Christian Weyer, Thinktecture

Christian Weyer is co-founder of thinktecture, a European company aiding and supporting software architects and developers in designing and implementing distributed solutions architectures.

He has been modelling and implementing distributed applications with Java, COM, DCOM, COM+, Web Services and other technologies. Christian has been focusing on the ideas and concepts of service-orientation and their practical translation in customer projects in the past few years, with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) being the two main technologies applied recently.

Christian's views on architecture and distributed solutions are considered both mature and innovating. A number of customers have put confidence into his experience when it comes to apply WCF and WF to real problems. The national and international developer and architect community knows Christian from his weblog, webcasts, forums activities, usergroup talks and conference performances. He was selected as one of the Microsoft MVPs for Solution Architecture and is an independent Microsoft Regional Director.

Presentation: "Services & Workflows: SOAP, REST and all you need"

Track: .NET: Client, Server, Cloud

Time: Wednesday 15:45 - 16:45

Location: Westminster Suite

Abstract:

In this session Christian Weyer shows you how Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation can be used to build connected systems based on the .NET Framework. You will be introduced to the basic functionality of these twin technologies in a practical manner - come and learn how to build SOAP or REST-based systems with one set of programming models, depending on your application design needs.