I have been asked a couple of times when P&P (Patterns and Practices) will be going to Cape Town. Well it is happening in Nov in 3 parts. Check here for details on Session 1. There are links from this page to the other sessions. Topics covered include EntLib, Smart Client CAB, Web Services Factory as well as ObjectBuilder.
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Kimberly Tripp (renowned SQL Expert) is in South Africa for TechED. Post TechED she is doing a 1 day event on sql perf tuning.
From the event desc
Some of the things we'll cover are:
- Using DTA as a true "Advisor" and knowing how to choose what to implement and what's going to give you the biggest bang for the buck,
- Statement-level recompilation v. modularization of stored procedures (BOTH can be useful but when?);
- Advanced indexing strategies (indexing for AND, OR, Joins, Aggregates, ORDER BY);
- And just general "where do I start" and "what should I try" tips including: evaluating different aspects of statistics, creating additional statistics, re-writing queries, and more!
Not a session for newbies but if you've struggled with stored procedure performance, poor query performance and general application slow-downs, this is the place to be! Fast-paced and full of tricks, it's a must to have already worked with SQL Server.
To register for the event (cost if R575) visit http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032309025&Culture=en-ZA (do a search on her name if you are in doubt :-))
I have received this question a few times - can you build gadgets using WPF. Out of the box gadgets are mainly intended to be built using DHTML. The good news is that Karsten has blogged about how you can use WPF to build gadgets
Go check it out. Some gadgets and code also available.