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

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

In this session, you will see how to use the Graph API to build apps (desktop, Web, mobile, UWP) that make your life easier and your apps more powerful. more

T15 Azure for .NET Developers: In Plain English

Tuesday August 15 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Michael Crump, Product Manager, Microsoft

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W03 Hacker Trix Learning from OWASP top 10

Wednesday August 16 8:00am - 9:15am

Mike Benkovich, Managing Partner, Imagine Technologies, Inc.

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W08 From Containers to Data in Motion Tour d'Azure 2017

Wednesday August 16 9:30am - 10:45am

Mike Benkovich, Managing Partner, Imagine Technologies, Inc.

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TH04 Go Serverless with Azure Functions

Thursday August 17 8:00am - 9:15am

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

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TH09 Breaking Down Walls with Modern Identity

Thursday August 17 9:30am - 10:45am

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

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TH12 Bots are the New Apps Building Bots with ASPNET WebAPI and Language Understanding

Thursday August 17 11:00am - 12:15pm

Nick Landry, Senior Technical Evangelist , Microsoft

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TH20 Serverless with Azure Functions – Scale Dynamically and Pay per Execution

Thursday August 17 2:15pm - 3:30pm

Donna Malayeri, Program Manager , Microsoft

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F01 Workshop Building Modern Web Apps with Azure

Friday August 18 8:00am - 5:00pm

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

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Database and Analytics

HOL03 Full Day Hands On Lab Developer Dive into SQL Server 2016 Sunday August 13 9:00am - 6:00pm

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

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M03 Workshop Big Data BI and Analytics on The Microsoft Stack

Monday August 14 8:00am - 12:00pm

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

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M03 Continued: Workshop Big Data BI and Analytics on The Microsoft Stack

Monday August 14 2:00pm - 5:30pm

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

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T03 New SQL Server 2016 Security Features for Developers

Tuesday August 15 8:00am - 9:15am

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

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T08 No Schema No Problem Introduction to Azure DocumentDB

Tuesday August 15 9:30am - 10:45am

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

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T19 Entity Framework Core for Enterprise Applications

Tuesday August 15 3:00pm - 4:15pm

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

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W05 Architecting Big Data Solutions with Azure

Wednesday August 16 8:00am - 9:15am

Michael Rys, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

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TH07 Database Lifecycle Management and the SQL Server Database

Thursday August 17 9:30am - 10:45am

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

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TH13 Power BI Analytics for Desktop Mobile and Cloud

Thursday August 17 11:00am - 12:15pm

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

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TH18 Big Data with Hadoop Spark and Azure HDInsight

Thursday August 17 2:15pm - 3:30pm

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

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Full Day Hands-On Labs

HOL01 Full Day Hands-On Lab: Busy Developer's HOL on Angular Sunday August 13 9:00am - 6:00pm

Ted Neward, Director, Developer Relations, Smartsheet.com

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HOL02 Full Day Hands-On Lab: DevOps with ASP.NET Core and EF Core Sunday August 13 9:00am - 6:00pm

Benjamin Day, Consultant & Trainer, Benjamin Day Consulting, Inc.
Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

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HOL03 Full Day Hands On Lab Developer Dive into SQL Server 2016 Sunday August 13 9:00am - 6:00pm

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

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Keynote / General Session

Keynote: Microsoft’s Open Source Developer Journey Tuesday August 15 11:15am - 12:15pm

Scott Hanselman, Principal Community Architect for Web Platform and Tools, Microsoft

Learn how open source .NET fits into the larger open source world. more

General Session: Amplifying Human Ingenuity with Microsoft AI Wednesday August 16 11:00am - 12:00pm

Paul Stubbs, Director of Product Marketing for AI and Bots , Microsoft

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Microsoft Sessions

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

Tuesday August 15 8:00am - 9:15am

James Montemagno, Principal Program Manager – Xamarin, Microsoft

This session will teach you about Xamarin and how it can help you leverage a shared C# code base across all mobile platforms. more

T04 Building an Agile Culture that Scales

Tuesday August 15 8:00am - 9:15am

T05 The Future of C#

Tuesday August 15 8:00am - 9:15am

Dustin Campbell , Principal Software Engineer, .NET Developer Experience Team, Microsoft
Mads Torgersen, Program Manager, Microsoft

Learn about C# 7.0 and find out what C# point releases are all about. more

T06 Building Connected and Disconnected Mobile Apps

Tuesday August 15 9:30am - 10:45am

James Montemagno, Principal Program Manager – Xamarin, Microsoft

This session investigates the wide range of options for creating both a connected and unconnected mobile experience. more

T09 Getting to the Core of .NET Core

Tuesday August 15 9:30am - 10:45am

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

T10 Building Apps with Microsoft Graph and Visual Studio

Tuesday August 15 9:30am - 10:45am

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

In this session, you will see how to use the Graph API to build apps (desktop, Web, mobile, UWP) that make your life easier and your apps more powerful. more

Keynote: Microsoft’s Open Source Developer Journey Tuesday August 15 11:15am - 12:15pm

Scott Hanselman, Principal Community Architect for Web Platform and Tools, Microsoft

Learn how open source .NET fits into the larger open source world. more

T14 Mobile DevOps with the Microsoft Stack

Tuesday August 15 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Abel Wang, Sr. Developer Technology Specialist, Microsoft

See how Microsoft simplifies the world of mobile apps with Visual Studio Mobile Center. more

T15 Azure for .NET Developers: In Plain English

Tuesday August 15 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Michael Crump, Product Manager, Microsoft

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T18 Developing for Windows and Linux Side by Side

Tuesday August 15 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Gilles Khouzam, Software Engineering Lead, Microsoft

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T20 Debugging Tips and Tricks for Visual Studio

Tuesday August 15 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Kaycee Anderson, Program Manager, Microsoft

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W02 Migrating to ASP.NET Core - A True Story

Wednesday August 16 8:00am - 9:15am

Adam Tuliper, Principal Software Engineer, DX, Microsoft

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W05 Architecting Big Data Solutions with Azure

Wednesday August 16 8:00am - 9:15am

Michael Rys, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft

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W09 ASP.NET Core 2.0

Wednesday August 16 9:30am - 10:45am

Jass Bagga, Software Engineer, ASP.NET MVC Team, Microsoft

Learn how easy it is to get started with ASP.NET Core 2.0 using Razor Pages, how ASP.NET Core is even better with Microsoft Azure, and everything else in between. more

W14 TypeScript and the Future of JavaScript

Wednesday August 16 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Bowden Kelly, Program Manager, Visual Studio Team, Microsoft
Jordan Matthiesen, Program Manager, Microsoft

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W18 Get Started with Git and GitHub

Wednesday August 16 3:15pm - 4:30pm

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

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W20 Using Angular 2, JavaScript, and TypeScript to Build Fast and Secure Mobile Apps

Wednesday August 16 3:15pm - 4:30pm

Jordan Matthiesen, Program Manager, Microsoft

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TH01 Lessons Learned from Real World Xamarin.Forms Projects

Thursday August 17 8:00am - 9:15am

Nick Landry, Senior Technical Evangelist , Microsoft

This session will cover real-world considerations in Xamarin.Forms projects, such as UI design considerations when sharing a user experience across iOS, Android and Windows, including navigation paradigms, styling, and supporting older versions. more

TH02 Build RealTime Websites and Apps with SignalR

Thursday August 17 8:00am - 9:15am

Rachel Appel, Senior Developer Evangelist, Microsoft

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TH05 Git at Microsoft Scale

Thursday August 17 8:00am - 9:15am

Edward Thomson, Program Manager for Version Control, Microsoft

Come learn how even big companies can adopt Git and be successful with it. more

TH08 Hard Core ASP.NET Core

Thursday August 17 9:30am - 10:45am

Rachel Appel, Senior Developer Evangelist, Microsoft

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TH10 Let's Examine XAML: is the Hype for Real?

Thursday August 17 9:30am - 10:45am

Jerry Nixon, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft

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TH12 Bots are the New Apps Building Bots with ASPNET WebAPI and Language Understanding

Thursday August 17 11:00am - 12:15pm

Nick Landry, Senior Technical Evangelist , Microsoft

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TH15 What's New in Visual Studio 2017 for C# Developers

Thursday August 17 11:00am - 12:15pm

Kasey Uhlenhuth, Program Manager, .NET & Visual Studio, Microsoft

Come learn about code style configuration and enforcement, refactoring support, major debugging enhancements, code-aware frameworks, and much more! more

TH20 Serverless with Azure Functions – Scale Dynamically and Pay per Execution

Thursday August 17 2:15pm - 3:30pm

Donna Malayeri, Program Manager , Microsoft

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TH22 Using NuGet and NPM Packages in Big Codebases

Thursday August 17 3:45pm - 5:00pm

Alex Mullans, Program Manager, Microsoft

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Native Client

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

Tuesday August 15 8:00am - 9:15am

James Montemagno, Principal Program Manager – Xamarin, Microsoft

This session will teach you about Xamarin and how it can help you leverage a shared C# code base across all mobile platforms. more

T06 Building Connected and Disconnected Mobile Apps

Tuesday August 15 9:30am - 10:45am

James Montemagno, Principal Program Manager – Xamarin, Microsoft

This session investigates the wide range of options for creating both a connected and unconnected mobile experience. more

T11 Take the Tests: Can You Evaluate Good and Bad Designs?

Tuesday August 15 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Billy Hollis, XAML Slinger

During this session, you'll examine some of the best examples of design tests over the last eight years. more

T16 A Developer's Introduction to HoloLens

Tuesday August 15 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Billy Hollis, XAML Slinger
Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

This session will introduce you to the world of Windows Holographic and HoloLens. more

W01 Roll Your Own Dashboard in XAML

Wednesday August 16 8:00am - 9:15am

Billy Hollis, XAML Slinger

XAML is well-suited to dynamic interfaces such as dashboards. more

W06 Customizing Your UI for Mobile Devices: Techniques to Create a Great User Experience

Wednesday August 16 9:30am - 10:45am

Laurent Bugnion, Senior Global Azure Advocate, Microsoft

This session will present demos of Blend and XAML, Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Forms. more

W11 Building Cross-Platform App. Dev. with CLSA.NET

Wednesday August 16 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

The CSLA .NET framework helps you create a reusable, scalable, and cross-platform portable business layer that lets your application run on multiple types of client devices while sharing business logic between the clients and your app server. more

W16 Building Truly Universal Applications with Windows, Xamarin and MVVM

Wednesday August 16 3:15pm - 4:30pm

Laurent Bugnion, Senior Global Azure Advocate, Microsoft

The creator of the popular MVVM Light Toolkit will show you how to leverage this simple but powerful library to help you target more users than you ever imagined. more

TH01 Lessons Learned from Real World Xamarin.Forms Projects

Thursday August 17 8:00am - 9:15am

Nick Landry, Senior Technical Evangelist , Microsoft

This session will cover real-world considerations in Xamarin.Forms projects, such as UI design considerations when sharing a user experience across iOS, Android and Windows, including navigation paradigms, styling, and supporting older versions. more

TH06 Creating Great Looking Android Applications Using Material Design

Thursday August 17 9:30am - 10:45am

Kevin Ford, Mobile Practice Lead, Magenic

Android Lollipop introduced the Material Design Guidelines. These have substantially changed the appearance of Android applications. more

TH10 Let's Examine XAML: is the Hype for Real?

Thursday August 17 9:30am - 10:45am

Jerry Nixon, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft

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Software Practices

T18 Developing for Windows and Linux Side by Side

Tuesday August 15 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Gilles Khouzam, Software Engineering Lead, Microsoft

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W04 Distributed Architecture Microservices and Messaging

Wednesday August 16 8:00am - 9:15am

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

This session is an architecture-focused dive into distributed systems design, including the creation of microservices, apps, and the messaging patterns used to communicate between them. more

W10 Agile: You Keep Using That Word...

Wednesday August 16 9:30am - 10:45am

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

This session will cut through the hype and gets down to the roots of what it means to be agile. more

W15 Agile Failures: Stories from The Trenches

Wednesday August 16 1:30pm - 2:45pm

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

This session looks at a series of failed projects, examines the root causes, and the lessons learned from those failures. more

W19 SOLID - The Five Commandments of Good Software

Wednesday August 16 3:15pm - 4:30pm

Chris Klug, Senior Software Developer, Tretton37

The SOLID principles are the five commandments of the software world. more

TH11 Software Engineering in an Agile Environment

Thursday August 17 11:00am - 12:15pm

David Corbin Microsoft MVP, Microsoft ALM Ranger, President / Chief Architect, Dynamic Concepts Development Corp.

This session will cover specific approaches to working styles and software design/implementations that will help your team to succeed. more

TH16 Classic Software Design Principles and Why They Are Still Important

Thursday August 17 2:15pm - 3:30pm

David Corbin Microsoft MVP, Microsoft ALM Ranger, President / Chief Architect, Dynamic Concepts Development Corp.

This session will review a number of items, including the set known as SOLID (originated by "Uncle Bob" Martin nearly 15 years ago) along with items that originated with Object Oriented Design. more

TH21 End-to-End Dependency Injection & Testable Code

Thursday August 17 3:45pm - 5:00pm

Miguel Castro MRD, President, Melvicorp LLC

. In this session, you'll learn about dependency injection from concept to implementation, and use raw code samples to learn how it works and what problems it solves. more

Visual Studio / .NET Framework

M02 Workshop: Distributed Cross-Platform Application Architecture

Monday August 14 8:00am - 12:00pm

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

M02 Continued: Workshop: Distributed Cross-Platform Application Architecture

Monday August 14 2:00pm - 5:30pm

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

T05 The Future of C#

Tuesday August 15 8:00am - 9:15am

Dustin Campbell , Principal Software Engineer, .NET Developer Experience Team, Microsoft
Mads Torgersen, Program Manager, Microsoft

Learn about C# 7.0 and find out what C# point releases are all about. more

T09 Getting to the Core of .NET Core

Tuesday August 15 9:30am - 10:45am

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

T17 Spans, Memory, and Channels - Making .NET Code Fast

Tuesday August 15 3:00pm - 4:15pm

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

This session will dive into some experimental areas of .NET - specifically channels - and see what's going on in the CoreFx lab that would affect you and your code execution. more

T20 Debugging Tips and Tricks for Visual Studio

Tuesday August 15 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Kaycee Anderson, Program Manager, Microsoft

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TH15 What's New in Visual Studio 2017 for C# Developers

Thursday August 17 11:00am - 12:15pm

Kasey Uhlenhuth, Program Manager, .NET & Visual Studio, Microsoft

Come learn about code style configuration and enforcement, refactoring support, major debugging enhancements, code-aware frameworks, and much more! more

TH19 Extend and Customize the Visual Studio Environment

Thursday August 17 2:15pm - 3:30pm

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

TH22 Using NuGet and NPM Packages in Big Codebases

Thursday August 17 3:45pm - 5:00pm

Alex Mullans, Program Manager, Microsoft

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TH24 Windows Package Management with NuGet and Chocolatey

Thursday August 17 3:45pm - 5:00pm

Walt Ritscher, Staff Author, Lynda.com at LinkedIn

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

Web Client

HOL01 Full Day Hands-On Lab: Busy Developer's HOL on Angular Sunday August 13 9:00am - 6:00pm

Ted Neward, Director, Developer Relations, Smartsheet.com

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T02 Angular 101 Part 1

Tuesday August 15 8:00am - 9:15am

Deborah Kurata, Microsoft MVP and Google Developer Expert

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T07 Angular 101: Part 2

Tuesday August 15 9:30am - 10:45am

Deborah Kurata, Microsoft MVP and Google Developer Expert

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T12 Assembling the Web - A Tour of WebAssembly

Tuesday August 15 1:30pm - 2:45pm

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

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W14 TypeScript and the Future of JavaScript

Wednesday August 16 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Bowden Kelly, Program Manager, Visual Studio Team, Microsoft
Jordan Matthiesen, Program Manager, Microsoft

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W20 Using Angular 2, JavaScript, and TypeScript to Build Fast and Secure Mobile Apps

Wednesday August 16 3:15pm - 4:30pm

Jordan Matthiesen, Program Manager, Microsoft

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TH02 Build RealTime Websites and Apps with SignalR

Thursday August 17 8:00am - 9:15am

Rachel Appel, Senior Developer Evangelist, Microsoft

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TH03 "Aurelia vs "just Angular" a.k.a "The Framework Formerly Known as Angular 2"

Thursday August 17 8:00am - 9:15am

Chris Klug, Senior Software Developer, Tretton37

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TH17 Getting Started with Aurelia

Thursday August 17 2:15pm - 3:30pm

Brian Noyes, CTO and Co-founder, Solliance

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TH25 Securing Client Apps with IdentityServer

Thursday August 17 3:45pm - 5:00pm

Brian Noyes, CTO and Co-founder, Solliance

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F02 Workshop: Data-Centric Single Page Apps with Aurelia, Breeze, and Web API

Friday August 18 8:00am - 5:00pm

Brian Noyes, CTO and Co-founder, Solliance

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Web Server

M01 Workshop: Modern Security Architecture for ASP.NET Core

Monday August 14 8:00am - 12:00pm

Brock Allen , Application Security Architect, Solliance

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M01 Continued: Workshop: Modern Security Architecture for ASP.NET Core

Monday August 14 2:00pm - 5:30pm

Brock Allen , Application Security Architect, Solliance

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W02 Migrating to ASP.NET Core - A True Story

Wednesday August 16 8:00am - 9:15am

Adam Tuliper, Principal Software Engineer, DX, Microsoft

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W07 User Authentication for ASP.NET Core MVC Applications

Wednesday August 16 9:30am - 10:45am

Brock Allen , Application Security Architect, Solliance

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W09 ASP.NET Core 2.0

Wednesday August 16 9:30am - 10:45am

Jass Bagga, Software Engineer, ASP.NET MVC Team, Microsoft

Learn how easy it is to get started with ASP.NET Core 2.0 using Razor Pages, how ASP.NET Core is even better with Microsoft Azure, and everything else in between. more

W12 Securing Web APIs in ASP.NET Core

Wednesday August 16 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Brock Allen , Application Security Architect, Solliance

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W17 Integrating AngularJS & ASP.NET MVC

Wednesday August 16 3:15pm - 4:30pm

Miguel Castro MRD, President, Melvicorp LLC

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TH08 Hard Core ASP.NET Core

Thursday August 17 9:30am - 10:45am

Rachel Appel, Senior Developer Evangelist, Microsoft

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TH14 Enriching MVC Sites with Knockout JS

Thursday August 17 11:00am - 12:15pm

Miguel Castro MRD, President, Melvicorp LLC

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Workshops

M01 Workshop: Modern Security Architecture for ASP.NET Core

Monday August 14 8:00am - 12:00pm

Brock Allen , Application Security Architect, Solliance

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M02 Workshop: Distributed Cross-Platform Application Architecture

Monday August 14 8:00am - 12:00pm

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

M03 Workshop Big Data BI and Analytics on The Microsoft Stack

Monday August 14 8:00am - 12:00pm

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

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M01 Continued: Workshop: Modern Security Architecture for ASP.NET Core

Monday August 14 2:00pm - 5:30pm

Brock Allen , Application Security Architect, Solliance

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M02 Continued: Workshop: Distributed Cross-Platform Application Architecture

Monday August 14 2:00pm - 5:30pm

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

M03 Continued: Workshop Big Data BI and Analytics on The Microsoft Stack

Monday August 14 2:00pm - 5:30pm

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

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F01 Workshop Building Modern Web Apps with Azure

Friday August 18 8:00am - 5:00pm

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

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F02 Workshop: Data-Centric Single Page Apps with Aurelia, Breeze, and Web API

Friday August 18 8:00am - 5:00pm

Brian Noyes, CTO and Co-founder, Solliance

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