FubuMVC is an open source framework for web development using the ModelView Controller (MVC) pattern. FubuMVC is built in C# and depends on theSystem.Web.Routing subsystem of the base CLR, but has no dependency on the ASP.Net MVC framework. In this talk I will highlight the architectural design of FubuMVC, how it works and more importantly the reasoning behind it. I will not make this into a comparison match with ASP.NET MVC, but there are so many interesting patterns being used in the FubuMVC code base that in its self should make this a very interesting talk. The FubuMVC code base has been an example for many others even in different areas outside of web development.

Mocking frameworks allow you to stub out behaviour in order to perform tests of individual peices of functionality in isolation. However, there are times when performing certain actions and assert a result is not sufficient. In this session we will drill deep into unit testing and explain the differences between state and interaction-based testing. We will examine the role of stubs versus mocks and how to correctly write unit tests that are not fragile or counter-productive.

Frustrated .NET developer forced to work with old, boring java? Or are you a java developer having to work with the incompatible and evil .NET technology? With IVKM.NET you can compile your java byte code to the .NET IL and run your favorite java code on .NET and maybe even your Java applications will run faster under IVKM.NET than under SUNs JVM? We take a look at IKVM.NET and how it can be used to bridge your java libraries to your .NET application and the other way around, reusing .NET APIs in your java code. We also show how to use IVKM.NET for creating java-stubs from already existing .NET libraries in order to access your .NET code in java.

Getting legacy code under test is hard, particularly when it is deeply intertwined. In some of the worst code bases, there are no real components, the code is just one large soup.In this session, Michael Feathers will describe a series of strategies and techniques that you can use to separate clusters of classes from your application, characterize them and write tests for them to enable deterministic change.

SharePoint 2010 has rich BI capabilities, much more enhanced than what SharePoint 2007 provided. Did you try using SharePoint 2007 as a BI delivery mechanism? How was the experience? Was it too difficult to setup? Did you feel you were limited on the lines of performance, capabilities, diagnosis ability? Did you think the featureset was great, and made for good demos ?C but delivering real solutions was a whole another story? Well is SharePoint 2010 any better? Come over and let??s talk about it. In this session, Sahil will talk about the various BI specific improvements in SharePoint 2010, with specific emphasis on what is new compared to SharePoint 2007.

Traditional acceptance testing works at the front-end of a fully-integrated system. There is a need for this kind of testing, however the need accounts for a comparatively small amount of the overall checking you should do on your system. Unfortunately, effectively checking your system requires some basic design principles, which are typically not applied.This session will give you an idea of the kinds of design changes you?ll need to make to improve the testability of your system through a demonstration of legacy refactoring techniques targeted at getting business logic out of UI code.This session will be code-driven. I?ll begin with some example code, displayed for the audience. We will begin by writing automated tests to verify some of the business logic leaving the code as is.After writing a few tests, we will review the pros and cons of the testing approach.I will then provide a few basic design principles that apply to the particular situation: dependency inversion principle, single responsibility principle, not mixing enabling code with business logic.We will then make some ?obvious? legacy refactorings, done badly. Review the results. This first round will be an application of the Single Responsibility Principle. Then we will discuss the Dependency Inversion Principle and do the refactoring more effectively.We will continue with a comparison of the first tests with their final form and the first version of the business logic with the refactored version. We will review

Reverse Code Engineering (RCE) is commonly applied to solve security-related challenges. It is all about understanding the behavior of software without access to its source code. This often means studying low-level machine code generated from a higher level language like C or C++. Such translation is lossy and highly architecture and compiler dependent, which makes going in the reverse direction quite challenging.In this talk I'm going to discuss RCE from a product development perspective, where interoperability with platform-specific undocumented APIs could be a necessity. First some background including practical examples of key challenges solved by RCE from my own experience, followed by a live demonstration of some tools and techniques.

ABB is a global leader in power and automation technologies, operates in around 100 countries and employs about 117,000 people. ABB's global intranet is a complex and highly tailored solution containing several hundred thousand pages in more than fifty country sites. The intranet was named one of "The Ten Best Intranets of the Year" by Nielsen Norman Group in 2002, but the general concept of the intranet has not evolved substantially since then. For several years ABB worked on new concepts for making the intranet more valuable to users, by increasing findability, quality of content and opportunities for collaboration. Late last year, SharePoint 2010 was selected as the technical platform to achieve these goals. This talk will outline the collaboration concept that ABB envisioned, and what happened when the concept from the drawing board met the real-life platform SharePoint 2010. The talk will focus on the "social" aspects of the solution such as profiles, networking with colleagues, sharing of information through status updates, activity feeds, social tagging and commenting. It will describe, feature by feature, which parts of SharePoint were used as they are, and which were tailored to achieve a more interactive and collaborative intranet for ABB. The talk will focus both on functionality and on hands-on technical implementation.The speakers will share their experiences of what worked well and what not in terms of conceptual design, development of improved or new social fea

OpenRasta is a framework built from the ground?Cup to unleash the power of HTTP. Be it web sites, forms or web services, OpenRasta lets you build your application quickly and efficiently, without the hassle of complicated APIs and god objects.
Come and discover why OpenRasta is the most talked about ReST framework on .net, and how it can help you deliver better, more http?Cfriendly systems.

TANDBERG has never cared much about documentation, procedures, methodologies and risk reduction. However, we do care very much about our culture and our principles. This has enabled us to outperform all competition in the video conferencing and telepresence market during the last decade.In retrospect, we realize that TANDBERG has for 10-15 years built a culture that is quite compatible with Agile and Lean ideas.This talk will give a glimpse into how we do product development in TANDBERG R&D at Lysaker. I will show an example of how we developed a particular product with emphasis on software development, before I dive into the principles that we follow.

Get ready for a challenge as Robert Martin dives deep into the topic of clean Java code by examining what makes a good function. In this talk you will look at a lot of code; some good and some bad. You will experience how such code is analyzed, critiqued, and eventually refactored. You will understand the decisions made by an expert in the field as bad code is gradually transformed into good code. How big should a function be? How should it be named? How should it be documented. How many indent levels should it have? How should it deal with exceptions, arguments, and return values. This talk is all about code at the lowest level. And yet the principles and techniques presented have far reaching implications.

Velocity is perhaps the most useful metric available to agile teams. In this session we will look at advanced uses of velocity for planning under special but common circumstances. We will see how to forecast velocity in the complete absence of any historical data. We will look at how a new team can forecast velocity by looking at other teams. We will see how to predict the velocity of a team that will grow or shrink in size. Most importantly we will look at the use of confidence intervals to create plans we can be 90% confident in, even on fixed-price or fixed-date contracts.

If there is any topic that has generated more debate, it is the scalability of SharePoint lists and document libraries. In this session, Sahil will talk about the new and improved details around the scalability, and performance aspects of SharePoint 2010. Topics covered will include List management infrastructure, content database schema improvements, and RBS capabilities, with practical gotchas and things to watch out for.

Releasing often is probably the most important practice in agile development. In many projects it can also be the hardest practice. This talk will give you hands on advice on how to reliably reduce your release cycle.

With the reach and diversity of different programming languages andparadigms at the moment, it's possible to use the appropriate languagefor the appropriate task. In my case, I develop applications using C# but test the code using Ruby. The Ruby community has always understood the importance of testing. They strive to make applications more testable while improving the approaches and tools they use. As aresult, they have created some amazing frameworks and a series of best practices to support testing. While this is great for Ruby developers, C# and ASP.net developers can take full advantage for their own applications. This session provides an insight into the Ruby world and how you can take advantage to create readable, maintainable and valuable tests for ASP.net based web applications, from the business logic up to the user interface. Taken from my own experiences of using this approach, the session will demonstrate how to integrate Ruby frameworks such as RSpec and Cucumber into your application development cycle, and how different frameworks combined with Ruby can solve a number of problems traditionally faced when using C#. There will also be discussionaround IronRuby and JRuby and their implications for the future andthe future of Testing ASP.net applications in general.

Have you ever looked at a method or function in someone else's code and felt that you've seen it before? Methods don't come in infinite varieties. There are some very common structural and semantic patterns which recur in code. Some of them occur because teams have adopted good coding and design conventions. others occur because methods tend to fall apart and degrade in similar ways.In this session, Michael Feathers will name and describe various types of methods seen in the field and talk about how a nomenclature for these methods can simplify and focus design.

Shay Friedman's comparison of ASP.NET MVC and Ruby on Rails gets redesigned for an NDC 2010 exclusive.
Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell joins in and moderates a smackdown between the two leading web frameworks featuring Rob Conery, Chris Hardy, Hadi Hariri, Scott Bellware and of course Shay Friedman.
This is you're chance to be part of a lively discussion which will be broadcasted on the leading .NET talkshow .NET Rocks this summer.

Business connectivity services, now enables you to bring external data into SharePoint and office with full CRUD (Create/Retrieve/Update/Delete) capabilities. This talk explains BCS in SharePoint 2010 in an end-to-end fashion, covering from the browser, through SPD, to the Visual Studio 2010 story

Code Contracts are a new feature of .NET 4 and present themselves as a way of greatly simplifying our code by using the concepts of Design by contract. In this talk we will cover the basics of Code Contracts and see how they can be used in real-world applications, how they can be tested, and see if they are all they are cut out to be.

Keeping code clean is a simple matter of professional ethics. In this talk Robert Martin shows how a Java module can start clean, grow to become messy, and then be refactored back to cleanliness. Be forewarned: his tutorial is about CODE. We will put code on the screen and we will read and critique it. And then, one tiny step at a time, we will clean it. In this tutorial you will participate in the step by step improvement of a module. You will see the techniques of the Prime Directive (Never Be Blocked), and Agile Design Principles brought into play. You will witness the decision making process that Agile Developers employ to write code that is expressive, flexible, and clean. Finally, you learn an attitude of professional ethics that defines the software developer??s craft.

Many people moan about it the fact that their code is hard to test. They hack their code to make it testable and then they moan some more about how unit testing is an irritant, it makes code ugly. The fact of the matter is, it isn't true. There's a deep synergy between testability and good design. All of the pain that we feel when writing unit tests points at underlying design problems. In this session, Michael Feathers will, through a series of examples, show how you can use testability challenges to reconsider and improve your design.

The technique of expressing requirements as user stories is one of the most broadly applicable techniques introduced by the agile processes. User stories are an effective approach on all time constrained projects and are a great way to begin introducing a bit of agility to your projects. In this session, we will look at how to identify and write good user stories. The class will describe the six attributes that good stories should exhibit and present thirteen guidelines for writing better stories. We will explore how user role modeling can help when gathering a project??s initial stories. Because requirements touch all job functions on a development project, this tutorial will be equally suited for analysts, customers, testers, programmers, managers, or anyone involved in a software development project. By the end of this tutorial, you will leave knowing the six attributes of a good story, learn a good format for writing most user stories, learn practical techniques for gathering user stories, know how much work to do up-front and how much to do just-in-time.

What happens to software? Why does is rot over time? How does an Agile development team prevent this rot, and prevent good designs from becoming legacy code? How can we be sure our designs are good in the first place? This class presents the agile S.O.L.I.D. principles for designing object oriented class structures. These principles govern the structure and interdependencies between classes in large object oriented systems. The principles include: The Open Closed Principle, The Liskov Substitution Principle, and the Dependency Inversion Principle, among others.

In this talk we'll review practices and principles that make good team leaders into great ones. from basic communication and influencing skills to essential day to day practices and things to look out for - this is a session every team lead should be interested in.

This is a talk which aims to explain the Dependency Inversion Principle in practice. It is not a one hour theoretical explanation of what the principle states, but rather a real life demonstration of how it becomes a natural pattern to apply in the pursuit of a clean, maintainable design within the boundaries of a statically typed language. This is a ??code and commentary?? talk, with virtually no slides. Though the code demonstrated is C#, this is not a technology-specific talk.

Unit testing is valuable, but it's hard to go very far with it without realizing that sometimes languages make it easy and sometimes they make it hard. In this code rich presentation, Michael Feathers will present a series of testability traps in the C# language: features and ways of using them which make unit testing impossible without specialized tooling. He will also present a simple rule along with supporting concepts that you can use to sidestep all of them and produce C# code which is always easily testable.

The development of components for use in SharePoint is a complex process, and often seems to fly in the face of what is considered good development practice in a Test Driven Development world.In this session I will show how using some good design practices and tools such as Typemock Isolator you can develop testable components for SharePoint (2007 & 2010); often without even having to have SharePoint on your development PC.

Scrum is one of the leading agile software development processes. Over 12,000 project managers have become certified to run Scrum projects . Since its origin on Japanese new product development projects in the 1980s, Scrum has become recognized as one of the best project management frameworks for handling rapidly changing or evolving projects. Especially useful on projects with lots of technology or requirements uncertainty, Scrum is a proven, scalable agile process for managing software projects.Through lecture, discussion and exercises, this fast-paced tutorial covers the basics of what you need to know to get started with Scrum. You will learn about all key aspects of Scrum including product and sprint backlog, the sprint planning meeting, the sprint review, conducting a sprint retrospective, activities that occur during sprints, measuring and monitoring progress, and scaling Scrum to work with large and distributed teams. Also covered are the roles and responsibilities of the ScrumMaster, the product owner, and the Scrum team.This session will be equally suited for managers, programmers, testers, product managers and anyone else interested in improving product delivery.

An introduction to distributed version control using Git, and how your VCS should work with you and not against you. How DVCS can completely alter your development process, streamline it, and help you produce better software, faster. Covering how local repositories speed up your development, multiple authoritative sources, distributed teams, multiple workflows, and some of the more distinct features of Git. With experiences from an OSS team on how the migration from SVN to Git has helped the project and changed how the team works (Fluent NHibernate).

The most famous Ruby?Cdriven framework is, by far, Ruby on Rails. With IronRuby, .NET developers can now take advantage of this incredible web framework without leaving their comfort zone. In this session, Shay Friedman will build an entire Web 2.0 site from scratch while using and explaining the key features of Ruby on Rails.
Come and see what Ruby on Rails is all about and what's made it the success it is today.

Sure you're a .NET developer. Maybe you are even a SharePoint developer. But have you seen development for SharePoint 2010? It comes with full tooling support in VS2010, and massive improvements in the platform itself. Developing for SharePoint is finally manageable, but is it easy to be a SharePoint developer? Come and find out!

The jury is in, the case is closed. TDD works, and works well. In this talk Uncle Bob makes the point that TDD is not a testing technique at all. Rather, TDD is a way to ensure good architecture, good design, good documentation, and that the software works as the programmer intended. TDD is a necessary discipline for those developers seeking to become professionals. This talk is half lecture and half demonstration. Examples are in Java and Junit.

In this presentation Rob Conery dissects the arguments that are polluting the blogosphere, surrounding the discussion of whether ASP.NET MVC is "right" for you and your team. Passion, misinformation, assumptions and fear have pushed people into entrenched positions, leaving little room for intelligent thought. The goal of this presentation is to "shake loose" the rhetoric and give you some concrete ideas to think about if you're considering a move to ASP.NET MVC. In addition, Rob will try to offer an answer to the question: "Is WebForms Dead?"

What??s next for C#? This session will not answer that question! Mads will open with about 10 minutes about the challenges and constraints of language design, followed by an open discussion on where to take C# involving fellow C# designers Eric Lippert and Neal Gafter, C# author and luminary Jon Skeet as well as you in a lively free-form discussion that can take us anywhere and will be absolutely once-in-a-lifetime.

Is your ASP.NET application not performing like you wished it would? Performance not what it has to be? Have you considered caching? While many developers know the basics of caching in ASP.NET, there's actually a lot more possible than initially thought. Also, not every technique is good to solve every problem. In this session, we'll do an overview of all the options ASP.NET has to offer for caching and state management, helping you to get a better performing application.

jQuery is a JavaScript library which allows you to develop solutions with less code, in less time. You can build interactive prototypes for your prospective clients, or take an existing solution and add new dynamic behaviour with little effort.We will see how jQuery can be used to quickly and concisely apply JavaScript behaviour to your web app. It will cover selectors, Ajax, DOM manipulation and more. The aim: to produce lean unobtrusive JavaScript with jQuery

A look at what makes teams productive, and what makes team leaders effective. from team practices such as automation and communication, to team leads that grow and coach their people, confront problems and finds ways to make people better. this is an overview session. specific issues are elaborated in other sessions.

The .NET services bus is part of the new Microsoft Cloud Computing Windows Azure initiative, and arguably, it is the most accessible, ready to use, powerful, and needed piece. The service bus allows clients to connects to services across any machine, network, firewall, NAT, routers, load balancers, virtualization, IP and DNS as if they were part of the same local network, and doing all that without compromising on the programming model or security. The service bus also supports callbacks, event publishing, authentication and authorization and doing all that in a WCF-friendly manner. This session will present the service bus programming model, how to configure and administer service bus solutions, working with the dedicated relay bindings including the available communication modes, relying on authentication in the cloud for local services and the various authentication options, and how to provide for end-to-end security through the relay service. You will also see some advanced WCF programming techniques, original helper classes, productivity-enhancing utilities and tools, as well as discussion of design best practices and pitfalls.

You may have a basic understanding of .NET's event model, but how can you best architect your applications to take advantage of .NET events? This session spends a few minutes on the basics, then provides real-world examples showing how you can design your applications to take advantage of the .NET event model for things such as:* Custom data binding in Windows Forms and Web Forms* Establishing relationships between business components* Creating world-class, end-user-configurable security* Localizing the user interface dynamically at run time

There are three types of organizations: ordered, chaotic, and complex organizations. The best management approach depends on the type of organization, and the amount of rule?Cmaking a development manager?team leader should concern himself with. However, this distinction is a false (but useful) metaphor. In reality, development teams are complex _adaptive_ systems, meaning that they should be doing their own rule?Cmaking, as self?Corganizing systems.
However, self?Corganization alone is not enough. Management is needed for imposing boundaries and constraints. There's a great checklist available to managers and team leaders for defining boundaries to authority in self?Corganizing teams.
There are two kinds of purpose: archeo?Cpurpose and neo?Cpurpose. Both the team itself and the manager can assign a neo?Cpurpose to a team. This neo?Cpurpose is not the same as the goal of the project they are working on, or the goals of any of the stakeholders. One thing a manager?leader can do is to assign purpose to a self?Corganizing team. We will discuss how to do that.

Now that Silverlight 4 is released, find out what is new?changed and how to write great data-driven applications with Silverlight 4. Learn about how you can leverage Silverlight 4 for rich desktop applications using the new ??trusted application?? model and how to best take advantage of these features. Accessing data using RIA Services makes data-driven applications easier and can support a ViewModel development pattern approach. This session will be faced pace in overview, but deep in code. Few slides, mostly code.

In this talk I'll describe a technique for unit-testing code embedded in an impenetrable framework (such as Sharepoint, Silverlight, and BizTalk) that make such code inaccessible. We know we should write code that is easy to test because it has clean boundaries, but sometimes the vendors we work with make that kind of modularity just too hard. I will talk about how we can test such plug-in code by faking its environment in memory, simulating the underlying engines. As an example, I'll be showing SilverUnit, a framework to test code written for the Silverlight framework without driving through the browser. I'll talk about how the need for this sort of testing arose during silverlight development and how it allowed me to make sure my silverlight code worked as expected. even the UI logic.

Now that C# 4 is out, thoughts are naturally turning towards what C# 5 might hold. Speaking from a position of breathtaking ignorance of what the team is actually planning, and without the safety net of a working implementation, I will outline a few ideas about what could be in C# 5. Some will be wacky, some mundane and perhaps even obvious. One thing's almost certain: this won't be the feature set of the real C# 5. Even so, it will provide some food for thought.

If you think of your database as an "implementation detail", it is likely that you are not interested in building your all important domain classes based on a database or being bound by the limitations of a modeling tool. In the U.S., Telemark skiers cry "Free the Heel". In this session we'll make that a call to "Free the Domain Classes". We'll take a look at the different mechanisms that do not involve reverse engineering a database. In VS2010, EF's Model-First support and in the Entity Framework Feature CTP, the completely model-less Code Only support. We'll finish with a quick look at SQL Server Modeling's M language, which provides yet another option for defining entity classes without the EDM designer .

Today you will be hard-pressed to find an enterprise application that does not rely on distributed messaging and service-orientation. Client applications such as rich clients, Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) built with Silverlight or some flavor or AJAX, and those targeting mobile devices all access resources via services exposed to the intranet or Internet. Oftentimes the middle tier also includes layers of services living in the DMZ or behind it. There are many possible security models available for scenarios involving the various client technologies and service tiers - and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) supplies the tools necessary to implement each and every possibility. In this session, you will learn the most common and practical security scenarios that involve WCF services within the intranet or exposed to the Intranet including classic Windows security, username and password, certificates, federated identity, REST-based and securing calls between tiers. The session will also discuss scenarios that can benefit from aspects of Windows Azure platform including AppFabric Service Bus and Access Control - such as for securing services behind the DMZ and enabling federation for REST-based services. All examples will cover requirements for the client and service, give you a formula to achieve each scenario, and show you custom components that simplify implementation. You??ll leave this session with a recipe for the most common security scenarios including sample code

A deep dive into developing applications with MonoTouch. Learn about the different UI components available on the iPhone and iPad and how to use these with MonoTouch as well as how you can create interoperability with your .Net libraries within MonoTouch.

In the 5 years since the book was published, I've practiced DDD on various client projects, and I've continued to learn about what works, what doesn't work, and how to conceptualize and describe it all. Also, I've gained perspective and learned a great deal from the increasing number of expert practitioners of DDD who have emerged.The fundamentals have held up well, as well as most patterns, but there are differences in how I do things and look at things now. I will try to describe them, very informally, in this talk.Over this time, I have folded in a couple of additional patterns, and essentially come to ignore a few, but the biggest change has been a subtle shift of emphasis. Ubiquitous Language and Context Mapping and Core Domain are at the center, with aggregates in close orbit. Why, I ask myself, did I put context mapping in Chapter 14? Core domain in Chapter 15?! Before the book, it seemed self-evident to me that SOA fit well with DDD, but five years of questions on that topic have made it clear that my early explanations were inadequate and helped me clarify how it fits. Increased emphasis on events and distributed processing have crystallized the significance of aggregates and refined the building blocks.The talk cannot go into depth on all these topics, but the goal will be to give a quick look at where my view of DDD has been heading.

In this session we??ll not only look at improving the maintainability and performance of an MVC application, but also how to increase your productivity. Topics include model binding, meta-data providers, and T4 Templates.

C# 4.0 focuses on being a good citizen in a big world. In this talk we look at named and optional arguments, as well as the much improved COM interaction. We pay special attention to the new dynamic feature and the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) that it builds on: How do they work, how can you use them and why did we design them this way. We??ll also interoperate with COM and the HTML DOM, and build our own dynamic objects.

Writing multi-threaded applications is hard - making them work is even harder. Scaling applications to the current and future multiple-core machines can really be a daunting task --- but it doesn't have to be! In this session, Ingo Rammer shows you the new task-based API and how it simplifies the creation of multi-core supporting applications. You will learn how you can take advantage of the fine-grained parallelism and control which is offered by this new .NET feature. Ingo will also show you how to extend your in-memory LINQ query to run in parallel, and how the new Visual Studio 10 debugging tools will make troubleshooting this kind of applications a lot easier.

Software has always needed to be tested manually, automation can help, but it is never going to replace the need for manual testing totally. How a team manages this requirement for manual testing can be key to a projects success or failure.In the 2010 release of Visual Studio, Microsoft have provided a whole new set of tools to aid in this process - Microsoft Test Manager. In this session I will show how MTM can be used to assist a tester in creating detailed, accurate and repeatable testing that are a joy to use (well might be stretching a point there!). Also I will show how the tooling can allow these manual tests can become the basis for automated tests and Coded UI tests, and how the advanced logging features of the tools allow bugs to be accurately passed back to developers for speed the production of fixes.

Claims-based identity provides an open and interoperable approach to identity and access control that can be consistently applied both on-premises and in the cloud. Come to this session to learn about how Windows Identity Foundation can be used to secure your Web Roles hosted in Windows Azure, how you can take advantage of existing on-premises identities and how to make the best of features in our cloud offering, such as certificate management and staged environments.

While we assert that software development is not manufacturing, we often slip into manufacturing metaphors and analogies and then fail to extricate our explorations of how software development unfolds from manufacturing. Some of these analogies are so deeply-rooted into our customs that we readily contradict our own assertions. This presentation looks at just how handicapped your software development becomes at the hand of these engrained manufacturing perspectives. It looks at product development theory as a better analogy to software development and a more practicable body of knowledge for software development. And it looks at how even product development theory fails to illuminate software development when we backslide into manufacturing-specific product development. Lean and Agile methods are framed in terms of product development and software development productivity problems are laid open under the surgical precision of product development analogies to building software machines.

An overview of what's possible using Monotouch, Novell's tool to enable C# and .Net based applications for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Find out what you need to start using Monotouch and how to create a sample application. If you have any questions on why you'd use this, what are the benefits and downsides of using Monotouch then this is your place!

Lindorff Group is a leading outsourced receivables management company in Europe, and one of the leading on a global basis. For the past three-four years, they have increasingly adopted agile practices, especially in a large scale project converting and improving an old system written in Powerhouse to new .Net-technology.The results from adopting agile practices have been mostly positive, however, there were challenging issues related to requirement handling and estimation that needed attention. In 2008, Lindorff joined a project with Symphonical funded by Innovation Norway. The purpose of the project was to develop software for requirements handling, estimation and knowledge management for the Symphonical platform. Symphonical is a flexible web-based collaboration platform, where users can brainstorm, plan, organize and coordinate any process.This talk presents results from a case study detailing the challenges faced by Lindorff as they simultaneously adopted agile practices and introduced a new system for requirement handling and estimation. According to the respondents of the case study, Lindorff appears to have improved on two of the main points of concern presented in the 2007 study: requirement handling and estimation. Many users report that the introduction of agile methods and the platform Symphonical has improved the quality of important work processes. Furthermore, they report that the introduction of Symphonical has provided a framework for structured discussions re

AppFabric Access Control is a feature of the Windows Azure platform that makes it easy to secure web resources such as REST-based services using a simple set of standard protocols. In fact, AppFabric Access Control uniquely facilitates several scenarios not previously possible including a standards-based mechanism for securing web resources, identity federation for REST, and secure calls from Silverlight and AJAX clients to web resources including REST-based WCF services or REST-based MVC implementations. In this session you will get a tour of the AppFabric Access Control feature set and learn how to implement these key security scenarios with the help of some custom tools that encapsulate common functionality exposing a simple object model for working with the protocols underlying Access Control. In addition, you will learn how to integrate typical Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) authorization techniques such as ClaimsPrincipal to decouple the authentication and authorization mechanism from the business logic.

Our application runs over 10,000 sustained transactions per second with a rich model. The key? Modeling state transitions explicitly.In today's world many systems have non-functional requirements that prevent them from being single database centric. This presentation looks at how Domain Driven Design can fit into such environments including extremely large scale web sites, batch processing, and even using highly scalable backing stores such as CouchDb or HyperTable.Event streams, a different way of storing the current state of an object, open many doors in this session not only in how we scale and store our domain but also in how we rationalize about it.

Manual testing has been marginalized in agile development. Usdevelopers seems to think that manual testing is outdated and shouldnow be replaced by automatic test scripts. I think that manual testingshould still be a part of the development process, and in this talk,you will learn why that is and how we can integrate manual testers onagile teams.

Asynchronous pages and handlers can be used in ASP.NET to improve the performance of the application, especially the throughput, but wrongly used can lead to unexpected behavior, including a degraded performance. One of the key technologies that are part of the Visual Studio 2010 is Parallel Extensions. So come to this interactive session to see how you can benefit from those new technologies and how they can help you to mitigate some of the problems.

(misses 4 minutes in the start)An introduction and overview to object?relational mapping using Fluent NHibernate. See how Fluent NHibernate can help you map your domain with the least amount of effort, how you can remain flexible with your database, and how to drive your design through convention?Cover?Cconfiguration; all without writing a single line of XML.
The talk is an introduction to Fluent NHibernate for those that aren't familiar with it, and assumes some NHibernate experience and is for .Net developers primarily. The goal is to show people how low?Cimpact NHibernate can be with Fluent NHibernate, and how it can actually speed up development in rapid?Cchange environments.
I'll cover an overview of what Fluent NHibernate is, the various parts of it (the fluent interface, the conventions, and the auto?Cmappings, and the configuration aspect), then expand on how these features can be utilised to improve your NHibernate experience and simplify your development process.

After a decade of heavy process, the Agile revolution of the late '90s threw off the dead hand of big upfront design. The bloody purge that followed was needed!There were unintended consequences. Too many teams interpret "Agile" as a permit to not think about design. But if they have ambitious goals, Agile teams need more than standup meetings and iterations. Many teams get off to a quick start, building lots of features in early iterations, but end up with a "Big Ball of Mud". Without clear and well-structured code, they cannot sustain their pace and also put themselves at risk of, one day, encountering a critical feature they simply cannot deliver. Without the common understanding between developers and stakeholders that is forged in domain analysis, one of the greatest benefits of iteration, the deepening communication about what the software should do and how it should do it, is never realized.We must not return to the "Analysis Paralysis" that we used to endure (and that many teams still do), but interpreting "Do the Simplest Thing" as "Do the Easiest Thing" doesn't work either.This talk will consider ways of incorporating modeling and design into the iterative process in a lightweight way that increases communication with stakeholders and decreases the likelihood of painting ourselves into corners, without returning to the dead-hand of the analysis phase. As a concrete example of how such techniques can be incorporated into the Agile framework, we'll have an overview of

For data needs, Silverlight can talk to services like WCF or REST enabled services. These service types are sufficient for most scenarios. But what if it isn't? Most examples that can be found out there cover the basics, but in the real world, that's sometimes not enough. In this session, we'll explore the dark corners of Silverlight??s service access. Among others, we??ll cover duplex communication, debugging services, the HttpWebRequest, TCP communication and securing service communication from Silverlight.

Wonder about architecture best practices, guidelines and pitfalls? Wonder how to design world?Cclass systems? You understand the concepts but not how to apply them? In the first half of this high pace session, Juval will explain his original approach to large system analysis design. Then, he will discuss logical tiers, security, interoperability, scalability, transactions, and other aspects of a modern application. You will see how to approach rarely discussed topics such as allocation of services to assemblies, allocation of services to processes, transaction boundaries, identity management, authorization and authentication boundaries and more.

This experience reports focuses on the major scrum?Crelated technical challenges that arose during a 120 000 hour scrum controlled project. For each of them, we try to identify the cause and the consequence, and then follow up with any solutions we tried. Finally we sum up and assess whether the problem was successfully solved or not.

But ... it used to work yesterday! In this newest version of his classic session, Ingo Rammer will introduce the hardcore and low-leve