Presentation from Scott Guthrie on September 25 2009.[more ]

Presentation from Scott Guthrie on September 25 2009.[more ]

Built on top of the Web Programming Model of WCF, ADO.NET Data Services is a framework for building RESTful services. In this session you will learn how to use the ADO.NET Data Services Framework to easily create and consume REST data services on the web. We will cover the main concepts of the ADO.NET Data Services and show you how to use it in WPF and Silverlight 2.0 client applications. Deze video is opgenomen tijdens de DevDays in Den Haag in juni 2009. DevDays is het grootste evenement op…[more ]

For years, Windows has supported a rich, built-in authentication and authorization framework. If you can assume clients will have a Windows account, you can rely on Windows integrated authentication to validate client identity, and use impersonation, ACLs, and role-based security to authorize access to resources. But that model only works if all of your users have Active Directory accounts in a trusted domain. It's difficult to turn one of these applications to face the Internet to support…[more ]

Met het Azure Services Platform begeeft Microsoft zich in de wereld van cloud computing. In deze sessie krijg je een overzicht van het Azure Services Platform. Wat zijn de bouwstenen die  je kunt gebruiken? Is het nodig om je hele applicatie in de cloud te draaien, of kun je ook delen on-premise draaien? Hoe ga je om met data in de cloud? Hoe kan ik mijn applicaties over zetten naar de cloud? Wat is de impact op het software ontwikkelingproces? Wanneer is het zinvol om het Azure Services…[more ]

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 .NET technologies to simplify the deployment, configuration, management, and scalability of composite applications, while allowing developers to use their existing skills with Visual Studio, .NET, and IIS. This session…[more ]

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 evolution of the design through sketches and prototypes. Find out about our challenges and learn how we used iteration, developer collaboration and design principles to increase customer satisfaction and enthusiasm.[more ]

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 Foundation Server comes into play: TFS is an integrated development platform that can be customized to your companies needs. That's how it's printed in the marketing brochures. Focus of this session is on…[more ]

When it comes to .Net software development, more and more frameworks enter the market. Both from Microsoft and in open source. Just think of all the very useful frameworks, such as ASP.NET MVC, Castle, WF, Entity Framework, Unity, Linq2SQL, ADO.NET Data Services, WCF, nHibernate, Spring.NET, CSLA, NUnit, Enterprise Library or ADF. Once a project chooses to apply one or more frameworks, trouble begins. What if you require additional features that aren’t implemented in the framework? What if you…[more ]

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 following are discussed: -Dynamically typed objects -Optional and named parameters -Improved COM interoperability -Co- and contra-variance[more ]