Tracks


Track Key:
 Chalk Talks Cloud Computing
 Data Management Keynotes
 Mobile Development Programming Practices
 Silverlight / WPF Simplification Tools
 Visual Studio 2010 / .NET 4 Web / HTML 5
 Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Workshops
Monday, April 18, 2011
TIME EVENT
Monday
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
 
MWK1  An Introduction to Multi-Platform Mobile Development Using C#: iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone 7

Ken Getz, Senior Consultant, MCW Technologies, LLC

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

Monday
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
 
MWK2  Workshop: Making Effective Use of Silverlight and WPF

Billy Hollis, XAML Slinger

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

Monday
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
 
MWK3  Workshop: Programming with WCF in One Day

Miguel Castro, MRD, President, Melvicorp LLC

Tuesday, April 19, 2011
TIME EVENT
Tuesday
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
 
Keynote: Unlocking New Possibilities with Visual Studio

Dave Mendlen, Senior Director, Developer Platform and Tools, Microsoft Corporation

Tuesday
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM
 
T1  Easing in to Windows Phone 7 Development

Walt Ritscher, Staff Author, Lynda.com at LinkedIn

Tuesday
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM
 
T2  Getting Started with ASP.NET MVC

Philip Japikse, Microsoft MVP, MCSD, CSM, and CSP, Developer, Coach, Author, Teacher

Tuesday
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM
 
T3  Azure Platform Overview

Vishwas Lele, Chief Technology Officer , AIS

Tuesday
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM
 
T4  Best Kept Secrets in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0

Deborah Kurata, Microsoft MVP and Google Developer Expert

Tuesday
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
 
T5  Silverlight in 75 Minutes

Ken Getz, Senior Consultant, MCW Technologies, LLC

Tuesday
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
 
T6  Test Driving ASP.NET MVC2

Philip Japikse, Microsoft MVP, MCSD, CSM, and CSP, Developer, Coach, Author, Teacher

Tuesday
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
 
T7  Building Azure Applications

Vishwas Lele, Chief Technology Officer , AIS

Tuesday
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
 
T8  How We Do Language Design at Microsoft

Lucian Wischik, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

Tuesday
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
 
TCT1  Chalk Talk: Silverlight, WCF RIA Services, and Your Business

Deborah Kurata, Microsoft MVP and Google Developer Expert

Tuesday
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
 
TCT2  Chalk Talk: Building N-Tier Applications With Entity Framework 4

Leonard Lobel, MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

Tuesday
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
 
TCT3  Chalk Talk Join the XAML Revolution

Billy Hollis, XAML Slinger

Tuesday
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
 
T9  Transitioning from Windows Forms to WPF

Miguel Castro, MRD, President, Melvicorp LLC

Tuesday
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
 
T10  HTML5 and Internet Explorer 9: Developer Overview

Ben Hoelting, Senior Technologist, Aspenware

Tuesday
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
 
T11  Building Compute-Intensive Apps in Azure

Vishwas Lele, Chief Technology Officer , AIS

Tuesday
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
 
T12  Turn Your Development Up to 11: Debugging to win with Visual Studio 2010

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

Tuesday
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
 
T13  Programming for Windows 7 with WPF

Miguel Castro, MRD, President, Melvicorp LLC

Tuesday
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
 
T14  Improving Your ASP.NET Application Performance with Asynchronous Pages and Actions

Tiberiu Covaci, Independent Trainer

Tuesday
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
 
T15  Using C# and Visual Basic to Build a Cloud Application for Windows Phone 7

Srivatsn Narayanan, Developer, C# and VB Compiler Team , Microsoft Corporation

Lucian Wischik, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

Tuesday
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
 
T16  Designing and Developing for the Rich Mobile Web

Joe Marini, Principal Program Manager, Windows Phone, Microsoft Corporation

Wednesday, April 20, 2011
TIME EVENT
Wednesday
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
 
Keynote: Cloud Computing and the Microsoft Developer - A Down-to-Earth Analysis

Andrew Brust, Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence, Datameer

Wednesday
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM
 
W1  Bind Anything to Anything in Silverlight and WPF

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

Wednesday
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM
 
W2  HTML 5 and Your Web Sites

Robert Boedigheimer, Principal Systems Developer, Schwans Shared Services, LLC

Wednesday
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM
 
W3  How to Make Your Application Awesome with REST, AJAX, WCF and MVC

James Bender, VP of Technology, Improving Enterprises

Wednesday
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM
 
W4  Visual Studio LightSwitch – Beyond the Basics

Robert Green, Technical Evangelist, Developer Experience and Evangelism (DX), Microsoft

Wednesday
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
 
W5  Design, Don't Decorate

Billy Hollis, XAML Slinger

Wednesday
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
 
W6  Styling Web Pages with CSS 3

Robert Boedigheimer, Principal Systems Developer, Schwans Shared Services, LLC

Wednesday
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
 
W7  RESTBuilding RESTful Services in the Microsoft Platform: When to Use What?

Jesus Rodriguez, Chief Architect, Tellago and Tellago Studios

Wednesday
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
 
W8  Advanced LightSwich Development

Michael Washington, Founder, AiHelpWebsite.com

Wednesday
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
 
WCT1  Chalk Talk: CSLA .NET Chalk Talk

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

Wednesday
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
 
WCT2  Chalk Talk: Busy Developer’s Guide to (ECMA/Java)Script

Ted Neward, Director, Developer Relations, Smartsheet.com

Wednesday
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
 
W9  Leveraging the MVVM Pattern in Silverlight, WPF and Windows Phone

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

Wednesday
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
 
W10  HTML5 Messaging, Web Workers and Web Sockets with JavaScript

Jeffrey McManus, CEO, Platform Associates

Wednesday
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
 
W11  WCF Workflow Services

Rob Daigneau, Senior Fellow, Construx Software

Wednesday
2:30 PM - 3:45 PM
 
W12  The Almighty @ - A Razor Primer

Charles Nurse, Senior Architect, DotNetNuke Corporation

Wednesday
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
 
W13  Top 7 Lessons Learned On My First Big Silverlight Project

Benjamin Day, Consultant & Trainer, Benjamin Day Consulting, Inc.

Wednesday
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
 
W14  jQuery Application Development

Jeffrey McManus, CEO, Platform Associates

Wednesday
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
 
W15  WCF Tips & Tricks – From the Field

Christian Weyer, CEO, Solution Architect, thinktecture

Wednesday
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
 
W16  WebMatrix Real World Data-Centric Applications

Charles Nurse, Senior Architect, DotNetNuke Corporation

Thursday, April 21, 2011
TIME EVENT
Thursday
8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
 
TH1  Multi-touch Madness!

Brian Peek, Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft

Thursday
8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
 
TH2  The Best of jQuery

Robert Boedigheimer, Principal Systems Developer, Schwans Shared Services, LLC

Thursday
8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
 
TH3  Making WCF Simple: Best Practices for Testing, Deploying and Managing WCF Solutions in the Big Enterprise

Jesus Rodriguez, Chief Architect, Tellago and Tellago Studios

Thursday
8:00 AM - 9:15 AM
 
TH4  Digging Deeper in Windows Phone 7

Walt Ritscher, Staff Author, Lynda.com at LinkedIn

Thursday
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
 
TH5  XAML Primer - Clarifying the UI Markup Language

Walt Ritscher, Staff Author, Lynda.com at LinkedIn

Thursday
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
 
TH6  Single Sign-On for ASP.NET Applications

Dominick Baier, Security Consultant, thinktecture

Thursday
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
 
TH7  How to Take WCF Data Services to the Next Level

Rob Daigneau, Senior Fellow, Construx Software

Thursday
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
 
TH8  Mobile in Action: Building iOS and Android mobile apps with .NET and C#

Christian Weyer, CEO, Solution Architect, thinktecture

Thursday
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
 
TH9  Silverlight Security

Dominick Baier, Security Consultant, thinktecture

Thursday
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
 
TH10  The Scrum vs. Kanban Cage Match

Benjamin Day, Consultant & Trainer, Benjamin Day Consulting, Inc.

David Starr

Thursday
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
 
TH11  Busy .NET Developer's Guide to Parallel Extensions for .NET 4

Ted Neward, Director, Developer Relations, Smartsheet.com

Thursday
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
 
TH12  Mobile in Web: Cross-platform mobile apps with HTML5 & Co.

Christian Weyer, CEO, Solution Architect, thinktecture

Thursday
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
 
TH13  LINQ Programming Model

Marcel de Vries, CTO, Xpirit

Thursday
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
 
TH14  Patterns of Healthy Teams using Visual Studio and TFS

David Starr

Thursday
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
 
TH15  Designing Applications in the Era of Many-Core Computing

Tiberiu Covaci, Independent Trainer

Thursday
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM
 
TH16  XNA Games for Windows Phone 7

Brian Peek, Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft

Thursday
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
 
TH17  So Many Choices, So Little Time: Understanding Your .NET 4.0 Data Access Options

Leonard Lobel, MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

Thursday
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
 
TH18  Produce Better Quality Code by Leveraging the Visual Test Tools You Never Discovered Before

Marcel de Vries, CTO, Xpirit

Thursday
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
 
TH19  Building Event-Driven Applications with Microsoft StreamInsight

Torsten Grabs, Lead Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Thursday
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
 
TH20  Windows Azure and PHP

Jeffrey McManus, CEO, Platform Associates

Friday, April 22, 2011
TIME EVENT
Friday
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
 
FWK1  Architectural Katas Workshop

Ted Neward, Director, Developer Relations, Smartsheet.com

Friday
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
 
FWK2  SQL Server Workshop for Developers

Andrew Brust, Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence, Datameer

Leonard Lobel, MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

Keynotes

Unlocking New Possibilities with Visual Studio

Dave Mendlen
, Senior Director,
Developer Platform and Tools, Microsoft

 

Cloud Computing and the Microsoft Developer - A Down-to-Earth Analysis

Andrew J. Brust, Founder and CEO, Blue Badge Insights
 

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