Bill Vaughn, Beta V Corporation

William (Bill) Vaughn is an industry-recognized author, mentor and subject- matter expert on Visual Studio, SQL Server, Reporting Services and data access interfaces. He’s worked in the computer industry for over thirty years—working with mainframe, minicomputer and personal computer systems as a developer, manager, architect, trainer, marketer, support specialist, writer and publisher. In 2000, after 14 years at Microsoft, Bill stepped away to work on his books, mentoring and independent training seminars. He’s written seven editions of the “Hitchhiker's Guide to Visual Basic & SQL Server” (the 7th edition is in edit), three editions of “ADO.NET and ADO Examples and Best Practices for Visual Basic (and C#) Programmers” and ADO.NET and ADO Examples and Best Practices for VB Programmers. He and Peter Blackburn also wrote the best-selling and critically acclaimed “Hitchhiker’s Guide to SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services”. Bill is a top-rated speaker and frequents conferences all over the world including VSLive, Visual Studio/SQL Connections, DevTeach and VBug. He’s also written a wealth of articles for magazines such as SQL Server Magazine, Visual Basic Programmer’s Journal, .NET Magazine and many others as well as a bi- weekly editorial on developer issues for Processor magazine. Bill spends considerable time answering questions on the data-centric public newsgroups and speaking at user group meetings in Washington, Oregon, British Columbia and at his speaking venues all over the world. Bill was added to the INETA speaker’s list this fall. He’s available for consulting, mentoring or custom training. See www.betav.com or www.betav.com\blog\billva.

SQL Server 2005 CLR Executables
Bill Vaughn

This walks you through the development process of creating each of the CLR executables. We’ll talk about what kind of executables make sense and which won’t. I’ll show examples that have never been shown by anyone else that really push the CLR executable technology to the limits.

ADO.NET Connecting
Bill Vaughn

This is one of my most popular talks. It walks through the maze of issues that developers from all parts of the universe (except Cleveland) encounter when trying to connect. We’ll see how to determine which servers are visible, how to make servers visible (and hide them), how to determine if they’re running or stopped, how to know when they go down and what to do when it happens. We’ll touch on MARS and several new ADO.NET 2.0 enhancements that address some long-standing connection issues.