London .NET User Group October Meeting October 13, 2007

Agenda:

'The Importance of Application Security'
Chris Seary
'Why is application security so important now? Chris will discuss why the onus is on developers to produce secure systems.
We'll look at what hackers can do with a system improperly secured, and how to protect it.
Many organisations have raised their security baseline over the last few years, and developers need to be aware of this. Chris will guide you through the most common pitfalls of commercially produced applications so you don't make the same mistakes.'

An overview of WPF - the end of Windows Forms?
Oliver Sturm
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is an important pillar of Microsoft's new and upcoming development platform. It's available today as part of .NET 3, but its importance will grow considerably with the release of Visual Studio 2008 very close. Other tools like Expression Blend complete the picture, providing functionality but at the same time adding complexity to the development environment. This session shows what the framework contains and how to use it in your applications, as well as shedding some light on Microsoft's ideas of software development tomorrow.

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