Behavior driven development uses user stories written in plain English to validate that your application is working as expected. One of the most famous frameworks, Cucumber comes from the Ruby world. We will look at an alternative for the .net developer SpecFlow. Uses the same syntax as Cucumber, integrates with VS and you can write your test using either NUnit or MSTest. We will add WatiN to the mix to drive our browser and validate that our web application does what it's supposed to.

With the power of SharePoint Server 2010 platform, Forms Services 2010 represents even more significant improvement over its predecessor. Some of the improvement came from the core platform itself and some of them were made available in InfoPath 2010 and Forms Services 2010. In this session, we will explore new features in InfoPath and Forms Services 2010 from form authoring all the way to publishing your forms to SharePoint.

T4 is a template-based code generation engine included in Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010. This engine could be used to generate any text based file. VS.NET uses this engine to turn project types and item types in items within your project. In this session you'll be introduced to T4 directives, how to create a T4 file in Visual Studio and write a sample app to generate C# code and compile it on the fly.

A hands-on demo focusing on a live build of a public facing web site for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada. We will start the session by showing you how Visual Studio 2010’s SharePoint support makes it easy to build a member registration page web part for a SharePoint 2010 public web site. Next we’ll connect this through web services to CRM 4.0 to create the new contact record. Lastly we’ll explore the new Business Connectivity Services project in VS2010 to surface the CRM data in the SharePoint site with full two-way updating.

In this session I will walk the participants on the various types of BizTalk Adapters, their architecture, messaging patterns, the BizTalk Adapter Framework, and the various methods to develop BizTalk Adapters, then I will walk them through developing a BizTalk Adapter for Twitter (for example, I might change the actual example but will have a firm

Windows Phone 7 Series represents a significant change from the past. Learn how to develop Silverlight applications that is unique to the Windows Phone 7 application platform. We will cover new input paradigms including multi-touch, software keyboard, accelerometer and microphone, as well as the APIs and developer tools.

DotNetNuke is an ASP.NET framework for web site creation that allows users to implement the look and feel via a skin. The skin is maintained separately from the data, so the skin can be “refreshed” without affecting the data. Attendees will take part in the development of a skin and see how the skin can be used to enhance the site’s overall appeal. Topics addressed are CSS, JQuery, Sprites and packaging for the DotNetNuke Framework.

Architecture addresses high priority non-functional requirements in software. Teams using Scrum are supposed to implement a shippable product increment of high valued functionality iteration after iteration. This session will present the theory behind emergent architecture and how it is handled in Scrum. We will also have a look at some of the tools in Visual Studio 2010 that allow teams implement emergent architecture.

From time to time we get a request to allow the end user to download the information in PDF/Excel format. I find it very conveninet to use Report Viewer Control to accomplish these tasks. I would like to share two different scenerio

Scenerio 1: This is the most common scenerio in which we are requested to provide a web link for the user to download the report in Excel/PDF Fromate

Scenerio 2: We recently completed a project in which we were requested to generate the report in PDF format and email it to the customer.

In both Scenerio we used Report Viewer Control and Reporting Services to accomplish the task.

Discover the potential behind the powerful new release from RIM, BlackBerry Widgets allow web developers to access device functionality at a whole new level! We will go over exactly what a BlackBerry Widget is, and the value added for web developers to jump aboard. Attendees will discover some of the new features, API’s and capabilities available to developers, and see demonstrations of many of these new capabilities.

Create extendable and customizable applications quickly and easily with IronPython. IronPython is a dynamic language that uses the Dynamic Language Runtime and has the full .NET Framework at its disposal. It doesn’t have to be turned into an application to run so it’s perfect for scripting. Best of all, it can integrate into existing .NET applications and provides a means to extend and customize these applications without the need to recompile the code. Whether it’s a complex business application needing powerful and customizable formulae or a video game needing custom logic and interaction between heroes and monsters, your applications will benefit by allowing administrators, integrators or end users to customize create custom code. Best of all, integration is typically less than a dozen lines of code.

Python is an easy language to understand. No previous experience with Python, IronPython or the DLR is required. Examples integrate with a C# application but everything is applicable to VB as well.

Ajax is a standard part of every web developer's tool belt, but few ASP.NET websites today optimize Ajax for performance. In this demo rich session, Todd Anglin (MVP) will show you how to leverage various techniques to maximize the performance Ajax can deliver. New ASP.NET 4.0 features, like client-side templates and controls, will be explored and compared to other popular alternatives for ajaxifying ASP.NET. Using the techniques from this session will enable you to build highly optimized Ajax web applications today!

Got Bing? The Bing suite provides a variety of services for Developers to generate interactive maps and integrate searching capabilities into their applications. This session will be diving into the following APIs:

• Bing Maps AJAX
• Bing Maps Silverlight and Extended Modes
• Bing Maps Web Services
• Bing Maps 3D
• Bing Search API

Session cancelled - Adding Location Intelligence to your Windows Phone 7 Apps with Bing Maps

In it's place we will have a Q&A Session with Windows Moble MVP's

Regular Expressions allow developers to match, parse and replace text based on virtually limitless criteria. With Regular Expressions, you can Validate an Email Address or a Url, easily find information in a massive text file, extract pieces of information from a 3rd party’s proprietary file format and much, much more. Most Regular Expressions usually take a single line of code and can replace dozens or hundreds of lines of complex nested looping and string parsing logic. Knowledge of these powerful statements is a must for every proficient developer.

The distributed in-memory caching capabilities of Windows Server AppFabric will change how you think about scaling your Microsoft .NET-connected applications. Come learn how the distributed nature of the AppFabric cache allows large amounts of data to be stored in-memory for extremely fast access, how AppFabric's integration with Microsoft ASP.NET makes it easy to add low-latency data caching across the web farm, and discover the unique high availability features of AppFabric which will bring new degrees of scale and resilience to your data tier and your web applications.

N-tier solutions using Microsoft’s ORM, Entity Framework (EF), have been hard to implement across service boundaries, largely due to the difficulty of reporting changes to the EF’s ObjectContext.

EF 4 (released with .NET 4 & VS 2010) includes a Self-Tracking Entity Generator using T4 templates to create POCO classes that can be used to serialize/de-serialize objects (with change tracking).

A small LOB application’s data schema will be used to generate a model, the model will be slightly massaged in the designer, the T4 template will generate the POCO classes, architecting the solution into multiple projects will be reviewed, a self-hosted WCF service will be built, and a client demonstrated which shows an end to end N-Tier solution using Request-Reply operations.

Then, a disconnected and asynchronous SOA will be shown using One-Way operations (with MSMQ) between two (or more) databases. This requires the use of “business” keys to identify “aggregate root” entities.

C# extension methods, generic methods, and functional programming techniques are employed in the framework supporting the demonstrated N-Tier ORM based architecture.

More and more businesses are expecting that their website will appear in search results after their site is built, putting pressure on developers to build sites in search engine friendly ways. In addition, businesses expect that their website will be structured in a way that can handle online advertising.

Find out:

• What are the best practices for building sites "search friendly"
• What critical functionality should be built into every CMS
• What coding conventions are best for search engines
• A few no-no's for search engines
• Integrating sites with advertising and tracking

The Open Data Protocol (OData) applies web technologies such as HTTP, AtomPub and JSON to enable a wide range of data sources to be exposed on the web in a simple, secure and interoperable way. Whether you have a simple collection of reference data, are building a Rich Internet Application using WCF RIA Services or are building the data platform for a high-end website, OData can help. In this demo-laden session, the key technologies and practices used to expose your data and its associated logic as an OData feed will be covered in detail. This session covers the basics and quickly progresses to the nuts and bolts of the available OData frameworks.

HTML 5 may take some time to find full support in all major browsers, but you may be surprised to discover how many of HTML 5’s features are available today! HTML 5 is the next generation standard for web applications, and it promises to give plug-in based RIAs a serious challenge. In this demo heavy session, you’ll see HTML 5 in action and learn what you can do with today’s browser support for the new standard. If you’re building rich web applications and you’ve never touched HTML 5, this session is a must see.

Microsoft Sync Framework is a comprehensive synchronization platform that enables collaboration and offline access for applications, services and devices. It features technologies and tools that enable roaming, sharing, and taking data offline. Using Microsoft Sync Framework, developers can build sync ecosystems that integrate any application, with any data from any store using any protocol over any network.

DotNetNuke is the leading Open Source ASP.NET framework for Web Site creation. In the last year several major developments have solidified DotNetNuke’s future and moved the product into prime time as a viable Content Management System for many corporations. Come and hear the News…

Also, during this presentation, attendees will see how the DotNetNuke Framework facilitates the creation of fully functioning web site like The Toronto Code Camp Web Site in less than 30 minutes. The presentation will demonstrate the creation of a DotNetNuke site from the ground up including installing the software, configuring the database, site customization, and skinning. Specific focus will be given to some of the issues that can trip up the first time users of DotNetNuke Framework. So, bring your laptop and follow along – you have a working website by the end of the presentation.

Do you want to find out why SharePoint is a great application development platform? Join this session and learn why SharePoint is rapidly becoming many organizations #1 platform for building and deploying enterprise-scale applications. This session will also include an overview and demonstration of the new features in SharePoint 2010. This session will be split 40/60 between lecture and demonstrations.

Many of the Developers and DBAs have the XML syndrome. We can’t blame them because XML document are not simple. But what most Developers and DBA don’t know is how SQL Server can help you overcome the XML syndrome. XML is here to say, we will need to save some XML in the database more often than ever. This session will cover usable scenarios when using Xpath, Xquery the XML type in SQL server and the XSD. We will look at the different tools available in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and Visual Studio (VS). This is the chance to bring the DBA and Developer to the same level in using XML in SQL Server.