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Many SharePoint administrators and developers dive head first into a challenge without knowing all of their options. Many of us listen to the requirements then immediately crack open Visual Studio and start off on our development journey. Unfortunately, anyone who has ever developed for SharePoint using Visual Studio knows that there is no such thing as “quick and easy.” For example, the ambitious developer will need a development environment and possibly even a test and staging environment and there are often complications that arise from the deployment of the code.

It would be fair to say that Windows 8 is the most anticipated operating system release in the history of Microsoft. New features abound: a brand new user interface with an entirely new application model, support for a new architecture that enables Windows to run on smaller form factors, new touch-focused features, huge leaps in Hyper-V capability way beyond the competition, huge enhancements in remote desktop capabilities, new priorities for managing many servers as if you were managing one, new ways to secure data and grant access—and the list goes on.

Creating business applications in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is easy if you know just a few XAML basics. In this seminar we will show you how to make your business applications shine. You will first see lots of different ways that you can use the powerful ListBox. Next you will be shown how to create toolbars, status bars, create add/edit/delete forms and even an application template that you can use as the basis for your WPF applications. Finally you will learn tips and tricks for styling your application using color and styles to make your application really stand out.

Join Alan Sugano, President of ADS Consulting Group, as he explores how you can leverage VMware’s technology. Alan will present three technical sessions on three VMware topic areas that are relevant to any IT department currently running or considering migrating to a virtualized infrastructure using VMware and ESXi. You’ll learn how to avoid common pitfalls when implementing this technology.  You’ll get a down in the trenches view of how to implement this technology with tips for what works and what doesn’t.  Reduce your learning curve, get time-saving tips and tricks, and avoid roadblocks that can hamper your implementation effort.