Going on its 11th year, BASTA! Spring 2007 is happening again and uniting developers from all over Europe to showcase Microsoft’s latest technology.  This year, BASTA! Spring 2007 will be held in Frankfurt, Germany from February 26th to March 2nd, 2007.  Over these 5 days, speakers from around the world (America, Europe, and Asia) will inspire and educate developers on the hottest topics and issues – including .NET 2.0/3.0, WCF, WPF, WF, SharePoint 2007, Office 2007, 3-Tier-Apps, SQL Server 2005, and Security and best practices for Enterprise level development – relevant to the Microsoft development platform.

Michael Li, InfoCan Management's Chief Technology Officer, will be speaking at BASTA! Spring 2007 on the following topics:

PowerWorkshop – Top Ten New and Exciting Features in ASP.NET 2.0
With homage to David Letterman, we will count down the top ten features in ASP.NET

1. Declarative Databinding
2. Provider Model
3. Visual Studio .NET/ASP.NET Compilation Model
4. Visual Studio .NET Project model
5. Master Pages
6. Themes and Skins
7. Membership Services
8. Web Part Controls
9. Programmable Configuration
10. SQL Cache Dependence

PowerWorkshop – ASP.NET, Security Best Practices
This session focuses on best practices & countermeasures against common threats in creating secured ASP.NET applications. Hands-on demos will showcase defensive strategies to protect against the common threats like SQL injection, cross-site scripting, site hijacking & input-tampering attacks. Topics include: Input validation, Best practices with MSSQL, use of parameterized commands, stored procs, accounts with limited privileges, Windows authentication vs. direct SQL logins, proper handling & encrypting of connection strings, HTML-encoding, Vulnerabilities with ASP.NET forms authentication & cookies management, State management with encryption, DPAPI & password encryption, and more...

Regular Session – Microsoft AJAX (formerly Atlas) Fast Track
Learn how you can take advantage of ASP.NET 2.0's new AJAX framework, formerly "Atlas", to build next-generation Web apps. Topics include an overview of the MS AJAX architecture, the AJAX programming model, “AJAXify” new/existing ASP.NET applications using familiar server control approach, integrating AJAX with Web services, and rich DHTML-based user experiences.

Regular Session – Managing State with ASP.NET
In this session we will cover the need to preserve state in Web applications, page VS application state control, HTTP cookies, using InProc, StateServer, and SQLServer session state modes, benefits and disadvantages of each mode, how to track session state without relying on cookies and understand the limitations of application state.

For more details: Visit the BASTA! Spring 2007 webpage at:
http://www.basta.net/ (German)
http://basta.net/index_eng.asp (English)