Test Driven Development (TDD) has been one of the biggest and most compelling paradigm changes to software development of the past few years. The ability to bake quality into your application as you develop it can change the way you think about software; it effects the way we approach, design and write applications. Test Driven Development is powerful. Yet many developers allow themselves to be intimidated by what they perceive as added complexity. Managers worry that the practice of "test first" will delay development. This presentation will explain the concepts behind TDD, outline the benefits, give you some concrete examples and some advice on how to sell it to your managers.

Tightly coupled applications lead to heartache. They are difficult to manage. They are difficult to maintain. The create applications that are inflexible. They make TDD, or even TAD (Test After Development) all but impossible. It doesn't have to be this way. This session will demonstrate how the concept and practice of Dependency Injection (also known as Inversion of Control) and some easy to use frameworks can help make your application more loosely coupled, more flexible, more maintainable and more testable.

Creating applications for the myriad versions and varieties of mobile phone platforms on the market can be daunting to even the most seasoned developer. This talk takes your existing skills and experience and uses that background as a solid foundation for developing applications that cross over between platforms, thereby freeing you from having to learn a new platform from scratch each time. Concise explanations walk you through the tools and patterns for developing for all the mobile platforms while detailed steps walk you through setting up your development environment for each platform.

• Covers all the major options from native development to web application development
• Discusses major third party platform development acceleration tools, such as Appcelerator and PhoneGap
• Zeroes in on topics such as developing applications for Android, IOS, Windows Phone 7, and Blackberry (if time)

Technology providers move at “cloud speed”.  Cloud computing platforms such as Windows Azure are updated more frequently than other technology platforms.  The rapid pace of innovation makes it difficult to understand what features are available, and how to best utilize them in our applications. The positive aspect to the rapid updates is being able to quickly take advantage of new features and innovations.  The Windows Azure platform is constantly growing and evolving.  In this session we will take a quick look back at major milestones in Windows Azure’s relatively brief history, and then proceed into reviewing recent platform updates and new features now available.  Coming away you will have a solid understanding of Windows Azure platform features available for you to use in your applications today.

The MVC pattern is inherently testable and in turn ASP.NET MVC is a very testable framework but you still have to conform to specific patterns and best practices to successfully create a truly “testable” ASP.NET MVC application  You can then use tooling to improve even further.

There is a problem that every web developer that’s ever shipped a site has encountered.  You’re sitting at your desk, hacking out some great stuff, when someone from QA walks up and tells you that the site “feels slow”.  Well, what exactly is slow and how do I go about fixing it?

Developers on the Microsoft stack have a plethora of tools to assist them in debugging code related errors: step-through-debuggers, memory profilers, etc.  There are even some general purpose tools for analyzing performance of running applications.  However, most of these tools are special purpose or require Visual Studio or other software to be installed which is a bit of a no-no in a strict production or QA environment.

Fortunately, two non-invasive tools have come along that provide insight into what’s going on server-side on every request: MvcMiniProfiler and Glimpse.  Attendees will walk away from this session knowing how to get both MvcMiniProfiler and Glimpse into their application and use it to quickly diagnose performance issues.  Further, attendees will get a brief introduction to the “performance is a feature” philosophy and how it can positively impact a project over its entire life-cycle.

New languages and technologies keep finding their way to Azure. Need a Node.js web application? Want to use Eclipse and Java? Have an existing PHP application and want to move it to the cloud? All of these are possible and more! Come see how you can accomplish amazing things with Azure!

Monad. You may have heard the word before. You might be wondering what they are. You may just want to know what they’re good for. The funny thing is, if you’re a .NET developer, you’re probably already using them.

In this code-centric session, we’ll talk about what exactly a monad is. We’ll explore the relationship between monads and LINQ. We’ll discover how they can make your code more fluent and readable. By the end of the session, you’ll discover that monads aren’t as scary as you might have once thought. And you just might add another tool to your toolbelt.

Business Intelligence Markup Language provides a powerful solution for creating and managing SSIS Design Patterns. Andy Leonard, one of the authors of SSIS Design Patterns, demonstrates the flexibility of BIML in this session.

SQL Server 2012 table partitions offer powerful Big Data solutions to the Data Warehouse ETL Developer. In this presentation, Andy Leonard demonstrates one approach to loading partitioned tables and managing the partitions using SSIS 2012, and reporting partition metrics using SSRS 2012.

Creating web applications that will target multiple devices and platforms has become the web developers Holy Grail. Simple HTML pages render without issue no matter what browser or device they are viewed on but who codes simple HTML pages? What happens when you have a business need to hit all mobile platforms?

You don't have to writes hundreds of lines of code to make this happen!

With phones, tablets and other devices exploding in market share, it’s important to know what technologies and tools will help you develop better applications. These devices are often short on processing power and storage, which is where Azure can really help out. Come see what it’s like to use Azure with Windows Phone and Windows 8, including examples with push notifications, storage and authentication for both platforms and a Metro application using the Azure Service Bus.

Identity management for cloud deployed applications can be a challenge.  Often users will want to leverage an existing social network or corporate identity.  Now we have to worry about dealing with multiple APIs, any updates to those APIs, or the addition of new identity providers.  Windows Azure Access Control Services offers a better way!  ACS allows for federated user authentication via popular social networks and Active Directory.  In this session we’ll provide a crash course in claims as they relate to identity management.  We’ll discuss why claims are important and how to add additional claims beyond what is provided by the identity providers.  We’ll also demonstrate how to configure ACS for development, as well as production environments.  We’ll wrap up by showing you how to bring you’re new found love of claims and ACS to your mobile applications as well.

The Windows Azure platform is a fairly feature rich environment. You can run your web applications there. You can run your data processing applications (services) there. But you don’t have to run your entire application there. You can run part of your application in “the cloud”, and part of your application on premise – giving you the best of both worlds. But why would you not put everything in the cloud? Perhaps you don’t need the massive computing power Windows Azure provides, but you would like a cheap an easily accessible data store. Maybe your application just isn’t ready, yet, to be run in the cloud. Whatever the reason, in this session you will learn the basics for creating a hybrid application which leverages various features of Windows Azure. You will see how to leverage Windows Azure’s rich features and APIs to extend your application to new heights.

Do you like a loosely coupled architecture? Are you considering a hybrid application between the cloud and on-premise solutions? Are you building mobile applications with notifications and events? The Azure Service Bus can make your life much easier!

Developers don't want to repeat tasks! Take out the mundane work of managing the cloud manually and remove the chance for human error. Learn how the Azure Management REST API can be used for automating deployment changes, monitoring your application and more. 

Parallel programming remains a difficult task, but the .NET framework keeps making things easier for developers. With the various constructs available, like the addition of the Task Parallel Library in .NET 4, it is important to know what is appropriate for different situations. Devices continue to gain cores and the cloud offers easily distributed computing, so developers should understand how to utilize the environments. Come for a walk-through of how and when to use these constructs, whether that is in the cloud, a mobile device, desktop application or the web. The examples will be C# focused, but F# will be discussed and an example of distributed computing using Azure will be used.

In this “demo-tastic” presentation, SSIS trainer, author, and consultant Andy Leonard explains the what, why, and how of an SSIS framework that delivers metadata-driven package execution, connections management, and centralizes logging. Key takeaways: 1) Developers can migrate packages from Development, through their lifecycle, to Production without editing SSIS Connection Managers properties. 2) A metadata-driven approach to SSIS package execution. 3) Demonstration of a centralized logging reporting application.