When something goes wrong in a single .NET application, we get a nice stack trace. In a distributed system, we get almost nothing! We add some logging, but now we have to comb through logs to understand what led to failures. Enter distributed tracing, which provides a true end-to-end view …
Legacy .NET applications adhere to different patterns from modern applications. Decomposing those to 12 factor environment is time-consuming, error-prone and often manual. This presentation demonstrates strategies, frameworks, libraries, tools and techniques applied to re-platform these applications on Pivotal Cloud Foundry with the most relevant 12/15 factors, using modernized techniques.
This video explains how to use the power and flexibility of .NET and WCF to surface feature-rich, REST-based services that virtually any application can consume easily and securely. It explores the advanced facets of RESTful services such as security, routing, JSON parsing and caching that industry leaders wield today to …
The next release of Windows Phone (codenamed “Mango”) marks a major step forward for developers. With the addition of features like multitasking, local tile updates, sockets, local databases, Silverlight?XNA integration, and more, developers will be able to build amazing new experiences for Windows Phone. This video covers the major new …
This video presents the foundations of great application design for Windows Phone and how to use them to build outstanding applications that will stand out and get noticed.
TickSpec is a lightweight Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) framework. You describe behaviour in plain text using the Gherkin business language, i.e. given, when, then. It is then easy to execute the behaviour against matching F# tick methods (let “tick method“ () = true) or attributed C# or F# methods. [youtube …
