This video explains code contracts in .NET and how they can be used to improve data integrity, consistency, and development velocity with minimal impact to the size of the source base and even to production performance. It discusses this best practice that future Microsoft research projects like Pex and Moles are currently building upon to deliver the next generation of Agile development tooling.

This video shows how to use F# in Mono with MonoDevelop, detailing some of the features that make it attractive to programmers.

This video explains how to build applications with F#, the new functional programming language on the .NET platform. We’ll look at what using a functional programming language changes in your applications structure and what it doesn’t. We’ll see how F# interactive can be used to experiment with your code to help quickly find a solution to the problem you’re working on and test it works correctly. We’ll see how these informal experimentations can be turned into a robust library or application with a working test suite. We’ll look at both …

With mobile taking off in a big way it is a fun and exciting time to be a software developer, businesses are faced with tough decisions on how to provide a best possible user experience, yet keeping maintenance cost down across the different smart phone platforms.

Hear from the C#,Visual Basic,and F# language designers themselves,about how we create the .NET Framework languages at Microsoft. Where do we get ideas? How do we incorporate new paradigms without breaking the existing languages? Where will we go in the future,and how will we get there? This video talks about all these topics and more.