IdeaBlade works closely with Microsoft in educating the .NET development community on ways to develop applications quickly and reliably.
We have several one-hour Web casts on Microsoft's developer network with more on the way.

Rapidly Build Smart Client Applications with IdeaBlade

See how to build a feature-rich client application using IdeaBlade and .NET.

We begin the Web cast by building an Employee Viewer in 10 minutes. We explain what is taking place at each step, illustrating how the IdeaBlade framework, Object Relational Persistence, and advanced user interface data binding allow for rapid application development and testing within the Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 environment. We also identify other ways you can apply these methods and tools to build powerful, scalable, secure, enterprise smart client applications.

Transition Easily from VB6 to VB.NET

We talk about your challenges as a VB6 developer approaching .NET for the first time. We tell the story of a customer who stumbled with the Microsoft conversion utility and recovered using IdeaBlade, reducing his custom code by more than 90%. We then demonstrate the process by building a small application and converting a pre-existing form.

Best Practices in Distributed Smart Client Application Development

Designing and building distributed smart client applications need not be difficult or intimidating. In this webcast, we talk some of the key aspects of smart client architectures. We discuss the tradeoffs and design decisions you'll encounter as you strive to build powerful, test-driven applications. If you have only built a two-tier client/server application before, you will easily grasp the concepts and techniques for developing either two-tier or n-tier distributed smart client applications.

Rapid Application Development with IdeaBlade 3.0 and VS 2005

The Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 offers significant improvements in fundamental capabilities and ease of use for the professional developer. Concurrent with the launch of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, the IdeaBlade version 3.0 rapid application development framework for .NET is a significant leap forward. In this webcast, we highlight key new features of both products and demonstrate their synergy by creating a sample application. See how the IdeaBlade "plumbing" between the .NET foundation and your application can help you focus your development efforts on business logic, and how the IdeaBlade Object-Relational Mapping, container persistence, caching, and advanced data binding features can help you get your .NET applications to market faster.