Where: Microsoft Los Angeles Office – 333 South Grand Ave, Suite 3300, Los Angeles, CA 90071

When: Wednesday, Novermber 9, 2011 – 1:30 – 4:30 PM

Signup for this FREE event in Los Angeles

The industry is in a state of flux. What does that mean for your software projects today and tomorrow?

Will your skills be outdated? Will your current investment become obsolete? What should you focus on right now?

And what will become important a year or two down the road? Will there be .NET in the future? And what other

technologies do you need to learn?

This free event attempts to answer these questions and more, by taking an unbiased look at current and future

development with .NET and other relevant Microsoft technologies. This includes Visual Studio 2010 technologies

as well as an in-depth look at what is coming in the next version of Visual Studio (“VS11″) and Windows 8.

Join Markus Egger, Microsoft RD and one of the longest running MVPs, for an afternoon of free information. CODE

Magazine and EPS Software are in a unique position to share information based on real world experience in projects

that are either our own or one of the many projects we get to see in our role as mentors, trainers and consultants, as

well as feedback we receive from CODE Magazine readers. This is NOT marketing hype! We will tell you which

information you should invest time and money in, and which ones to avoid.

Topics Include:

Windows 8

Metro” Development

The impact of Windows 8 on today’s development effort

The future of C# and VB

The future of HTML and JavaScript

The future of C++

WPF, Silverlight, and other XAML technologies today and tomorrow

Architecture to serve the needs of modern applications

The need for SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) today and tomorrow

HTML 5, CSS3, and JavaScript

ASP.NET MVC, Razor and jQuery

“Visual Studio Async”

Windows Phone 7 and other mobile devices and more!

Attendees of this free event will come away with a clear understanding of which technologies to use for various

technical challenges. Questions? Please e-mail info@eps-software.com or call 832-717-4445 x32. For additional

information, please visit www.codemag.com/training.

Abstract: A successful team-based software development project has many processes that must work together smoothly to ensure an efficient working environment. The core processes include:
Development, Test, Build, Deployment and release. In this talk Mohammad Jalloul introduces you to typical functions that the development and test teams can perform with TFS and describes how you can use TFS to manage the workflow to support efficient collaboration across teams.

About the Presenter:Mohammad Jalloul is a software engineer at Myspace Inc., a social entertainment Web site where he’s responsible for integrating TFS into the different business processes and leveraging it to increase efficiency and productivity. Prior to that, he worked in Redmond in the Developer Division at Microsoft on an internal tool called Gibraltar. He can be reached through his blog at mohammadjalloul.com.

Abstract: F# is functional programming language. Originally, developed by Microsoft Research. Iit is fully supported by Microsoft Development Division in Visual Studio 2010. Presentation will provide overview of the language and include fundamental programming concepts. Attendees will be able to understand what it is about F# that is interesting and exciting, even if they can’t necessarily see how to apply it themselves just yet.

About the Presenter: Oleksiy Tereshchenko is a Principal Consultant with Neudesic in Connected Systems Practice. In the past 10 years Oleksiy designed solutions for Aerospace, Banking, Entertainment, Investment, Insurance, Loan, Hospitality, Health Care, and Supply-Chain industries.

Abstract: HTML5 and JQuery are the cool new kids on the block for building Web Applications. People generally prefer native mobile apps over bookmarks in mobile browsers. Why not do both?

In this session you’ll see how you can use a native mobile shell on the popular mobile platforms (iOS, Andriod, and Windows Phone 7) to host an HTML5 application and how to interact with native APIs, handle offline mode, and deal with devices with different resolutions.

About the Presenter: Jon is a member of the technical staff at MCW, where he focuses on connected systems technologies. Jon is most at home spelunking, trying to figure out how things work from the inside out. Jon is the author of RESTful.NET from O’Reilly,as well as Essential ASP for Addison-Wesley, and was a co-author of Mastering Visual Studio.NET for O’Reilly. Jon’s current major interest is helping people to understand the advantages of REST and how REST connects to products like SharePoint 2010. You can read his blog at http://www.rest-ful.net/