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Creating a Metro Style Geospatial Application Using Windows 8, HTML5, and JavaScript
Jason Follas explains how to create a Windows Metro application processing geo-spatial data coming from hardware sensors with HTML and JavaScript/WinJS.
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Modeling and Code Generation on the .NET Platform at Icinetic
Rubén Jiménez Marrufo and Pedro J. Molina discuss the history of modeling at Microsoft along with current MSDS approaches, reference frameworks and features for the .NET platform.
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Erlang for C# Developers
Bryan Hunter introduces Erlang, comparing various language features with C#’s, emphasizing what it is good for and doing a demo.
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Introduction to Context Specification – Behavior-Driven Development
Philip Japikse discusses and demoes doing BDD with Context Specifications, then using MSpec to transform those specification into TDD code.
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C# Async, From the Outside, From the Inside - Part 2
This is Part 2 of the session. Bill Wagner and Jon Skeet explain the basics of asynchronous operations in C# using the Async keyword. The session is spiced with live demos.
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C# Async, From the Outside, From the Inside - Part 1
Bill Wagner and Jon Skeet explain the basics of asynchronous operations in C# using the Async keyword. The session is spiced with live demos.
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Mono and C++ - Updates from the Interoperability World
Andreia Gaita introduces Cxxi, a Mono C# - C++ interoperability framework meant to make instantiating C++ objects, invoking methods, sub-classing classes and other similar operations easier.
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Introduction to OWIN and Gate
Benjamin van der Veen introduces OWIN, a web server-web apps interface, and Gate, a library supporting development with OWIN.
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Introducing RavenDB: NoSQL is Rapping at Your Door
David Neal introduces RavenDB, a document-oriented database with .NET, Silverlight, JavaScript and REST APIs.
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Cross Platform .NET Desktop Development
Jonathan Chambers discusses developing desktop applications in Mono: why develop and history of desktop apps, examples of such apps, and how to call native code.
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Spring and Platform Interoperability
Stephen Bohlen explains how Spring helps with interoperability between Java and .NET, demoing it with the help of a sample application.
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Reactive Extensions and ReactiveUI
Paul Betts explains how to use Reactive Extensions (Rx) and ReactiveUI, the later being a MVVM framework using the virtual time scheduler features of Rx.