Event Information

Zen and the Art of Web Services
When:	Thursday, 7/29/2004 at 6:30 PM
Where:	Microsoft Office, Landmark Bldg, One Market St, San Francisco, CA
Event Description
Ever wish you could launch Visual Studio.NET and go “File|New Enterprise?” Well, you can’t just slap [WebMethod] on your existing stuff and go to market. Web Services and WS*.* have turned out to be the biggest buzzwords since ActiveX – let’s really dig in technically and find out what’s going on. We’ll look at: The Primordial Ooze that we called CSV files up until XML Schemas today The Internals of XSD.EXE and the XmlSerializer We’ll ILDASM and Reflect(or) our way through System.Web Examples of replacing XSD.EXE with your own generated code Exactly how Visual Studio.NET promotes Microsoft’s view of The Matrix, and how you can be more like Neo, and less like Neo’s cube-mates and co-workers. How to use Web Services in any context, and how to promote Interop with other languages. How to sniff SOAP on the wire and why you should care How XSD Types map to CLR Types and how to deal with the NULL problem How WSE applies to you, and how to CYA as we wait for Indigo.
Admission
Free!
Agenda
6:00 - 6:30 PM  Check-in 6:30 - 8:30 PM  Introductions and presentation 8:30 - 9:00 PM  Q&A, raffle and wrap-up
Presenter's Bio
Scott Hanselman is Chief Architect at the Corillian Corporation, an eFinance enabler. He has over a decade of experience developing software in C, C++, VB, COM, and currently VB.NET and C#. Scott is proud to have been appointed the MSDN Regional Director for Portland, OR for the last three years, developing content for, and speaking at Developer Days and the Visual Studio.NET Launch in both Portland and Seattle. Scott was in the top 5% of audience-rated speakers at TechEd 2003 in Dallas. Scott also spoke at the Windows Server 2003 and VS.NET 2003 Launches in 4 cities. He's spoken internationally on Microsoft technologies, and has co-authored two books from Wrox Press. In 2001, Scott spoke on a 15-city national tour with Microsoft, Compaq and Intel featuring Microsoft Technologies and evangelizing good design practices. In 2002, he was a highly rated speaker at TechEd Malaysia, giving 3 sessions, including one on the .NET Framework. This year Scott spoke at the Windows Server 2003 Launch event in 4 PacWest Cities. Scott and Corillian also participate in a number of Working Groups with the Web Service Interoperability Organization (WS-I). His thoughts on the Zen of .NET, Programming and Web Services can be found at http://www.computerzen.com.

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