Myriad languages, tools, paradigms and patterns that developers swear by tempt and tease us on almost a daily basis. Even if you have already made the tough choices as to which ones to focus on, how can you incorporate the effort mastering them while still performing the work that your day job requires? How do you stay relevant and productive and continue to elevate your career? Don’t panic! It is possible. Still going strong after three decades of coding, Julie Lerman will share tips and tricks that she uses to continuously evolve her tech skills and keep on top of her game as a coder and a coach as well as one of the top authors on Pluralsight..

While still being relatively niche, over the recent years C# scripting (yes - C# without the explicit compilation step!) has grown to become a first class citizen in the Roslyn compiler and can now be enjoyed in your applications in various ways. Together, we will dissect what’s going on under the hood in C# scripting and how you can make use of it in the cross platform, lightweight, .NET Core world (which, by the way, creates a perfect environment for low ceremony C# scripting). We'll also have a look at scripting via the new .NET CLI, how you can integrate it into your everyday development workflows and how you can debug the script assemblies.

Angular ist das JavaScript Framework, von welchem heute alle sprechen und welches jeder Kunde einsetzen will. In dieser Session lernen Sie die Grundlagen der Web-Entwicklung mit Angular 5 kennen und bekommen einen Überblick über den initialen Setup für den erfolgreichen Start. Nach einer Einführung in die Grundlagen zeigen wir Ihnen, wie sie mit Visual Studio Code und dem Angular Command Line Interface (Angular CLI) sofort loslegen können.

In this session we analyze a real project written in ASP.NET Core 2.0. The project is a custom CMS platform that uses all the best practices and services to be a state-of-the-art production-ready application. We take a closer look at how to architect and engineer a real-world ASP.NET MVC Core web application. In Addition, we touch on advanced topics such as server & client side caching, Redis cache, Azure Web Apps, Azure Traffic Manager and Azure CDN.

Nowadays, we build large enterprise applications with Angular. But how to best structure such projects to ensure long-term maintainability and reusability? This session provides multiple answers to this question. We explore how to split large projects into individually reusable npm packages and how to deploy them through an internal and public registry. As an alternative, we discuss the Monorepo approach that is used successfully by big companies like Google and Facebook and which compensates for some of the disadvantages of npm packages in internal projects. The use of micro apps is also discussed and implementation options, advantages and disadvantages are investigated. By the end the audience will know the options for architecting enterprise apps.

In this talk Daniel provides a four-step-process that allows you to refactor your codebase to fully support the async/await-pattern.

Based on Angular, a Single-Page Application (SPA) framework developed by Google, we’re able to write beautiful and performant web applications based on components. TypeScript supports .NET developers with a C#-like syntax which helps to feel comfortable when entering web application development. But how can we use that knowledge to create real cross-platform applications, which run on any form factor, on any device and on any operating system? Which architecture do we need? Tools like Cordova and Electron enable to us to bring our single code base to mobile and desktop platforms, real .exe, .app & Co! And thanks to the recent developments with Progressive Web Apps we can participate in cool new features like offline availability. In this session Manuel Rauber from Thinkecture shows how you can use Angular as an application platform and how real cross-platform applications can be developed..

Nowadays, everybody is talking about Docker and Microservices. But how does that affect me as a developer working with the Microsoft stack? In this session Marc shows how to build an automated release pipeline using Visual Studio and VSTS which deploys ASP.NET Core Microservices into a Kubernetes infrastructure. In addition to the full developer stack needed to build the pipeline, the session covers advanced topics, such as staging environments and load-balancing.

VAbout 7 years, Erich Gamma compiled a team of software developers with a mission. Create the first user friendly web-based code editor in JavaScript and HTML5. The goal was to support IDE functionality known from the desktop, such as IntelliSense, or Code Actions. This editor transformed from the web back onto the desktop as the lightweight code editor that everybody loves, Visual Studio Code. In this session, Dirk explains how they changed the code from a huge monolithic JavaScript application into a modular desktop application written in TypeScript. In addition to the technical challenges you can get insight into the processes that the team uses to support this large open-source project.

With high performance Virtual Machines (VM) and networking, blazing fast VM provisioning and autoscaling and a rich set of services, Google Cloud is a great platform to deploy and run your traditional ASP.NET and new containerised ASP.NET Core applications. In this session, we will cover:

• How to run traditional Windows and SQL Server based ASP.NET apps on Compute Engine.
• How to run the new Linux based containerised ASP.NET Core apps App Engine and Kubernetes/Container Engine.
• How to integrate with Google Cloud services such as Cloud Storage and use machine learning APIs such as Vision API and Speech API.
• How to use Google Cloud PowerShell cmdlets and Visual Studio extension to manage your projects.

Front ends are cool but mostly useless without data. Sure, some of your data sources provide REST APIs so you can just write queries directly against them but that is so old school. Instead, you can build back end APIs that address the specific data needs of your web application and relieve front end devs from tangling with database schema, query syntax and other distractions. In this session you’ll learn the basics of creating a back end API as well as some smart architectural guidance to make moving data between your front end and your data store. We'll start with an ASP.NET Core Web API, EF Core and a relational database, then look at a data API built with Azure Functions to support a Cosmos DB document database.

Last summer, not content with only working from home, Adam turned the remote working dial up to eleven. He bought a camper van, a couple of EU SIM cards, and... hit a traffic jam near Basel. Seven months and seven countries later, he realised the ski season was starting. Back home to Switzerland it was, to reflect on his experience over a pot of hot cheese. Join Adam as he shares the gory details of the challenges he faced on his journey. Discover the tips and tricks he learned to overcome them. And finally, get the answer to the big question: Would he do it again?