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Entity Framework 4: Tips and tricks
I often audit code using Entity Framework. In this session, I proposed to share you most frequent mistakes I showed and tips and tricks I identified.
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Data Mining the Social Web
With so much customer interaction happening on social web sites right now, companies need to know what kind of information they can extract from them. Can we work out where our customers are? What they want, as a group, from our products? Can we apply qualitative measures to the information we can mine? Let's get together and discuss this and see if we can gain some business benefit from social networks.
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Systematic Approaches to Project Wide Refactoring
We've all seen refactoring sessions that deal with the very granular means of refactoring code, but how do you get started? What do you do on day 1 when you are faced with a project wide refactoring job, Something like a VB6 to C# 4.0 project? Lets get together and discuss ways in which we can tackle such projects. Lets also talk about the correctness continuum, where about on that line should we be aiming for when refactoring on this scale? What part do functional decomposition and sub-tree refactoring indices play? Do you have an opinion? Are you just curious?…
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EDM Mapping
Entity Framework used the Entity Data Model (EDM) to define its mapping. EDM mapping is very powerful but not enough known and used. In this session, we will see how powerful the mapping is and what are the mapping impacts on our queries.
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Superhero Strategies to Protecting SharePoint 2010
Many organizations rely on Microsoft SharePoint to manage content and aid collaboration. It has become their tool of choice because of its flexibility. However, this flexibility doesnt come without challenges. Since a SharePoint farm can grow organically, backing up and restoring of all of its components in a consistent fashion is significantly more challenging than backing up closed, static files. In this session, we will share strategies for protecting and recovering collaboration infrastructures, including SharePoint 2003, 2007 and 2010. Participants should walk away with a feeling that they can save the day if disaster ever strikes.
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Priorities in IT for 2011
Despite many private sector businesses now seeing a much improved economic outlook, many still consider the cuts in both manpower and budget restraints made during the last 2 years will remain tightly controlled throughout the next 12-18 months.
Through several discussions both with businesses and with other IT consultants, Andrew Bettany from the University of York draws the conclusion that businesses will continue to look for further cost reductions through some or all of the following:
efficiencies using technology to make a quicker ROI outsourcing where possible rather than employing skills automation of repetitive tasks rental rather than purchase…
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Scenarios for Windows Azure
This session wants to explore different scenarios that can be used for the adoption of Windows Azure Platform @ different organizations
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Windows 7 is awesome
In this session we will explore the inside secrets of Windows 7. Windows XP Mode, Virtual Access Point, PSR, God Mode and many other hidden secrets.
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IE8 and Windows 7: Common Roadblocks, Alternatives and Options to...
IE8 and Windows 7: Common Roadblocks, Alternatives and Options to Clear the Application Compatibility Hurdles: Moving from Windows XP and IE6 to Windows 7 and IE8 can have some hurdles, especially around application compatibility. Share whats worked, whats in progress and what is still a challenge for your implementations. Find out the most challenging, yet critical applications and ways to make them work on Windows 7 and IE8. Discuss alternatives that can simplify your migration and share best practices that have worked for other enterprises.
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New Crusade: How the IT will help Universities to survive the economic crisis!
The purpose of this theme is conveying ideas to overcome the economic crisis through hardware and software. We can do more with hardware and software to help find solutions more economical. The Green IT and many solutions already exist and are being implemented, but discussing with the public can find more ways, ideas, strategies to try with less money to make at least the same.This is a current problem that faculties and universities are facing and trying to solve.
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Is HTML5 killing Silverlight and Flash?
The session will first introduce HTML5 and what's in it for developers and designers. Afterwards we will focus to the animations part, media part and discuss the differences between plug-in based systems and HTML5 features. Finally I hope we will have a list of items/desicions of situations where specific platforms and tools will be suitable to use.
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Planning Out Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Deployment
Exchange Server 2010 brings a great new set of technologies, so what should we do in order to plan our deployment? We discuss different implementation strategies the choice between on-premise deployment, hosted service, or both server roles configuration and placement depending on the companies infrastructure, availability, security, compliance, and other requirements. In this session we share our experiences and discuss how to plan new deployment of Exchange Server 2010 as well as coexistence scenarios with previous versions.
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How are lessons learned from OS migration affecting the lifecycle of application deployment?
Discuss the changing view of application migration work from being a sunk cost to a mechanism for ongoing efficiency. Have packaging processes changed? Have virtualization technologies been introducted to help ease the migration? If so, what impact has this had on timelines and skills required for your ongoing packaging process lifecycle? Have the remediation issues detected during a migration project had an impact on software procurement and assessement?
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Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 High Availability and Disaster Recovery Planning
Microsoft Exchange Server is a business-critical system for many organizations. Are you prepared to respond to the challenges of managing its reliability and availability? What are your plans and experiences regarding high availability technologies such as Network Load Balancing and Database Availability Groups? What are your backup procedures and how about the domain controllers and communication devices availability? And at the end, have you tested your solutions and strategies at all? In this BOF session share your experiences, discuss, and learn from others about high availability and disaster recovery in Microsoft Exchange Server.
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How to: Set up your local User Group
Do you want to take the "buzz" of TechEd back home? Of course you do - you love Teched! Join a user group, or if there are no local user groups in your region - start your own.
Starting your own user group can be great fun, rewarding but also daunting, and many groups fail to continue after the first few months.
Join this interactive session to discuss some great tips on how to set up your own user group, and more importantly how to make it succeed and grow. Combining tips from many successful and experienced UG leaders, Andrew…
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Legacy Modernization with BizTalk Host Integration Server 2010
Enterprises often use a reliable IBM mainframe or midrange system to run their line-of-business applications. But Windows is the preferred front end for new capabilities that need access to those systems. IBM on one side, .NET on the otherhow do you get them to work together? Applications can be mission-critical, and can have a proven record of reliability. Similarly, companies might not have the ability to replace existing hardware and infrastructure investments, or to incur the cost of rewriting mainframe applications.Microsoft BizTalk Host Integration Server 2010 offers key enabling technologies that allow enterprise organizations to integrate their mission-critical host applications…
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Cooperation between regional communities: utopia or potential?
: Is it possible to achieve cooperation between communities of the same region?
Do you find this achievable and easy?
Do you see any potential in such initiatives, can you share any experiences?
Do you find support from MS/INETA/DPE?
Let have a frank discussion and find out.5 votes -
Clear skies or cloud?
During the last few years we have just been talking about cloud computing and during the last year Cloud have been more and more accepted and common practice. We are bringing back the roots of old computing enviroments where networks where more central, or are we just cutting costs? Microsoft have launched or are about to launch many products specially made for the Cloud, how will they affect your day? Where is the future of IT-Pro? Join the discussion!
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Ever growing amount of data - how to get reliable performance patterns
The amount of digital borne data is growing significantly over the last years, still growing. How to to keep track and get predictable query performance? What is the best way to gain insight out of this wast amounts of data?
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Multiple SharePoint Sessions - Recording
I think these sessions would be great to record for my SharePoint podcast, The Moss Show (http://www.themossshow.com/), so it would be great to be involved in any sessions related to the product.
1 vote