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This talk will show what you need to get started building Windows Phone 7 apps. We will also show what you need to do to get your app into the marketplace and how to add advertising.

Rob Keiser is a .Net developer, Architect and freelance writer for PC Today magazine. He has been building Windows application using various languages and tools for the past 15 years.

Practical XML usage for SQL Server 2005 and up. Working examples how to load, create, and shred the XML using XPath query methods. The XML tips and tricks.

Alex has more than 15 years IT experience. His primary focus is with the latest Microsoft technologies including .NET (VB and C#), SSRS, SSIS. He provides tuning, optimization, analysis and development service creating new applications, converting legacy technologies (SQL Server, VB.NET and C# ) and one site training. He has worked for the CSC, VerticalNet, Insurance Data Processing, LSAC to name a few and Alex is Data architect at ePharmaSolutions. He resides in Richboro, PA and provides consulting service from NYC, Philadelphia to Delaware. Alex is guest author for SQLServerSentral.com.

Want to learn Silverlight?  Join me as I take you through the basics of developing a Silverlight application.  We'll focus on the capabilities of Silverlight 4.0, but also touch on Silverlight before it's latest release.
 
Discover ways to layout your Silverlight application, connect to data, and design.  We'll also touch on what's required to set up a development environment, the steps neccessary for application development, and concluding with Silverlight resource references.

Steve Basl has been a key contributor to the support team providing the best solutions for ComponentOne customers. Steve has a strong background in Web development, but also concentrates his skills around the Windows Forms, WPF, and Silverlight platforms. He is actively involved with component training through demos, articles, and Webcasts. Currently Steve is completing his master's degree in Internet Information Systems.

Brian Donahue is a software developer with 10 years experience with a variety of web application platforms, focusing recently on ASP.NET. He was recently awarded a Microsoft MVP award in the C# language. As an organizer of the Philly ALT.NET user group (http://phillyalt.net and @phillyaltnet on Twitter), Brian tries to promote best practices and design principles proven throughout the software industry, and encourage continuous learning and improvement in the .NET developer community. His consulting company, Vitreo Solutions ( www.vitreosolutions.com), builds custom business software for its clients.

Cloud this, cloud that, everything is about the cloud today.  But what good is the cloud to you as a software engineer?  You want to make use of it to deliver applications, but how?  What about the applications you’ve already built?  Putting them “in the cloud” doesn’t do you much good if they aren’t built to take advantage of all that the cloud promises to provide.

This session will use a real world example working with the open source codeplex project “Taskr for MVC”, coupled with the SaaSGrid application delivery fabric for .NET, to expose the nuts and bolts of a production ready software as a service application. You’ll learn about the important architecture considerations and see how your existing .NET assets and expertise can be leveraged as you make the move to delivering your software as a service in the cloud.  A workshop style approach will dive into Visual Studio, walk through the Taskr project code, SaaSGrid, and more. You’ll also have an opportunity to ask questions, and receive feedback and direction for your own applications.

Mitch Ruebush is the Architecture Team Leader at ING DIRECT, fsb. He is responsible for defining and coordinating the architecture for the applications and infrastructure at ING DIRECT. He has written a number of books and articles on .NET and enjoys spending his time as a father of two great kids, a hobbyist film maker, playing piano and saxophone and trying to write a video game.

The Expression Studio suite comes with a powerful media encoding application called Encoder. Encoder can be used to convert media files from any of a numerous amount of formats to another including the available formats for Silverlight, including WMV, and with the second release of Expression Encoder 3, and the release of the recent Expression Encoder 4, the IIS Smooth Streaming format. Encoder offers a rich SDK that can be used to create a number of media encoding solutions for providing rich content to your Silverlight applications.

 

This session will start off with an overview of the Encoder SDK and some of the objects and capabilities exposed by the API. We will follow this up with a thorough walkthrough of a Windows service that can be used to automatically encode media files dropped into a directory, and publish them to your IIS web server for Smooth Streaming. This is a production ready real world implementation of the kind of solutions intended for the SDK. An additional feature is the ability to pass in an Encoder profile file, to encode to formats other than the default IIS Smooth Streaming format. We will cover every line of code and see it all in action. The service will be downloadable after the meeting and can be used for your own media encoding projects.

John Angelini is a Lead Technical Consultant with Perficient, and specializes in SharePoint architecture, development and customization. Mr. Angelini has a lengthy background in commercial graphic design and 3D animation, as well as video editing and special effect design. Additionally Mr. Angelini is the founder of the Philadelphia XAML Developers Group, Philly XAML.org and has done a lot of work with WPF, Silverlight, SharePoint, InfoPath, WCF, WF, Entity Framework and other .NET technologies. He also works with XNA Game Studio creating 2D and 3D interactive games and game engines for Windows, XBox, and Windows Phone 7.

 

In addition to being a Microsoft MVP, Mr. Angelini is a Microsoft Solution Advocate and Community Speaker. He contributes to various development communities, as well as maintains a blog that can be found on the Philly XAML website. He presents at Philly.NET CodeCamps, where he is additionally the Silverlight Track Lead. He has been actively working on producing a series of video tutorials that will be available on the Philly XAML website, as well as featured on DevReady.net and Channel 9.

Exposing your data to client applications is a common requirement across most applications; however, there are many ways to accomplish this. Each application seems to implement it a different way which leads to inconsistency across your application spectrum. With the release of the .NET Framework 3.5, Microsoft has introduced WCF Data Services (was ADO.NET Data Services) which is a collection of classes and standards to allow you to expose your data consistently and securely to your client applications. We'll focus on WCF Data Services in .NET 4, in which Microsoft has beefed up the offering, and also the data protocol known as OData.

David Hoerster, a recovering corporate financial analyst, has been working with the Microsoft .NET Framework since the early 1.0 betas. He is the co-founder of BrainCredits (www.braincredits.com), a recent start-up that is hoping to change the way people learn on the web. David is the co-chair of the Pittsburgh .NET User's Group (PGHDOTNET), organizer of several recent Pittsburgh Code Camps and is also an occasional speaker at Pittsburgh and regional user group and code camp events. David can be found rarely blogging at http://geekswithblogs.net/DavidHoerster and also is an occasional Tweeter (@DavidHoerster).

It's a fair bet that most applications require a membership repository of some sort.  With .NET 2.0, Microsoft shipped the ASP.NET Authentication Provider, which made it very easy to add a full-featured membership repository to ASP.NET applications.  This same authentication provider can be used in Silverlight applications without a lot of work.  In this session, we'll review the capabilities of this provider and see how we can use it with Silverlight applications.

Rich Dudley is a former scientist, but these days instead of studying organisms you’ll find him working with Microsoft Visual Studio. With over 10 years of enterprise development experience, Rich has written articles and given talks relating to ASP.NET, Reporting, SQL, XML, and Azure. He enjoys working with the latest technologies, and finding the potential to solve business problems.  As a technical evangelist for ComponentOne, you’ll find Rich at your local user group event or tradeshow or blogging online. His passion for development is evident in his work, whether it’s a demonstration, talk, or sample project. Visit Rich’s blog at

Acting director of the Ocean Information Center at the University of Delaware's College of Earth, Ocean and the Environment.  A technology aficianodo who loves piecing together parts and pieces to solve real world (and some imaginary) problems.

This talk will cover developing a LOB application in Silverlight and Windows Phone 7. We will discuss tools, controls, data services, tombstoning, isolated storage, the market place and show you how to get your app on the market place.

John Baird is the founder of Xamlware, a professional consulting firm specializing in Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 development. John has 30 years of experience designing, coding, and implementing software solutions.

 

John co-founded the Northern Delaware .Net Users group, is heavily involved in the local .Net communities, and travels extensively presenting to user groups, code camps and special interest groups.

 

John is also a 3 time recipient of Microsoft’s MVP award and is one of the first MVP’s for Windows Phone 7.

 

That's right, Microsoft is working on the next major release of SQL Server code name "Denali".  This session will provide a high level overview of SQL Server "Denali" from a developer perspective and maybe a few demos too!

Roger joined Microsoft in 1991 from Sybase, Inc. as a SQL Server trainer for Microsoft University.  Since then he has filled a variety of roles including pre-sales Systems Engineer for Microsoft Federal in Washington DC, Software Design Engineer for Windows Server, and Technical Evangelist for Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism. In his current role Roger focuses on driving adoption of SQL Server with professional developers worldwide.  A graduate of Drexel University, Roger is a native Philadelphian and enjoys mountain biking with his family and searching for an edge in games of chance.

The market share for SharePoint has grown in leaps and bounds over the last few years, leading to many developers being told that they are now SharePoint developers. Developing for SharePoint is a strange new world; we will cover what’s new, what’s the same, the top things that every SharePoint developer should know, and a few things to make every new developer’s life easier.

Greg Hurlman is a SharePoint Architect at LiquidHub, gamer, and father (not necessarily in that order). He has been a SharePoint developer since 2006, .NET developer since 2001, and programmer since 1984. He helps run the Princeton SharePoint User Group, and is a co-organizer for SharePoint Saturday NYC 2011.

Using CAML queries, we will demonstrate how you can use InfoPath to talk to a SharePoint library or list without the need for data connections.  Further, we will be demonstrating the customization of this data and presentation.

Matt Vignau is a senior developer with LiquidHub, Inc specializing in SharePoint.  He has worked with SharePoint 2007 for the last 5 years, specializing in the development of features and the packaging of solutions.

Webmatrix is a new web development environment that anyone can use to build a web siting using a variety of server-side languages and techniques. jQuery has become the leader of the AJAX frameworks. Combing these two resources a developer can create engaging mobile web experiences. This sessions reviews how to efficiently architect a mobile web application using WebMatrix and jQuery. We will also look at properly architecting a contextually engaging experience in the mobile web context.

Chris Love is currently developing all new web sites in ASP.NET 2.0/4.0, but still have a few in ASP.NET 1.1. I am also heavily involved with the online marketing invovled in promoting successful web sites, this includes PPC management and SEO strategies. I have been developing ASP.NET applications since ASP.NET was in Beta 1. So I have a wealth of experience with close to 300 custom built sites in that time frame. My first experience developing web pages was way back in college (NC State) in the early 90's. I quickly saw the great potential in the medium and started to preach the benefits to anyone who would listen that could give me a job after I finsihed my master's degree! First first job was less than interesting as it was developing Power Builder applications for a factory floor. My next job was a whole lot of fun the first couple of years, developing process utilization software for manaufacturing that integrated directly with Schneider Automation's (that's Square D to those of us in the US) PLC lines. I was able to build some web prototypes for our software suite, that now would be considered mobile applications (this was back in 1999). Finally I saw the future was looking pretty limited and looked around for web work, but just found office space jobs and contracts that were just not exciting to me. Finally, with my wife's blessing, I tore out on my own. The rest is current history, but a rugged one to say the least.

Discussion, demos and lots of code displaying techniques you can leverage to create cool dashboards with compelling visualizations for office-based users and mobile users. This session will be geared toward SQL Server professionals (DBAs & dev) with .NET code samples that can be easily re-used in your SQL Server BI applications.

16 years in IT and software engineering. 3 years with Microsoft as a product manager, MCS consultant and now data technology specialist. 2 years as a product manager with Oracle and too many years a DBA & developer.

Kendall Miller is one of the founding partners of Gibraltar Software, an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) that developers & markets commercial applications for .NET developers.  Introduced commercially in 2009, Gibraltar is an application logging & monitoring platform that is currently used by customers around the world from individual consultants through Fortune 100 companies and governments.

 Before starting Gibraltar Software, Kendall worked for multiple startups leading their technology development from beginning through profitability.  In each case he's focused on translating Enterprise-level performance and capabilities down to smaller companies.  Using different generations of Microsoft technologies over the past 15 years, Kendall is experienced with the details of modern .NET development as well as the challenges that have stayed the same for generations.

 Combining both IT administration and development backgrounds, Kendall focuses on application management & monitoring to ensure that solutions work at whatever scale is required to meet the needs of the business.  As a consultant, Kendall often works with customers to bridge the divide between business owners, developers, and system administrators to get everyone working together solving the right problems.

 

Get ready to build more engaging user experiences with Windows Phone 7 and several powerful cloud- and phone-based components. First up is the Microsoft Location Service, which allows you to obtain location information based on GPS, cell and Wi-Fi signals. Next, we’ll cover the Microsoft Push Notification Service, which provides “live” updates for apps running on the device.

Danilo Diaz, aka Dani, is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft's Mid-Atlantic State district. In this role, he helps developers understand Microsoft's product offerings and strategy. Prior to joining Microsoft, he worked at Perficient Philadelphia where he helped establish their Mobility Practice. Dani has over 8 years of experience in the IT industry. His ability to identify and utilize the right blend of technologies to solve business needs has been an asset on all projects he has worked on. Dani's first .NET project was a Web-based eLearning application which was built on ASP.NET 1.0 Beta 2. As a consultant he has served the roles of system architect, technical lead, developer and mentor on various large and small projects. He has worked on SOA-based applications, Web applications, Windows applications and mobile systems.

nopCommerce is an open source e-commerce engine written in C# and utilizing Etity Framework.  This engine is a great, free product that allows rapid development and low start-up costs and time.  We'll go over the basics of the engine, and dive into some code showing how to extend the cart to the user's needs.

Brandon is a consultant with CapTech Consulting located in Richmond, VA.

Many users frequently use instant messaging to interact with their friends, and increasingly colleagues at work.  With Microsoft Lync (as well as Office Communication Server) developers can use real time collaboration as a way to build richer and more interactive applications that integrate business information into real time collaboration and interact more efficiently.  This session will provide an overview of the capabilities available to developers with code and demonstrate integrating business data, real time communications, and SharePoint into a live application using Silverlight.  The session will cover the Lync APIs, the basics of developing Silverlight in SharePoint, and show how to inject line of business data into an instant messaging conversation.

Chris Keyser is a principal program manager in patterns and practices at Microsoft. In this role he works on a team that publishes guidance on proven practices and patterns to help solution architects and developers use SharePoint as well as other technologies effectively. Chris has worked at Microsoft for about six years with previous positions in Office as the Group Program Manager for Duet, and in DPE as the lead architect for the Global ISV team. Chris spent the decade prior to joining Microsoft working for a series of start-up companies using a variety of technologies in real time and business system development. For the first five years after graduating from Dartmouth College in 1984 Chris raised havoc in the United States Navy as an engineering officer on a nuclear power cruiser, the USS Virginia.

 

Teo works for Microsoft as a Technology Architect specializing on Unified Communications.  Prior to Microsoft worked for enterprise customers: Independence Blue Cross, Catholic Health East, and Comcast Corporation.  United States Marine ;-).

What is this agile thing everybody is fighting over and why should I care? Does it really work? In this session we'll cover the basic principles of Scrum, an agile project management methodology. We'll talk about when it is good, what to watch out for, and how to avoid being dogmatic about Scrum.

Eric Kepes is an aspiring software craftsman specializing in developing distributed systems using agile methods. He enjoys sharing his experiences using technology with the .Net community at user group meetings and Code Camps. He is on the board of directors for the Pittsburgh .Net User Group and the Pittsburgh Code Camps. Having spent over 16 years in software development wearing many different hats, he currently works for McKesson Automation as a Technical Lead Developer building pharmacy automation solutions.

When he’s not playing with computers or studying the latest fads in agile engineering and process, he enjoys spending time with his wife Barbara and two daughters Anna and Paige. Visit Eric’s blog at http://erickepes.com or follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ekepes.