ASP.NET Core comes with its own built-in dependency injection (DI) framework. DI allows you to write better, more loosely-coupled code, and now with it built right into your favorite web development framework, you don’t have to do anything extra to be able to use this important design pattern in your code.

Already have your own favorite DI framework? No worries, you can use that too. I’ll show you how to integrate a few popular DI frameworks into the highly-extensible ASP.NET framework. I’ll show you how to do it all and show you examples in this session.

With the growing popularity of libraries like Angular 2, its underlying language–TypeScript–is also growing quickly in popularity.

In this session I’ll give you much more than just a basic introduction to the language and its syntax and constructs–I’ll give you the reasons why you should care from a software engineering perspective. We’ll also take a look at the tooling that comes with TypeScript and how it can help you incorporate it into your next JavaScript project.

In my 18-year professional career, I have had many adventures for many kinds, and some misadventures too. People, opportunities, and my own choices have all played a role in changing the trajectory of my professional life in ways I couldn’t have dreamed when I was first starting out.

These twists and turns have allowed me to work for startups, travel the world speaking at conferences, start my own company, and recently, they even lead my family and I to tour the entire country for a year while living in an RV–all while I continued working for my employer remotely.

I hope that hearing about some of my adventures will inspire you to see your own experiences and opportunities in a different light, and to look for opportunities to join in on your own adventure already in progress.

Have you already been to enough deep technical dives today? Take a break from all that and join me as I take you on my year-long adventure to the all 48 of the contiguous states which was enabled by technomadism–that is, being a technological nomad. I’ll talk about how I was able to work remotely–including some practical tips from my experience, and answer some of the most common questions: how we lived, where we went, what we did with our house, how we taught the kids…all of it! I’ll also tell stories about some of the best (and worst) experiences.

At the end, I hope you can walk away with some inspiration and ideas that might spark your own adventure, whatever that may be.

Have you already been to enough deep technical dives today? Take a break from all that and join me as I take you on my year-long adventure to the all 48 of the contiguous states which was enabled by technomadism–that is, being a technological nomad. I’ll talk about how I was able to work remotely–including some practical tips from my experience, and answer some of the most common questions: how we lived, where we went, what we did with our house, how we taught the kids…all of it! I’ll also tell stories about some of the best (and worst) experiences.

At the end, I hope you can walk away with some inspiration and ideas that might spark your own adventure, whatever that may be.

During it’s history, .NET data access has evolved–first from raw ADO.NET, the to DataSource components, LINQ-to-SQL, and finally Entity Framework and other full-service ORMs. If you’ve used any of these feature-bloated ORMs, you’ve probably wished at times for something simpler and more direct. Micro ORMs attempt to solve these problems, and also bring a major performance boost along for the ride.

In this session we’ll look at Dapper, a popular micro ORM for .NET, and several of it’s extensions. You’ll learn how to use these components to create fast, readable, and easy data access for your applications.

With the release of ASP.NET Core 1.0, Microsoft has made great strides in creating a very modern and powerful platform for web developers. They’ve embraced open source tools like grunt and NPM, and brought ASP.NET into the cutting edge of web development.

These new features come at the cost of moving some things around and changing how some familiar features of ASP.NET worked before. In this session, I’ll walk you through those changes so you can use them to your advantage instead of having them feel daunting when you’re ready to do your first ASP.NET Core 1.0 app.

During it’s history, .NET data access has evolved–first from raw ADO.NET, the to DataSource components, LINQ-to-SQL, and finally Entity Framework and other full-service ORMs. If you’ve used any of these feature-bloated ORMs, you’ve probably wished at times for something simpler and more direct. Micro ORMs attempt to solve these problems, and also bring a major performance boost along for the ride.

In this session we’ll look at Dapper, a popular micro ORM for .NET, and several of it’s extensions. You’ll learn how to use these components to create fast, readable, and easy data access for your applications.

 

With the release of ASP.NET 5, Microsoft has made great strides in creating a very modern and powerful platform for web developers. They’ve embraced open source tools like grunt and NPM, and brought ASP.NET into the cutting edge of web development.

These new features come at the cost of moving some things around and changing how some familiar features of ASP.NET worked before. In this session, I’ll walk you through those changes so you can use them to your advantage instead of having them feel daunting when you’re ready to do your first ASP.NET 5 app.

 

 

It seems like there is a hot new MVC/MVP/MVVM framework for JavaScript every few days. You’ve probably heard of many of them, but which one should you use for your project?

I’ll take you through several popular and important options and help you compare and contrast them. When you leave, you should feel more comfortable telling your boss which framework you should use for your next project and–more importantly–why.

 

 

With the release of ASP.NET 5, Microsoft has made great strides in creating a very modern and powerful platform for web developers. They’ve embraced open source tools like grunt and NPM, and brought ASP.NET into the cutting edge of web development.

These new features come at the cost of moving some things around and changing how some familiar features of ASP.NET worked before. In this session, I’ll walk you through those changes so you can use them to your advantage instead of having them feel daunting when you’re ready to do your first ASP.NET 5 app.

 

Visual Studio 2015 has long been a powerful IDE, and the 2015 release doubles-down on that tradition with many new and improved features to help unlock your potential as a developer. In this session we’ll review some of my favorite new features including refactoring assistance, shared projects, debugging improvements, mobile development capabilities, better design support, and revision control enhancements, to name just a few. We’ll also cover some of the underlying changes that power these features, such as the new Roslyn compiler, .NET Framework 4.6, and .NET Core 5. If you’re overwhelmed by Microsoft’s newest IDE and would like a tour of its coolest features, join me for this hour-long deep-dive.

Entity Framework has long been a great ORM (object-relational mapper) for .NET developers. In the last few years the team at Microsoft has even added support for additional workflows in addition to the original “database first” one.

Join me as we look at this powerful new way to use Entity Framework.

Entity Framework has long been a great ORM (object-relational mapper) for .NET developers. In the last few years the team at Microsoft has even added support for additional workflows in addition to the original “database first” one.

Join me as we look at this powerful new way to use Entity Framework.