Presentations

Web Pages Framework for ASP.NET developers

Alex Thissen — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 05:34:26 GMT

Session for the June 2011 edition of the Software Developer Network event in Zeist, The Netherlands.

This session covers:

What this new framework is,

How it relates to ASP.NET WebForms, MVC and WebMatrix

How to build applications with it

Introduction to Razor (see also my DevDays 2011 session on “Introduction to Razor” for more information on Razor)

What the new concepts like “page hierarchies”, UrlData and PageData are

Working with models and model state (and how this is different than the model from MVC)

Automatic routing

ASP.NET MVC 2

Alex Thissen — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:20:39 GMT

Session for Software Developer Network (SDN) on April, 20th, 2010 in Achmea Conference Centre, Zeist.

Covers and overview of ASP.NET MVC (release 1) and the new features and enhancements for release 2.

The M Language of Oslo

Alex Thissen — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:52:43 GMT

Presentation at the Microsoft Developer Days 2009 in The Hague, The Netherlands on the M language of Oslo. Covers MGraph/MSchema and MGrammar. These slides use the May 2009 CTP language specification.

Overview of Oslo

Alex Thissen — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:48:45 GMT

Presentation at the Microsoft Developer Days 2009 in The Hague, The Netherlands with an overview of Oslo. Covers the ideas and vision behind the new Microsoft modeling platform, including a quick overview of the M language.

Production debugging ASP.NET

Alex Thissen — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:40:52 GMT

Presentation at the Microsoft Developer Days 2009 in The Hague, The Netherlands on debugging ASP.NET applications running in a production environment. Covers various tools and a couple of scenarios that you may actually encounter in real life.

Oslo explained

Alex Thissen — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:10:06 GMT

Presentation for Stichting DotNed on 22nd of January,. 2009 at the Class-A premises in Woerden, The Netherlands. Covers the vision for Microsoft's modeling platform Oslo and the languages MSchema, MGraph and MGrammar.

Introduction to Unity 1.1 Application Block

Alex Thissen — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:19:44 GMT

Slides for the SDN Conference 2008 session on "Introduction to Unity 1.1 Application Block". Explains design patterns such as dependency injection and inversion of control and the way Unity is used to do resolution of types.

IT Deathmatch: Entity Framework versus Linq to SQL

Alex Thissen — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:16:02 GMT

Small set of slides for the IT Deathmatch between Paul Gielens and myself. Just some fun slides to lighten up things a little. Contains a lot of interesting quotes from various well-known people, such as Matt Warren (architect on the Linq to SQL team). In case you're wondering: Paul collected these. :)

ASP.NET MVC Framework

Alex Thissen — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:52:46 GMT

Slides for Developer Days 2008 session on ASP.NET Model-View-Controller Framework.

Covers following topics:

Overview
Design patterns for Model-View-Presenter (MVP) and (Model-View-Controller) MVC
Microsoft implementation of MVC for ASP.NET 2.0
URL routing
Controllers and actions
Testing of controllers
Mocks and dependencies

Easter egg: slidedeck contains slides not covered in session (hidden)

ASP.NET 2.0 Caching

Alex Thissen — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 20:43:33 GMT

Session on ASP.NET 2.0 caching for Software Development Netherlands in September 2006.

Covers:

Client-side caching and cache policies
Server-side caching
Cache API
Cache item lifetime, priorities and dependencies
Output caching
SQL cache deoendencies
Cache substitution
Cache performance counters
Cache profiles and configuration
Cache validation callbacks

Health monitoring with ASP.NET

Alex Thissen — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:35:39 GMT

Talk given at the Software developer Conference 2007 in Arnhem, The Netherlands on low effort instrumentation and health monitoring options in ASP.NET.

Microsoft Robotics Studio

Alex Thissen — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:42:01 GMT

Presentation at the Developer Days 2007 in RAI, Amsterdam by Anko Duizer and myself.

Applied Linq

Alex Thissen — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 20:02:44 GMT

Session on applying Linq at the Developer Days 2007 in the RAI, Amsterdam. Covers C# 3.0 and VB 9.0 and Linq to SQL and Linq to XML.

Questions on Windows Presentation Foundation

Alex Thissen — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 08:31:40 GMT

Presentation on Windows Presentation Foundation held for the VB Central community on April, 28th 2007. Covers some common questions on WPF, such as:

Why?
Is it difficult?
XAML?
Windows or Web?
WPF/e?

Redelivered at Code Camp NL 2007.

Note: PDF format because of licensed font

ASP.NET 2.0 Session 3

Alex Thissen — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:51:13 GMT

Third in a series of three presentations on ASP.NET 2.0 at the MSDN/Technet Briefings of Fall 2005. This presentation was given in Zwolle, Bussum, Breda and Rotterdam, The Netherlands.