I’m happy to announce that I will speak at the upcoming European
SharePoint Conference 2011, which will be take place in Berlin
(Germany) from the 18th of October to the 20th of October 2011.

I will talk about the following three topics:

W28 – Developing a SharePoint 2010 Service
Application [Wednesday 19th Oct]: this will be a session for
experienced SharePoint developers willing to learn how to develop a
custom Service Application for SharePoint 2010. I will explain the
architecture of Service Applications and then I will move to
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 in order to show a concrete example of
a service application built upon the scalable architecture provided
by SharePoint 2010, Windows Communication Foundation and the
claims-based philosophy. The goal of this session is to understand
the potentials that can be realized using the Service Application
Framework (aka SAF), being able to determine when building custom
services is useful. The session level will be 400 on a scale from
100 to 500.

Th7 – Business Connectivity Services for
Developers [Thursday 20th Oct]: this session will cover
Business Connectivity Services (BCS) from a developer perspective.
I will start showing the architecture of BCS, then I will move to
consume a WCF service offering CRUDQ capabilities on a back-end
data repository. Lastly I will show how to implement a basic BDC
Model using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. This will be an hands-on
session, full of examples taken from from real projects I developed
and from my last book about SharePoint 2010. The session level will
be 300 on a scale from 100 to 500.

Here you can find the full agenda of the Conference. Let’s register and enjoy the Conference!