Agenda

Complete session agenda details will be provided soon.

In addition to the sessions scheduled throughout the entire two days of the conference, also be on the lookout for:

  • Planned and impromptu "open space" sessions
  • Our charity used book fair (benefiting the St. Louis United Way)
  • Sponsor tables and interactions with our esteemed speakers

Friday

Discovery ADiscovery BDiscovery CDiscovery DImagination A/BImagination C/DInsightProsperitySuccessAspirationVisionNightclub
7:30-8:00 Registration opens
8:00-9:00 Keynote - LightSwitch World Premiere
Schmelzer
No sessions during keynote
9:00-9:10 Conference Announcements (Organizer & Sponsor Intro)
9:10-9:20 Keynote Tear-down
9:20-10:20 JumpStart: MVC
Mehaffie
JumpStart: LightSwitch
Grossnicklaus
Keynote Tear-down JumpStart: Windows Phone 7
Spradlin
JumpStart: WCF
Deweese
JumpStart: TFS
Fattic
JumpStart: XAML Applications
Blankenburg
JumpStart: SharePoint Development
Bertram
JumpStart: jQuery
Phelps
JumpStart: DotNetNuke
Dang
Open Spaces: Transitioning from Developer to Manager
Lee
10:30-11:30 Application Development with HTML5
Satrom
Rock Paper Azure
Benkovich
Express Yourself
Selbert
An App for Everyone
Blanchard
.NET Reactive Extensions (Rx): Explained & Demonstrated
Grossnicklaus
Smarter IT Project Decisions Using TFS, SSRS, and SharePoint
Querimit
PowerShell: Not Your Father's Command Line - 10 Things You Need to Know
Hester
Machine Learning
Juarez
Getting Func-y with C# and F#
Dahlby
Building Your Career and Your Team
Evjen
Why You Should Care the Sony PSN Was Hacked
Nehl
Open Spaces: Security Q & A
Ayers
11:30-12:30 Lunch Provided
12:30-1:30 Going from Zero to 60 in One Session: Learn to Use PowerShell in One Sitting
Fischer
Taming Dependency Chaos with Inversion of Control Containers
Bohlen
The ABC's of WCF
Wheaton
Implementing M-V-VM (Model-View-View Model) for WPF
Japikse
Hello Azure
Benkovich
Responsive Web Design, Delivering Content to Various Devices
Dang
Silverlight 101: Write Your First Silverlight Application
Eaton
Building Custom Build Events for Team Building Using Windows Workflow
Kadel
Introduction to Data Mining with SQL Server Analysis Services
Furness
SCRUM 101
Pandurangan
Social Media Presence
Davis
Open Spaces: ALM & Team Foundation Server
Fattic
1:40-2:40 Consuming Data From Many Platforms: The Benefits of OData
Boyd
Essential Kinect Development
Kumar
MVVM Unleashed
Brown
Exploring Silverlight 5
Brand
Optimizing Your ASP.NET Web Site, I've Got the Need for Speed
Hammond
Behavior-Driven Development from the Trenches
Brandt
Windows Identity Foundation
Ayers
Looking at Objective-C Through the Glass of a Typical .NET Developer
Budiman
CQRS with Event Sourcing: Getting Started
Cauthon
Introducing Office 365
Remde
.NET Development in Reporting Services
Milner
Open Spaces: Getting Started with Microsoft BI
Furness
2:50-3:50 Test Your Practical C# Knowledge
Budiman
Deliver Cleaner Code with LINQ to Objects
Japikse
Lesser-Known, but Really Useful Features of WCF 4.0
Fattic
The "Little Pitfalls" of C#
Hare
Windows Phone and Windows Azure, Better Together
Grocholski
Overview of the Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket
Boyd
The Making of the Day of .NET Web Site Using Orchard
Edmonson
Exploit the XML Capabilities of SQL Server 2008
Follas
Code Contracts
Ayers
Divorce Your DBA - Development in a World Without Relational Data
Blanchard
Execution Plans and Indexes
Tessereau
Open Spaces: Entity Framework
Tutterow
4:00-5:00 Building Web Parts for an Office 365 SharePoint Site
Bertram
What's New in Windows Phone "Mango"
Blankenburg
The "Little" Wonders of .NET
Hare
ASP.NET MVC 3
Selbert
Extending LightSwitch with Telerik / Custom Controls
Japikse
Getting the Job
Davis
How to Build the Ultimate Test Environment with Hyper-V
Hester
Add Spatial Capabilities to Your .NET Apps
Follas

Common UX Pitfalls - What You Can Do About It
Nunnally

On Time Quality
Borcherding
Custom MSBuild Tasks to Automate Your Project Development
Hammond
Open Spaces: Agile in the Real World
Mills
5:30-10:00 Nights of .NET (lounge & nightclub) - a variety of appetizers provided

Saturday

Discovery ADiscovery BDiscovery CDiscovery DImagination A/BImagination C/DInsightProsperitySuccessAspirationVisionNightclub
8:00-9:00 JumpStart: MVC
Mehaffie
JumpStart: LightSwitch
Grossnicklaus
Rock, Paper, Azure on WinPhone
Benkovich
Refactoring to a S.O.L.I.D. Foundation
Bohlen
JumpStart: Windows Phone 7
Spradlin
JumpStart: WCF
Deweese
JumpStart: TFS
Fattic
JumpStart: XAML Applications
Blankenburg
Developing SharePoint 2010 "Sandboxed" Applications
Rolland
JumpStart: jQuery
Phelps
JumpStart: DotNetNuke
Dang
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9:10-10:10 Customizing BlogEngine.NET 2.0
Kuhl
The Transformation of IT: From Virtualization to the Cloud
Remde
ASP.NET Performance
Evjen
Introduction to Test-Driven Development with NUnit and Moq
Smith
Architecting for Massive Scalability
Boyd
.NET Performance Diagnostics - What and How?
Sellers
NHibernate, FluentNHibernate and the Repository Pattern in 1 Hours or Less
Brandt
JavaScript is Not C#
Tutterow
Introduction to Netduino
Hammond
Design Quality: Learning from the Mistakes of the US Auto Industry
Truemper
Maximizing SQL Server Insert Performance
Guzman
Open Spaces: Silverlight or HTML 5
Selbert
10:20-11:20 The "Little Pitfalls" of C#
Hare
MVC, Entity Framework, and jQuery - Oh My!
Phelps
Creating Extensible Applications with MEF
Sellers
Unit Testing Patterns and Anti-Patterns
Bohlen
The Visual Studio Diaries: Testing for Developers
Fattic
The Power of Databinding in Silverlight
Strauss
Exploring Scalability and Roles
Benkovich
Top 10 Tips for Moving from Winforms to WPF
Eaton
Embrace the Buzz: Building Modern Extensions for DotNetNuke
Robinson
Q & A: Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011
Schmelzer
Introductions to User Experience Methods
Cooley
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11:20-12:40 Lunch Provided
12:40-1:40 C# Design Patterns
Juarez
Doing it Right: Building jQuery Plugins
Robinson
MVVM Unleashed
Brown
Exploring Silverlight 5
Brand
Voice Controlled - Home Automation with .NET
Phelps
IE 9 Pinned Sites
Kuhl
Building Custom Build Events for Team Building Using Windows Workflow
Kadel
So You Wanna Build a Cube...
Furness
Optimizing Your ASP.NET Web Site, I've Got the Need for Speed
Hammond
Startup Tips and Tricks: Getting a Small IT Shop Off the Ground
Grossnicklaus
Getting Agile Right!
Sipe
Open Spaces: SQL Server Q & A with Dan and Kim
Guzman
1:50-2:50 Lessons Learned: Being Agile in the Waterfall Sandbox
Japikse
The Kinect API
Juarez
Architecting Applications the Microsoft Way
Edmonson
The Tasty Flavors of Entity Framework 4.1
Tutterow
What's Wrong with this Picture? Event & Error Logging
Lackey
LINQ Extensions - Potential for Greatness
Wheaton
XRM: Not Your Mother's CRM Solution
Shahpari
SQL Server Denali: What's New for Developers
Kellenberger
Introduction to Development on iOS Devices (Read: iPhone & iPad)
Budiman
jQuery - Getting Started
Mehaffie
Building a Career in IT
Davis
Open Spaces: Suggestions for Next Year's Day of .NET
Strauss
3:00-4:00 Code Contracts
Ayers
ASP.NET MVC 3
Selbert
Distributed Application Architecture with WCF
Smith
Continuous Delivery Best Practices
Sipe
Reporting in LightSwitch
Juarez
Making $$$ with Windows Phone 7
Boyd
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