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QA Experts in DevWeek Line-up

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29 January 2004. Specialist instructors at QA, the UK’s largest independent provider of training and consulting, will deliver a series of conference papers and workshops, as well as an innovative programme of hands-on labs, to delegates at DevWeek from 23-27 February.

Dave Wheeler, Principal Technologist, will deliver the opening key-note address entitled, The Way Ahead: Microsoft’s Roadmap for Developers, to over 400 delegates at the UK’s biggest developer conference.

Twelve conference and workshop sessions on a wide range of leading-edge topics including ASP.net, Java and web services will be delivered by Principal Technologists Olga Londer, Andy Thomson, James Winters and Dave Wheeler.

QA’s expert trainers will host a programme of hands-on labs through-out the conference. These practical sessions are designed to allow small groups of delegates to experience the latest technologies under the guidance of QA’s qualified technical instructors. Delegates will also have the opportunity to gain Microsoft Certified examinations at an event testing facility, in association with PearsonVUE and QA.

QA will be exhibiting at the developer event and delegates will be able to find out more about QA’s award-winning training solutions and discuss technical or training issues with QA’s speakers and technologists.

In addition, delegates will also benefit from a 25% discount on QA courses booked during the DevWeek conference.

DevWeek details:
Venue: Business Design Centre, London
Date: 23-27 February
Website: www.devweek.com.

Conference and workshop sessions from QA principal technologists:
 Keynote address: Microsoft’s roadmap for developers (Dave Wheeler)
 A day of .NET and J2EE interop (Dave Wheeler /James Winters)
 Real world multi-threading with the .NET Framework (Dave Wheeler)
 Configuring and deploying .NET applications (Andy Thomson)
 New language features of C# (Dave Wheeler)
 Using code access and code-based security (Dave Wheeler)
 Single sign-on & federated identity in the enterprise (Dave Wheeler)
 Tips & tricks for Windows Forms programming (Olga Londer)
 Real world interop (Dave Wheeler)
 IIS6 and ASP.NET: architecture, processing & security (Olga Londer)
 Inside ASP.NET configuration (Dave Wheeler)
 Web development using MCMS 2002 and ASP.NET (Olga Londer)
 Building a real-world enterprise .NET application (Dave Wheeler /James Winters)

Hands-on labs led by QA instructors:
 Writing multithreaded applications
 Configuring and deploying .NET assemblies
 Using the new language features of Visual C#
 Using P/Invoke and COM Interop
 Online and offline data access using ADO.NET
 Securing ASP.NET applications
 Using WSE 2.0 to develop Web Services
 A look at what's new in ASP.NET 2.0

QA presentations will be available from www.qa.com following the conference.