.NET Framework

Learn how AppFabric Caching can help you build high-performance & scalable web applications in Windows Azure while lowering your total costs by reducing the pressure on the data-tier. In this session, we’ll discuss design patterns to show how existing or new applications can be quickly built to…

Come see what’s coming in the next version of C# and Visual Basic. The major new feature is “Async”, which makes for much simpler code whenever you’re writing database or internet-connected apps – both in client apps that need responsive UIs, and server apps that need to be responsive. We have…

This session focuses the best way to use Visual Studio 2010 to develop Windows Azure applications. You‘ll learn tips, tricks and solutions to common problems when creating or moving an existing application to run on Windows Azure. Speaker: Wade Wegner Presentation (PPTX)

Jeff Wilcox is a developer on the Silverlight team. He spends a lot of his time (~80%) coding in C++. Strange? Of course not... Silverlight is a portable managed runtime and C++ (C with classes in this case) is what enables Silverlight portability. Of course, Jeff also…

Trigger started services are services in Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 that can register to be started or stopped when a trigger event occurs. This eliminates the need for services to start when the system starts, or for services to poll or actively wait for an event; a service can start when…

Microsoft Research has produced two tools to dramatically simplify the construction of unit tests.  We will look at Moles, a framework and Visual Studio add-in that helps to isolate your code from external dependencies.  With Moles you can replace any .Net method with a delegate. …

Application Recovery and Restart (ARR) technologies enable developers to customize an application's behavior when Windows Error Reporting (WER) terminates the application due to an unrecoverable error. For example, it enables an application to perform data recovery and cleanup operations such as…

Last year the Coding4Fun/Channel 9 guys asked me to work on a few things for MIX10.  One of these items was a way to output a webcam stream to Windows Phone 7 for use with Clint's t-shirt cannon project you may have read about.  I figured the easiest way to accomplish this was by using a…

Sho is an interactive environment for data analysis and scientific computing that lets you seamlessly connect scripts (in IronPython) with compiled code (in .NET) to enable fast and flexible prototyping. The environment includes powerful and efficient libraries for linear algebra as well as data…

In this geekSpeak, Jason Rainwater shows us the evolution of asynchronous programming and how techniques have changed as new features have been added to Microsoft .NET. Jason covers event-based asynchronous programming and callback-based asynchronous programming, and he introduces us to the new…