New sessions by VISUG: Back 2 Basics

As you may have noticed, VISUG normally delivers on the latest technologies. That’s a great way to keep your skills updated and learn about all that is coming. However this time VISUG is starting with a new type of session: Back 2 Basics.

Back 2 Basics sessions are held in the afternoon (as opposed to evening) and address a technology or topic that is not on future technology but rather on existing technology.

[Update: there are three sessions already foreseen at this stage. Thanks Gill for pointing out my mistake :)]

Want to try it out? Registration is free and you get two sessions to choose from:

Back 2 Basics: LINQ
Two sessions of 50 minutes are foreseen:
A language focused overview of the foundations of LINQ in C#3.0 (50 minutes) and LINQ to SQL compared to LINQ to Entities. (50 minutes)
Date: 15 April 2009 from 2 PM to 4 PM, at Microsoft Zaventem offices.
By Kurt Claeys.
More details and registration here.

Back 2 Basics: ASP.NET Caching
Gill Cleeren will be presenting a two hour session on the ASP.NET Caching model.
Date: 29th April 2009 from 2PM to 4PM, at Microsoft Zaventem offices.
More details and registration here.

Back 2 Basics: Integrating Membership, Role Management and Profiles into Web Applications 
Presented by: Pieter Gheysens 
Date: May 27, 2009   from 2 PM to 4 PM, at Microsoft Zaventem offices.
More details and registration here.

Next to the two above mentioned sessions also more of the “regular” type of sessions are announced:

Mocking, by Maarten Balliauw  - on 7/5/2009 
Domain Driven Design, Yves Goeleven  on 18/6/2009 
IronRuby: The .NET developer should not fear the dynamic language, by Ivan Porto Carrero  on 30/6/2009 
ORMs: Entity Framework vs NHibernate  by Kurt Claeys & Davy Brion, on 10/9/2009

Full list here.