June 7, 2004 - INFOCAN PRESENTS AT EKon 8 in Frankfurt, Germany!!

Mark your calendars! The 8th Annual Entwickler Konferenz is held in Frankfurt Germany from September 27 to October 1, 2004. The conference is jam-packed with pre-conference and post-conference Power Workshops in addition to the regular sessions on the latest Borland tools. Speakers are flown in worldwide for this special event including Michael Li, InfoCan Management’s Chief Technology Officer. Register today and don’t miss out on this exciting event!

Michael Li will be presenting the following sessions:

Migrating to Delphi 8 for .NET – PreConference PowerWorkshop (Full Day Tutorial)
This session will be divided into two parts: Part 1 will concentrate on presenting an overview of the new features in Delphi 8: the new .NET _compliant compiler, the new Borland Development Studio, WinForm development, ADO.NET and Borland Data Provider technology, ASP.NET and Web Services. PART 2 will focus on the transitional difference between Delphi development for Win32 and .NET. Topics include architectural considerations, language enhancements, C# vs. Delphi, VCL.NET vs. FCL, COM Interop, Win32 Interop, cross-language Interop, data access differences and ADO.NET, single source between Win32 & .NET, web development, and transition planning & techniques. The session will be laden with hands-on examples which will be available to attendees for references.

What’s New in Delphi 8 for .NET? – Regular Session
This high impact session is aimed to fast track you with the latest features in Delphi 8 for .NET: the new .NET compliant compiler, the new Borland Development Studio, WinForm development, ADO.NET and Borland Data Provider technology, ASP.NET and Web Services. If you are currently developing in Delphi and are curious about how .NET will impact your work, you cannot afford to miss this presentation.

Exception Handling with ASP.NET – Regular Session
This session will showcase techniques in handling exceptions in a graceful and proper manner, built-in exception mechanism such as page and application error event handlers, writing to the Windows event logs, working with the diagnostics namespace, walking the stack trace, error notification via email, working with customErrors, and more. Code examples for this talk will be provided in C# and Delphi.

Understanding Web Application Threats and Vulnerabilities – Regular Session
This session will showcase techniques in handling exceptions in a graceful and proper manner, built-in exception mechanism such as page and application error event handlers, writing to the Windows event logs, working with the diagnostics namespace, walking the stack trace, error notification via email, working with customErrors, and more. Code examples for this talk will be provided in C# and Delphi.

ASP.NET, Security Best Practices – PostConference PowerWorkshop (Half Day Tutorial)
This session focuses purely on countermeasures against common threats and best practices in creating secured ASP.NET applications. Hands-on demos will showcase many defensive strategies that can protect against some of the common threats like SQL injection, cross-site scripting, site hijacking and input tampering attacks. Topics include input validation, best practices when working with Microsoft SQL Server, including the use of parameterized commands, stored procedures, accounts with limited privileges, Windows authentication vs. direct SQL Server logins and proper handling/encrypting the connection strings, HTML encoding, vulnerabilities with ASP.NET forms authentication and cookies management, state management with full encryption, DPAPI and password encryption, and more.

To REGISTER: Visit the EKon 8 webpage at:
http://www.entwicklerkonferenz.de