If you feel those topics will help you, you should attend.

>hi,
>That is no PDC in my country. It is too far and costly if I fly to US for it :(
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>here is the topic of teched in my country
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>Developer Tools & Technologies
>Change the way you think about software development and take full advantage of the capabilities of the .NET Framework and Visual Studio¨ .NET. Find out how to effectively use all of Visual Studio .NET 2003, including its features for building and consuming Web Services, its fully integrated and complete Web development environment, and its stable of programming languages - Visual Basic¨ .NET 2003, Visual C#ª .NET 2003, Visual C++¨ .NET 2003, and Visual J# .NET 2003. Sessions will demonstrate the use of .NET Framework features such as ASP.NET, Windows¨ Forms, ADO.NET, and COM+ Enterprise Services for building robust, enterprise-ready solutions
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>Topics include:
>Designing .NET Applications for Deployment and Manageability
>Extending Word and Excel with Visual Studio Tools for Office (Tips and Tricks)
>ASP .NET DataGrid Drill Down
>Efficient and Secure Data Retrieval in Your Middle Tier Using Stored Procedures and ADO. NET
>Web Services Enhancements (WSE)
>.NET and J2EE - Strategies for Interoperability
>Source Control and Team Development Using Visual Studio .NET and Visual SourceSafe
>Extreme Programming with C#
>Internationalizing ASP.NET Pages
>Enterprise Solution Patterns Using Microsoft .NET
>The Zen of .NET
>Using Regular Expressions in Windows Forms and ASP .NET
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>Workshop 2:
>Build an End-to-End Application in a day with Microsoft® .NET
>Who should attend: Software Developers
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>This session is all about taking a solid design for distributed .NET applications and then implementing it. First, the benefits of a use-case driven approach are explained and then designing the data and middle tier followed by the business tier and the presentation tier. We will spend plenty of time discussing the decisions one needs to take before writing a single line of code as these will influence the design of the application. After the design we continue with sharing implementation details. For each of the tiers we will highlight practices that are of critical importance to the success of your application.
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>Attendees should have a basic understanding of distributed application design. The ability to read Microsoft Visual Basic® or Visual C#™ code will also prove to be useful.
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>Overview
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>This one-day seminar has been designed to show how the key pieces of developing for the Microsoft® .NET Framework work together. Through a unique event format that moves away from presentation slides and concentrates on what is really important - the code, you will be shown the stages of developing a ‘real’ application, from conception and planning through to build and live implementation. With a strong focus on application structure and development best practices you will leave with all the facts on:
>The generic n-tier architecture of a .NET Application
>How different technologies fit into the .NET Architecture
>How to implement the key technologies in a real solution
>Where to go next
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>Any advise?
>Thank you