Matthijs Hoekstra

Are you tired of spending hours trying to reproduce and diagnose bugs? Do you have a hard time getting testers and developers to talk to each other? Is it difficult to determine which tests are most important to run after you produce a new build? If so, then this session is for you! Software…

This session is a practical tour of the “write less, do more” JavaScript library – jQuery. In this session we will build an application using ASP.NET and jQuery while learning about CSS selectors, DOM manipulation, and asynchronous communications using the jQuery library. We’ll also look at the…

Search is much more than just finding something; concepts such as Information Architecture, Information Organization, and Findability are very important when implementing SharePoint. Come to this session to see how SharePoint 2010’s enhanced Search capability (such as the Managed Metadata…

The C# language and the .NET platform introduced many new features to support language integrated query. In this session, we’ll look at using these LINQ related features to build rich, intention revealing logic. We’ll dive into the magic of expression trees and use them to implement type-safe…

SharePoint Server 2010 provides a powerful platform for creating Business Intelligence (BI) solutions using PerformancePoint Services (PPS). PPS makes it possible to create a visual front end to Data warehouses and cubes created with SQL Server 2008 R2 Analysis Services. This session shows you to…

This session is part 2 of 2; it is recommended, though not required, that you attend part 1 of this session in order to benefit most. In this demo-rich session we examine the end-to-end software testing capabilities of Visual Studio 2010. This includes a deep look at manual testing, lab…

Search-based solutions are applications that use a search page as the primary interface. Solutions such as image searching or travel searching in Bing are good examples of search-based solutions. SharePoint 2010 offers developers new ways to extend search and create search-based solutions. In this…

With SharePoint 2010 a lot will change for developers, but of course you will still want to keep using some of the cool solutions that you built for SharePoint 2007. This session will explain how you can best upgrade the custom code that you wrote using Visual Studio 2008 for SharePoint 2007 to…

In this session, Scott Hanselman gives a deep and broad tour of the .NET 4 release, with a focus on making your development experience easier. See lots of demos (and very few slides) showcasing the key new features in the .NET Framework 4 including MEF, improvements in ASP.NET, threading,…

Migrating to SharePoint 2010 from MOSS 2007 involves in depth planning and an understanding of the potential pitfalls. There are a few tools with which ITPros should be familiar in order to be successful. Come to this session to become armed with the knowledge necessary to successfully migrate to…