VSLive--Come Hear Me in Dallas December 10th and 11th

I'll be giving three sessions:

ADO.NET 3.5 SP1 for Visual Studio and SQL Server Developers
Wednesday, December 10 - 4:45 p.m.
This session brings Visual Studio developers up to speed on the latest ADO.NET 3.5 technology as exposed by Visual Studio SP1 (or SP2) -- especially in regard to new SQL Server 2008 features. We'll focus on best practice architectures and implementation of the new Synchronization Services technology as well as the new Filestream and other useful TSQL operators that can make applications faster, more secure and easier to code.

Visual Studio Reporting Technology and SQL Server 2008
Thursday, December 11 - 9:45 a.m.
This session brings Visual Studio developers up to speed on the latest SQL Server Reporting Services changes and how they impact existing applications and Reporting Services implementations. We also discuss the enhanced Microsoft ReportViewer control and how it can leverage both Reporting Services reports but those hosted on the client without having to access the RS service. We'll see examples drawn from my latest book to show how to capture report parameters and use them to drive both local and server-hosted reports.

DTH19 Leveraging the CLR in SQL Server Executables
Thursday, December 11 - 4:45 p.m.
Using a series of demos drawn from his latest book, this session walks developers through the process of creating each of the SQL Server CLR executables including Stored Procedures, Functions, User Defined Types, Aggregates and Triggers. We'll talk about the CLR executables that make sense and those that don't. We'll show examples that are not in the documentation and techniques that really push CLR executable technology to the limits. This session is designed for Visual Studio developers unfamilar with SQL Server and for DBAs that are not familar with Visual Studio.