Next week I’ll be going to Las Vegas to present at the DevConnections at the Mandalay Hotel and Casino. The DevConnection is one of my favorite geek conferences for the main reason of the different tracks that provides developers; Silverlight, ASP.NET, Sharepoint, Visual Studio and DotNetNuke connections. Never hurts having Scott Guthrie on the keynote. From the DevConnections website
The DevConnections Newsletter provides comprehensive, independent how to content on building applications with the Microsoft stack - Visual Studio, .NET framework, Azure, Windows, Windows Server, Office, SharePoint, SQL Sever, Mobile, and beyond. It’s your one-stop resource for planning, writing, building, and testing code for all your applications and web services.
I’ll be presenting mainly how to write solutions for the Enterprise, from AAR202: Web Forms Are for the Enterprise to VPH08: Developing Windows Phone 7 Applications for the Enterprise to explore the framework block to build applications where the architecture has all needed from reusable modules like logging to security to bring to the market complete solutions without sacrificing performance or resources. Will explore the best ways to design applications using Web Forms instead of MVC that is being so popular since it came out. Web Forms has been around for 10 years now and still is the most popular framework for enterprise solutions, we’ll go over the new ASP.NET Web Forms 4.0 functionality to help building separate modules from the database layer, business logic and the UI using Controls.
In the other hand with Windows Phone 7, I’ll spend time explaining the best way to create Silverlight libraries using MVVM and the best way to create data layers that can be reused in other applications. I’ll give you design tips and go over the design requirements for Windows Phone 7 to create a better user experience.
Now that Windows Phone 7 is here and the MarketPlace fully functional, is time for developers to monetize their expertise in Silverlight. I’ll be bringing the same enterprise solution skills for independent developers as well as corporate developers to bring their application to the enterprise market. Will go over the Silverlight skills to reuse them in the new platform.
I’m looking forward the DevConnections, please stop me if you see me around please. I hope you have fun and pays off to schedule the presentations you want to attend ahead as well as keeping an eye on Twitter hashtag #devconnections to find the interesting insights of the conference.
See you there.
Cheers
Al