mvcConf

Tired of returning boring ol' HTML in your MVC views? Why not control phone calls instead. This talk will go over how you can build a specialized server using MVC to easily build powerful voice and SMS applications using Twilio. Recorded live via Live Meeting as part of mvcConf 2

You've built an ASP.NET MVC application, but now you want it to go faster and serve more concurrent user requests. In this session, we'll look at some of the common performance problems ASP.NET MVC applications may encounter, and how to diagnose and correct them, using Visual Studio 2010's testing…

MVC gives us total control over markup in ASP.NET. Or in other words, you better learn how to turn HTML into something pretty. Luckily, there is a great framework to help us out: jQuery UI! We will take a look at using jQuery UI to do exactly that. We will start with simple HTML markup and…

The session will briefly cover what CQRS and event sourcing is and what benefits they provide over traditional architectures. We will then build a simple ASP.NET MVC 3 application that will use CQRS and Event Sourcing. We will use Ncqrs to provide the underlying platform and see how CQRS and Event…

You embraced MVC 1 and MVC 2, and just like that, Microsoft has released yet another version of MVC. MVC 3 represents a bit of a departure from from MVC 1 and 2. At the same time however, MVC 3 remains true to its foundations. In this session, John will provide a primer on the new major new…

In this session we will look at how we can use a number of popular .Net OSS projects to develop a real world application. Based on production code, we will look at how using a combination of NHibernate, FluentNHibernate, Castle Windsor and a number of other OSS (AutoMapper, MvcContrib, FluentMvc)…

IIS Express is a simpler and self-contained version of IIS that is optimized for developers. This session will describe the product architecture, relationship to IIS and the advantages over Cassini. Recorded live via Live Meeting as part of mvcConf 2

Learn how to write BDD-style tests for ASP.NET MVC using the light weight MSTestContrib library which augments the capabilities of MSTest. In this session you will learn the basics of organising a unit test assembly and importing the MSTestContrib assemblies using NuGet and structuring a BDD-style…

A wave of change is coming to Web development on .NET. Packaging technologies are bringing dependency management to .NET for the first time, streamlining development workflow and creating new possibilities for deployment and administration. The sky's the limit, and in this session we'll explore how…

Building ASP.NET MVC applications is fun, spending time on copying the files to remote servers - not so much. AppHarbor is a cloud platform for .NET backed by Amazon EC2 that allows you to deploy and scale your application. The speak will include a brief overview of the AppHarbor architecture and…