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Ben Hoelting – Caching and Synchronizing Disconnected Data Using .NET

Caching is not new in .NET.  However, it has been expanded on in 4.0.  The first half of this session will focus on how to implement caching to improve performance on the server.  However, some applications need to work even when a network connection to the server is not available.  This is especially true when running a Silverlight application in out of browser mode.  With so many Wi-Fi hot spots and 3\4G networks these days that need is diminishing.  However, a new requirement is becoming more prevalent and that is the need to store data locally to increase performance.  The size of today’s data is beginning to clog up the network bandwidth and developers are turning to client side data storage to reduce the traffic and speed up their applications.  There are many different synchronization options to accomplish client side data storage, no matter what your reason for doing it.  One of which is the new Sync Framework from Microsoft.  At the end of this presentation we will explore this technology and compare it with other techniques for data synchronization and client side caching.

Ben Hoelting is a C# MVP and Software Developer at Intelligent Software Solutions (ISS). Graduated from Colorado State University in 1997 with a BS in Computer Information Systems and a Minor in Computer Science. Ben joined the IT industry in 1996 as an intern and has worked with .NET since its inception back in 2002. Ben is also a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) for Web and Windows .NET 4.0. His blog is at http://www.benhblog.com and his twitter stream is at http://twitter.com/benhnet.