Next week is TechEd week, and I'll be in Barcelona presenting a couple of talks on Atlas ... er, ASP.NET AJAX (I need to remember - I still end up using Atlas atleast a few times when presenting). Here is some information about the two presentations:
DEVWD27 - Scripting ASP.NET AJAX (Thursday)
The first one is a whiteboard session on scripting, script authoring, debugging etc. The whiteboard session is meant to be more of an interactive discussion in a smaller setting... so no slides. I'll probably prepare a couple of demos to seed the discussion. From past experience (I did an asp.net page lifecycle one last time around), I've found these to be even more fun than regular breakout sessions, as it really allows the audience to engage, and determine the topics and flow of the conversation. Using the whiteboard almost makes this like a Microsoft hallway chat/design discussion, which adds a nice touch. :-)
DEV411 - AJAX Patterns with Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX (Friday... yes its on the last day of the conference... as is usual with my talks...)
The second one sounds a little bit theoretical given the "patterns" word, but that is not the intent. The goal is to look at how to use the technology: the server control framework (aka ASP.NET AJAX Extensions) as well as the script library (aka Microsoft AJAX Library) to implement patterns to solve key problems. The general idea is to talk about a problem, and a solution, and hopefully that serves as a pattern or concept that can then be applied elsewhere. Examples of some patterns I might cover: unobrusive attachment of script behavior to the DOM, partial updates, periodic refreshes, logical navigation, visual notification, progress notification etc.
If you have suggestions for either talk, esp. if you're interested in seeing or hearing about a particular pattern, let me know via comments below. I'll try to incorporate the feedback, and if its not possible to work it into the hour long session, it'll serve as fodder for future posts, or offline Q&A if you're attending the conference.
By the way, this will be my first presentation using the actual 1.0 ASP.NET Ajax bits (well... atleast the beta)!
Posted on Tuesday, 10/31/2006 @ 9:33 PM
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