aspConf is a virtual conference focused on one thing: showcasing the ASP.NET stack as the platform for great web applications. We've revamped the popular mvcConf conference to serve all of ASP.NET, Windows Azure, the MS Web Platform and the community as a whole.
The conference includes over 60 sessions from the ASP.NET product team and the ASP.NET developer community. All sessions are recorded and will be available on Channel 9.
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Enterprise Search with MVC 4
In this talk Chander Dhall will go over his consulting experiences on search. Code examples will be on asp.net Mvc4, Lucene and Visual Studio 11. Yes, search is important and a big part of user experience. Given the informational diversity and the particular situational context, we as developers need...
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aspConf Keynote - Scott Guthrie
Windows Azure is a flexible and open cloud platform for a wide variety of applications ranging from web sites to enterprise and mobile applications. In this foundation session Scott Guthrie will demonstrate how to quickly build and deploy applications using the new Windows Azure features and services...
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aspConf Keynote - Scott Hanselman
Scott Hanselman gives the second day keynote for aspConf. In this session, Scott Hanselman starts by explaining the vision of One ASP.NET. He then shows a bunch of mind-blowing prototype features, and ends by answering dozens of live questions from the community. This is a must-see session...
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Three web frameworks. All .NET. All Community Driven. One hour. Go.
In the .NET space the overwhelming majority of web projects are built with ASP.NET in one form or another. For many of those projects this a good choice. But there are alternatives. Alternatives that offer other approaches, and supports other ways of thinking. Alternatives that are developed by the community....
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Intro to RavenDB: NoSQL is Rapping at Your Door
The use of non-relational databases has been gaining momentum, and can be a great solution in some scenarios. RavenDB is the foremost document database for .NET, and offers support for JSON, LINQ, a REST-ful API, automatic indexing, transactions, horizontal scalability, and many more features. In this...
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HTML5 is the Future of the Web
The next version of tools for the web will include more semantic markup, powerful APIs for JavaScript , and better native styling. In this presentation, I will show the important features of HTML5 and CSS3 and how you can use them today in your web applications. I will demonstrate code that can be used...
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Quick Start: Test Driven Development
What is a Unit Test and how do I write one? What does Test Driven actually mean? And what about when developing in a code base with endless lines of untested code, where do I start the test driving? This session will be focused on keeping it simple and that you will be ready to start Unit Testing tomorrow!...
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Kendo UI – Lighten Your Load by Adding a Sword
Now day's people expect a rich interactive experience when interacting with your website. In order to deliver this experience a developer needs to arm themselves with the correct tools and in the past this meant picking and choosing from available tooling that may not have been designed to play to nice...
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Integration Testing With SpecsFor.Mvc – ASP.NET MVC Testing on Steroids!
Everyone knows that one of the major benefits of ASP.NET MVC over WebForms is improved testability, namely easier unit testing. But did you know that the MVC framework also makes it far easier to create strongly-typed, refactor-friendly integration tests for your application? It's true! And the SpecsFor.Mvc...
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Test Driving ASP.NET MVC
The MVC pattern is inherently testable and, in turn, ASP.NET MVC is a very testable framework but you still have to conform to specific patterns and best practices to successfully create a truly "testable" ASP.NET MVC application. In this talk Keith will discuss how the ASP.NET MVC lends itself...
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Common ASP.NET Design Patterns
Design Patterns provide common templates for solving the same family of problems in a similar way. They also provide a higher-level language for software developers to use to describe approaches they might choose when designing a component of an application. In this session, you'll learn about several...
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ASP.NET MVC Solution Best Practices
Developers choose ASP.NET MVC because it provides for more control over the resulting HTML, better separation of concerns, and better testability. But these benefits are only fully realized if the project and solution is set up properly. Otherwise, it's very possible to create a tightly coupled Big Ball...
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Getting Started With ASP.NET MVC
Are you new to ASP.NET MVC? This session is for you. We will go over the core concepts of the framework so you will have a good foundation, whether you want to start making websites with ASP.NET MVC, want to better understand the other sessions of aspconf that use the framework, or both. I will make...