From a New Windows 8 Project to the Store

The list of things we need to do in order to create a new Win8 app project, implement its business logic, and upload it to the Windows Store may sound intimidating. The truth of the matter is it couldn't be easier. Develop, Test, Upload – that's all there is to it. In this session we will create a simple Style application, make sure it passes certification and upload it to Windows Store.

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What's new in WCF 4.5

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is one of the leading technologies for building distributed applications. WCF 4.5 which ships with the new .NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012 introduces many new features that both simplify the way we create services and enable us improve the way our services work. In this session we will see many of the new features offered by WCF 4.5 - configuration intelliSense, cleaner configuration for IIS, UDP and WebSockets support, and many others.

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JavaScript, Meet Cloud: Node.js on Azure

Node.js is an incredibly popular framework for writing event-based server applications in JavaScript. With its hundreds of modules and vibrant ecosystem, it is quickly catching up to other server-based frameworks, and makes it extremely easy to deploy Web applications. The June 2012 refresh introduces Node.js support on Windows Azure, including Azure Web Sites, Cloud Services, and Virtual Machines. In this talk we'll build a Node.js application from scratch and deploy it to Windows Azure in a matter of seconds.

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What's New in Task Parallel Library 4.5

Task Parallel Library is Microsoft's take on what parallelism in .NET should look like; it is a comprehensive framework for developing highly concurrent applications. In .NET 4.5, TPL has been augmented with DataFlow, a library for developing asynchronous applications in an agent-oriented style that allows high-performance and high-capacity message passing. On the other hand, C# 5.0 brings asynchrony to the language with the async and await keywords, making it easier than ever to write asynchronous code. We will review these features as well as performance and debugging improvements and other topics.

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Unit testing enhancements in VS 2012

Visual Studio 2012 has completely revised the unit testing experience. The new unit testing features consolidate disparate test panes, provides intuitive and continuous feedback, supports a number of different programming styles and languages, and analyze your code for potential problems. In this session, we will introduce the Test Explorer, the Code Analysis view, and the new Fakes Framework, to help you write better unit tests right away.

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Windows 8 with HTML 5

In this tutorial we will explore building modern applications for Windows 8 using HTML5 and JavaScript. We will discuss native application development with HTML5, WinRT bindings, controls and styles, live tiles and notifications, Windows 8 contracts for search and share, and the future of JavaScript and its tooling.

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Advanced WCF

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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Building an App with Windows Phone, Windows Azure, and Visual Studio 2012

There are a lot of new technologies being released these days and one of the major difficulties is to integrate them. In this one-day workshop we will build an N-tier application end-to-end including various clients, HTTP services, and cloud hosting. This workshop will not focus on any specific technology, but rather demonstrate the development and integration process with Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 on the client, ASP.NET Web API and Entity Framework on the server, and Windows Azure as the cloud host.

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.Net Debugging

Debugging managed applications has never been easier with the advent of Visual Studio 2012 and auxiliary Microsoft tools and extensions. In this one-day session, packed with real-world scenarios and demos, you'll learn how to capture and open dump files in Visual Studio, and how to leave the boundaries of Visual Studio and analyze difficult problems with WinDbg and SOS in a production environment. Additional tools will be presented along the way. Among the scenarios covered: memory leaks, deadlocks, and application crashes.

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Parallel Programming- One Step Beyond

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, and learn about cluster-wide parallel applications with Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 SP2.

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What's new in Windows Azure

In June 2012 Microsoft released a major update for Windows Azure, including IaaS (mounting virtual machines), Web Sites on a shared infrastructure and a variety of frameworks, virtual networks, a new SDK, and support for many new languages including Java, Python, PHP and JavaScript. This release puts Microsoft's flagship cloud offering in great competition with Amazon in the IaaS market and with Google App Engine in the Web Site market. In this tutorial we will present the new Azure portal and demonstrate the new features in the SDK.

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Agile Project Management Using TFS 2012

Project management is about control. And a key focus of TFS has always been about project management. This is very noticeable in the upcoming TFS 2012 release, where Microsoft has added many additional tools to help the project manager. In this tutorial, you'll learn how a set of core concepts can be applied in TFS to give you a great deal of control over your project. Although these concepts stem from the Agile movement, they are widely applicable to almost any project.

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HTTP Fundamentals and ASP.NET Web API

25 years after it was created, HTTP is still serving the purpose it was originally designed for: running the largest and most important information system in the world, the World Wide Web. With this in mind, Microsoft announced earlier this year that its new HTTP flagship known until that moment as WCF Web API is going to be shipped as part of ASP.NET MVC 4. In this one day tutorial we will learn how to create rich HTTP services using the ASP.NET Web API. We will focus on designing and implementing an HTTP-based API, scaling and caching HTTP-based services, securing and debugging HTTP, and additional advanced topics.