| Title | Description | Speaker= Name |
| Welcome to Microsoft Express | Welcome to Microsoft Express | Pat Tormey |
| Windows Azure AppFabric Caching | In this session, learn how to use the Caching service for bo= th your ASP.NET session state and to cache data from your data-tier. You will see how the Caching service provides your application with a cache that provides low latency and high throughput without having to configure, dep= loy, or manage the service. | Udaiappa Ramachandran |
| Introduction to Windows Phone 7 Development = with Silverlight | The Windows Phone 7 platform was released just a little over= 6 months ago and is off to an exciting start, including the fastest growth = of content available in any mobile app store. This session will introduce fundamental concepts used when develop= ing applications with Silverlight for the Windows Phone 7 platform. Concepts to be presented include Bas= ic Controls, Navigation, Application Lifetime, working with phone software a= nd hardware services, and using the phone’s Notification Services. | John Garland |
| What's New in Windows Phone 7.5 Development = with Silverlight | The new Windows Phone 7.5 features were unveiled this past April, and the developer tools are being released in May. These new additions promise to add a tremendous amount of functionality to the platform. This presentation will review these n= ew features and show how they can be used to build the next generation of Windows Phone applications. | John Garland |
| Demystifying Cloud Computing and the Windows Azure Platform | An introduction to "the cloud" - what's the big de= al, and why should I care? We will answer these general questions while also covering the basics of Microsoft's cloud offering, the Windows Azure platform. | Bill Wilder |
| Architecture Patterns for Cloud Computing | Building "cloud-native" applications requires some ideas and patterns unfamiliar to many developers and architects. Come lea= rn how to architect your application for high reliability, massive scalabili= ty, and to take advantage of services easily accessible in the cloud. | Bill Wilder |
| What can we learn from Python and JavaScript while programming in c# 4.0 | The talk will show how some language constructs found in pyt= hon and Javascript can be implemented and used in C#, to write smaller and mo= re readable code. What can we learn= about formatting string from JavaScript. What can we learn about formatting string from Python? Object Literals [] or how to declare, populate and use a list in one line of code? What abujt a function returning multiple values? Object Literals {} or how to declare, populate and pass a dictionary to a function? | Frederic Torres |
| cDevWorkflow, next generation workflow engine for .Net developers | Session would be an introduction to the cDevWorkflow product= and how to build custom steps and properties for the product using C# .Net. | Dileepa Wijayanayake |
| 25 Things I've Learned about C# over the pas= t 10 years | 25 Things I've Learned about C# over the past 10 years | Phil Denoncourt III |
| Real World Rx | The Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) are a new library for working with events and asynchronous processes by using a push based model for handling data based on the Observer pattern. This new conceptual model for deal with events, along with the "LINQ-to-events" extension= s, can enable composing and filtering of events. This session will focus on concrete examples to harness the power of Rx and give a better understand= ing of the concepts behind it. | John Bowen |
| Harnessing XAML templates to power your UI | Templates show up everywhere in Silverlight and WPF, often in multiple places on a single control. In this session we'll look at strate= gies for using DataTemplates and ControlTemplates to create complex UIs while taking advantage of reuse and making your XAML easier to read. | John Bowen |
| Welcome To VB.NET - An introduction to Visual Basic and the .NET framework | With Visual Basic just celebrating its 20th birthday Microso= ft's most successful language has become more relevant than ever for Windows a= nd web development. Learn why Visual Basic is an excellent choice of language for the beginning programmer and= how VB, along with the powerful .NET framework, is more than capable of seeing your most ambitious projects to completion. Speaker Ed Bouras is a software developer in Portsmouth and a Microsoft MVP for Visual Basic. | Ed Bouras |
| Intro to Database Desing and ADO.NET | The world is a database. This session will focus on the good (and not so good) elements of database design using SQL Server Express. We will create a relational database and a few stored procedures.<= span style=3D'mso-spacerun:yes'> We will then take our database and pr= esent it using ADO.NET and VB.NET | Patty Tompkins |
| Social Media Analytics | The use of sties like twitter, facebook, foresquare etc., is growing at an exponential rate. Increasingly people will be discussing you and your firm. This can both help and hurt you, and misinformation is rampant. How d= o you go about monitoring and measuring what is happenindg? while large firms o= ten spend substantial funds on both social media programs and formal measurem= ent activities, this may not be possible for the samll firm. In this session we will discuss: a)Fr= ee and low cost tools such as Google Alerts, socialmention, garden.com etc. b)Defining terms: what is reach, engagement, tone, prominence etc? c)writing your own programs - talking to Twitter, FaceBook etc., | John Tarbox |
| The best Microsoft products you probably nev= er heard of | Every developer has heard of Windows Mobile and Azure, but h= ave you heard of Infer.Net and SHO? Microsoft has been releasing some fantast= ic products that are not getting much press. In this session F#, Infer.Net, = SHO, StreamInsight and Guesstimate will be presented at a high level along with samples of how you could put them to use. | John Tarbox |
| ASP.NET MVC Development with Custom Helpers = and Custom Views | The goal of this session is to demonstrate how you can create custom HTML Helpers and Custom Views that you can use with your ASP.NET M= VC Development.By taking advantage of HTML Helpers, you can reduce the amoun= t of tedious typing of HTML tags that you must perform to create a standard HT= ML page. | Rama K. Vangavolu |
| The Biggest Loser: Database Edition | Fat! That’s how you’d have to describe most databases these days. Gigabytes piled on megabytes until the terabytes add up and up. In one way, we think of disk space as cheap. After all you can go down= to the local office supply store or on-line and buy a terabyte drive for less than $100. But can you really us= e just that for a database? Not of you = want to get the kind of performance, redundancy and disaster recovery that are demanded of today’s applications, so you use a SAN, or a multi-drive arra= y or solid-state storage and pretty soon you’re spending some real money. Add = it up: the ASN, the fiber network, SSD’s, the disaster recovery system, the development system, the QA system, backup space and staff to manage it all. Pretty soon that $100 terab= ytes ends up costing around $75,000.ggest Looser: Database Edition presentation shows you how to put your database on a diet using the features of SQL Server:Compression,Filtered indexes,Maintenance to REBUILD and REORGANIZE,Index management: Do you really ne | Andy Novick |
| SQL Azure: Database in the Cloud | Description: SQL Az= ure is Microsoft's relational database offering in the cloud. While it's similar= to SQL Server 2008 there are enough differences that it's important to understand what you can and cannot do with SQL Azure. This presentation g= ets you comfortable with SQL Azure and understand how it can best be used. Topics: Signing up for SQL Azure, Creating a database, users and tables, Differences from other SQL Server 2008 editions, Configuring the firewall= , Moving schema and data up and down from the cloud, Checking Usage and Billing information, Connecting to SQL Azure, Approaches to scaling with SQL Azur= e, The new Federation Architecture | Andy Novick |