Mark Harris, a former employee of Microsoft, spoke to us about how Microsoft ships software. Mark Harris , a 14 year veteral with Microsoft, was raised in Gahanna and Bucyrus, Ohio. Upon graduation from The Ohio State University in 1995, he joined Microsoft as a test developer for the RPC subsystem in...

Python 101 for the .NET Developer: The first part of the session will cover the basics of Python - its history, how its data structures compare to the those we're familiar with in the primary .NET languages, its strong and weak points, who's using it, and why you as a developer - both generally...

Nino covered distributed source control with Mercurial.

Microsoft Managed Extensibility (MEF) framework allows developers to create applications consisting of composable parts. Composable parts provide the flexibility to change and add parts at runtime. You can use MEF to create more flexible and extensible applications. In this session, we will review the...

The presentation materials from the Stephen Toub tour have been posted to our download site . This zip file contains two separate zip files.  One is the slides and the other are the demos. Enjoy!

With the .NET Framework today, correctly introducing concurrency and parallelism into libraries and applications is difficult, time consuming, and error-prone. However, as the hardware industry shifts towards multi-core and manycore processors, the key to high-performance applications is parallelism...

John Galioto gave a short grok talk on the Agent Service Pattern in April 2009.

"Simplicity is a lost art in the application development space. The Wikipedia definition of Simplicity is “Simplicity is the property, condition, or quality of being simple or un-combined. It often denotes beauty, purity or clarity. Simple things are usually easier to explain and understand than...

SharePoint offers a developer the ability to provide very short turn around on production quality collaboration tools for their business. Often, though, SharePoint is considered a business user's tool. We'll talk about why developers love working in SharePoint. Presented by Rick Kierner Rick...

For a while, ASP.NET has not been thought of as the platform to use for web standards compliant code. While out of the box ASP.NET does have some downsides on that end, with a few adjustments you can have markup that is cleaner, faster, and will help in areas such as accessibility, SEO, and much more...