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Thu, 10 May 2012 05:49:02 GMT

Visual Studio 11 Beta

The wait is over. Get Visual Studio 11 Beta today and start preparing for the next generation of development. You can't predict the future, but you can get there first.

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WebMatrix 2 Beta

Fall in love with the web again with Microsoft's newest web development IDE, which simplifies your whole web development paradigm, adds NuGet support, CSS 3 support, and a whole suite of new features.

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Microsoft Web Platform Installer 3.0

The Microsoft Web Platform Installer 3.0 (Web PI) is a free tool that makes getting the latest components of the Microsoft Web Platform, including Internet Information Services (IIS), SQL Server Express, .NET Framework and Visual Web Developer easy.

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Web Camps Training Kit

All the content you need for camp is included in the May 2012 release of the Web Camps Training Kit.

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Mountain View, CA - 5/29/2012 8:30:00 AM (Web)

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:03:07 GMT

Mountain View, CA - 5/29/2012 8:30:00 AM (Web)

Phoenix, AZ - 5/25/2012 9:00:00 AM (Web Camp)

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:44:46 GMT

Phoenix, AZ - 5/25/2012 9:00:00 AM (Web Camp)

Denver, CO - 5/18/2012 9:00:00 AM (Web Camp)

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:43:43 GMT

Denver, CO - 5/18/2012 9:00:00 AM (Web Camp)

Mountain View, CA - 5/14/2012 9:00:00 AM (Web Camp)

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:42:42 GMT

Mountain View, CA - 5/14/2012 9:00:00 AM (Web Camp)

Waltham, MA - 5/10/2012 9:00:00 AM (Web Camp)

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:41:25 GMT

Waltham, MA - 5/10/2012 9:00:00 AM (Web Camp)

Chris Bowen

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:35:15 GMT

I am a Principal Developer Evangelist for Microsoft, working with the developer communities in the New England and upstate New York areas. My role involves educating customers on development topics, working with user groups and other community organizations, staying technically deep with our development platform and tools, serving as a pipeline between the various product development teams and our customers, and in general fostering a great development community.

I joined Microsoft having worked as an architect and lead developer at a variety of area companies. I am also co-author of "Essential Windows Communication Foundation" [Addison-Wesley] and "Professional Visual Studio Team System" [WROX]. I hold a B.S. in Management Information Systems and an M.S. in Computer Science, both from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).

I'm certainly passionate about computers, programming, and technology, but I also enjoy craft beer, PC and XBox gaming, (being bad at) golf, music, reading and, above all, time with my wife and our two daughters.

How can I contact the Web Developer Camps team?

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:51:21 GMT

Email us at webcamps@microsoft.com or @DeveloperCamps

AgendaPart #317

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:53:57 GMT

Agenda

Every Web Developer Camp is different, but here’s an example of the topics covered at a Web Developer Camp.

Welcome Back to the Microsoft Web Stack

In this keynote session, you'll be introduced to all the great new techniques and features available in Microsoft's new web technologies. We'll touch on everything from the brand spankin' new improvements made to WebMatrix 2.0, our free web developer tool, to the groundbreaking features available to you as a seasoned web technophile in Visual Studio 11. From CSS 3 support to building Web APIs, from the improved Razor view engine, you'll get a sneak peek into what Microsoft has done to make the web fun again. Finally, you'll see all this great stuff running in our beautiful new Internet Explorer 9 browser and be introduced to what's on the horizon in Internet Explorer 10.

Integrating Your Site with Internet Explorer 9

Web development is an art form, and IE9 is the perfect canvas for web developers to use to make their magic happen. This session will introduce you to the some unprecedented statistics on how IE9 can speed up your sites and make your customers' experiences more efficient. You'll learn about some tricks available only to the IE9 user, like Site Pinning and Jump Lists. Web standards and interoperability and how IE9 solves these problems for developers will also be discussed in great detail. You'll also learn some of the low-level technical details about IE9's improvements. You'll also be introduced you to what you'll need to know in the coming months regarding Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 10 and the opportunities it'll add to your development experience.

Top 10 Things You Didn't Know about WebMatrix 2

The WebMatrix team at Microsoft has been working around the clock to create what may be the best free web IDE you'll ever use. Seriously. WebMatrix 2 has been improved in such a way that you can literally accomplish all aspects of your development exercise in one tiny download. WebMatrix 2 has support for databases, CSS 3 support, code-completion, Razor support, and a whole bag of tricks you won't see unless you're here. You won't want to miss the awesomeness of WebMatrix 2.

Creating Rich HTML 5 Experiences

By now you should know that HTML5 is literally the best thing to happen to the web in years. There is a massive array of new tags that provide support for video, audio, embedded fonts, databinding, and in-browser data persistence. When coupled with advancements in JavaScript technology like jQuery and the myriad of jQuery plugins available for free, the ability to create truly dynamic client experiences is limited only by your imagination. Add to that new advancements in real-time communication like SignalR and the idea of achieving MVC or MVVM functionality using libraries like Knockout.js, and you've got a whole new web of opportunities to blow your users' minds. This session will leave you breathless with ideas on how you can improve your existing apps. You might even dream up a few new apps of your own just to try your hands at the stuff you learn, especially once you see how well they all perform in beautiful Internet Explorer 9. We'll even show you how to use jQuery Mobile to mobilize your web applications so that they run seamlessly in any mobile browser.

Building Web Sites Using ASP.NET 4.5

We'll cover all the new features of the new ASP.NET 4.5 runtime and introduce you to the idea of the One ASP.NET Framework. Forget about the distinctions and debates of "WebForms or MVC," "Razor or ASPX," because the new, combined framework provides everything to you in one big basket. Want some web forms in your MVC? Fine. Want to add a simple MVC view to an existing Web Forms app? No problem. Need to add some client side calls to an API living within your ASP.NET site? We've got you covered. You'll be introduced to how Visual Studio 11 brings the ASP.NET family together into a unified solution, complete with new features like script bundling and minification. You'll also learn about all the new features, from MVC 4.0 to Web API, the new advancements in Entity Framework, and how adaptive rendering can ease the pain of writing web apps for the browser or the mobile device. No more arguing over what direction you'll need to take - ASP.NET is the only answer you need, it's the 1-stop-shop server-side solution.

Building a Service Layer with ASP.NET Web API

This session will take a deeper dive into the new ASP.NET Web API, which has been completely overhauled and rolled into the ASP.NET runtime. It makes creating JSON or XML-based service layers a snap, so that your jQuery code can make AJAX calls to server-side functionality dirt simple. You'll learn how to extend ASP.NET Web API too, so that it can output virtually any format you need - even images - and how you can self-host a Web API from within native code or on the Windows Azure cloud platform.

Deploying ASP.NET Apps to the Cloud

We'll take an existing ASP.NET application or Web API service and deploy it into the Microsoft Windows Azure platform, and in seconds have a cloud-based application that can scale and grow as your business or usage needs. Topics such as session maintenance and other cloud-based considerations will be discussed in more detail too, so that, as you build new ASP.NET applications from scratch, you'll be doing so with cloud-specific ideas in mind so that, once you need to scale from individual hosted situations to scalable, cloud-based environments, there will be zero pain in the process.

Jim O'Neil

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:02:28 GMT

Jim is a Developer Evangelist for Microsoft who covers the Northeast District (namely, New England and upstate New York). His overall focus is to engage with the development community in the area through user groups, code camps, BarCamps, Microsoft-sponsored events, etc., and just in general serve as ambassador for Microsoft. Over the past year or so, Jim has been focusing on software development scenarios using cloud computing and Windows Azure. You can keep up with Jim on his MSDN Blog.

Sayed Hashimi

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:14:43 GMT

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi is a Microsoft Program Manager focusing on Web development tools. A former software development consultant and Microsoft MVP for Microsoft Visual C#, Hashimi has written three books about MSBuild, along with numerous articles for publications such as MSDN magazine. You can keep up with Sayed on his blog at sedodream.com or on Twitter at @SayedIHashimi

Brady Gaster

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:13:45 GMT

Brady Gaster is a Windows Azure Technical Evangelist with Microsoft, and is the host of the Web Camps TV show on Channel 9. Brady's core competencies include middleware development, TDD, service orientation, continuous integration setup and maintenance, and most recently finds himself diving deeper into Windows Azure, SignalR, Fluent programming principles, aspect-oriented programming, robotics, and Behavior Driven Development. Follow Brady on his blog at http://bradygaster.com or on Twitter at @bradygaster.

Jon Galloway

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 01:13:18 GMT

Jon is a Windows Azure Technical Evangelist focused on ASP.NET MVC. He's co–author of Wrox Professional MVC 3, wrote the MVC Music Store tutorial, helped organize mvcConf, and was part of the first Web Camps world tour in 2010. He's been doing web development on the Microsoft platform since the late '90. Before that, he'd done all kinds of silly things like work as a submarine lieutenant and win the Showcase Showdown on the Price is Right. He spends his free time chipping in on open source projects and organizing the Herding Code podcast (http://herdingcode.com). He Twitters as @jongalloway and blogs at http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway

Brussels, Belgium - 5/3/2012 8:30:00 AM ()

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:19:45 GMT

Brussels, Belgium - 5/3/2012 8:30:00 AM ()

Christian Wenz

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:17:13 GMT

Christian Wenz works as a consultant, trainer and author with focus on web technologies (especially ASP.NET, PHP, JavaScript, and Silverlight). He wrote or co-wrote over 100 books and is a fixture at developer conferences around the world. As one of the founders of Arrabiata Solutions GmbH he implements complex web applications, coaches developers and makes websites more secure and better performing. He is a Microsoft MVP for ASP.NET, member of ASPInsiders, is a co-author of the Zend PHP Certification and holds a university degree in computer science and one in business information technology.

Johannesburg, South Africa - 4/18/2012 6:00:00 PM (WebCamp)

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:22:36 GMT

Johannesburg, South Africa - 4/18/2012 6:00:00 PM (WebCamp)

Johannesburg, South Africa - 4/4/2012 6:00:00 PM (WebCamp)

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:21:41 GMT

Johannesburg, South Africa - 4/4/2012 6:00:00 PM (WebCamp)

Johannesburg, South Africa - 4/11/2012 6:00:00 PM (WebCamp)

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:21:14 GMT

Johannesburg, South Africa - 4/11/2012 6:00:00 PM (WebCamp)

Utrecht, Netherlands - 4/11/2012 9:00:00 AM (Camp)

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:44:15 GMT

Utrecht, Netherlands - 4/11/2012 9:00:00 AM (Camp)

Matthew Osborn

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 20:23:07 GMT

Matthew Osborn spent the first few years of his career working in a small startup until he joined Microsoft in June of 2008. He is currently a Software Development Engineer working on NuGet, ASP.NET Web Pages, and ASP.NET MVC. He has a passion for all web technologies with a special interest in clean and semantic HTML and CSS. He has been immersed in the world of .NET since 2005. You can get to know Matthew by visiting his site www.osbornm.com and follow him on Twitter @osbornm or his blog blog.osbornm.com.