Speaking at the Atlanta Code Camp on ASP.NET Custom Providers

Friday, May 12, 2006

The Atlanta Code Camp (2006) is scheduled for tomorrow (May 13, 2006) at DeVry University in Decatur (not the MS Offices in Alpharetta). I'm currently scheduled to give my presentation on ASP.NET Custom Providers at 8:45 am, although the schedule may change. The new services exposed by the new provider model in ASP.NET v2.0 are some of the best new things, so this should be a great topic. My goals for this presentation are to introduce these new services and the provider model, and to convince everyone to build their own custom providers. Well maybe that's a little strong, but I do think that most enterprise web apps should consider this, and I'll show some simple sample custom providers. In particular, I'll give you the code for some very simple Membership, RoleManger, and SiteMap providers that work on top of O/R Mapping. We won't be focusing on the O/R Mapping at all, so that's not a prerequisite, since you can always add your own database logic if you desire. But O/R Mapping does make working with custom providers far easier, and it automatically works with MS Sql, Access, Oracle, MySql, and most other databases as a bonus. And if you need more, my WilsonWebPortal has better optimized versions of these same providers, as well as adding custom Profile and WebEvents providers.

I've also got a lot of very good books to give away, in addition to the ones that will be given away all day long in all the sessions. They are (1) Apress' Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 in VB 2005 by Matthew MacDonald, (2) Apress' Pro VB 2005 and the .NET 2.0 Platform by Andrew Troelsen, (3&4) two copies of Addison Wesley's Visual Studio Tools for Office Using Visual Basic 2005 by Eric Carter and Eric Lippert, (5) Addison Wesley's SQL Server 2005 Distilled by Eric Brown, (6) O'Reilly's Programming SQL Server 2005 by Bill Hamilton, (7) Microsoft Press' Programming ASP.NET 2.0 Core Reference by Dino Esposito, and (8) Microsoft Press' Programming ASP.NET 2.0 Applications Advanced Topics by Dino Esposito. And I'll give you the book of your choice (that's still left) if you attend my session and come up before it starts to introduce yourself and tell me you read about this offer on my blog. I've also got a few 32MB USB Keys if you prefer that instead of a book, so even if you don't want a book you can still come up and introduce yourself and tell me you read about this on my blog. Any books or USB keys left after that will be given away during the session however I see fit, so come early -- but please form a line to keep it nice and professional. :)

There's a lot of other sessions that look good too of course, and most of them are probably better speakers than I, so come out -- assuming you did register. I'm not even sure how I'll pick between some of these sessions, since there are several ones in each time slot that I'm interested in attending. So don't be offended if I attend a different session Wally -- I may still make it to your Atlas session, as I really am interested, but there are other good ones too, so its hard to decide. So see you at the Atlanta Code Camp tomorrow -- and don't forget the location is DeVry and not the MS Offices since we needed more space.

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