Web Services Edge 2005 East - International Web Services Conference & Expo attendees will receive free software from Microsoft, worth in excess of half million dollars. Other activities Microsoft is sponsoring at this year's conference will include:

Hands-on .NET and Visual Studio Lab: - Daily
Produced by Microsoft and hosted by Microsoft parters, 20 desktops will take 40 guests through a demonstration and presentation of the latest releases.

Wednesday, February 16 2005

Tutorial - 8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.  

Thom Robbins - VIP Tutorial - The Next Generation of Visual Studio

The next generation of Visual Studio contains the new version of the .NET Framework 2.0 that enables an easier and more robust programming model. In these sessions speakers will cover these new programming models and how they can be used to develop a variety of applications.

Thom Robbins is a senior technology specialist with Microsoft. He is a frequent contributor to various magazines that include .NET, Visual Studio.NET and Web Services Journal. Thom is also a frequent speaker at a variety of events that include VS Live and others. When not writing code and helping customers he spends his time with his wife at their home in New Hampshire.

Cabana Night- - 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m

INETA to host "Cabana Night:" The International .NET Association will be presenting its fan favorite "Cabana Night" on Wednesday, February 16, at Web Services Edge 2005. Wear your tropical theme shirt and join hundreds of your peers for some high-energy tropical beverages, top-notch coding, and excellent developer exchanges.

The .NET platform has raised the bar on built-in security mechanisms, which makes life easier for developers to incorporate sound security design in their applications. But the challenge of security is an infinite surface, and there are trade-offs in every decision for what will be protected and what will not.Bio: Patrick Hynds, MCSD, MCSE+I, MCDBA, MCSA, MCP+Site Builder, MCT, is the Microsoft Regional Director for Boston, the CTO of CriticalSites, and has been recognized as a leader in the technology field. An expert on Microsoft technology (with, at last count, 55 Microsoft certifications) and experienced with other technologies as well (WebSphere, Sybase, Perl, Java, Unix, Netware, C++, etc.), Patrick previously taught freelance software development and network architecture.