10/8/2008

IASPS01: Becoming an Architect: A Guided Tour (1:30PM - 5:30PM)
Add'l Fee $349
Paul Preiss
This workshop will provide you with the basic structure for becoming an architect. We will cover each of the fundamental categories according to the most comprehensive education plan in the world today. The IASA education program includes courses for all key skills an architect needs for success. During this workshop we will cover each category and skill in detail and provide significant examples of each. By the time you leave this course, not only will you know the skills you need, you will be on your way to acquiring them.

ARPS01: Every Class as a Service (1:30PM - 5:30PM)
Add'l Fee $349
Juval Lowy
WCF is more than just the next generation platform for building connected systems. In many respects, WCF is the next development platform for Windows applications, providing system features that are presently crafted by hand on top of .NET and Windows. With WCF, every class automatically benefits from security, instrumentation, call timeout, error masking, fault isolation, reliability, remote calls, tracing and logging, calls buffering, synchronization, interoperability, and with little or no change could also benefit from queued calls, transactions management, and various instantiation modes. To maximize the use of these off-the-shelf plumbing aspects you should push the service boundary down into your system, but taken to its ultimate conclusion--should every class be a WCF services? And what about performance? This workshop starts with demonstrating the power and productivity of WCF as a "Better .NET" contrasting WCF used granularly on every class with classic .NET in terms of performance, throughput and scalability, and will substantiate the provocative claim that every class can and should be a service.