If you're an ASP.NET programmer, chances are you’ve dabbled in MVC. MVC is the latest newcomer to the ASP.NET world and the demo’s you see looks simple, but there are some hidden gotchas' that you’ll only learn from hours of blood, sweat and tears that have been soaked into the keyboard. In this session you will learn what these hidden pitfalls are and how to avoid them. The focus will be on real-world MVC which will include how to best use forms authentication, securing your controllers and actions, error handling the MVC way, filter ordering, Inversion of Control (IoC) best practices as well as how to best use routes and controllers. Don't think this session will be a walk in the park. These are real world problems and how to solve them.

Everyone wants one thing when they're building websites; better performance. Caching has always been the developers friend in ASP.NET, but one type of caching that isn't widely used, or known, is native IIS 7 caching. By utilizing this amazing technology, you can go from zero to hero instantly with mind blowing performance. You will learn how to enable and configure native caching as well as creating new output cache rules. If a faster website means anything to you, you'll need to attend this session.