.NET

What’s New in Visual Studio 2010 (Peter Laudati)

Thursday, June 3, 2010, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM Come take a look at the new features available in Visual Studio 2010 that will help make you a more productive developer. In this session we’ll see new features such as the new appearance and behavior of the IDE, code navigation features including the new easier-to-read [...]

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Building Connected Silverlight Applications (Peter Laudati)

Thursday, May 6, 2010, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM

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Overview of F# and Functional Programming (Daniel Buskirk)

Thursday, April 1, 2010, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM F# is not just a new language for the Visual Studio, it represents an entirely different approach to programming for the .NET developer. VB.NET and C# will continue to be the languages of choice for Windows Forms development, but F# gives the .NET developer new tools [...]

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Why Git? (Mark Guzman)

Thursday, March 4, 2010, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM Mark will show you Git in action on Windows and will cover why you might want to consider using Git. He’ll also share some notes from a small team’s transition from Subversion to Git. Mark Guzman is a Software Architect at Webloyalty. He’s been developing software [...]

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Parallel Programming in .NET 4 (Aaron Armstrong)

Thursday, February 4, 2010, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM Come hear about the new world of parallel programming in .NET 4. Microsoft Research has partnered with the Common Language Runtime and Parallel Computing Platform teams to develop two new libraries: the Task Parallel Library (TPL) and Parallel LINQ (PLINQ). These libraries provide the tools to [...]

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Extending ASP.NET MVC with MVCContrib and Custom Code (John Zablocki)

Thursday, January 7, 2010, 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM ASP.NET MVC provides a powerful extensibility model. Developers are provided with hooks for plugging in custom controller factories, action filters and view engines. Creating HtmlHelper extensions allows complex HTML and JavaScript to be encapsulated. This intermediate presentation will cover pieces of the MVCContrib project and demonstrate [...]

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Introduction to Visual Studio Team System (Steve Andrews)

Thursday, December 3, 2009, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM A breadth-based look at the software development lifecycle capabilities of Visual Studio Team Suite for the enterprise environment. Steve Andrews is a Team System MVP and INETA speaker, and has been working as a developer for more than 9 years. During this time, he has designed [...]

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