C# Programming has never been more fun!

This session will teach the basic mechanics for 2D game programming with Microsoft XNA.

You will learn how to:

• setup your development environment
• create your first game
• implement basic 2D rendering algorithms
• leverage the XNA game programming model
• improve your productivity with TorqueX for XNA, a free game engine provided by Microsoft and Garage Games.

In this session we will have an overview of the Azure Services Platform and how you can use the Windows Azure Service to host your web application in the cloud. We will create a demo application to run in the Windows Azure platform and show all the stages from development to deployment.

F# is a strongly-typed multi-paradigm programming language that encompasses scripting, functional imperative and OOP programming disciplines that makes it a choice language for scientific, engineering and web-based programming. F# programs runs on top of the .NET Framework, but unlike other scripting languages, it executes at or near the speed of C# and C++, making use of the performance that comes through strong typing. The deep integration with the CLR and .NET together with its object orientation capabilities allows you to design and write code in a much easier way. In this session, we'll examine the syntax of F#, see how it maps to the underlying CLR concepts, talk about how F# implements functional concepts without losing many of the benefits of object orientation, and finally, how it can be used to make the CLR developer's life much easier.

Learn about the new capabilities of the next version of Visual Basic, including additional LINQ features, syntax simplifications, and a host of other improvements. You’ll gain insight into possible future features, including meta-programming and scripting.

We’ll also talk about VB’s relationship to C# and the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR). Come see demos of the latest internal builds of Visual Studio 2010, including previews of what will be in Beta1.

Please join me for this great session on conducting transactions in the context of a workflow. OK, you saw my bio and saw I’m a “SharePoint guy”. But when you are writing any type of workflow you are writing them with the Windows Workflow Foundation. In this session I will first introduce you to WF (NOT SharePoint related) with a hello world application – just in case you are new to workflow. But then in the spirit of having something for everyone, I will cover the advanced topic of dealing with transactional workflow with ACID properties and we will create a compensating transaction. After first describing what all this means of course!