KY Day of .NET

Test Driven/Test First Development is more than writing your unit tests first. It requires a very different thought process. We’ll dive into that process with a (mostly) code driven session.  We will cover  where we will examine test first development practices including code coverage, dependency injection, and mocking.

No Report Manager fluff. No report designer. This presentation is about taking advantage of the extensibility of Reporting Services to build on the platform to customize your implementation

Tired of writing CRUD?  Codegen or not, there's got to be a better way!  NHibernate is the most excellent port of Java's Hibernate to the .Net platform offering flexibility and versatility to give you time to solve the problems you are paid to solve.  We will dive into a mostly code based session, looking into extending the framework, configuration, mapping, concurrency, and solutions to the most common CRUD scenarios.

In this lap around WF, learn what WF is, what it isn't, and how it will change the way you build workflow applications with the .NET framework.  We'll cover what we mean by "workflow", what dive into the tools Microsoft has provided to help us build workflow-enabled systems.

This presentation will demonstrate how you can extend the workflow functionality of WSS and MOSS by creating custom workflow activities for SharePoint Designer without in-depth knowledge of SharePoint.

LINQ at development/compile time is great, but what if you need to allow the user to select criteria, filter results, and change that query at runtime?  This presentation will explore three different approaches to building “dynamic” LINQ queries at runtime.  The advantages and disadvantages will be discussed through the use of discussion and code demonstrations.  A beginner level understanding of LINQ is suggested

Carey Payette is a Senior Software Developer at American Electric Power. She is a graduate of Laurentian University in Computer Science. She has been a developer on the Microsoft .NET Platform since 2002 and is president of the Central Ohio .Net Developers Group (CONDG.org). Her skillsets include the .NET framework (mainly C#), Java (JEE), PHP and more recently has been dabbling in Dynamic languages like (Iron)Ruby.  While not reading twitter messages, Carey enjoys spending time with her husband and 3 young boys.

TFS offers the ability to create custom process templates to help manage/organize your software development projects.  We'll talk about why you should and how to best implement a custom process through TFS.

.Net 3.5 ushered in a new Web Programming Model for Wcf which extended the library to support REST, Json, and Syndication.  This session will dive into what this new model has to offer and how you can use it to extend the reach and scalability of your applications

On most days, you probaby have a need to request, load, and present information from some data source.  Throughout the course of this session you will learn how to accomplish these three things within the exciting Silverlight 2 platform. The majority of this session will focus on the distinguishing data templating features. 

ASP.NET developers in many industries are hearing more and more about SharePoint these days.  Whether companies are thinking about implementing it or have already done so, developers need to know ways in which they leverage SharePoint.  In this talk we’ll help developers gain a new understanding of SharePoint as a platform upon which their applications can live.  We’ll talk about some of the core functionality that’s available (that you don’t have to write) and will show you how you can begin customizing SharePoint to make it do what you want.

Windows Presentation Foundation is "the most significant technology to come out of Microsoft. Ever." according to Mark Miller.  We've all seen the demos of Visual Studio 2008 with Blend to create breathtaking UIs, but what is under the hood?  Is WPF useful to the average developer cranking out WinForms applications for internal corporate use?  To answer this question we will take a close look at WPF code -
without Design Mode or Blend.  Warning: This is a no Technotainment Zone!