Sam Gentile PhillyNJ.NET July 31, 2008

Hilary Cotter - SQL Replication for Developers

In this session SQL Server MVP and replication guru Hilary Cotter explains the essentials of SQL Server replication for developers.  Hilary covers replication concepts, what technology is a best fit for data distribution, application considerations, and the new Sync Services in VS/SQL 2008. This is a high level session designed to help you get productive and presents material in both tsql and c# code.

Hilary has been involved in IT for over 20 years. He is a SQL Server consultant specializing in search and replication solutions. He wrote a book on SQL Server replication and is currently working on a SQL Server 2008 Administration book and another book on SQL Server 2008 full-text search.

Sam Gentile - Advanced WCF: Asynchronous Messaging and Event-Driven Architectures

Many WCF developers start and end with the Request/Response Message Exchange Pattern.  In actuality, there is a wide variety of Message Exchange Patterns cataloged by Hohpe and Woolfe in books like “Enterprise Integration Patterns” and Pattern & Practices “Integration Patterns.” In this advanced talk, that starts where most WCF talks leave off, we will show you how to build more loosely-coupled services and systems via these MEPs and with WCF. We will then focus on the powerful List-Based Publish/Subscribe Design Pattern. Upon showing how many lines of WCF code are required to implement the pattern in WCF, we will show the pattern as the basis for the Neuron ESB and achieve the same results with zero code. We will then focus on Mediation and how ESBs help mediate between disparate services.

Sam is an Independent .NET Consultant, where he uses WCF, Neuron, WF and BizTalk in delivering Real-World SOA solutions together with Microsoft. Sam was recently awarded the MVP award for Connected Systems for the 4th consecutive year. Sam is also an INETA Speaker, delivering advanced SOA and .NET training all over the world.