SD WEST 2004 TECH SESSION SCHEDULE

HP’s Tech Sessions
HP is presenting five 90-minute Tech Sessions at SD West 2004. Full details are available here.

Tapping Amazon’s Technology Platform and Product Data
Presented by Amazon Web Services
Wednesday, March 17, 8:30am – 12pm
Details are available here.

Best Practices for Developing Enterprise-Class Mobile Applications
Jason Rossback, Product Manager, AppForge
Wednesday, March 17, 1:30pm – 3:00pm

Mobile computing has matured to a level where PDAs are no longer simply Personal Digital Assistants. Today, mobile computing devices offer more features and functionality than many laptops had four years ago. Whether you need to replace out-dated, paper-based processes or you are looking to provide a new, innovative solution to your front-line workers, a mobile application may be the answer. This session will present best practices for developing mobile applications with a focus on user interface design, choosing the right data access model, developing applications to run across multiple platforms, and selecting the right device for the job. Anyone attending this session will leave with a clear understanding of the various facets of mobile application development.

Jason Rossback is a Product Manager at AppForge and is responsible for enterprise developer solutions. Jason has more than seven years experience in the mobile solutions market both as a sales engineer and product manager. Prior to joining AppForge, Jason has held numerous positions in Information Systems, Technical Sales, Marketing, and Product Management at various leading organizations including Shepards/McGraw-Hill, Hewlett-Packard, and Extended Systems. Jason has a B.S. in Computer Science from Northwest Nazarene University.

Intel® C++ Compiler and Debug Solutions for Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 on Intel® PCA
Wednesday March 17, 3:30pm - 5:00pm

This course offers an overview of the Intel® development tools designed for the Microsoft Windows Mobile* 2003 and Windows CE* .Net platforms. The focus is on what Intel® can provide to help get the best performance out of a given Intel Xscale® microarchitecture Intel® PCA target platform.

Taking MFC-based Applications to .NET and Longhorn
Scott Currie, Program Manager, Microsoft Visual C++
Thursday, March 18, 10:30am - 12:00pm

Are you interested in .NET and Longhorn technologies, but you don't want to rewrite your application to start using them? Then this talk is for you. We will cover an introduction to Longhorn/WinFX, an introduction to C++ on .NET, a comparison of C++ interop and COM interop, the new managed libraries for Whidbey including STL.NET, MSIL .NET Module Linking, the Win32->WinFX (Longhorn) roadmap, Whidbey MFC, MFC->Winforms migration, and MFC->Avalon migration.

Visual C++: .NET and Native Interop under the Hood
Scott Currie, Program Manager, Microsoft Visual C++
Thursday, March 18, 1:30pm - 3:00pm

Are you interested in the details of moving existing code to the .NET platform? This talk is a detailed introduction to Visual C++ .NET and native interoperation technologies and the way these technologies can be used in your applications. Specifically, it covers the basics of managed and native code and data, how C++ is expressed in MSIL, the role of machine code, Visual C++ Whidbey compilation modes and the reasons for them, the architecture of managed/native transition layers, various optimizations for MSIL with examples, performance numbers, and some new Whidbey features that are focused on .NET and native interop.