The Event Begins In….
Sessions Are Filling Up Quickly. Register Now!
Presentation materials are added/updated as they are received from the speakers.
Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies
By the end of the day you’ll have all the code and notes to add intelligence to your solutions. more
Come spend 75 minutes digging into Visual Studio Team Services with Visual Studio 2017. more
In this session, you'll learn where the SQL Server database fits in to DevOps, and how you can use tools to extend your infrastructure to make the database a first-class citizen, just like your source code. more
Roy Cornelissen, Lead Consultant , Xpirit
Mobility has taken a real flight in recent years, and is also becoming prevalent in the Enterprise. more
Esteban Garcia, Chief Technologist, Nebbia Technology
We will use Team Services to create a continuous integration build and release process that will help you go from coding in Visual Studio 2017 to running your code in Azure in just a few simple actions. more
Benjamin Day, Consultant & Trainer, Benjamin Day Consulting, Inc.
In this session, Ben will discuss what unit testing & TDD are all about, why you should care, and how to do it with C# and ASP.NET MVC. more
Damian Brady, Cloud DevOps Advocate, Microsoft
We'll walk through the realities of a no-touch deployment pipeline that you can trust all the way to production, and we'll examine some clever architectural patterns to enable true software agility. more
This session will introduce you to Application Insights, how to get started using it in your new and existing applications, and how to harness its power by adding instrumentation with your own metrics. more
Bradley Ball, Sr. Consultant – Premier Support for Developers, Microsoft
Joshua Luedeman, Senior Consultant, Microsoft
In this session we will review what the new Modern Data Warehouse looks like, how we ingest data, review data, connect R Studio to SQL Server, move R scripts to In-Database R, and visualize the data with Power BI. more
Thomas LeBlanc, Data Warehouse Independent Consultant , Data on the Geaux
There have been long awaited updates in the Business Intelligence stack and new features to bring analytics into SQL Server 2016. more
We will look at the last couple releases to validate what the future holds for Analysis Services. more
Ginger Grant, Consultant, SolidQ
The session will demonstrate the Polybase configurations, query formats for accessing Polybase data, and examples of query performance for different types of queries. more
Data Science. You've heard the buzz word, but what is it? It is a quantifiable and repeatable process. more
Andrew Brust, Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence, Datameer
Power BI has been a runaway success for Microsoft in terms of adoption and mindshare; at this point almost everyone has an awareness of it. more
Karen Lopez, Data Evangelist, InfoAdvisors
Join us for this discussion of graph processing and databases, with demonstrations of the new features that allow you to leverage both graph and relational technologies within the same database. more
Azure Data Lake Analytics are used to provide meaning to data stored in an Azure Data Lake. This session will show how to analyze the data using a U-SQL, a powerful new query processing language. more
Azure Data Lake Analytics are used to provide meaning to data stored in an Azure Data Lake. more
Jen Stirrup, Industry Analyst / Author
We will examine strategies for using open source technologies to improve existing common Business Intelligence issues, using Apache Spark as our backdrop to delivering open source Big Data analytics. more
Edwin Sarmiento, Managing Director, 15C
SQL Server 2016 introduces the ability to run both analytics and OLTP workloads on the same database tables at the same time with minimal impact on business critical OLTP workloads. more
In this workshop, we'll look at the full Microsoft BI stack, including SQL Server Analysis Services, Power BI and Excel. more
Petri Paavola, Yodamiitti Oy
Windows 10 provides new ways to install computers without using traditional reimaging with win–images and Task Sequences. more
Sami Laiho MVP, MCITP, MCT, Senior Technical Fellow, Adminize
In this fast–paced session, you will see how to really set the pagefile settings on Windows. more
Panu Saukko, ProTrainIT Oy
Join this session to hear tips how to manage most effectively SCCM Current Branch upgrades. more
In this session, we will see how to REALLY set the pagefile settings on Windows. more
This session covers ways to gather Sysinternals Process Monitor traces remotely, network traces remotely and Powershell scripts and commands. more
John O'Neill Sr. MVP, MCSA, Chief Technologist, AWS Solutions
This session will get into the details of leveraging the Office Deployment Tool to customize an Office 365 installation, fine tune program options, and define a local Office 365 deployment share to speed installations. more
System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) Current Branch provides a complete feature set to manage Windows 10 devices. more
During this workshop, you will learn how to implement Windows 10 cloud management using Microsoft's services from start to finish. more
Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic
Jason Bock MVP (C#), Practice Lead, Magenic
This workshop will cover the fundamentals of distributed computing, along with tools and frameworks you can use to build and deploy your application. more
Vishwas Lele, Chief Technology Officer , AIS
Many are increasingly seeing microservices as the architectural style of choice, especially when it comes to building cloud-based applications. more
Mete Atamel, Developer Advocate , Google
more
Brian Clark, Developer Advocate , Microsoft
Learn how to architect and build Azure functions apps and microservices for a variety of scenarios. more
Marcel de Vries, CTO, Xpirit
During this session, you'll have a look at how to realize a Micro services architecture (MSA) using the latest Microsoft technologies available. more
This session will go over tips and tricks designed to help you make more effective use of the cloud. more
Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX
In this session, you will learn how to build robust web apps and business solutions using the Azure PaaS services. more
In this session we will have a look at different technologies that we have at hand to separate feature deployments from feature exposure, making it possible to make releasing a feature to the end user nothing more then the flip of a switch. more
Nick Zimmerman, Senior Site Reliability Engineer, SparkPost
Join Azure MVP, Eric D. Boyd, and learn how to secure your Azure Data Center by reducing the exposure for attacks, locking down internal and external communications, protecting your data, and monitoring the activities within your Azure environment. more
René van Osnabrugge , ALM consultant, Xpirit
In this one day Workshop we will guide you through the concepts behind Micro Services, Containers and Containerized delivery to help you build and manage MSA based systems. more
Paul Schaeflein Microsoft MVP - Office Development, Enterprise Architect, DMI (Digital Management, LLC)
Microsoft Teams is a chat-based conversation tool, that contains everything your team needs to keep in touch. more
Andrew Connell MVP, Consultant, Instructor, Developer, & Author, Andrew Connell Inc.
The new way Microsoft wants us to customize and extend SharePoint is to use the SharePoint Framework. more
Rob Windsor, Lead Consultant, PAIT Group / eXtaCloud
This session introduces TypeScript and shows how it can be used in SharePoint Apps and Solutions. more
Yina Arenas, Principal Program Manager Lead, Microsoft
learn how easy it is to use the Microsoft Graph to build apps that access data from the consumer cloud and the commercial cloud using a single code base more
Microsoft Office clients, from Outlook to Excel, Word, PowerPoint and even OneNote support an extensibility option. more
Since the Server Object Model cannot be used remotely, developers building these external systems will need to become familiar with the Client Object Model (CSOM) and/or the REST API if they want to communicate with SharePoint. more
Microsoft has extended the SharePoint Framework from the initial release of introducing client-side web parts to provide ways to extend the user experience. more
This session will introduce a community effort that enables SPFx component development in Visual Studio. more
Robert Bogue, SharePoint Shepherd, Thor Projects, LLC
Come learn how to connect Flow, APIs, Azure AD and Office 365 in this demo-heavy session. more
Julie Turner, Principal Architect, Sympraxis Consulting
Data visualizations are a hot commodity, and "Power" tools abound. more
The Office 365 Developer Patterns and Practices (PnP) team have released two libraries focused on increase developer productivity by reducing the amount of code needed when building remote applications. more
One API to rule them all, the Microsoft Graph API is the central hub to access all your Office 365 assets such as user profiles, Groups, One Drive, Excel, and video. more
Melissa Januszko, Technology Architect, Cerner Corporation
This session will show you how to configure a PKI infrastructure for your DSC needs; including why you want a PKI, how to set up a two–tier PKI, and how to configure the PKI to issue document encryption certificates. more
In this introductory session, you will learn how to get started writing Pester tests—even before writing your code—to ensure the quality of your PowerShell scripts and functions. more
Timothy Warner, Author/Evangelist, Pluralsight
Sometimes you need to go beyond simple string matching. more
DevOps means systems administrators need to learn about source code control. more
Jeffery Hicks PowerShell MVP, Senior Technology Fellow, JDH IT Solutions
In this session, you'll learn some scripting secrets from a long time PowerShell MVP. more
In this full day workshop, you'll learn how easy it is to take advantage of DSC's more advanced features. more
Matthew Soucoup, Senior Cloud Developer Advocate , Microsoft
No matter if you are new to mobile development with Xamarin or an expert crafting beautiful native apps there are always new and exciting advancements to help make it fast, easy, and fun. more
Both C# and the .NET Framework have a ton of features and capabilities within, but sometimes erroneous information is spread about how they work. more
Joey D'Antoni
In this quick talk, you will learn about the Linux operating system, how to login to it, and how to best deploy SQL Server on the Linux platform. more
Data Warehousing for developers and IT professionals. more
Greg Shields MVP, vExpert, Author Evangelist, Pluralsight
Easily, one of the most difficult parts of starting with IT certification is knowing where to start. more
Matthew McDermott, Founder and Director, Aptillon, Inc.
In this session, you will learn how to help your users find what they seek, promote content, and create a great end user experience with SharePoint Search Query Rules. more
There are lots of examples showing how to build and deploy SharePoint Framework client web parts. But what if you want to provision assets like content types or lists to go along with your web part? more
Allen Conway, Lead Consultant , Magenic
Learn about some of the mainstream frameworks like Cordova/PhoneGap, Kendo UI, and Onsen UI to see how they can be leveraged to build hybrid web applications. more
At some point you are going to need to get your existing code base running on .NET Core, UWP, Xamarin, or another flavor of .NET. more
Miguel Castro MRD, President, Melvicorp LLC
Come jump in head first into using DI containers to assist you in making easy to resolve classes at any level in any size object hierarchy. more
In this demo-led session, we will look at Python in Visual Studio with some examples that will help you on your way to success with Python. more
Tim Mitchell Data Platform MVP, Principal, Tyleris Data Solutions
In this session, we will review and demonstrate the essential features of SQL Database. more
Peter De Tender, Microsoft Cloud Solution Architect, PDTIT
This demo-only session walks you through the architecture, deployment, troubleshooting and best practices sides of Azure Site Recovery. more
Ben Stegink, Owner and SharePoint Architect, Intelligink, LLC
In this 20-minute flash focus session you'll come away with my top 5 PowerShell tricks that are a must when writing scripts for SharePoint. more
Come hear some of the SharePoint developer presenters share their thoughts on some top of mind issues going on in the SharePoint development space! more
This session will demystify WebAssembly, demonstrate exactly what it is and provide insight into how this will affect JavaScript and web development in the future. more
Ted Neward, Director, Developer Relations, Smartsheet.com
In the world of the Single-Page Application (SPA), one name that appears over and over again is that of AngularJS, a JavaScript web framework that does things a little differently--and with great effect. more
In this full day workshop, you'll walk through the process of building one app for many platforms. more
Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.
Roll up your sleeves, and get ready to spend a full day learning great new features for developers in SQL Server 2016. more
Allan Hirt, Consultant, author, and trainer
SQL Server 2016 and 2017 have major enhancements to existing availability features as well as brand new ones that increase uptime for SQL Server instances and databases. more
Mike Danseglio, Principal Technologist, Next Direction Technologies
Avril Salter Ph.D., Principal Technologist, Next Direction Technologies
This is a hands-on session on ethical hacking using the infamous penetration tool Kali Linux. more
Bruce Mackenzie-Low MCSE/MCSA, Systems Software Engineer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Take advantage of this opportunity to enhance your troubleshooting skills by learning how to tackle the toughest problems that Windows can dish out. more
Agnes Molnar, CEO, Managing Consultant, Search Explained
You've just been given the responsibility for search at your organization - what's next? more
Many organizations want to have "quick win" in search: they want to "implement changes or enhancements that require minimal effort to drive business value associated with Search in the short term". more
This session will cover the new intelligent insight capabilities, improvements to search relevance and performance, as well as new productivity scenarios. more
Brian Pendergrass, Senior Premier Field Engineer, Microsoft
Cloud Hybrid Search enables a powerful abstraction layer for your content spread across Office 365 and on-premises - just one place to search for it all. more
Jeremy Moskowitz Group Policy MVP, Founder, GPanswers.com / PolicyPak Software
Come to this session and come away knowing what management tool is the right one for what job. more
Inside the box from Microsoft are a gaggle of fortification tools to keep the bad guys away. more
This session will show you some very important tips, tricks and traps about Windows 10 and Server 2016. more
Richard Hicks Microsoft Cloud and Datacenter MVP , Founder and Principal Consultant, Richard M Hicks Consulting
Network virtualization, encrypted communication, and multiple abstraction layers all pose challenges to optimum network performance. more
With a few exceptions, DNS has remained largely unchanged in the last few releases of Windows Server. more
Sven van Rijen, Technology Lead & Senior Desktop Engineer, Wageningen University and Research (WUR)
Are you busy studying for (Microsoft) exams and sick and tired of manually rebuilding your lab environment over and over again? more
Greg Shields has been using Camtasia on a near-daily basis for over a decade. more
Nick Cavalancia, Founder / Chief Techvangelist, Techvangelism
Everyone dreams of working for themselves, or some additional way to make money. more
John Papa, Principal Developer Advocate , Microsoft
Learn how to take your app across the finish line and get access to the source code and instructions so you can try it yourself! more
Charles Sterling, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft
Charles Sterling does a walkthrough and demo of what's just been released, and a look at what the teams are working on for future releases. more
Mark Minasi, IT Consultant, Author, Speaker, MR&D
Mark Minasi will provide IT Pros with stories, a lot of laughs, and possibly even a couple of useful bits of advice. more
From content discovery with Delve, time and network insights with MyAnalytics, to powerful people and content experiences throughout - we will explore how intelligence helps you and your organization discover the right people, the right content, and save time. more
Learn how to take your app across the finish line and you’ll get access to the source code and instructions so you can try it yourself! more
Buck Hodges, Director of Engineering, Visual Studio Team Services, Microsoft
uck will tell you how Microsoft took an on-premises product, Team Foundation Server, that shipped about every two years and moved to an agile release cycle of about every three weeks. more
Martin Leifker, Vice President, Digital Innovation and Solutions, Texas Mutual Insurance Company
Francois Charette, Senior Vice President, Engineering, OptumInsight
Matt Lockhart, Executive Vice President, Magenic
Tis panel covers the trends that are most prevalent in the intersection of Business & Software/Technology, how those trends manifest in technology and what it means to the audience’s professional development. more
Jeremy Clark, Developer Educator, JeremyBytes.com
Billy Hollis, XAML Slinger
Deborah Kurata, Microsoft MVP and Google Developer Expert
If you’re a developer, come to this interactive panel where you can put your two cents in and hear honest feedback from our group of speakers. more
Thomas LaRock, Head Geek, SolarWinds
If you’d like some answers to your data questions, come to this SQL Server Live! panel discussion. more
Dave Kawula, Principal Consultant , TriCon Elite Consulting
Join our panel of world leading experts to hear how they believe the Windows environments of the future will be managed. more
Scott Hoag MCITP/MCPD, Office 365 Solutions Architect, Crowley Maritime
Come to this panel, staffed by Office & SharePoint Live! speakers, backed with years of experience in these topics, to get guidance and ideas on how to tackle the challenges facing you and your organization. more
Kevin Ford, Mobile Practice Lead, Magenic
You have quite the array of choices in front of you when building a mobile app. Should you build a native app for each platform? Use a pure responsive web approach? more
Adam Tuliper, Principal Software Engineer, DX, Microsoft
Part Q&A with speakers and conference chairs and part peer exchange more
Denny Cherry, Principal Consultant, Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting
Part Q&A with speakers and conference chairs and part peer exchange. more
Brent Edwards, Principal Lead Consultant, Magenic
During this workshop, you'll look at how a mobile backend is created using Azure more
This session will demonstrate how all these concepts fit together to enable what we call “modern app development”. more
In this session you'll see several options for modern app architecture with discussion about the pros and cons of each. more
Jim Barrett, Senior UX Designer , Magenic
Learn some new ways of thinking that will enable you to reimagine application development. more
Learn how to manage your backlog, issues, scheduling, requirements gathering, and reporting with VSTS, and how to leverage git to enable agile development effectively through Git Flow. more
Dan Nordquist, Director of Technology, Bluespire Marketing
Learn how .NET Core enables the use of Docker, and how your CI server and process can be enhanced to result in production of deployment-ready Docker containers for on-premises, Azure, or other cloud-hosted environments. more
Michael Lester, Chief Information Security Officer , Magenic
Michael will discuss how to integrate security into each step in an agile app dev process, while maintaining good velocity toward ultimate delivery more
In this session you’ll learn how to make the most of ASP.NET MVC and Web API services to support the rich Angular client app in the browser covered in the next session. more
Learn how to use Angular (1 and 2) to build a rich and compelling user experience in the browser, supported by the ASP.NET MVC and Web API back-end. more
Scott Diehl, Practice Lead, Magenic
In this session you’ll learn how to use PowerBI to analyze data stored in SQL Server to enable users and decision makers to efficiently do their jobs. more
Learn how to reuse nearly all of your code while providing a comparable user experience on iOS and Android using Xamarin.Forms. more
This workshop is a no-holds barred deep dive into use of Xamarin, Angular, ASP.NET Core, MVC, Web API, and UWP. more
In this session, you'll learn about the technology that Xamarin offers and how it works to enable developers to leverage a shared C# code base across all mobile platforms. more
During this session, we will focus on the latest developments in Xamarin.Forms enabling you to share even more code and build even more beautiful apps in less time. more
Nick Landry, Senior Technical Evangelist , Microsoft
This session explores how you can build cloud-enabled cross-platform applications for iOS, Android and Windows 10 devices using C#, Xamarin tools & frameworks, and Microsoft Azure Mobile App Services. more
With the Microsoft Business Application Platform, citizen developers and professional developers alike gain new ways of working and adapting more productively. more
Manas Maheshwari, Senior Program Manager, PowerApps Team, Microsoft
Pratap Ladhani, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft
In this session you will learn about the current methods and future roadmap for packaging assets across PowerApps, Flow, and the Common Data Service. more
Billy's first rule for designing better UX - don't sit down at your computer first. more
Session focuses on creating continuous integration and deployment setups for mobile applications. more
Come go six layers deep in the composition for a typical business app in XAML, from the outer application shell to the deepest inner workings of controls. more
This workshop is an autobiography to the life of one of the leading Windows Security Experts Sami Laiho. more
Dale Meredith, Owner, My Mentored Learning, Inc.
This session will cover the four primary emotions attackers use to gain users' trust, which eventually leads to the attacker gaining access to your resources. more
This session will cover how to implement your own penetration test against yourself using PowerShell so you can start to see the new techniques and tools being using against your networks. more
Nestori Syynimaa, Senior Consultant, Sovelto Plc
The security has always been the most discussed issue in cloud services, such as Office 365. more
This session will raise awareness of security issues associated with some basic Office 365 features. more
DirectAccess, a remote access technology included with Windows Server 2016, is a paradigm shift in the way you deliver remote access. more
Failover Clustering hasn't always been the easiest technology to bring high availability to Windows services. more
In this session, you'll learn everything you need to know about Microsoft Hyper Converged Storage Solution called Storage Spaces Direct (S2D). more
The Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit is practically as old as Windows itself, yet many are unsure how to leverage this powerful toolkit. more
Neil Peterson, Senior Content Developer, Microsoft
This session will discuss and demonstrate Docker, and related technology, from A to Z. more
This workshop will detail the prerequisites for SharePoint Hybrid configuration and clarify the SharePoint hybrid workloads. more
Office 365 Groups have become a foundational service in Office 365 and offer connectivity between Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Yammer, Planner, Microsoft Teams and more. more
In this session, Rob will talk about the key admin options around sharing, creating site collections, and what that means for you. more
Organizations big and small can leverage Office 365 with their on-premises systems, gaining the agility of a hosted solution that is always up-to-date while adhering to your current policies for compliance and security. more
In this workshop, you'll learn everything you may possibly need know about deploying Office 365 to your organization (or at least almost everything). more
Philip Japikse Microsoft MVP, MCSD, CSM, and CSP, Developer, Coach, Author, Teacher
In this session, Phil will take you through his favorite features of Entity Framework that will significantly improve your productivity and ease of maintaining your data access code. more
It takes a special kind of person to be Scrum Master - Nerves of steel, a lot of finesse, and some ridiculously great people skills. more
Developers and IT Pros are like enemies forced onto the same team. more
Design patterns are not just for architects. In fact, you already use Design Patterns but probably don't know it. more
Many of our modern frameworks have Dependency Injection (DI) built in. But how do we use that effectively? more
Janis Griffin, Database Performance Evangelist, Solarwinds
There are over 800 wait types in SQL Server, but in my experience there are only 10 that DBAs and developers should be very familiar with. more
In this session, we will discuss and demonstrate loading a data warehouse using SQL Server Integration Services. more
Using Biml (Business Intelligence Markup Language) can greatly increase your productivity as an ETL developer. more
Grant Fritchey, Product Evangelist, Red Gate Software
This session will show you how to explore the nooks and crannies of an execution plan in order to more easily find the necessary information needed to make what the plan is telling you crystal clear. more
In this session, learn Windows PowerShell from the ground up and how you can use it with SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) to administer and manage a SQL Server instance. more
SQL Server includes recent features that focus on data security and privacy. more
During this session Microsoft MVP and Certified Master Denny Cherry will give you the basic information that is needed to get that new SQL Server that you've just been told that you need to manage running and safe. more
In this session we will look at the features which are provided with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 & 2014 as part of the "AlwaysOn Availability Group" features including site to site configurations to allow of a large scale high availability solution without the need for any high end SAN storage solution. more
In this all day workshop on Microsoft SQL Server we will be learning about how Microsoft SQL Server works and what needs to be done to keep it up and running smoothly when you don't have a full time database administrator on staff to help you keep it running. more
SQL Server 2016 adds many powerful features that you'll learn about in this demo-packed session. more
In this session we will do an introduction to the language and show demos, examples, recommended tutorials, as we prepare to utilize and support R. more
Join this session for advanced expertise in R options for SQL Server for Big Data. more
This session presents an overview of Azure Cosmos DB, a globally distributed, massively scalable, low (single-digit millisecond) latency, fully managed NoSQL database service that is designed specifically for modern web and mobile applications. more
This session reintroduces Azure SQL Database and shows the high degree of functionality and improved performance that is now available. more
In this session you will learn how to protect your data in Azure. more
This session will be an introduction to Azure Data Factory (ADF). more
This session will provide you with the core knowledge to create your own Powershell scripts and it will give you a set of foundation scripts from which you can build your own. more
Pinal Dave MS Computer Science , SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert
This demo-oriented day-long workshop will answer the questions which DBAs and Developers often wonder about Performance Tuning and Query Optimization. more
This session is for all the Developers who want their server to perform at blazing fast speed, but want to invest very little time to make it happen. more
In this session you will learn the basics of how to tune queries in a SQL Server environment, through a demo-heavy and technique focused session. more
SQL Server 2014 introduced a new cardinality estimator. more
In this presentation, Janis Griffin, database performance evangelist at SolarWinds, will share her secrets for determining the best approach for tuning queries by utilizing the performance schema (specifically instrumented wait types, query execution plans, SQL diagramming techniques and more). more
In this session, we will cover all the information you need to collect and consider before, during, and after upgrading to SQL Server 2016. more
Hugo Kornelis MVP, Database Consultant, PerFact B.V.
User-defined functions in SQL Server are very much like custom methods and properties in .Net languages. more
Late 2016, Microsoft announced a new feature coming to both SQL Database on Azure and SQL Server "vNext": Adaptive Query Processing. more
Learn the latest and greatest updates to the Azure Platform IaaS and PaaS services, bringing you all the required knowledge to start architecting and deploying Azure resources as soon as you are back in the office, with confidence. more
With partners and customers deploying more and more Azure components, both IAAS and PAAS, in a pure Azure cloud or hybrid approach, requires having decent monitoring capabilities at their disposal. more
This session will show you where to go, what to look for, and how to set controls on your Azure spend. more
This session will dive into a fully integrated ARM deployment. more
This session will detail the many ways in which you can engage with Azure and Azure virtual machines using PowerShell. more
Tarek Dawoud, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft
Mark Morowczynski, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft
Azure Active Directory is quickly becoming one of the most used cloud directories for business. more
This will be a thorough discussion of how identity federation protocols work, specifically SAML and OpenID Connect. more
Visual Studio 2017 is here. As always, the latest release of Visual Studio is packed with new goodies. more
Lee Brandt, Developer Advocate, Okta
In this session, you will learn how to build and connect intelligent bots to interact with your users naturally wherever they are, from text/sms to Skype, Slack, Facebook, e-mail and other popular services. more
In this session, we'll explore where C# 6 left off and C# 7 picks up to include features such as pattern matching to do advanced comparisons with values in objects, local functions for function-in-function support (which can be better than anonymous if you understand their use cases), and tuple value types. more
Join this session to learn all about the .NET Standard and leave understanding the portability of .NET code. more
Chris Klug, Senior Software Developer, Tretton37
You will learn about the different tools that a front-end developer needs to know today, such as Gulp, Webpack, npm, node etc. more
In this session, you will go from barely being able to spell Angular, to understanding the development environment, the tools, and the overall architecture. more
For a lot of Microsoft devs, the two main frameworks to focus on are Aurelia and Angular. more
In this session, I'll give you a run-down on how to leverage all your existing AngularJS knowledge but learning a great hierarchical way of designing your applications. more
Come to this session and learn all about the TypeScript language from its object oriented features to its ES6-style capabilities. more
This session begins with a brief introduction to template-driven forms. Then covers the Reactive approach to building Angular forms, performing validation, watching for user changes. more
This session explores the many facets of routing in an Angular application, and covers a lot of awesome yet practical techniques. more
Learn how to develop, build, and deploy Angular (v5) applications using the most important Angular features. more
I'll teach you what a Service Oriented Architecture is and then you'll learn how to use WCF & Web API from the ground up, side-by-side, comparing their strengths and weaknesses along the way. more
This session will show you what you need to know to move to ASP.NET Core MVC for Web UI and RESTful services. more
Brock Allen , Application Security Architect, Solliance
In this short talk, we will look at the four most common security concerns that application architectures today need. more
ASP.NET Core is now here and this means we now have a fundamentally new architecture for authenticating users in our applications. more
Traditional security for web applications involves cookies, but web APIs have a fundamentally different security model. more
Robert Boedigheimer, Principal Systems Developer, Schwans Shared Services, LLC
The HTTP protocol is now over 15 years old and it has served us well, but a new version will address some of the fundamental problems with how it was implemented "on the wire." more
This session will review a custom tag helper used to augment the lowly "img" tag to provide simple support for responsive images that delivers the most appropriate image for a particular device and use. more