This month we have 5 short-form presentations covering a variety of topics. You're guaranteed to learn something! Food will be provided.
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Sharp Architecture (S#arp)
Sharp Architecture is an ASP.NET MVC template which builds a specific web and file system framework that enforces concepts and patterns such as loosely-coupled components, Domain Driven Design, dependency inversion, mocking, and more. Sharp Architecture comes preconfigured with NHibernate, Castle Windsor, log4net, MvcContrib, NUnit, and T4 Templates for your objects. In this demo I'll walk you through the structure of the template and discuss some important features that make Sharp Architecture worth checking out.
Publish/Subscribe Messaging framework
A Publish/Subscribe Messaging framework can be a great way to have an event driven architecture that reaches outside of the machine boundaries. Such a messaging framework can be used for gaining a better understanding as to what an Enterprise Service Bus might look like under the hood. I will demonstrate a Pub/Sub Messaging framework that was built using WCF and what benefits it gave me in providing key flexible functionality. We will be looking at a functional demo and diving into the code of an application that was used to manage real time scoring of a robotic sporting event.
An Overview of Hyper-V on Server 2008
- Hardware Requirements
- Determining if your hardware is supported
- Systems Supported
- Features and Capabilities
- How to Install Hyper-V
- Creating a virtual machine
- Additional Resources on Hyper-V
Silverlight 3
With the release of Silverlight 3 in July, Microsoft's RIA platform continues to grow in popularity and capability. A walk through some of the new features and a demo using the .NET RIA Services framework.
HTML/JavaScript RIAs
Due to the increasing power of web technologies, you can now build rich user experiences with just HTML and JavaScript. A survey of approaches, runtimes, helpers, and a demo or two. There will also be a focus on portability and reuse.