and start thinking about patterns in a more natural way.

Developing Custom Client Side Extenders with ASP.NET AJAX
Track 2 (100 seats)
April 21, 2007 02:20 PM - 03:20 PM Room: DCC2
Caleb Jenkins, Improving Enterprises
ASP.NET AJAX Custom Extenders allow you to package your JavaScript code in a powerful, reusable way like never before! Now you can empower other ASP.NET developers to leverage your client side code with ease, strengthen your web projects, shorten development time and increase user experiences. This talk will focus on creating ASP.NET Custom Extenders, leveraging client side JavaScript and the client side, ASP.NET AJAX runtime framework.

Developing for Windows Vista
Track 2 (100 seats)
April 21, 2007 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Room: DCC2
Cory Smith, MVP

Introduction to LINQ
Track 2 (100 seats)
April 21, 2007 10:50 AM - 12:00 PM Room: DCC2
Claudio Lassala, MVP, CoDe Magazine
No matter what kind of application you write; most likely you do need to query data. It does not matter whether that data is retrieved, for instance, from a database or from an XML file, and it also does not matter whether that data is located in memory on a DataSet or in a custom collection. The fact is, we most likely need to query that in-memory data in order to make something useful with it. This is just the tip of the iceberg for what LINQ and a number of improvements to the next versions of C# and VB.NET are bringing to the developers.

Introduction to Silverlight (Code name "WPF/E")
Track 2 (100 seats)
April 21, 2007 09:30 AM - 10:40 AM Room: DCC2
Mark Smith, Developmentor
As part of the .NET 3.0 initiative, Microsoft announced a cross- platform rendering engine for the browser based on the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Silverlight (code name "WPF/E" for WPF "Everywhere") is designed to create dynamic and interactive web pages utilizing XAML and Javascript together. This session will look at the architecture of Silverlight and talk about the best ways to utilize this new and exciting platform from Microsoft.

**Community Demand (Repeat Session)
Track 3 (18 seats)
April 21, 2007 04:40 PM - 05:40 PM Room: DCC3

Creating an Add-in for Visual Studio 2005
Track 3 (18 seats)
April 21, 2007 01:10 PM - 02:10 PM Room: DCC3
Durant Rodrigue
Running the Add-in wizard is the first step to creating an Add-in for Visual Studio 2005. We will dig deeper into the process and discover what it takes to get an Add-in working and learn about tools available for getting the IDE to perform the automation tasks we need. We will spend the first 15 minutes in a quick overview of Macros, Add-ins, Code Snippets and Templates. After that we will dig into creating an Add-in for Visual Studio 2005. We will learn about the Visual Studio automation object model and how to use the model to perform actions in Visual Studio for the purpose of automating tasks.

Enterprise Library Extensibility and Configurability
Track 3 (18 seats)
April 21, 2007 09:30 AM - 10:40 AM Room: DCC3
Zewei Song
The Enterprise Library is a library of application blocks designed to assist developers with common enterprise development challenges. This presentation demonstrates how to use Enterprise Library in real world enterprise applications by extending Logging and Caching Application Block. The presenter would also share some real world lessons and tips learned.

SEO: Designing Web Sites for Search Engines
Track 3 (18 seats)
April 21, 2007 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Room: DCC3
Mark Leon Watson, BizWax Solutions
Search engine optimization (SEO) techniques are skills that all web designers and web developers should take into consideration when building web sites and applications. You must really understand these concepts when working with the marketing department to design and implement the most search friendly and marketable web site. Many of these concepts transfer directly to accessibility and good design as well. This presentation with be an in-depth "best practices" overview of web site design for search engines. Whether you work with HTML, XHTML, CSS, ASP, PHP, JSP, or any other web based language or content management system, this will surely be a beneficial session for any web designer or developer.

Services and Workflows - WCF and WF
Track 3 (18 seats)
April 21, 2007 02:20 PM - 03:20 PM Room: DCC3
David Walker
Come see a code sample of using Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) as a service and a some Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) specific code samples, including performance comparisions. Then join in on a Chalk Talk diving deeper into WCF than your typical presentation, with topics such as: WCF service versioning, serialization, reliable messaging, security, message cancelling, Web Service Software Factory for Windows Communication Foundation, federation security options and any other WCF/WF/SOA questions.

Software Development Outsourcing
Track 3 (18 seats)
April 21, 2007 10:50 AM - 12:00 PM Room: DCC3
Randy Walker
You will learn what are the downsides and the pitfalls, and how to take advantage of it, plus other important aspects of this game changing corporate America initiative.

**Community Demand (Repeat Session)
Track 4 (18 seats)
April 21, 2007 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Room: DCC4

**Community Demand (Repeat Session)
Track 4 (18 seats)
April 21, 2007 04:40 PM - 05:40 PM Room: DCC4

Content Managed Web Sites Using Web Parts (the DotNetNuke counterpart)
Track 4 (18 seats)
April 21, 2007 10:50 AM - 12:00 PM Room: DCC3
Jeff Townes, Pariveda Solutions
Many of our colleagues are still using DotNetNuke (DNN) to fill the need for content management in the small- and mid-market customer space. I’d like to show them how to fill this need using higher-performing Web Part technology instead of implementing a DNN site.

DotNetNuke Primer
Track 4 (18 seats)
April 21, 2007 09:30 AM - 10:40 AM Room: DCC4
Jason Kergosien, Ingen Systems
We will discuss the history and future of DotNetNuke, including its key features, primary uses, extending DNN's functionality, skinning, how to administer sites, as well as justifying DNN in the workplace.

SharePoint Mash-Ups
Track 4 (18 seats)
April 21, 2007 01:10 PM - 02:10 PM Room: DCC4
Brian Orrell, Pariveda Solutions
Whether it is a portal that displays HR data alongside financial and operational data or an extranet that integrates vendor data with internal data, mashups are gaining traction in the corporate world after having taken over the consumer space. This talk will focus on Microsoft’s WebPart framework for building connected systems. WebParts are a key component technology in ASP.NET 2.0 and SharePoint 2007 and provide an easy and pluggable architecture for creating reusable parts for portal development. Using the Flickr Photo Sharing REST Web Service API as a foundation, we will create reusable webparts that can be used in SharePoint 2007 to display albums and photos from a Flickr account.

XML Inside out
Track 4 (18 seats)
April 21, 2007 02:20 PM - 03:20 PM Room: DCC4
Michael Perry
The .NET Framework and other libraries give us many ways of producing and consuming XML. We'll explore several of them and see which is best for a given situation.

**Community Demand (Repeat Session)
Track 5 (18 seats)
Room: DCC5

**Community Demand (Repeat Session)
Track 5 (18 seats)
April 21, 2007 03:30 PM - 04:30 PM Room: DCC5

**Community Demand (Repeat Session)
Track 5 (18 seats)
April 21, 2007 04:40 PM - 05:40 PM Room: DCC5

Community Launch Track Introduction and Cardspace
Track 5 (18 seats)
April 21, 2007 09:30 AM - 10:40 AM Room: DCC5
Shane Holder and Trent Nix
Shane will do a quick introduction for the topics being covered as part of the Vista, Office 2007 and .Net Technologies Community Launch Event then Tren will take over the podium to present the new Cardspace technology. Windows CardSpace, formerly known by its codename InfoCard, is a framework developed by Microsoft which securely stores digital identities of a person, and provides a unified interface for choosing the identity for a particular transaction, such as logging in to a website. Windows CardSpace is a central part of Microsoft's effort to create an Identity Metasystem, or a unified, secure and interoperable identity layer for the Internet. Trent will be providing a deep dive into how CardSpace and the Identity Metasystem work, how it will impact identify verification in a wired world, and how to leverage CardSpace in your applications.

Community Launch: WCF
Track 5 (18 seats)
April 21, 2007 10:50 AM - 12:00 PM Room: DCC5
Abraham (Abe) Saldana, True.com

Cross Platform .NET Development with Mono
Track 5 (18 seats)
April 21, 2007 02:20 PM - 03:20 PM Room: DCC5
Joseph Hill, Arc Focus, Inc.
Mono is an open-source, cross-platform implementation of the .NET framework based on the ECMA standards for C# and the Common Language Infrastructure. With Mono, users can run applications written and compiled in Visual Studio.NET on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. With the recent release of Mono 1.2, the platform can now run many applications written in Windows Forms, as well as ASP.NET. This session will provide an introduction to cross-platform development and deployment with Mono. Audience members will learn how they can leverage their existing skills and tools to write .NET applications that will run on multiple platforms and architectures with Mono. Demonstrations will be focused on the latest tools and advancements in Mono as they relate to the .NET development community at large.

Software Development Processes Chalk-Talk
Track 5 (18 seats)
April 21, 2007 01:10 PM - 02:10 PM Room: DCC5
Dave McKinstry, MVP, Notion Solutions, Inc.

CodeCampSpeakers

Abraham (Abe) Saldana, True.com
Abraham Saldana has been working as a consultant in Microsoft technology for over eight years. He has worked for different clients, including Fortune 100 companies within the United States and Mexico. Abraham started programming in a Dos world, moved to Visual Basic 5 and 6, and eventually to .Net using both, Visual Basic and C#. Currently, Abraham is a lead developer at True.com and his role includes helping architect this highly visible website using ASP.Net 2.0 and SQL 2005.

Brian Orrell, Pariveda Solutions
Brian Orrell is a principal with Pariveda Solutions based in Dallas. He has more than fifteen years of technology consulting experience in a variety of industries and technologies. His emphasis is on the delivery of enterprise solutions utilizing Microsoft .NET. His areas of expertise include designing, developing and maintaining web-based and distributed object systems. Mr. Orrell has led large-scale development engagements for large utility companies, airlines, shipping companies, educational and non-profit organizations. Mr. Orrell has previously served at BSG Alliance IT and has served in leadership positions at Southwest Airlines, Tactica Technology Group and Hitachi Consulting. His leadership experience includes managing teams to deliver: online bill pay services for a large utility; a scheduling and tracking system for a large airline; an online educational testing system for states; a supply-chain tracking and routing system for one of the largest liner shipping companies in the world.

Caleb Jenkins, Improving Enterprises
Speakers bios pending...

Chris Menegay, MVP, Notion Solutions, Inc.
Chris Menegay is a Principal Consultant for Notion Solutions, Inc. He has been helping clients develop business applications for over 10 years, most recently using Microsoft's .NET development platform. Chris places an emphasis on good design and architecture and has experience with both thick-client .NET applications as well as browser-based, ASP.NET applications. Chris holds his MCSD.NET certification and is a member of the Microsoft South Central District Developer Guidance Council. Chris is also a Microsoft .NET MVP and a Microsoft Regional Director. Microsoft Regional Directors are independent developers and architects chosen for their leadership in their local technology circles, whose primary purpose is to share information about Microsoft technologies with their developer communities and to provide feedback from developers to Microsoft.

Claudio Lassala, MVP, CoDe Magazine
Claudio Lassala is a Senior Developer at EPS Software Corp. He has presented several lectures at Microsoft events such as PDC and various other Microsoft seminars, as well as several conferences and user groups in Brazil and North America. He is a multiple winner of the Microsoft MVP award and also holds the MCSD for Net certification. He has articles published on several magazines, such as MSDN Brazil Magazine, FoxPro Advisor, CoDe Magazine, UTMag, Developers Magazine, and he is also the author of several training videos.

Cory Smith, MVP
Cory Smith is the founder of XboxFriends.com, maintains a .NET related blog at AddressOf.com and is very active in the .NET community. His community involvement includes: Vice President of the Fort Worth .NET Users Group, VBInsider Member, Microsoft MVP, and member of the South Central District Developer Guidance Council. A veteran developer (professionally writing software for over 15 years) working on projects ranging anywhere from major e-commerce sites such as RadioShack.com and InterstateBatteries.com to applications that are at the heart and soul of over 4600 radio stations around the world. His work history includes working for Tandy/RadioShack, Rare Medium, Inc., Electric Works Corp., Scott Studios Corp. and Shiny Stone Digital.

D. Omar Villarreal, Notion Solutions, Inc.
Omar Villarreal is a Development Process Consultant with Notion Solutions, Inc. in Dallas, Texas. He developed most of Notion's training materials for the pre-release versions of Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team System and launched TeamSystemRocks.com. Before joining Notion Solutions, Omar worked as a developer in Microsoft technologies for large telecom and global corporations since late 1998, when he moved to the U.S. from Mexico. Omar is currently the President of the Dallas .Net Users Group.

Dave McKinstry, MVP, Notion Solutions, Inc.
Dave McKinstry is a principal consultant and trainer with Notion Solutions in Dallas. He has been leading clients in .NET architecture and development projects since the initial beta release of Visual Studio.NET. Since joining Notion, Dave has focused on installation, configuration, customization and training on Visual Studio Team System. Before that, he's enjoyed leading clients through .NET Architecture, .NET application development, BizTalk Server solutions, SharePoint, SQL Reporting Services and almost anything .NET related. He was one of the first people recognized by Microsoft as a Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Team System and also among the first to receive a Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Washington. With over 15 years in the high-tech industry, Dave has worked on projects and technologies of all shapes and sizes.

Dave O'Hara, Alt-N Technologies
Dave O'Hara has been a professional developer since Visual Basic 3.0 but currently finds his home as an Internal Developer for Alt-N Technologies utilizing .NET. He's familiar with all aspects of the Software Development Lifecycle but has an affinity for agile methodologies and techniques such as Scrum, XP and Test Driven Development. He is an active member of the Dallas PragProg user group. His passion for developer and personal productivity leads him to find new ways to enhance and motivate himself and those around him. A "Getting Things Done" practitioner, he is always looking for his "next action".

David Walker
David Walker has over 15 years experience in application development with over 50% of that employed as a consultant with companies such as: Texaco, Bank of Oklahoma, Winner Communications (ESPN.com) and IBM Global Services. He is the President of his own growing consulting business Professional Business Technologies, Inc. He is the current President of the Tulsa Developers .NET user group. He has been an MCP since 2003 and MCAD and MCSD since 2005. He is currently pursuing his MCDBA and then on to MCSE.

Durant Rodrigue
Durant Rodrigue has developed software over the last 13 years. He started writing code in C and quickly moved to writing code in C++. For the last five plus years he has developed software using C# and the .NET framework. He has worked on project that range from small internal applications to applications developed and sold commercially to Fortune 500 companies.

Ed Blankenship, Infragistics
Ed Blankenship is a member of the User Experience Group (UxG) at the Infragistics Princeton corporate office. He serves as a Guidisan (Guidance Artisan) and is responsible for offering best practices and guidance for .NET and presentation layer development. He has been developing professionally for the last three years and has developed with the .NET Framework since the very beginning with the .NET 1.0 betas. Ed currently blogs with his long-time professional friend at http://www.edsquared.coom and is the leader of the New Jersey .NET User’s Group. Ed’s professional blog can be found at http://blogs.infragistics.com/blogs/eblankenship.

Jason Kergosien, Ingen Systems
Jason Kergosien is the founder and president of Ingen Systems, a provider of web-based business services and solutions. He has more than 10 years experience in the development and implementation of web strategies and architecture in a variety of industries, including financial services, public utilities, energy, retail, hospitality, manufacturing and high- tech. His extensive background includes leading companies in data management, portals and content management in Microsoft technologies.

Jeff Townes, Pariveda Solutions
Jeff Townes is a Manager with Pariveda Solutions, Inc., in Dallas, TX. He has more than five years of technology consulting experience in a variety of industries, and his emphasis is on the delivery of applications using the Microsoft .NET platform. His areas of expertise include designing, developing and maintaining web-based applications, reporting systems, and custom integration software. Mr. Townes has led large-scale development efforts for industries including investments, insurance, financial exchanges, software / high-tech, healthcare, and manufacturing. He has also served as a course instructor for introductory development courses on .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0 technologies. His leadership experience includes managing teams to deliver: content-managed web portals for an international investment firm, a national manufacturing company, a healthcare insurance intermediary, and a precious metals financial exchange; inventory-, sales- and customer-management system for a rare coin direct sales organization; and a wellness management tool for a national disease-management and wellness provider. He is currently leading a team to deliver a large, distributed point-of-sale application for a national flight services company using .NET 3.0 technologies including Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).

Joseph Hill, Arc Focus, Inc.
Joseph Hill is an active contributor to several open source C# and ASP.NET projects, and regularly speaks on various developer topics at .NET and open-source related events around the world. He is also an MCSD and the founder of Arc Focus, Inc, a company specializing in cross-platform .NET development. You can find Joseph at Arc Focus, http://www.ArcFocus.com, and at his blog http://www.BeyondFocus.com.

Ken Byrd, Tech Quality
Ken Byrd is a .NET consultant and trainer with over 19 years of experience designing and building client/server and web-based distributed database applications. He runs TechQuality, a consulting firm that specializes in developing data-driven enterprise solutions. Ken is also a programming instructor with TekFokus, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions.

Larry Linson, et al
Larry Linson, in the computer business since 1958, has worked with supercomputers, mainframes, minicomputers, and microcomputers. For productive development of "normal business applications" for the desktop and client-server environments, he is sold on Microsoft Access. He uses it to create single-user and multiuser applications, and as a client to server databases. Larry is also active in user groups and volunteer activities.

Mark Leon Watson, BizWax Solutions
Current Titles:
Principal Consultant for Bizwax Solutions (http://www.Bizwax.com) Senior Software Developer for PayDay One (http://www.PayDayOne.com) Organizer of the Fort Worth Web Design Meetup Group (http://webdesign.meetup.com/148) Assistant Organizer of the Fort Worth .NET User Group (http://www.fwdnug.com)

Mark Leon Watson has over 18 years of professional experience with the business information technologies of many industries and companies. Mark has specialized in software design and development, and he has designed and developed many web sites, web based applications, and distributed systems for customers and clients.

Mark has also been working in the online space as a search engine marketer (SEM) and search engine optimizer (SEO) for over 10 years. Mark attended the Fall 2006 Search Engine Strategies Conference in Chicago to get the most recent updates on SEM, SEO, online advertising, and designing web sites for search engines. He will be sharing the information he gained as it applies to designing web sites and applications for search engines.

For more info, see: http://www.MarkWatson.net

Mark Smith, Developmentor
Mark Smith is an instructor and author for DevelopMentor, a learning services company. He travels the world training developers on how to effectively use Microsoft technologies, most recently .NET 3.0. He's been consulting, providing architectural advice and developing software for over 18 years for companies such as IBM, Microsoft, Fidelity Investments and Verisign. Mark lives in Dallas with his wife and four daughters and provides free tools and source code to the Microsoft community on his personal website www.julmar.com.

Michael Perry
Speaker bios pending...

Mr. William (Bill) R. Vaughn , Beta V Corporation
William (Bill) Vaughn is an industry-recognized author, mentor, trainer, Microsoft MVP and subject-matter expert on Visual Studio, SQL Server and ADO.NET. He’s worked in the computer industry for over 30 years—including 14 years at Microsoft. He’s written 7 editions of the “Hitchhiker’s Guide” which focus on Visual Basic, Visual Studio and SQL Server. He’s also written 3 editions of “ADO.NET and ADO Examples and Best Practices”. Bill and Peter Blackburn wrote the best-selling “Hitchhiker’s Guide to SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services”. His first EBook discusses the new SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition. He’s available for mentoring and custom training. See http://www.betav.com.

Paul Ballard, MVP, Rochester Consulting
Paul Ballard is a Microsoft MVP and MCSD, MCAD, and MCSE certified consultant and the President of The Rochester Consulting Partnership, Inc. He has more than 15 years of experience designing and building client/server and web based distributed applications and is currently specializing in Microsoft's .NET technologies as a consultant, speaker, and trainer.

Randy Walker
Randy is the owner of a micro ISV shop that develops tools for vendors of Wal-Mart. He has over 12 years of industry experience, started out doing tech support, and eventually got into programming by doing VB4 work. Randy has an excellent broad knowledge and understanding of computing, focusing on easy to use application based on the Microsoft .Net platform.

Scott Dockendorf, Telligent, Inc.
Scott oversees the Professional Services team at Telligent, and is responsible for process and delivery using standards and proven methodologies through our Technical, PMO, and Quality Control teams. Scott brings to Telligent over thirteen years of industry experience, including eight years within the professional services field. Scott has in-depth experience of leading consulting engagements within industries such as Retail, Financial, Construction, Software Development, and Healthcare. Scott has a Bachelors of Science degree in Management Information Systems through the University of North Texas, and has been recognized by Microsoft through the Microsoft C# MVP and ASPInsider awards. He is an active member of the .NET community, volunteering his time as the Program Director of the North Dallas .NET User Group, as well as delivering technology sessions to local user groups.

Shane Holder and Trent Nix

Trent Nix is a development process consultant with Notion Solutions in Irving, TX. His primary gig is working with software companies to improve their software process and to help them implement Microsoft Visual Studio Team System and leverage its capabilities. The rest of his time is spent hacking away at C#, ASP.net, and keeping up to date with the latest in software tools and technologies. Prior to his time at Notion, Trent worked developing applications in C++, writing a lot of SQL, and managing software projects and teams. He has also hacked at more Java and Visual Basic than he cares to admit. A die-hard Aggie fan, Trent graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in Computer Science and a minor in Math.

Tim Rayburn, Sogeti USA, LLC
Tim Rayburn has over 10 years of development experience, the last 4 of which have been focused on .NET development using C# and VB.NET. He is a Principal Consultant with Sogeti USA, LLC working in their Microsoft practice to help companies adopt .NET, BizTalk, and Test-Driven methodologies and has presented at a variety of user groups including the Fort Worth .NET User Group and the Northwest Arkansas .NET User Group.

He is an active blogger at TimRayburn.net writing about everything and anything in the world of .NET development. He contributes to several Open source projects is a member of the NUnit and NUnitLite development teams. He lives in Arlington Texas with his wife Kate and their dog.

Zewei Song
Zewei Song is a development consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services specializing in SharePoint/MOSS, C#, VB.NET, Smart Client, ASP.NET, Security and Cryptography. Zewei received 2nd runner up of SQL Server Magazine’s 2004 Innovator Awards for his SQL Server Seamless Encryption Solution for an electronic bill payment provider he used to work with.
Zewei is a board member and Director of Technology of Tulsa Developers Association, formally known as Tulsa .NET Users Group. He also has MCP, MCAD, and MCSD certifications.

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