Clarity's Jerry Brunning and Ryan Powers are scheduled to speak at Microsoft's Dev Cares event on June 28. Dev Cares is a free Microsoft .NET developer training offering in the Midwest District. Presented by developers for developers, the presentations span a variety of topics surrounding Microsoft's .NET platform. Dev Cares is hosted by Information Management Group at Microsoft's office in Downers Grove. Registration is available at
http://www.imginc.com/devcaresRyan presents the first session titled, "What's New in ASMX Web Services 2.0". This session covers the new capabilities of ASMX Web Services in .NET Framework 2.0 and how to build Web Services using Visual Studio 2005. The session is focused on developer productivity, interop and performance improvements made in ASMX 2.0 vs. ASMX 1.1.
Jerry presents the second session titled, "Web Services Enhancements 3.0". This session covers updates to WSE in the .NET Framework 2.0 and how WSE 3.0 makes building secure, reliable Web Services easier. Specifically, this session focuses on turnkey solutions, policy management, MTOM and migration to WCF..
Clarity's Jon Rauschenberger prepared and delivered two breakout sessions during TechEd 2006 in Boston.
The first session, "VSTO: Building Composite Applications Using Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System" focused on architecture and design patterns enabling organizations to build functional user interface components and allowing seamless deployment in both stand-alone smart client applications and Office via VSTO. The content extends the Composite Application Block from Microsoft's PAG and provides a framework for integrating components developed with this architecture into Office applications.
The second session covered an early release of a Visual Studio 2005 Add-In jointly developed by Clarity and Microsoft. The session, titled "Visual Studio: Leveraging Your Visual Basic 6 Investments with VB 2005", focused on solutions for migrating large forms-based line-of-business applications from VB6 to VB .NET and provided prescriptive guidance on mitigating the costs and risks associated with these migrations. Specifically, the session provided an overview of approaches and architectures for migrating applications to VB .NET in incremental steps vs. an "all at once" approach.
Clarity CEO Craig Goren appeared before the House Small Business Committee during a hearing on ICANN's pending .COM contract with Verisign as a representative for "Small Business". During this hearing, the House Small Business Committee studied the implications of the pending deal for high-tech mom and pop shops. The ICANN and Verisign contract would result in a $2 annual increase in registration fees for .com and .net domain names 7 years.
For more information, check out these links: including the official site regarding the hearing and several news articles about the hearing including quotes from Craig.
Official WebSite of hearing .COM HEARING SET Wed. in House Small Business Committee. VeriSign critic calls hearing "logical next step" in protest.
ICANN/VeriSign .Com Dispute Aired on Capitol Hill