Does anyone write JavaScript any more or do they just write jQuery? If you’re not looking past the libraries that are out there then you’re possibly missing the full power of JavaScript. But where do you get started with using that power, how do you go beyond selector engines and make client side applications?

Aaron Powell

JavaScript, the ultimate jQuery plugin

The Visual Studio Async CTP came out in PDC 2010 which provides new support for asynchronous programming with language level support. A simple pattern for asynchronous programming has been introduced in C# 5.0 with two new keywords "async" and "await". We will explore this keyword and see how the async features in built on top of the Task class introduced in .Net 4.0. We will know how asynchronous programming is different from parallel programming. Finally a demo that show these features in action.

Pratik Khasnabis

Introducing C# Async CTP 

In the last few years there have been a number of new technologies released, which when used together can greatly simplify a developer's life. Join David Burela as he takes us through an end to end example of creating a new project, source controlling it and deploying it out onto the cloud, ready to scale. In this session we will see:


- What Mercurial is and how to use a DVCS (Distributed Version Control System)
- How to add 3rd party assemblies into a project seamlessly with Microsoft NuGet
- Unit test the project by using Ninject & nSubstitute (installed via NuGet)
- Push all the source code to the cloud, meaning your source code is safe (Bitbucket.org)
- Have all of this compiled and deployed to the cloud automatically for us (AppHarbor.com)

David Burela

New development workflows 

We’ve all done it. Typically web applications are deployed using Windows Explorer or a DOS prompt. If this is you step away from the keyboard! Come and see a practical session on the new deployment process in Visual Studio 2010. You will learn how to create, package and deploy web applications, their settings and databases more easily than ever before. The secrets of MSBuild, Web Deploy, One-Click Web Publish and Web Publishing Pipeline (WPP) will be revealed. You'll peek under the hood and see the technology used by the Visual Studio Publishing infrastructure. If you’re craving for a smorgasbord of information about the right way to deploy web applications, you won’t want to miss this.

Malcolm Sheridan

Streamline Web Deployments with Studio 2010 and Web Deplo

We’ve heard the story of Flickr’s multiple production releases in the same day. It sounds like a lofty goal, which may be attainable via the right charms, chants and dance moves done at the stroke of midnight on the second Tuesday of April. In this session Steve Godbold will walk you through what constitutes continuous delivery and just how you can work your way towards a more pleasant release experience.

Steve Godbold

Continuous Delivery

With 350,000 device activations per day (no .. that was not a typo) Android is now a prominent player in the mobile space. So, what is Android? How does one start developing for this platform? This talk will introduce Android, the key tools used for development and present core concepts and design patterns used in Android development. The talk is a great starting point for anyone curious about the Android platform.

Dr. Rajesh Vasa

Climbing Mount Android - A beginners guide

Remember the good old days when no one chastised you for not writing unit tests, design patterns were for wall paper and code behind was the code you left on your old PC? Scripting up a bit of Classic ASP was fun, you just whacked in a few angle brackets and FTP’d your file right onto your production site and you were done. Since then ASP.Net has become a massive framework, writing tests and using design patterns has become a part of normal development and the job has become really quite difficult. Well I want to show you how two new releases from Microsoft, called Razor and Web Matrix are here to make building dynamic websites fun and especially easy again. You’ll learn how to use the new Razor syntax to add some dynamic content to your site and see how cool WebMatrix is for writing Razor, deploying your site and also getting traffic reports from your site.

Phillip Beadle

Making the Web EASY again!

Frameworks for XAML apps – a lightning review - MVVM has become the established pattern for XAML development, and writing your own mvvm-plumbing code for every new project might not be the best choice. This session will show you how to create a WPF application using four different frameworks:


- (Raw) WPF. Building an application in an old-fashioned way
- MvvmLight – Laurent Bugnion’s helper classes let us create ViewModels that separate presentation concerns from the rest of the app
- PRISM Microsoft P&P;’s ‘Composite Application Guidance’ introduces quite a lot more features than the core MVVM helper classes
- Caliburn.Micro – Rob Eisenberg’s opinionated framework uses magic pixie dust and makes stuff just work – leaving you to focus on writing business rules

Just as there is no ‘right’ way to develop code, there is no silver bullet for app frameworks. This session showcases a couple of the good ones and talks about their strengths and weaknesses. If you can stomach 4 different flavours of ‘Hello, World’ in less than an hour, then this session just might be the one for you.

Ian Randall

Frameworks for XAML apps – a lightning review

In this talk Jim will cover how to bring together the messaging patterns and configurations options provided by NServiceBus into an architecture that allows organisations flexibility an order of magnitude above traditional systems both at the initial development stage and during the operational lifetime of your system. We will also be discussing various DDD principals and how they are explicitly enabled by NServiceBus and SOA.

Jim Pelletier

How to swing a service bus like you mean it

Come along to this fun and exciting session by Chris where he will be talking about and showing off the next key features of the upcoming Windows Phone Mango update. In this session, we’ll go through the key new features in the developer story, show you how to apply them into your existing apps and talk about where to go from here in making your application the best it can be.

Chris Walsh

Windows Phone OS, what’s next

Rest Support in WCF has come a long way since it was first introduced as part of .NET 3.5 SP1. At PDC last year the WCF Team showed that the REST support is going to get a lot better. In this session Himanshu introduces you to the new WCF Web API that Microsoft is working on and how it puts you in control to do REST your own way with WCF.

Himanshu Desai

Doing Rest with new WCF Web API

It is kill be killed when we take an existing WCF service and use Windows Identity Federation to implement federated security. Is it possible to set up a custom Security Token Service and use it to provide authentication and authorisation for a web service in less then 50 minutes or is this a train wreck waiting to happen? For a lot of developers getting up and running with WIF is still a fraught process. In this presentation we will: look at how certificates are used and best practice when developing. Creating a custom authentication class that can that hooks into the WIF pipeline. Creating a custom STS; the pain the fustration and the gotchas. Modifying WCF service to use WIF and how that affects the client application Providing authorisation against service operations Wiring it all together.

William Tulloch

From 0 to 50; Securing WCF with Windows Identity Foundation

This is a demo orientated session with a few explanatory slides which shows how to build out a domain model which supports domain events and testability via TDD and BDD techniques. Topics covered will include (time permitting):

- DDD Primer
- What are Domain Events
- Domain Events (3 different approaches)
- What is TDD?
- BDD is good TDD
- DDD and TDD/BDD together!
- Hooking in Entity Framework (Code First)
- Hooking in NHibernate

Mitch Denny

Domain Driven Development, Domain Events & Unit Testing 

Windows Phones, iPhones, Androids. More mobile platforms and more headaches for customers and developers alike wanting to achieve maximum reach. But the learning slope is too steep you can go skiing on it. Don’t lose hope though because we live in a Service Oriented World. So wouldn’t be nice to follow the same principles of that world and abstract all the business rules and logic behind an API and not having to do any on the device itself. Wouldn’t it be nicer to have the extra time to make your applications prettier and not repeat the logic again and again? Cross-Platform communication is the key. In this session Lewis Benge will explain how to get started building that sexy black box and use OData (Open Data Protocol) to achieve cross-platform communication between the different mobile platforms and your black box. So don’t miss it, come around and learn how to make your life easier.

Lewis Benge

Building a Cross-Mobile platform API with OData

While it’s easy to pass SQL Server performance problems off to the DBA, it’s even easier to fix performance problems before they are in production and your users notice. Develop a mindset of thinking about performance implications while designing databases and writing T-SQL. Make your database fly as as you learn how to monitor SQL performance. Examine some of the leading causes of poor performance commonly seen in SQL Server, and learn solutions that will make your database love you again. Your DBA will love you too.

Jim McLeod

Database Tuning Techniques for Developers

Why should a .NET developer care about Ruby? How can someone use it to make their life easier? And how cool do you need to be to join the Ruby club? All these questions and more will be covered off as Brendan explores how Ruby and IronRuby (the Ruby runtime for .NET) can be used to complement .NET development. This talk will be split into three parts: - How to get started with Ruby and IronRuby, and resources to help with the learning curve - Projects from the Ruby ecosystem which can make life easier for .NET development - Interesting projects specifically for .NET – including WPF and WP7.

Brendan Forster

Ruby and .NET for Fun and Profit

I will take a deep dive into the jquery innards with you as my guests! Watch as i show just how jquery gets it's `sizzle`! How that amazing plugin system actually works. The dark mysterious of that event system, we all love to use. After this tour you will know more about the dom than you ever cared to know, using the knowledge gained you will walk away knowing how to write effective javascript, more efficient jquery selectors, lower your dependency on dom ready and wield events like no other!

Jared Wyles

Looking behind the curtain of jquery (no magic wizards here either)

A talk on writing your own .NET profiler to do IL injection. The talk will include


a) a basic overview of the interfaces and concepts involved with writing .NET profilers.
b) a brief description of open source tools that do IL rewriting such as PartCover and OpenCover and will finally conclude with..
c) a demo of making your own profiler to do fault injection using the OpenCover code as a basis on-the-fly for IL rewriting.

Shaun Wilde

Writing your own .NET Profiler isn't scary

Have you ever dream about writing .Net code and running it everywhere? Well, the time has come! Come with us and learn how mono works, how to start hacking code with Mono and future Mono roadmap in this introductory Mono lesson

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8:30	Registration
9:00	Introduction
9:25	Changeover
9:35	Aaron Powell JavaScript, the ultimate jQuery plugin	Pratik Khasnabis Introducing C# Async CTP	David Burela New development workflows
10:35	Morning Tea
10:45	Malcolm Sheridan Streamline Web Deployments with Studio 2010 and Web Deplo	Steve Godbold Continuous Delivery	Dr. Rajesh Vasa Climbing Mount Android - A beginners guide
11:45	Break
11:50	Phillip Beadle Making the Web EASY again!	Ian Randall Frameworks for XAML apps – a lightning review	Jim Pelletier How to swing a service bus like you mean it
12:50	Lunch
12:55	LUNCHNOTE - Chris Walsh Windows Phone OS, what’s next
14:00	Himanshu Desai Doing Rest with new WCF Web API	William Tulloch From 0 to 50; Securing WCF with Windows Identity Foundation	Mitch Denny Domain Driven Development, Domain Events & Unit Testing
15:00	Changeover
15:05	Lewis Benge Building a Cross-Mobile platform API with OData	Jim McLeod Database Tuning Techniques for Developers	Brendan Forster Ruby and .NET for Fun and Profit
16:05	Afternoon Tea
16:10	Jared Wyles Looking behind the curtain of jquery (no magic wizards here either)	Shaun Wilde Writing your own .NET Profiler isn't scary	Cristian Prieto Cross Mono, cross platform for a Windows .Net developer
17:10	Closing

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