MDCC

The Microsoft Development Center in Copenhagen (MDCC) recently held it's second TechFest. Each year (this is year two of TechcFest) the good folks at MDCC put on a show where local (Denmark and other northern European countries) innovators show off their wares. I was lucky enough to spend a day…

By Nikolai Tillmann and  Mike BarnettLearn how Code Contracts provides a set of tools for design-by-contract programming and how Pex is an advanced unit-testing tool that uses automated program exploration to intelligently create unit tests with high code coverage.  See…

Parallel Computing Platformby Niklas Gustafsson, software architect at Microsoft Corporation With Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft is shipping a broad set of technologies to support programmers in their quest of taking full advantage of the emerging parallel hardware. In this talk, I will present…

The .NET services bus is part of the new Microsoft Cloud Computing Windows Azure initiative, and arguably, it is the most accessible, ready to use, powerful, and needed piece. The service bus allows clients to connects to services across any machine, network, firewall, NAT, routers, load…

Last week Don Syme joined me for an F# university tour here in Denmark. The final stop on the tour was at Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen (mdcc.dk) for an open TechTalk on F# and functional programming on the .NET platform. To make this talk as broadly available as possible, we just…

Natural User Interface, or NUI, is one of the favourite flavours du jour in certain interaction design and user experience circles. On the one hand, the term signals a change from the Graphical User Interace, or GUI, that has been prevalent since the early 1980s. In many ways, that is good. Not…

Challenging the notion that REST is suitable only for simple CRUD-based data services, in this TechTalk Ian Robinson will show how to implement a complex business process as part of a RESTful application. Using techniques drawn from the forthcoming O'Reilly book "REST in Practice", he…

Part 2: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/MDCC-TechTalk-Advanced-NET-Debugging-part-2 What do you do, when your .NET application crashes on the production servers and you can't reproduce the bug in-house? How do you detect memory leaks in a .NET application, when you can't inspect the memory usage…

Part 1: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/MDCC-TechTalk-Advanced-NET-Debugging-part-1 What do you do, when your .NET application crashes on the production servers and you can't reproduce the bug in-house? How do you detect memory leaks in a .NET application, when you can't inspect the memory usage…

by Mike Ehrenberg The emergence of cloud technology represents a significant generational shift in software architecture. Mike will share insights in what customers seek in a move to cloud-delivered software, and how delighting those customers impacts the architecture, design and development of…