Thursday 28 May 2015

8 Ignite 2015 sessions for .Net Enthusiasts

Microsoft Ignite 2015 demonstrated lots of innovation Microsoft is putting in various technologies and its products. There were hundreds of sessions which seems like a must watch, however due to time constraints it is not possible to go through each and every one of them.
To help out Dot Net community out here I handpicked 8 Ignite 2015 sessions for Dot Net enthusiast to get the taste of next versions of .Net related technologies.
1.       A Lap around .NET 2015: .NET 2015 is the next generation of .NET. This release encompasses several new innovations that improve developer productivity and enhance application performance. .NET 2015 builds on the advancements available in Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5, 4.5.1 and 4.5.2 to deliver a highly compatible platform for building applications for the mobile-first, cloud-first world. This presentation includes .NET Native, ASP.NET 5, C# 6, the new .NET compiler platform, numerous IDE improvements as well as new features in Windows Presentation Framework.

2.        What's New in C# 6.0 and Visual Basic 14: C# 6.0 and Visual Basic 14 both add a number of bite-sized new features, all aimed at making your everyday code cleaner and clearer. Instead of introducing new concepts, each feature makes a common coding pattern simpler, and removes boilerplate to let the intent of the code stand out. In this session, we walk you through all of these language features: interpolated strings, a nameof operator, an operator called Elvis, and many more.

3.       Introduction to Microsoft ASP.NET 5: ASP.NET 5 is a landmark release in many ways. It’s full open source from the start, it’s cross-platform and supported on Windows, Mac, and Linux. It includes contributions from the community and is being developed in the open on GitHub. ASP.NET 5 includes lots of great updates as well like TagHelpers, the unification of MVC and Web API, the componentization of the .NET Framework, dependency injection built in, an all-new project system, and deep client-side tooling for things like Bower, Gulp, and Grunt. This is an exciting time for the Microsoft web platform.

4.       Deep Dive into Microsoft ASP.NET 5: ASP.NET 5 has an all-new project system and cross-platform runtime. In this session, we dig deep into the "what, how, and why" of ASP.NET 5. We look at how you can deploy your own version of the .NET.

5.        Debugger Tips and Tricks for .NET Developers with Microsoft Visual Studio 2015: Come to this all-demo session to learn how to make the most of the Visual Studio debugger. We tour almost all of the debugger, throwing in tips and tricks as we go along, and also calling out what's brand new in the latest version of the debugger in Visual Studio 2015. Whatever your experience level, we guarantee you'll learn something new!
6.        C# and Visual Basic Code-Focused Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2015: Visual Studio 2015 is productivity game changer for C# and Visual Basic! The .NET Compiler Platform ("Roslyn") enables many new experiences that will change the way you write and debug code. In this session, we dig into the new features that bring a new level of awesome to the C#/Visual Basic IDE experience and explore many existing features have been completely refreshed. Come learn about new refactoring support, major debugging enhancements, code aware frameworks, and much more!

7.        Microsoft Visual Studio for Web Developers: Learn how Visual Studio 2015 integrates with popular modern web tools and client-side frameworks to provide a better and more powerful development experience than ever. Join Mads as he walks you through the use of Gulp, Bower and npm and see how Visual Studio 2015 works with these tools to bring new and better workflows to web development.

8.        The SQL Server Evolution: Everything you want to know about next-generation SQL Server, mission critical performance and scale for transactional, data warehouse and mixed workloads, structured and unstructured data, security innovations, availability and reliability improvements, advanced analytics, business intelligence, world class scale on-prem and to the cloud.