Techorama Netherlands 2018

Designed for developers, this talk features Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of Microsoft's Cloud + AI Group, who will show how Azure and the intelligent cloud can help you solve your most complex business and developer problems. Whether you're a seasoned expert or new to the Cloud, you will learn how to better develop, deploy and manage cloud applications during this talk. You’ll catch the newest Azure technologies in action, featuring cool demos, with topics ranging from serverless to hybrid to security to app modernization and more – it’s an overview of Microsoft’s intelligent cloud that you won’t want to miss!

See and experience the latest technologies in Azure by joining Scott Guthrie for an overview on the latest in Azure. Scott will discuss actionable scenarios you can use today with advanced workloads and capabilities to help you and your customers do more using any coding language, on any device, anywhere. He’ll do a number of demonstrations first-hand to show how these capabilities work, how they work together, and how these solutions can enable you to achieve more.

Choose your programming language of choice for building fast, ubiquitously cross-platform, future-proof modern applications: dang - your dream will finally come true! Really...? Let's see. Undoubtedly, everybody needs to build business applications, somehow. The web and the browser platforms have changed the way we can build LOB applications and these platforms have evolved considerably in the past 5 years. More and more native features are available to SPAs (single page applications) running in the browser - a great base for modern applications as so called Progressive Web Apps (PWA). Now, with the rise of WebAssembly (WASM) as a standard and the improving maturity of PWAs we have powerful tools in our hand to build the next generation of web-based applications. In this session Christian Weyer will talk about the features & possibilities of Progressive Web Apps as app-like appearance, installability or offline operations, paired with the power of WebAssembly as a bytecode for all major modern browsers. See how to use PWAs to build native-like applications on the browser platforms and experience the strength of WASM to run C, C++ or C#/.NET code in the browser, without any plugin. This can be a disruptive approach for both greenfield and brownfield projects. Lean back and watch how the web is evolving into a new stage of capabilities and feel the potential of your next (business) application. Let’s do it!

Creating large, monolithic SPAs is all the rage, not all solutions need a single page application. I found that improving parts of my web projects with islands of functionality was better in many cases, but the complexity of Angular and my hatred of .jsx made me yearn for a modern framework that is simple and straightforward. That’s where VueJS came in and saved the day.  In this talk I’ll build a simple page using VueJS and then talk about using it is larger projects without having to use bundling and transpilers if you don’t want to.

The hope and dream of every developer to is creating amazing mobile experiences that people love to use and their fellow developers all envy. What does it require to truly take your work from just "ok, that's a good job" to "how in the world did _____ do that?!" In this session David will spill the beans on how you can make your mobile app the one that everyone is talking about. You'll learn tips and tricks along the way for using Xamarin to make you more productive and innovative in your everyday work.

WebAssembly (WASM) is challenging JavaScript's monopoly in the browser. Many higher-level languages are currently evaluating whether WASM is a way for them to conquer the web client. .NET is spearheading this movement. In 2017, we saw the first .NET prototypes running on WASM. Based on that, Blazor, the new .NET- and WASM-based Single-Page-App (SPA) framework has appeared. The .NET community is thrilled but Blazor could be interesting for developers new to .NET, too. Rainer Stropek engaged early in the Blazor open source project. Join him in this fast-paced, demo-heavy session and see what's behind this new contender in the world of browser development.

Machine Learning (ML) has proven to be quite effective in a variety of application domains, including speech recognition, object recognition, image retrieval etc. In each of these aforementioned application domains, ML based “programs” must adapt to changing conditions, handle large data sets often with irregularities, and come up with algorithms with little / incomplete knowledge. Sounds similar to software development? Turns out that ML is being applied to the field of software development including reverse engineering legacy code, software fault detection, and requirement analysis. In this session we will look at various examples of ML being applied to software development.

Many .Net and Java developers live by the SOLID principles to make their software designs more understandable, flexible, and maintainable. As more business logic moves to the front end with frameworks like React and Angular, developers often lose touch with these principles and resort to more reactionary code. It doesn’t have to be that way. In this session, you will learn how to apply all five of the SOLID principles to your front-end JavaScript applications.

Xamarin continues our mission at Microsoft to delight developers and empower you to do more! Come learn about all the latest advancements from Microsoft made just for you in Visual Studio, Xamarin, and Xamarin.Forms.

Why does Redux work the way it does? And why would you want to use it anyway. In this session I'll create my own Redux implementation based on the needs of my example application.  The session will be in C# but basically applies to any language. Some basic knowledge of Observables is advisable.

Want to know what kinds of cool things developers can do with the next version of Windows? If so, come to this session to see a train of demos that will excite and inspire. This will be super fresh, covering the very latest Windows developments. Demos may include Machine Learning, Mixed Reality, IoT, [redacted], and much more.

Go behind the curtain and see how to build .NET applications without Visual Studio.  In this sessions we'll dig into how the dotnet CLI pulls together pieces like project files, MSBuild, SDKs, and NuGet to build .NET apps, and how to extend those pieces and use .NET Global Tools to be more productive on the command line.

Come and have a peek under the hood of your favorite C# language features. In this 100% demo session, we'll browse the Roslyn compiler source code, use ILDASM and ILSpy, and may even jump in WinDbg and SOS to show how language features come alive.

If you've seen this session before, don't worry! There's plenty of new content with the new C# 7.x language features and the upcoming proposed C# 8.0 features.