The biggest feature of C# 8.0 is undoubtedly nullable reference types. Rather than trying to rush through all the new features, this talk will just focus on this one. What is the point? What is the syntax? What should you expect? What might be unexpected?
This session describes what is going on inside Microsoft’s Entity Framework Core (EF Core) library because that will help you to write better database access code. This includes database querying, handling relationships, unit testing, Domain-Driven Design, plus looking at the changes brought in with EF Core 3.
The Amazon Web Services Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open-source framework that enables developers to harness the power of familiar programming languages like .NET to define reusable cloud components and provision applications with those components. This tech talk quickly covers the basic concepts of AWS CDK, then there …
Have you ever heard the term DRY, as in “Keep your code DRY”? DRY refers to one of the foundational design principles in C# programming. It stands for Don’t Repeat Yourself. On the surface, that sounds so easy to do. However, as you will see in this video, there is …
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.
Today, nearly all browser-based apps are written in JavaScript (or similar languages that transpile to it). That’s fine, but there’s no good reason to limit our industry to basically one language when so many powerful and mature alternate languages and programming platforms exist.
