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Using attached properties to compose new behaviour

Posted 16 November 2008 22:31 by tonyj
I was inspired by a posting on stackoverflow.com - "How do I drag an image around a canvas in WPF" - where the first response in most peoples heads is to work with mouse up/down/move events, track offset positions and move the UI element around in response Read More...
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Day 5 - 15:15 : The TechEd Daily Scrum

Posted 14 November 2008 22:22 by tonyj
Presented by Stephen Forte again (second time inside of a single day!), this final session at Tech-Ed was a review of what SCRUM is, how it's working for people and then it turned over to mass debate. Again, we find religious arguments coming to a head Read More...
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Day 5 - 10:45 : Data access smackdown! Making sense of Microsoft's new data access strategy (DAT02-IS)

Posted 14 November 2008 21:41 by tonyj
Stephen Forte , Chief Strategy Officer from Telerik, started this interactive session reviewing the history of Microsoft's data access offerings and then discussing the latest multitude of choices. As this was an interactive session, there were lots of Read More...
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Day 4 - 17:30 : Building and consuming REST based data services for the web. (WUX313)

Posted 13 November 2008 22:35 by tonyj
In this session, Mike Flasko demonstrated the new ADO.NET data services framework that enables developers to create services that expose data over a REST interface using industry standard formats and semantics such as JSON and AtomPub. The reason I attended Read More...
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Day 4 - 15:45 : An overview of the Azure services platform (ARC201)

Posted 13 November 2008 21:20 by tonyj
David Chappell is perhaps one of my favourite speakers from the conference. He tackled an objective look at Microsoft's new Azure platform in this session and gave what I thought was the clearest overview of the vision. Azure is Microsoft's new distributed Read More...
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Day 4 - 13:30 : Building WCF services with WF in .NET 4.0 (SOA302)

Posted 13 November 2008 14:05 by tonyj
Jon Flanders from plural sight took this session looking at how you can expose WCF services from windows workflow on the .NET 4.0 stack, continuing from yesterdays first looks session. A cool feature being introduced is the ability to generate xaml only Read More...
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Day 3 - 17:30 : Develop with the visual studio 2008 extensions for sharepoint

Posted 12 November 2008 18:27 by tonyj
I went to this presentation to learn about the new visual studio extensions for sharepoint, unfortunately the presentation was an exact repeat of a PDC video I had already watched. The sharepoint extensions for visual studio 2008 make building sharepoint Read More...
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Day 3 - 13:30 : An in-depth look at the ADO.NET Entity framework (DAT307)

Posted 12 November 2008 14:37 by tonyj
This presentation, with Elisa Flasko, was covering an introduction to the entity framework and how it fits with common application patterns - client server, web applications and distributed N-Tier apps etc. The ADO.NET Entity framework is the next layer Read More...
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Day 3 - 10:45 : Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0: A first look (SOA207)

Posted 12 November 2008 11:09 by tonyj
Presented by Aaron Skonnard, co-founder Pluralsight, this session looked at the up-coming release of windows workflow foundation 4.0. Firstly, my definition of workflow is slightly different to how MS define workflow. I think of workflow as the definition Read More...
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Day 3 - 09:00 : Writing custom LINQ providers - LINQ to Anything (TLA317)

Posted 12 November 2008 10:06 by tonyj
This session was presented by Bart J.F. De Smet, software development engineer from Microsoft, concentrating on the theory for writing your own data providers for LINQ. He ran through the implementation of the open source implementation of LINQ to AD, Read More...
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Day 2 - 15:15 : How LINQ works: A deep dive into the C# implementation of LINQ.

Posted 11 November 2008 22:23 by tonyj
Luke Hoban presented this 400 level session. Luke is the program manager for visual studio languages. Having not really used LINQ in anger, I was interested in following this session to understand a little more about LINQ and how it works. I got lost Read More...
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Day 2 - 13:30 : Sense and Testability session (ARC307)

Posted 11 November 2008 20:08 by tonyj
Roy Osherove from Typemock presented this informative session about testability and design and how they relate to each other - specifically how we might design software to make it inherently testable. To be honest there was nothing particularly new about Read More...
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