Patterns and Practices

Today we'll host the first ever patterns & practices Symposium online on Channel 9! Microsoft patterns & practices symposiums are held regularly in the U.S. and abroad, with top speakers on current topics. Most of the speakers are from the Microsoft patterns & practices…

Datacenter energy efficiency is a hot topic these days (how to keep thousands of machines cool without consuming too many electrons, etc.), but something that doesn't get quite as much attention in terms of datacenter energy efficiency is the code running on the servers that make up the cloud…

This is the second screencast in the series showcasing the Enterprise Library Silverlight Integration Pack. This time we are discussing cross-tier validation. Source code is posted here. Pre-requisites: Silverlight SDKBlend SDKUnity for Silverlight 2.0 (included) Enterprise Library Silverlight…

This is a demo of the basic validation scenarios using Enterprise Library 5.0 Silverlight Integration Pack, including:   Validation using attributes Injecting validation rules based on configuration Cross-field validation via self-validation Support for implementing IDataErrorInfo Source…

REST, it’s more than data | Glenn BlockToday it's very common to simply throw some data over the wire and call it REST. But REST as Roy Fielding described it is much, much more. Come to this session and we’ll explore the tenants of a RESTful system. We’ll start with looking at traditional web…

Patterns of Healthy Teams using Visual Studio and TFS | David StarrMany teams working with Microsoft technologies are moving to Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio ALM. Most are not using the platform to its full potential. This session shows how some teams are using Visual Studio ALM tools to…

The Next Generation of Automated Guidance | Michael LehmanThe Visual Studio Ultimate team recently released the Feature Builder Power Tool for Visual Studio 2010. Feature Builder provides an easy-to-use authoring environment for building Visual Studio Extensions (VSIXs) which combine tools, code…

  Visual Studio 2010 Keynote by Jason Zander 

Design With Data | Ward BellForms-over-data are the bread-and-butter of business applications. Someone has to write those forms and that someone is probably you. You know you suck at it … but could you suck less? Or put in economic terms, could you produce better results that are easier to maintain…

Prism v4 Navigation in a Line of Business Application | Karl ShifflettPrism v4 includes new guidance and content on Model-View-ViewModel and application navigation. This in-depth, "how to" session will cover leveraging and extending the Prism v4 Navigation API's to create a cloud/Intranet…