Northeast

Most of the attention of cloud computing is focused on leveraging the elasticity and self-provisioning power of virtual machines in the "cloud," but what about your data?  Windows Azure has several options for hosting your data - Azure tables, Azure blobs, and SQL Azure - what…

This screencast with Chris Bowen is a brief introduction to developing applications for Windows Phone 7.  Based on a session given for the Northeast Roadshow, this introduces the design of Windows Phone 7, options for creating applications (using Silverlight and…

This screencast with Chris Bowen is an overview of writing parallel code using the new classes and features available in .NET Framework 4 and the tools in Visual Studio 2010.  Based on a session given for the Northeast Roadshow, this walks through the basics of parallel…

In this brief screencast, Jim O'Neil, Developer Evangelist in the Northeast, walks through a few quick demos of some of the new language features (in both Visual Basic and C#) that were introduced with .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010.If you're looking for a particular feature, you can fast forward…

This screencast with Chris Bowen is a brief introduction to Windows Azure from the developer's perspective.  Based on a session given for the Northeast Roadshow ("Windows Azure - What, Why, and a Peek Under the Hood") this walks through the essentials of the…

In this brief look at Silverlight 4 from the May 2010 Northeast Roadshow, Jim O'Neil, Developer Evangelist, confesses he's just looking at the cool stuff here - webcam and microphone support, COM interoperability, printing, and even a bit of rickrolling (shhh! don't give it away).  Get a…

In this screencast, Jim O'Neil, Developer Evangelist, provides an updated version of a presentation he gave during the Northeast Roadshow in May 2010.  In about 15 minutes, he provides an overview of ASP.NET 4, from the core services and IIS 7, through ASP.NET WebForms, DynamicData,  and…

This screencast with Chris Bowen takes an all-demo look at what's new in Visual Studio 2010.  Based on a session given for the Northeast Roadshow ("Visual Studio 2010 - That's a 10-4, Good Buddy!") you'll see many new features, from editing and…

This screencast with Chris Bowen looks at development using ASP.NET Web Forms, scripting, and Ajax.  It's based on a session given on the Northeast Roadshow and walks through Web Forms, adding client-side behavior with Javascript and jQuery, improving UI interaction with…

Wondering how WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) fits in to your developer life? This screencast, presented by Chris Bowen, is based on a session given for the Northeast Roadshow and introduces WCF for developers, covering the motivation, mechanics of creating distributed…