The Portland White's

Tomorrow there is an MSDN Event at the Regal Theater right next to the Lloyd Center. The topics covered in this event are included below. The reason I bring this up is because I am interested in meeting for a Nerd Dinner right afterwards (5:30-ish) at the food court in the Lloyd Center. I'll be there trying to figure out exactly what this Astoria thing really is. Please feel free to join me.

1. Session 1: What's New for Web Development in Visual Studio 2008
   1. The new tools, features and innovations in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
   2. Enhancements including the new Web designer and IntelliSense for JavaScript
   3. Powerful benefits of ASP.NET 3.5 and its support for AJAX and nested master pages
2. Session 2: A New Paradigm for Data Development with Web Based Data Services
   1. The basics of the ADO.NET Entity Framework
   2. How to create flexible mapping from databases to objects
   3. Exposing your data as RESTful data services
   4. Easily retrieving and updating data over HTTP
   5. Using Astoria in AJAX-based and Rich Interactive Applications
3. Session 3: Building Rich, Dynamic Web Experiences with Microsoft Silverlight, ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX
   1. Using ASP.NET AJAX to obtain data and update a Silverlight asset
   2. Building an ASP.NET control to deliver Silverlight assets to a Web browser
   3. Communicating with managed code within a Silverlight asset from Javascript in the browser
   4. Using the Silverlight controls in the ASP.NET Futures release