Add an eventSELA Developer Practice March 2012 schedule
Sunday 25th March 2012
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Introducing Windows 8
Windows 8 is Windows, reimagined. The Metro UI style and application model revolutionize the platform and make it suitable for slates and tablets, while letting you keep your existing investment in desktop applications. We will see what's new in Windows 8, write our first Metro application, and expose the WinRT framework underneath the application model.
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What's New in Visual Studio 11?
by Guy Burstein
Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview that was released at //build has cool new features for everyone who likes programming. In this demo heavy session we'll talk about IDE improvements and technology investments that will make your life as a developer much more fun!
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What's New in .NET Framework 4.5?
The next major release of the .NET Framework, .NET 4.5, allows you to easily use Windows 8 technologies, like Windows Runtime, directly from managed code. Accessing your data is easier than ever with support for the newest features in SQL Server and support for WebSockets. Programs are more responsive, with the "await" keyword, faster ASP.NET startup and an improved server Garbage Collector. .NET 4.5 incorporates key customer feedback, with the newest MEF features, support for long running workflows with State Machines, and improved HTML 5 support in ASP.NET. In this overview talk, you’ll learn about these technologies.
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Metro UX - What Does It Mean to Me?
by Elad Katz
The Metro UI is a new User Interface designed for Windows 8. But there's more than beautiful fonts and sleek graphics to the Metro UX. Aimed for both PCs and tablets, Windows is undergoing the biggest user experience overhaul since Windows 95. It will change the way users interact with it, and it will change the way we developers think about it. In this session we'll explore the Metro UX and its implications, and take a glimpse at the underlying technological concepts.
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Engaging Users with Live Tiles and Notifications
by Alex Golesh
The Windows 8 Metro UI exposes many interesting ways to communicate with the user, and the most exciting way can be used is when your application is not even active. Windows 8 Metro applications re-introduce the concept first shown in Windows Phone 7 called "Live Tiles" and notifications. Using live tiles and notifications an application can present information to the user even when it is not running. The information appears on the main screen, on the pinned application's tile or as pop-up notification above the currently active application. During this session we will see the key concepts of live tiles and notifications in Windows 8 Metro applications.
Monday 26th March 2012
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HTML5
by Gil Fink and Sebastian Pederiva
HTML is the markup language that every web developer uses to structure and present content in the Internet. HTML5 is the standard that is being shaped and developed currently. It extends and improves the last HTML4 standard and takes it to the next level with multimedia, communication support and more. In this one day tutorial you will get to know what is HTML5 and how you can use it even now in your web applications/sites.
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Introduction to the Task Parallel Library
by Yaniv Rodenski and bnaya
In this one-day tutorial you will learn how to gain real benefits from parallelizing your applications with .NET 4.0. We'll discuss parallel programming paradigms and concepts, APIs, concurrency profiling, parallel patterns and anti-patterns. Among the topics: implicit and explicit parallelism, synchronization, concurrent collections, partitioning, Reactive Extensions, and the future C# 5.0 async methods syntax.
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WCF Crash Course
The Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) framework is being used in almost all .NET development platforms: Windows clients, web browsers, Windows Phone 7, Server side applications, and Windows Azure - WCF is simply everywhere you look. In this one-day crash course, we will learn about WCF from the outside in – what it is, what you can do with it, how you can use it wisely, and how you can extend it. So if you've never used WCF, or you used some of it, or if you are familiar with it and want to know more about its internals, this crash course is for you.
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Windows Phone Mango
by Alex Golesh
Windows Phone 7.5 ("Mango") is Microsoft's newest version of the mobile phone operating system. This one day instructor-led course introduces the new features added to Windows Phone to enable additional scenarios which were not possible with previous version and much requested by developers. The course focuses on the new features, best practices of implementing them for Windows Phone 7.5, how-to's and "tips and tricks".
Tuesday 27th March 2012
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Advanced Windows 8 Metro App Development
by Alex Golesh
The real power of the Windows 8 APIs is not in the Metro UI, but rather in what happens behind the scenes. In this tutorial we'll see how Metro applications can implement contracts to support inter-application sharing and integrated search. We'll learn how to access various hardware sensors and devices including the accelerometer, gyro, GPS, and camera. Finally, we'll see how to connect Windows 8 to the cloud with SkyDrive APIs, roaming settings through LiveID, and live tile notifications using the Windows Push Notification Service.
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HTML5
by Gil Fink and Sebastian Pederiva
HTML is the markup language that every web developer uses to structure and present content in the Internet. HTML5 is the standard that is being shaped and developed currently. It extends and improves the last HTML4 standard and takes it to the next level with multimedia, communication support and more. In this one day tutorial you will get to know what is HTML5 and how you can use it even now in your web applications/sites.
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Parallel Programming: One Step Beyond
by Yaniv Rodenski and bnaya
With parallel programming becoming a bigger part of our life, a growing need for advanced patterns emerges. This one day tutorial targets programmers experienced with parallel programming. In the tutorial, we will explore parallel programming patterns and anti-patterns, take a look at the future of .NET parallel programming with Async methods, TPL DataFlow and Reactive Extensions.
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What's New in the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 11 Developer Preview?
by Shai Raiten
In this day tutorial we will examine most of the new tools, features, and enhancements available in the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 11 Developer Preview. Among the covered topics: The new look and feel of Web Access and Team Explorer; agile project management improvements; version control improvements; Team Build improvements; exploratory testing and enhanced unit testing; code review workflow with Team Explorer.
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Windows Azure
The Windows Azure Platform is an Internet-scale cloud computing and services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers. In this tutorial we will present an overview of the platform's main technologies, including Web, Worker and VM roles; Azure Storage; Azure application lifecycle and deployment; introduction to SQL Azure.
Wednesday 28th March 2012
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Advanced WCF
by Ido Flatow
The Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) framework is being used in almost all .NET development platforms: Windows clients, web browsers, Windows Phone 7, Server side applications, and Windows Azure; but have you ever wondered how WCF works? How you can extend it to your organization's needs? How to monitor its work? How to tune it for better performance and scalability? In this 1 day course we will deep dive into WCF, understand the concept of hosting and extensibility, and learn how to tune our WCF services and clients.
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Deep Dive into JavaScript
by Gil Fink, Elad Katz and Ran Wahle
JavaScript is gaining a lot of attention lately with the rise of HTML5 and with the latest news from Microsoft that it will become a first class citizen in Windows 8. During the last years a very big eco-system with a lot of libraries and tools was built around it. In this deep dive tutorial we will discuss jQuery, Knockout.js and other libraries which help you build RIA applications with JavaScript. We'll also dedicate some time to the future directions of client technologies.
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Improving the Performance of .NET Applications
In this one-day session you will learn how to measure and improve methodically the performance of .NET applications. We will use CPU and memory profilers to analyze the application's behavior, and other advanced tools for analyzing performance characteristics. Finally, we will examine patterns of performance improvements, including memory leak eliminating, better cache utilization, properly using value types, and other topics.
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Windows 8 with C#
by Elad Shaham and Alon Levi
Metro is the new application development model for Windows 8 - and you can write Metro apps in C# using XAML, fully transferring your Silverlight or WPF development skills to Windows 8. In this tutorial we will discuss the Metro-style application concept, the Windows Runtime APIs, the built-in controls and tools, optimizing for touch, application lifecycle, live tiles and push notifications, and hardware access.
Thursday 29th March 2012
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Debugging the web with Fiddler
by Ido Flatow
Every Web developer encounters in his work the need to see what goes on "on the wire", whether it is an AJAX call in ASP.NET MVC, a WCF service call from Silverlight, or a simple postback for an ASP.NET page. With Fiddler, the most popular HTTP sniffer, all these tasks are very easy. But Fiddler is more than just a sniffer; Fiddler can intercept, alter, and record messages. You can even write your own visualizers that display message content according to its meaning (video, image, XML, JSON, …). In this one day session we will learn how to use Fiddler from bottom to top to make our debugging routine easier.
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Everything New In C++
by Noam Sheffer
C++ is getting the attention of its life from Microsoft during the last few years. The new C++ standard (C++11) has numerous productivity and convenience features - especially the introduction of lambda functions - and you can use most of it today with Visual Studio 2010 (exemplified by the Concurrency Runtime, which we will mention in brief). We will discuss the new standard as well as two non-standard extensions: C++/CX, the language extensions for WinRT development on Windows 8; and C++ AMP, the language extensions for running C++ code on the GPU in Visual Studio 11.
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Windows 8 Metro Apps in JavaScript (HTML)
by Elad Katz
In this tutorial we will explore building modern Metro applications for Windows 8 using HTML5 and JavaScript. We will discuss native application development with HTML5, WinRT bindings, Metro controls and styles, live tiles and notifications, Windows 8 contracts for search and share, and the future of JavaScript and its tooling.