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ORM, EDM, ESQL, Entity Framework, LINQ to SQL, LINQ to Entities - Confused?
Eric Nelson explains what are ORM, EDM, and ESQL, what is the difference between LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities, which one should be used, accompanied by hands on demos showing how to use them.
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Functional Programming with a Mainstream Language
Sadek Drobi shows how he applied functional programming principles, like recursion, functions, monads, to a real-life project which needed to meet certain performance requirements.
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Real World IronPython
Michael Foord discusses IronPython, the DLR, static vs. dynamic typing, VS.net integration, Resolver One, embedding IronPython, error handling, dynamic operations, and functions as delegates.
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TDD in a DbC World
After presenting some basics of Design by Contract using Microsoft’s SpecSharp framework, Greg Young explains how we can keep the Test First mentality in a Contract First world.
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Managing Mixed Java & .Net Development Projects
Giles Davies and Richard Erwin explain how to work in a mixed development environment, .NET and Java, by using TFS to manage the projects and using Visual Studio and Eclipse as IDEs.
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Creating DSLs in Oslo
Amanda Laucher talks about Oslo and its tools, Intellipad, M.exe – the M Compiler, MB.exe – MGrammar Compiler, and how they can be used to create a DSL. She demonstrates the creation of a demo DSL.
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Introduction to the Azure Service Platform
Beat Schwegler talks about writing Windows Azure services using .NET and SQL Services. He also explains how to create or enhance existing applications in order to make use of the Azure platform.
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F# - Succinct, Expressive, Efficient Functional Programming for .NET
Don Syme presents F# basics, a typed functional language for .NET that combines the succinctness, expressivity, and compositionality of functional programming with the runtime support of .NET.
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Hard Rock: Behind the Music with Silverlight 2
Scott Stanfield presents the Hard Rock Memorabilia web site demoing Silverlight’s Deep Zoom. He also shows other projects to underline some of the Silverlight’s capabilities.
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Concurrent Programming with Microsoft F#
Amanda Laucher presents a real life enterprise application written in F#. She shows actual code snippets, explaining design decisions and suggesting how to use some of the F# constructs.
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The Joys and Pains of a Long Lived Codebase
Jeremy D. Miller shares lessons learned while developing a project over 5 years. He talks about his mistakes, what to avoid and how to design, code and test better.
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JQuery - a Javascript DOM Library
This presentation demonstrates the features of JQuery, particularly its support for AJax and DOM services plus cross-browser compatibility. Details of the library and its structure are covered.
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