I’ll be in Los Angeles next week for a couple of talks at the the Los Angeles C# Developers group and the Southern California DotNet Developers Group on Tuesday the 5^th and Wednesday the 6^th of September respectively.

The sessions are:

LA C# on the 5^th:

ASP.NET Architecture: How the core ASP.Net engine works

Rick Strahl

Did you ever want to know how ASP.NET hooks up to IIS? How the plumbing connects the ISAPI interface to the ASP.NET runtime? Want to better understand how the HttpRuntime gets bootstrapped and how the HttpApplication pipeline gets kick started and how events flow through the HttpApplication pipeline? Then this session is for you as we'll look the architecture of ASP.Net along with a number of useful tips and tricks that you can use for building and debugging your ASP.Net applications more efficiently. We'll look at overall architecture, how requests flow from the IIS Web Server, through ISAPI to the ASP.Net runtime into HTTP Modules and Handlers, and finally into high-level handlers like the WebForm Page handler event chain and Web Services Pipeline. Focus of this session is on the low level aspects on the ASP.NET runtime, with examples that demonstrate the bootstrapping of ASP.Net, threading models, how Application Domains are used, how configuration files are applied and how all of this relates to the applications you write today. If the geek in you wants to know 'How the black box works' this session is for you.

Level: Intermediate - Advanced

Type: Mostly Overview, some hands on

Southern Calfornia DotNet:

Taking ATLAS for a ride

by Rick Strahl

ATLAS is Microsoft's new client side/AJAX extension for ASP.NET slanted for release as an Add-on for ASP.NET 2.0 later this year. ATLAS introduces a rich framework for remote scripting with a wide variety of tools and approaches available to build rich client applications. In this session I'll overview the features available in the framework and show business oriented examples of how to utilize the various features. We'll look at the server centric approach with ATLAS Server controls like UpdatePanel, and a client centric approach relying on core ATLAS network features and the client side ATLAS framework and contrast the two approaches.

Level: All levels

Type: Technology Overview and hands on

If you’re in the LA area I hope to see you there…

Now it’s off to Portland for the local user group meeting and the ATLAS session there…