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Westgarth, Andy
ASP.Net Code Monkey, IIS MVP, Co-Founder of North East Bytes (NEBytes)
Biography
Andrew Westgarth is founder of DDD North and Co-founder of North East Bytes, a free User Group covering the North East and Cumbrian regions of the United Kingdom having technical meetings covering Development and IT Pro topics every month.

He is a Technical Architect at Sage (UK) Ltd working on large scale web applications. Andrew is very active in the UK Developer Community, attending and speaking at multiple events, supporting users and other User Groups. In the past he has spoken at the Irish Microsoft Technology Conference, VBUG's National Two Day Conference; DDD Events and local User Group meetings. Andrew has experience in VB6/.NET; C#; ASP.NET and Internet Information Services. Andrew's current technical interests include IIS 8.0/7.5/7.0, IIS Extensions and Windows Azure; Personal Performance Improvement and Best Practices.
Speaker Presentation List
IIS7.0 For ASp.NET Developers
With Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 comes the most significant release of Microsoft's Web Server, IIS, since version 1.0. With version 6.0, we were equipped with a very secure and stable platform for web applications. IIS7 takes it another step further and we now have a rich development platform to work with. In this session we look at implementing handlers and modules to add functionality, examine new administration methods and how to extend the administration. We will look at how advancements in tracing and debugging will help us in developing ASP.Net Applications on IIS7.   
Search and Deploy!
Search... Do you have sleepless nights worrying about the ranking of your site on Bing and Google? Do you spend hours trawling through SEO guides and implementing changes to your site to grab an extra ranking place? Constantly hounded by SEO experts offering their services? The IIS Team has released the IIS SEO Toolkit, building on the great extensibility model built into IIS 7/7.5, to help you improve your site's search engine rankings. In this session we'll look at how to generate reports highlighting issues with your sites based on SEO Best Practices, use built-in tools to generate Robots.txt and Sitemap files. Also as the toolkit takes advantage of the Extensibility of IIS 7/7.5 the toolkit can also be exended. We'll take a look at the options available and how to extend the toolkit. Packaging up and deploying websites is not everyone's favourite tasks especially when they lie in multiple states, on different staging servers and need to move to new infrastructure and farms for production environment. And Deploy... We'll also take a look at how the Web Deployment tool, integrated into VS2010, can ease synchronisation and deployment of web applications (i.e. ASP.Net and PHP) across various different scenarios. The Web Deployment tool can help package up applications for deployment, we'll explore this and look at how it can be constrained as per your individual requirements   
Ba-da-Bing! Using the IIS SEO Toolkit to improve your site’s ranking
Do you have sleepless nights worrying about the ranking of your site on Bing and Google? Do you spend hours trawling through SEO guides and implementing changes to your site to grab an extra ranking place? Constantly hounded by SEO experts offering their services? The IIS Team has released the IIS SEO Toolkit, building on the great extensibility model built into IIS 7/7.5, to help you improve your site's search engine rankings. In this session we'll look at how to generate reports highlighting issues with your sites based on SEO Best Practices, use built-in tools to generate Robots.txt and Sitemap files. Also as the toolkit takes advantage of the Extensibility of IIS 7/7.5 the toolkit can also be extended. We'll take a look at the options available and how to extend the toolkit.   
IIS 7.0/7.5 for ASP.Net Developers
One of the biggest and best new features of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista is Internet Information Server 7.0. IIS 7.0 is the latest and most significant release of Microsoft's Web Server. With this release comes a new extensibility model which gives developers more options than ever before, more diagnostic tools with which developers can debug and locate issues. During the session Andrew will investigate the new architecture, look at extending, configuring and developing for IIS7, take a look at its management user interface, and introduce the debugging and diagnostic facilities within IIS7. NOW WITH ADDED IIS 7.5   
IIS 8
With the upcoming release of Windows 8 And Windows Server 8 the IIS Team are releasing the latest version of Internet Information Service (IIS). In this session we will look at the new features available for IT Professionals and Developers as they look to build optimized, advanced interactive applications using technologies such as HTML5 and WebSockets whilst also making most use of scalability and configuration advancements on the underlying platform.   
IIS 8.0 A Platform for the Future!
With the release of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, Internet Information Server (IIS) received a major update and this has continued through IIS 7.5 which was released with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. Now we sit on the verge of another update with the upcoming release of Windows Server 8 and Windows 8 which bring with them IIS 8.0. In this session we'll set the scene with a quick run through of the building blocks put in place through IIS 7 and 7.5 and then deep dive into the features coming in IIS 8.0 which enable Developers and IT pros to deliver optimised, advanced interactive applications using technologies such as HTML5 and Web Sockets whilst also making use of scalability and configuration enhancements on the underlying platform.   
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