OWIN is an open hosting specification for .NET web applications. It enables you to create web applications which are portable across hosting environments and allows application components to be composed as a pipeline of middleware. This session will give a brief overview of the rationale for OWIN and how it …
Server-side JavaScript? On Windows Azure? Has hell frozen over? Come learn about how Azure is quickly turning into an open and lightweight cloud platform that supports a variety of runtimes: .NET, Java, PHP, and even Node.js!
This presentation describes how a developer can leverage YUI for building Windows 8 applications. YUI is a free, open source JavaScript and CSS library for building richly interactive web applications. The talk provides a detailed look at how native applications on Windows 8 can be built using a combination of …
This presentation provides a tour of new features, demos and a bunch of questions and answers for Windows Azure, the Microsoft cloud computing platform.
Thread Parallel Library Dataflow is a new addition to the .NET parallel stack. It is based on agents and message passing blocks. Agent is based on the Actor Model and is one of the building blocks of a Concurrent Dataflow Network. The idea behind the TPL Dataflow library is that …
In .NET software development, old-school branch-per-feature meant that branches were large and long living to avoid having to integrate because it was a pain as the feature would diverge further and further from other features or the mainline. Including and excluding features from what needs to be shipped should be …
