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Writing again…

Ohad Israeli — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:53:05 GMT

After a long period of time where I’ve devoted most of my time to work and building the Ness Tziona Developer community… its time to start and blog again about technical issues…

I have so many issues that i wanted to talk about but just couldn't find the time to blog about…so i do hope that this post will be the start of a new blogging era.

Ohad.

ALT.NET Israel #2 – The Videos

Ohad Israeli — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:00:00 GMT

So I’ve attended the 2nd ALT.NET conference in Israel and I took my video cam with me… although its a HD Cam (SONY HDR-SR7) i could not find a place to host the HD videos in and had to downgrade them to WMV to be able to upload them to YouTube. (don’t mention MS Silverlight streaming as it has a problem with files larger then 100meg ! – can you make a 1hr or HD movie smaller then 100meg ? I DONT THINK SO !)

Update: Due to youtube 10min limitation… the movies had been rejected… moving to another video host and adding youtube to the Sucks video hosting services list.

Anyway here are the Videos… and the list will be updates as content will be ready:

Video : The morning talk:

Each Alt.NET conf starts with a morning talk where the rules of the conference are being reviewed with the participants (the rules are simple, you can move between lectures, you can talk about anything… and when you are done you are done)

Watch Roy explains the rules:

Later on we had the option to choose between several talks, here is the list of talks:

I’ve attended talks differ then the one that I’ve recorded… this is why sometimes the camera is not moving or capturing the same ppl.

Mocking frameworks:

CCR & Parallel:

Video: Code esthetics

Part I

Part II

Video : Closure gathering

Here you can watch who attended the second ALT.NET conference… a brief view of the attendees

Video : Closure Talk

ALT.NET Job offerings:

Several attendees published jobs offering last week at the ALT.NET Israel #2.

Cloud Computing Deep Dive for .NET Engineers

Ohad Israeli — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:06:43 GMT

On this upcoming Wednesday Dan Amiga from DevelopMentor will host a deep dive lecture about Cloud computing for .NET engineers at the Ness Tziona user group.

The session we’ll discuss what is cloud computing and what a .NET Architects and Developers should know and understand through a detailed discussion on the current service offering by Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS and the Google app platform;

The main points to be discussed:

- The internals
Large scale data processing methods used by top players in the industry (Amazon, Google, Microsoft)

- The service offering
Elastic computing power, Data Storage on the cloud, Databases on the cloud, Human work power on the cloud

- IT Perspective
“Real Cloud” vs. on premises cloud offering

If you are planning to stick around technology this is a must have session as it will bridge the gap between Threads, AppDomains, Processes and Services to the present and future Cloud Computing possibilities.

About Dan Amiga

Dan is a respectful IT professional in the international software industry and a frequent presenter in developer conferences and usergroups.

On his day job he is consulting, solving problems and teaching around the globe about system design, scalability, performance and security.

Dan specialize in .NET platform & Web Technologies and have been working as a CTO, VP R&D, solutions architect and technical leader in various areas such as startups, large government institutes, ISV's, SMB's, Banking, investment firms, army, security focused organizations, cellular industry, Microsoft and more Lately Dan had been focusing on solving the unsolvable via Cloud Computing Come to the lecture to learn how and why

Windows Live Messenger - error 8100030f

Ohad Israeli — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:01:42 GMT

I’ve just installed the latest Windows Live Messenger and found out that while i am able to work fine from home… at work i keep on getting error 8100030f while trying to sign in.

The solution to the problem is to edit the ”hosts” file which is located at :

c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc

Just add to the file the following line at the end of the file:

65.54.239.80 messenger.hotmail.com

And yep… you can finally sign-in again :-)

Internet Explorer 8 RC1 is out

Ohad Israeli — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 22:35:16 GMT

Internet Explorer RC1 - short for "Release Candidate 1" is out on the wild.

Release candidate software is ready to be evaluated by users while it undergoes final testing.

You may experience minor bugs or compatibility issues with websites while browsing

Download it over here

Microsoft Visual Studio Learning Pack 2.0

Ohad Israeli — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:23:55 GMT

The Visual Studio Learning Pack 2.0 is a software package created by Microsoft to help students learn about computer programming. Improvements in this release include support for Visual Studio 2008 Express and more support for Visual Basic

It consists of the following five components:

Sort Designer Control is a supplementary teaching tool developed to help students learn the basic concepts, algorithms, and implementations of popular computer sorting algorithms. It supports bubble and insertion sorting. The control generates initial values automatically and demonstrates intermediate states in the sorting process. It also generates sorting source code for both Visual Basic and C#.
Search Designer Control is a teaching tool developed to help students learn the basic concepts, algorithms, and implementations of popular data search algorithms. It supports binary and sequential searches. The control generates initial values automatically and demonstrates intermediate states in the searching process. It also generates source code for both Visual Basic and C#.
Using the Visual Sort Designer and Visual Search Designer Controls teachers can easily develop a sample program to demonstrate the fundamentals of sorting and searching. They can also customize the control's appearance by simply dragging the control onto a form and setting its properties. These visual demonstrations help in teaching programming concepts and increase students' interest in learning.
Visual Declarative Designer is an intuitive variable declaration tool designed for novice programmers. During the coding process the student can declare variables of various types and generate the corresponding source code. Visual Variable Declarative Designer provides a visual approach to variable declaration. Teachers in the Information Technology (IT) field can use this designer to teach students the basic concepts of variable declaration and naming, variable types, access modifiers, and initial values.
Assistant Class Designer is a visual class designer for novice programmers. This designer guides students through the processes of adding classes, properties, methods and events. The designer also generates the corresponding source code for new classes. By using this designer, teachers and students can easily create and configure complicated classes. Assistant Class Designer provides an intuitive and interactive method for designing classes and helps students to understand key object-oriented programming concepts such as classes, encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism. The Assistant Class Designer generates source code for C# only.
Visual Programming Flow Chart is a supplementary teaching tool designed to help students understand program control flow. It generates flow charts for functions and saves them in the JPG picture format. This tool is easily activated from the Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) by simply right-clicking on a function name and choosing “Generate flow chart…” from the context menu. The resulting flowchart can be customized by changing its colors and other effects. This visual tool provides an intuitive way to explore source code, to examine its control flow, and to identify logic errors.

Download it over here

Hands On Labs - Validation Application Block (4.1)

Ohad Israeli — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:23:43 GMT

This set of hands on lab should act as your guide to learn about the Validation Application Block and practice how to leverage its capabilities in various application contexts.

There are thirteen exercises (labs) in the package.

Labs 1 through 11 deal with a WinForms data processing application which takes the information entered by the user to populate and process Customer and Address business objects. The Validation Application Block is used to validate the created business objects before processing them in gradually more sophisticated ways.

Starting with Lab 7 the WinForms validation-integration feature is used to validate the input for the form's controls directly.

Labs 8 through 11 deal with the extensibility of the block.

Lab 12 shows how to use the ASP.NET validation-integration feature of the block to validate the ASP.NET control's values, using a web forms version of the simple data entry application from the previous labs.

Lab 13 the ASP.NET application works as a front end for a WCF service while the WCF validation-integration feature of the block is used to validate the service parameters declaratively on the server side.

Download from here

Design for testability is a fraud - TDD is easy - NZUG meeting

Ohad Israeli — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:42:20 GMT

I've just returned two hours ago from the third meeting of Ness Tziona Usergroup as usual the meeting was great :-)

Lior Friedman gave a talk about the doing TDD through not by designing for testability.

The meeting was divided to two parts (with several slices of Pizza in the middle) the first part was a discussion about TDD, design for testability - its pros and cons and why it is a fraud. The second part involved demos of C++ & C# Unit testing / Mocking framework specially the Typemock isolator - there was also a Java unit testing demo ready but only one attendee was working with Java so we passed that demo.

Thanks to Ness Tziona municipal for having us use the hall for the lecture, HP Indigo for financing the refreshments, cookies and Pizzas in the break and of course Microsoft for the books that were draw.

Following is the list of tools that were covered / mentioned over the meeting:

Isolation Tools

	Inherit & Override	Intercept
C++	Manual Mocking MockPP Google	MockItNow
Java	Manual Mocking EasyMock Mockito	JMockIt PowerMock
.NET	Manual Mocking RhinoMocks MOQ	Typemock Isolator

Thanks for everyone who attended the meeting - see you next time.

P.S. Ketty was very lucky to win a book a meeting after meeting !

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Training Kit

Ohad Israeli — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 12:05:49 GMT

The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2010 features and a variety of framework technologies including: C# 4.0, Visual Basic 10, F#, Parallel Computing Platform, WCF, WF, WPF, ASP.NET AJAX 4.0, ASP.NET MVC Dynamic Data

Download the kit from here

You will also need to download the VPC of VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 from here

And if you want to learn about Azure check out the Azure Services Training Kit from here

Visual Studio Extensibility Conference Sessions Online

Ohad Israeli — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 10:13:48 GMT

The VSX Developer Conference sessions covering a wide range of Visual Studio extensibility topics available online at channel 9.

VS Extensibility Architecture: Intro & Advanced Topics
Douglas Hodges, Principal Architect, Microsoft

Extending the Visual Studio (VS) Integrated Development Environment (IDE) using the VS Package Architecture. For integrating commercial products, supporting new languages and participating as a 1st class citizen within the IDE, Visual Studio’s service and windowing architecture is exposed through a package model. Learn about building your own package and integrating with other services and packages within the environment in this 2 part session presented by one of Visual Studio’s original architects.

Building Custom Tools with Visual Studio 2008 Shell
James Lau, Senior Program Manager Lead, Microsoft

Do you want to consolidate your organization’s software tools into a single environment for either internal or external use? Do you want to create an integrated vertical market toolset inside a world-class IDE? If your answer is yes to either of the above, you need to learn more about the Visual Studio Shell product. Visual Studio Shell is a new offering in Visual Studio 2008. With this new product, tools developers can now easily build their own customized IDE on the same platform that Visual Studio is built on; royalty free. In this session, we will walk through how to build a custom IDE with the Shell. You will walk away inspired to build your own IDE on this new platform!

From Hobby To Profit – How to Market Your Extensions
Joe Marini, Director, Microsoft

Have you been thinking about how you might be able take your Visual Studio Extension from a free download to a profitable product? Microsoft has a variety of resources that supports the ecosystem of VSX developers. From the free Visual Studio Gallery to the co-marketing benefits that come with being a member of the VSIP program you'll learn about the various ways to take advantage of what Microsoft has to offer.

The VSXtra Community Project: Driving Toward a New Visual Studio Managed Package Framework
Istvan Novak, VSX Insider, Grepton Informatics

In this session, you’ll be introduced to the current state and results of an experimental community project codenamed “VSXtra” (http://www.codeplex.com/VSXtra). This project enumerates many patterns that drive toward a new and improved Managed Package Framework using the great pillars of the current .NET Framework like metadata, generics, LINQ, C#3.0 syntax, etc.

Domain-Specific Development with Visual Studio DSL Tools
Jean-Marc Prieur, Program Manager, Microsoft

Domain-Specific Language Models are a powerful technique for embodying in a tool the abstractions specific to the software your business is building and guidance on how to use them with your own frameworks. In this session we will examine the domain-specific development pattern, and see how to build a simple graphical language from scratch. You will also learn how to make your graphical language domain-specific and finally how to add architectural guidance directly to the tool.

Apples and Oranges or Fruit Salad? A Look at Open Source Versus Commercial Platform Strategies
Tim Wagner, Principal Development Lead, Microsoft

The speaker, a former Eclipse Web Tool Platform Project lead now working with the Microsoft Visual Studio Platform team, takes a look at the differences and (surprising) similarities of the Eclipse platform strategy and that of Visual Studio. The talk examines licensing and pricing models and how choices for the platform affect both end user adoption and add-in provider opportunities. Deep focus by the Eclipse Foundation on enabling add-in providers through EPIC and other mechanisms bears a strong similarity to the way large commercial vendors such as Microsoft build partner programs, including marketing support, lead generation, and other conventional business activities. Recent changes by the Visual Studio Ecosystem team to make the platform easier to extend and adopt are clearly informed by success in the open source world and are evolving to look increasingly like it. We will also examine membership pricing and look at the impact different membership classes (such as Strategic Developers in Eclipse and Premier Partners in Visual Studio) affect the course of the platform and its tools. Finally, we'll take a brief look at innovation drivers and rates of change in an attempt to answer the question of how (and whether) open versus commercial development affects the evolution of the underlying platform.

How I Extend Visual Studio
Members of the VSIP Program and VSX Community

Members of the Visual Studio community will share how they leverage Visual Studio to deliver valuable products for their customers and make their development process more productive. You’ll see demos & presentations from a variety partners & community members in a fast paced fun session.

How to Extend Visual Studio and Become a More Productive Developer
Pablo Galiano, VSX Insider, Clarius Consulting

Discover the most common extensibility points that Visual Studio offers and learn how to use them to improve your every day development. You will learn how to add commands, tool windows, transverse the solution explorer and code model hierarchies, listen to Visual Studio events, Visual Studio selection mechanism and more. We will develop a number of sample scenarios during the demo that will improve your productivity.

Visual Studio Add-ins, Templates and Wizards
Gabor Ratky, VSX Insider, EPAM Systems

A look at how to extend Visual Studio with Add-ins, Templates and Wizards

VSX: Extend Your Development Experience
Jean-Marc Prieur, Program Manager, Microsoft, and James K. Lau, Senior Program Manager Lead, Microsoft

Visual Studio provides a great set of development tools out of the box, but you may be surprised at how much more you can do with its rich extensibility platform. In this introductory session, we will give you a whirlwind tour of what the Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX) platform has to offer and how you can take advantage of it. Whether you are looking to increase you development team’s productivity, or you are looking for new business opportunities on the Visual Studio platform, this technical session will help you get started.

Deploying VSX Projects
Aaron Marten, Software Developer, Microsoft

This talk covers distributing various Visual Studio Extensibility components. Whether you are shipping a VSPackage, Add-in, Project Template, or Toolbox Control, check out this webcast for tips and tricks and to avoid common pitfalls with deploying your Visual Studio extensions, including several demos for these topics.

Advanced Code Generation Patterns with T4 & DSL Tools
Gareth Jones, Senior Software Developer, Microsoft, Jean-Marc Prieur, Program Manager, Microsoft, and Oleg Sych, Senior Lead Consultant, Catapult Systems

Code generation is an increasingly common technique in application development and forms a part of many Visual Studio extensions. With the addition of T4 to Visual Studio 2008, every developer has a powerful code generation engine available to them. In this session we'll look at patterns of usage of T4 and ways to structure your templates for large-scale reuse. We'll explore a sample that aids large scale code generation from DSL models and finally look at a community library which adds facilities to make the tricky problems of incremental code generation and reverse engineering from a DSL easier.

Extending ASP.NET MVC with Custom HTML Helpers
Stephen Walther, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

Microsoft ASP.NET MVC is Microsoft's newest framework for building agile, loosely coupled, highly testable web applications. ASP.NET MVC is an alternative, but not a replacement, for the current ASP.NET Web Forms Framework. Because ASP.NET MVC is a new framework, there are exciting opportunities for creating new extensions to the underlying framework. In this talk, you learn how to create new HTML Helpers for ASP.NET MVC. An HTML Helper is the equivalent of an ASP.NET control in the new world of ASP.NET MVC.

Beyond VS Packages - Adding Value with Blueprints
Jack Greenfield, Senior Director, Microsoft

Are you building VS packages or Visual Studio components? Would you like to create holistic experiences, where developers can rapidly build specific types of components, applications or systems? Come and hear how you can take your business to the next level by building sets of integrated Visual Studio extensions called Blueprints that define and automate domain specific development processes.

VSX: The Debugging Automation Model
Laura Petersen

Learn the basics of the debugger automation model and how you can start extending it.

Extending Visual Studio 2008 Team Test
Bruce Taimana

Extending Visual Studio 2008 Team Test.

Client and Server Extensibility in Team Foundation
Bill Essary

In this session we will take a close look at Team Foundation Server (TFS) extensibility points. Extensibility on the client side can significantly influence the user experience, but it can be hard to manage. Server side extensibility can help add new tools to Visual Studio Team System (VSTS), to create new integration solutions on top of TFS or to build bridges to existing systems. We will survey extensibility points available in TFS today and will work through the development of a sample that uses the most common client and server side extensibility points in this session. You will leave the session with a solid understanding of the opportunities available to customize and extend TFS.

Adding Value to Team Foundation Server
Pieter de Bruin

Team Foundation Server (TFS) is the server component of Microsoft's Application Lifecycle Management solution. We all know TFS for its version control and work items functionality. TFS is also a great platform to extend for a specific organization or to sell including your own ALM additions. In this session we will focus on creating add-ons for TFS. We will start by briefly talking about customizing and extending TFS and then diving into specific extensibility scenarios for core TFS components and managing TFS installations.

The Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Database Project Ecosystem: Integrating ALM and Database Tools via Extensibility
Graham Barry, Senior Program Manager Lead, Microsoft and Mairead O'Donovan, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

Discover how Visual Studio Team System code name "Rosario": Database Edition empowers developers to actively participate in, and bring agility to, the database development process. If you work with databases, you will want see how the features offered by the latest addition to Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) integrate the database developer into the Application Development Lifecycle. This exciting product is changing the way database developers work with databases forever, by moving the "One Version of the Truth" for database schema from the production server into source control. This presentation focuses on extending the "Rosario" release of Database Edition to enable non SQL Server databases to plug into the VSTS Database Edition platform. Now database developers can manage their database schema changes for Microsoft SQL Server databases as well as non SQL Server databases within the same environment. In addition to enabling an extension platform for non SQL Server databases, learn also how the Visual Studio Team System code name "Rosario": Database Edition has enabled a database development tools extensibility platform for third-party companies to plug in additional database development tools into the VSTS Database Edition product.

What is new in Visual Studio 2010

Ohad Israeli — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 10:01:18 GMT

If you want to learn what is new in Visual Studio 2010 check out the Visual Studio 2010 product page

Where you will find a link to download the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 CTP the Visual Studio 2010 product datasheet and much more...

DevAcademy 3 - Dan Amiga - ASP.NET Ajax Internals

Ohad Israeli — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:12:49 GMT

This talk is a deep dive into the internals, the unknown and undocumented aspects of AJAX. It's a crucial for developers wishing to architect, design and build high performance user experiences the truly take advantage of the AJAX client-server paradigm.

Live blogging from ASP.NET Ajax Internals at the Microsoft DevAcademy III

Download the lecture slides over here

Updates also on my twitter

What is ASP.NET Internals ?
its about how things work.
its about how extensible the platform is.

What is Dan going to talk about ?
Architecture
ScriptManager Internals
Object orientation Internals
UpdatePanel Internals
ASMX Internals
Serialization

Dan started with giving an intro what Ajax is all about covering the internal blocks of ASP.NET architecture.

Amiga showing writing JavaScript/Ajax demos on the fly...

Adding /// <reference name="MicrosoftAjax.js assembly="AjaxControlToolKit"/> at the header of page will give you the incalescence.

After showing a demo with javascript Balloon animation amiga now showing how to write your own update panel.

Implementing partial page postback scenario:
using Context.Request.Headers["type"]=="...." and this.SetRenderMethodDelegate(new RenderMethod(This.MyPart))

Now Dan talking about the proxy that is being generated behind the scene when you use the add web reference.

Dan just generated his own extension to ASP.NET as writing his own proxy class - cool !

Avoid a Failed SOA - Ness Tziona Usergroup meeting #2

Ohad Israeli — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:00:31 GMT

Just two hours ago Udi Dahan - The software simplist ended his talk about Avoiding a failed SOA in front of Ness Tzion Usergroup - the new user group that had been established in the southern part of Israel. The talk was awesome and people really enjoyed hearing about how to design SOA systems the right way. Its the first usergroup meeting that I've been in that the middle break drop was only of two people, it could be because of the Pizzas that we've handed there but well.. the main reason is probably because that the lecture was very interesting and gave a story of company and its struggle to build a working SOA solution. Udi really made our second usergroup meeting a huge success !

While watching Udi lecturing I couldn't hold myself thinking ... This lecture was presented in TechED US, TechED Europe and now in our usergroup it received so many high grades all over... so how come did Microsoft Israel turned this lecture down of being presented at the upcoming Microsoft Developer Academy III (15/12/2008) ? ... well its my role to ask... others role to answer.

I've recorded the session and will put it online as soon as we'll have our usergroup website available.

C-ya at the next meeting on the 14.01.2009.

Microsoft Developer Academy III - The Alternatives

Ohad Israeli — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:51:00 GMT

Microsoft Developer Academy III just opened for registration, this time it will cost 220nis to get into this conference.

So what can you do if you want to learn about the various sessions but can't afford to pay the price or want to learn it right now?

Well there are several alternatives:

1. You can want for the video recordings form the event

2. You can watch videos already on the NET as most of the sessions subjects already been presented at TechED & PDC around the world, here is just an example:

Developer Academy 3 Session List (dev academy III session / alternative session)

Implementing Test Driven Development (TDD) with Visual Studio Team System

Unit Testing assures that your code behaves as it should. In this session we will implement Test Driven Development using Visual Studio and Team System, for the application code and for the Stored Procedures in the database. (Level 300)

TL03 - Microsoft Visual Studio Team System: Software Diagnostics and Quality for Services
Habib Heydarian, Justin Marks
Video PowerPoint

TL04 - Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server: How We Use It at Microsoft
Stephanie Saad
Video PowerPoint

TL09 - Agile Development with Microsoft Visual Studio
Lori Lamkin, Sunder Raman
Video PowerPoint

Speed it up with Distributed Cache using “Velocity”

Make a difference in your projects with a distributed in-memory application cache platform for developing scalable, high-performance applications. Use partitioned and local cache, use various access ways to your data, take advantage of ASP.NET integration and much more… (Level 300)

TL14 - Project "Velocity": A First Look
Murali Krishnaprasad
Video PowerPoint

TL56 - Project "Velocity": Under the Hood
Anil Nori
Video PowerPoint

HTTP Web Services with Windows Communication Foundation 3.5

In this session we will see how to use WCF 3.5 to build REST Web Services that agents can interact with using simple HTTP verbs. We will also look into how ADO.Net Data Services were implemented. (Level 300)

TL35 - WCF: Developing RESTful Services
Steve Maine
Video PowerPoint

TL06 - WCF 4.0: Building WCF Services with WF in Microsoft .NET 4.0
Ed Pinto
Video PowerPoint

TL38 - WCF: Zen of Performance and Scale
Nicholas Allen
Video PowerPoint

Building Your First Great Silverlight 2 Application

You have seen how exciting Silverlight applications are, now you want to do it yourself. With 50 minutes of demo-time you'll learn how to build Silverlight applications, give them a little style, and connect them to services and their data. (Level 300)

Integrating Silverlight 2 into Existing Web Sites

After we have seen how to build a simple standalone Silverlight 2 application we will see how to integrate it into existing sites, and how to communicate with DOM elements and JavaScript functions. (Level 300)

PC10 - Microsoft Silverlight 2 for Mobile: Developing for Mobile Devices
Amit Chopra, Giorgio Sardo
Video PowerPoint

PC11 - Microsoft Silverlight Futures: Building Business Focused Applications
Jamie Cool
Video PowerPoint

PC29 - Microsoft Silverlight 2: Control Model
Karen Corby
Video PowerPoint

PC35 - Silverlight Controls Roadmap
Shawn Burke
Video PowerPoint

Windows Azure: Building Web Sites and Services in the Cloud

Learn about the cloud services that enable developers to easily create or extend their applications and services. In this session we take a tour of Windows Azure by building and running a simple service using the platform SDK. This is a demo-heavy session. (Level 300)

BB01 - A Lap Around the Azure Services Platform
John Shewchuk
Video PowerPoint

ES16 - A Lap Around Windows Azure
Manuvir Das
Video PowerPoint

ES17 - Windows Azure: Programming in the Cloud
Daniel Wang, Stefan Schackow
Video PowerPoint

ES19 - Under the Hood: Inside the Windows Azure Hosting Environment
Chuck Lenzmeier, Frederick Smith
Video PowerPoint

ES01 - Developing and Deploying Your First Windows Azure Service
Steve Marx
Video PowerPoint

ES02 - Windows Azure: Architecting & Managing Cloud Services
Yousef Khalidi
Video PowerPoint

ES03 - Windows Azure: Cloud Service Development Best Practices
Sriram Krishnan
Video PowerPoint

ES04 - Windows Azure: Essential Cloud Storage Services
Brad Calder
Video PowerPoint

ES07 - Windows Azure: Modeling Data for Efficient Access at Scale
Niranjan Nilakantan, Pablo Castro
Video PowerPoint

Internet Explorer 8: What's New for Developers?

Internet Explorer 8 brings new enhancements for the web developer. From CSS standards, through the new development tools and the new features, we will see how you can benefit from them all. (Level 300)

PC12 - Deep Dive: The New Rendering Engine in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8
Alex Mogilevsky
Video PowerPoint

Building Web Sites with ASP.NET MVC Framework

In this session we will introduce another way for building great web applications. We will talk about the new ASP.NET MVC Framework, take a Look at each layer, and the new routing mechanism. (Level 300)

PC20 - ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap
Scott Hunter
Video PowerPoint

PC21 - ASP.NET MVC: A New Framework for Building Web Applications
Phil Haack
Video PowerPoint

Dynamic Languages and the .Net Framework

Dynamic languages (Python, Ruby, etc.) have been receiving bigger slices of the dev cycle pie. Microsoft joins the ride and future frameworks will incorporate more dynamic capabilities. Come and see how dynamic languages will effect application development in various programming environments. (Level 300)

TL10 - Deep Dive: Dynamic Languages in Microsoft .NET
Jim Hugunin
Video PowerPoint

TL57 - Panel: The Future of Programming Languages
Anders Hejlsberg, Douglas Crockford, Erik Meijer, Gilad Bracha, Jeremy Siek, Wolfram Schulte
Video PowerPoint

Concurrent Programming: From Thread Pool to Parallel Extensions

We must develop concurrent applications today, but with concurrency come data races, contention and deadlocks. From System.Thread, the thread pool, through the Parallel Extensions for .NET – we will analyze design patterns specific to concurrent applications and learn to avoid common pitfalls. (Level 400)

SYMP01 - Parallel Symposium: Addressing the Hard Problems with Concurrency
David Callahan, Lynne Hill
Video PowerPoint

SYMP02 - Parallel Symposium: Application Opportunities and Architectures
Jerry Bautista, John Feo
Video PowerPoint

SYMP03 - Parallel Symposium: Future of Parallel Computing
David Detlefs, James Reinders, Niklas Gustafsson, Sean Nordberg, Selena Wilson
Video PowerPoint

TL19 - Microsoft Visual Studio: Bringing out the Best in Multicore Systems
Hazim Shafi
Video PowerPoint

TL25 - Parallel Programming for C++ Developers in the Next Version of Microsoft Visual Studio
Rick Molloy
Video PowerPoint

TL26 - Parallel Programming for Managed Developers with the Next Version of Microsoft Visual Studio
Daniel Moth
Video PowerPoint

Hardcore C#: Hidden Power and Flexibility

This almost demo-only session will explore the powerful, but less known capabilities of the C# language. Topics include partial classes & methods, expression trees & lambda expressions, dynamic delegates, extension methods, elegant iterators, anonymous delegates and more advanced stuff. Will be fun! (Level 400)

PC49 - Microsoft .NET Framework: CLR Futures
Ian Carmichael, Joshua Goodman
Video PowerPoint

TL46 - Microsoft Visual C# IDE: Tips and Tricks
Dustin Campbell
Video PowerPoint

TL59 - Visual Studio Debugger Tips & Tricks
John Cunningham
Video PowerPoint

Enjoy!

PDC 08 - Keynote - Day III - Microsoft Research - live blogging

Ohad Israeli — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:45:54 GMT

Rick Rashid - Senior Vice President - Microsoft Research