Tracks -- Visual Studio Live!: Training Conferences and Events for Enterprise Microsoft .NET and Azure Developers

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

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

TH03 Entity Framework Core for Enterprise Applications

Thursday June 15 8:00am - 9:15am

Benjamin Day, Consultant & Trainer, Benjamin Day Consulting, Inc.

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TH07 Power BI: Analytics for Desktop, Mobile and Cloud

Thursday June 15 9:30am - 10:45am

Andrew Brust, Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence, Datameer

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TH11 Big Data with Hadoop, Spark and Azure HDInsight

Thursday June 15 11:00am - 12:15pm

Andrew Brust, Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence, Datameer

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TH15 Using Cognitive Services in Business Applications

Thursday June 15 1:15pm - 2:30pm

TH19 Introduction to Azure Machine Learning Studio (for the Non-Data Scientist)

Thursday June 15 2:45pm - 4:00pm

Keynote / General Session

Keynote: Microsoft PowerApps and Flow - Building Apps that Mean Business, with Low to No Code Tuesday June 13 8:00am - 9:00am

Saurabh Pant, Principal Product Manager, Customer and Partner Success Team, Microsoft

This keynote will walk you through how you, as professional developers, can lead and support PowerApps development within your organization. more

General Session: Developing with Granite and Diamonds - New Productivity on Solid Foundations

Wednesday June 14 11:00am - 12:00pm

Adam Tuliper, Principal Software Engineer, DX, Microsoft

In this session, we're going to do some exploring of our base – our foundation in .NET and Visual Studio. more

Native Client

T01 Go Mobile With C#, Visual Studio, and Xamarin

Tuesday June 13 9:15am - 10:30am

Kevin Ford, Mobile Practice Lead, Magenic

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T05 Conquer the Network - Making Resilient and Responsive Connected Mobile C# Apps

Tuesday June 13 10:45am - 12:00pm

Roy Cornelissen, Lead Consultant , Xpirit

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T09 Lessons Learned from Real World Xamarin.Forms Projects

Tuesday June 13 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Nick Landry, Senior Technical Evangelist , Microsoft

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T11 Cloud Enable an Existing WPF LOB App

Tuesday June 13 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Robert Green, Technical Evangelist, Developer Experience and Evangelism (DX), Microsoft

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T13 Xamarin vs. Cordova

Tuesday June 13 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Sahil Malik, Founder, winsmarts.com

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W05 Write Once Run Everywhere, Cordova, Electron, and Angular2

Wednesday June 14 9:30am - 10:45am

Sahil Malik, Founder, winsmarts.com

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TH01 Let's Write a Windows 10 App: A Basic Introduction to Universal Apps

Thursday June 15 8:00am - 9:15am

Billy Hollis, XAML Slinger

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TH05 Implementing the MVVM Pattern in Your Xamarin Apps

Thursday June 15 9:30am - 10:45am

Kevin Ford, Mobile Practice Lead, Magenic

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TH09 Building Cross-Platform Business Apps with CSLA. NET

Thursday June 15 11:00am - 12:15pm

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

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TH13 Creating Great Looking Android Applications Using Material Design

Thursday June 15 1:15pm - 2:30pm

Kevin Ford, Mobile Practice Lead, Magenic

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TH17 Take the Tests: Can You Evaluate Good and Bad Designs?

Thursday June 15 2:45pm - 4:00pm

Billy Hollis, XAML Slinger

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Software Practices

W09 Distributed Architecture: Microservices and Messaging

Wednesday June 14 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

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W13 Agile Failures: Stories from The Trenches

Wednesday June 14 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Philip Japikse Microsoft MVP, MCSD, CSM, and CSP, Developer, Coach, Author, Teacher

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W17 Top 10 Ways to Go from Good to Great Scrum Master

Wednesday June 14 4:30pm - 5:45pm

Benjamin Day, Consultant & Trainer, Benjamin Day Consulting, Inc.

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TH08 Exploring Microservices in a Microsoft Landscape

Thursday June 15 9:30am - 10:45am

Marcel de Vries, CTO, Xpirit

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TH12 End-to-End Dependency Injection & Testable Code

Thursday June 15 11:00am - 12:15pm

Miguel Castro MRD, President, Melvicorp LLC

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Visual Studio / .NET Framework

T10 Getting to the Core of .NET Core

Tuesday June 13 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Adam Tuliper, Principal Software Engineer, DX, Microsoft

The.NET Core is truly a new technology that is fast, efficient, cross platform, and open source. more

W04 What's New in Visual Studio 2017

Wednesday June 14 8:00am - 9:15am

Robert Green, Technical Evangelist, Developer Experience and Evangelism (DX), Microsoft

Visual Studio 2017 is here. As always, the latest release of Visual Studio is packed with new goodies. more

W07 Exploring C# 7 New Features

Wednesday June 14 9:30am - 10:45am

Adam Tuliper, Principal Software Engineer, DX, Microsoft

This session will explore where C# 6 left off and C# 7 picks up. more

TH16 Extend and Customize the Visual Studio Environment

Thursday June 15 1:15pm - 2:30pm

Walt Ritscher, Staff Author, Lynda.com at LinkedIn

This session will show you how to find, install, and use the most helpful extensions for Visual Studio. more

TH20 Windows Package Management with NuGet and Chocolatey

Thursday June 15 2:45pm - 4:00pm

Walt Ritscher, Staff Author, Lynda.com at LinkedIn

This session will examine some of the most popular tools for Windows package management: NuGet, Chocolatey, Boxstarter, and OneGet. more

Web Client

T02 Build Better JavaScript Apps with TypeScript

Tuesday June 13 9:15am - 10:30am

Brian Noyes, CTO and Co-founder, Solliance

The world of client JavaScript apps and Single Page Apps is growing rapidly. more

T06 Getting Started with Aurelia

Tuesday June 13 10:45am - 12:00pm

Brian Noyes, CTO and Co-founder, Solliance

This session will help introduce you to the capabilities of Aurelia and how to get started building applications with it. more

T14 Assembling the Web - A Tour of WebAssembly

Tuesday June 13 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Jason Bock MVP (C#), Practice Lead, Magenic

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

W02 Creating Reactive Applications With SignalR

Wednesday June 14 8:00am - 9:15am

Jason Bock MVP (C#), Practice Lead, Magenic

This session covers what you need to know to build a SignalR app that connects multiple clients instantaneously. more

W10 Angular 101: Part 1

Wednesday June 14 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Deborah Kurata, Microsoft MVP and Google Developer Expert

This beginner-level session introduces the .NET developer to Angular, the popular JavaScript framework for building client-side applications. more

W14 Angular 101: Part 2

Wednesday June 14 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Deborah Kurata, Microsoft MVP and Google Developer Expert

In the second of two parts, this session will cover the remaining key concepts in Angular including routing, services, observables (Reactive Extensions) and accessing data from a back-end server with http. more

TH02 JavaScript for the C# (and Java) Developer

Thursday June 15 8:00am - 9:15am

Philip Japikse Microsoft MVP, MCSD, CSM, and CSP, Developer, Coach, Author, Teacher

This session will show you, the C# programmer, what you need to know to take your JavaScript to the next level. more

TH10 Debugging Your Website with Fiddler and Chrome Developer Tools

Thursday June 15 11:00am - 12:15pm

Robert Boedigheimer, Principal Systems Developer, Schwans Shared Services, LLC

Debugging web sites can be tricky, but tools like Chrome Developer Tools and Fiddler continue to improve. more

TH14 Building Single Page Web Applications Using Aurelia.js and the MVVM Pattern

Thursday June 15 1:15pm - 2:30pm

Ben Hoelting, Senior Technologist, Aspenware

This session will define the MVVM pattern and its benefits. more

Web Server

W06 ASP.NET Core MVC - What You Need to Know

Wednesday June 14 9:30am - 10:45am

Philip Japikse Microsoft MVP, MCSD, CSM, and CSP, Developer, Coach, Author, Teacher

Learn what you need to know to move to ASP.NET Core MVC for Web UI and RESTful services. more

W18 SASS and CSS for Developers

Wednesday June 14 4:30pm - 5:45pm

Robert Boedigheimer, Principal Systems Developer, Schwans Shared Services, LLC

Web developers use CSS every day, but few understand how it works. more

TH06 Integrating AngularJS & ASP.NET MVC

Thursday June 15 9:30am - 10:45am

Miguel Castro MRD, President, Melvicorp LLC

This session will show you how to design an ASP.NET MVC site to include pockets of SPA that use Angular, taking advantage of binding, routing, and even back-button support—all while remaining on the client. more

TH18 Tools for Modern Web Development

Thursday June 15 2:45pm - 4:00pm

Ben Hoelting, Senior Technologist, Aspenware

The next version of ASP.NET embraces open source tools and technologies. more

Workshops

M01 Workshop: Distributed Cross-Platform Application Architecture

Monday June 12 9:00am - 6:00pm

Jason Bock MVP (C#), Practice Lead, Magenic
Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

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M02 Workshop: Practical ASP.NET DevOps with VSTS or TFS

Monday June 12 9:00am - 6:00pm

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

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M03 Workshop: SQL Server 2016 for Developers

Monday June 12 9:00am - 6:00pm

Andrew Brust, Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence, Datameer
Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

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