DevDays 2009 NL

.NET 4.0 brings several improvements in the areas of WCF and WF, including improved REST capabilities, a new workflow model, seamless integration between WF and WCF, and a new visual designer. It also provides the ability to author completely declarative (XAML-based) workflow services that can be…

This session offers a historical perspective about where C# comes from and the trends that shaped the thinking for C# 3.0 and C# 4.0. These trends include declarative programming, dynamic & functional languages and concurrent programming. The theme of C# 4.0 is dynamic programming and…

For some applications, time to market is simply critical. If your application is heavily-data driven and backed by a well-designed database schema, you could help yourself a lot be looking at the dynamic duo of ASP.NET Dynamic Data and the ADO.NET Entity Framework. Together, these two technologies…

A great user experience starts with the user interface.  In this talk, we will explore best practices in user interface design in a learn-by-example approach of the good, bad and the ugly in user interface design.  From web sites to rich client, you will learn how areas such as…

In today's complex world ensuring a high-quality is not a trivial task. Quality is nothing you can add to your project at some point – you need to do it from the beginning and throughout the process. Doesn't sound easy does it? An integrated development platform can help! And that's where Team…

What is an application platform? Why is it important? And how should we think about application platforms in a world of cloud computing? In this session, David Chappell looks at all of these topics, providing a general model for both on-premises and cloud platforms. He then uses this model to…

Microsoft recently announced a set of enhanced Windows Server capabilities codenamed "Dublin" that offer greater scalability and easier manageability around WCF/WF applications. "Dublin" extends IIS/WAS to provide a standard host environment for applications that use these core…

The new Windows 7 desktop experience, including the new taskbar and Aero Snap, is both a major user experience change for Windows and an early success story. How did we go about evolving pieces of UI that haven't seen major change since 1995? Come hear about our design process and see the…

Microsoft Research describes F# as "a scripted/functional/imperative/object-oriented programming language". Combining all those aspects in one language is certainly not an easy task, but they've done a good job of it. F# is interesting both as a language to actually consider for your…

Silverlight is arguably the biggest shift in web technologies in the last decade.  But is Silverlight ready for prime time business applications?   In this code-focused talk, you will learn how platform features like visual states, animations, isolated storage, data templates and…