MS Tech ED 2010 Day 3, Thursday November 11, 2010

Giving your Windows Phone XNA Games Plenty of Whizz and Bang

Speaker: Rob Miles (www.robmiles.com)
Link: http://www.msteched.com/2010/Europe/WPH310
Timeslot: 09:00-10:00

Notes:

• Very entertaining and informative session. Watch the video for lots of information about Windows Phone Development and a good laugh.

The Future of parallel programming in Visual Studio

Speaker: Drew Robbins
Link: http://www.msteched.com/2010/Europe/DEV208
Timeslot: 10:30-11:30

Notes:

• Current (available in .NET 4.0 for doing parallel programming):
• Programming Models:
• PLINQ,
• Parallel loops
• F#
• Tools:
• Concurrency Profiler
• Debug
  • Parallel Tasks window
  • Parallel Stacks window
• Future (available in .NET 5):
• Tools:
• MPI/GPU Profiler
• MPI Debugger
• GPU Debugger
• Parallel Watch
• Programming Models:
• Language:
• “async” modifier
• “await” operator
• HTTP://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/async
• DryadLINQ (Parallel LINQ on the cloud):
• http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/dryadLINQ/

Microsoft Silverlight Performance on Windows Phone 7

Speaker: Oren Nachman (www.nachmore.com/blogs.msdn.com/oren)
Link: http://www.msteched.com/2010/Europe/WPH311
Timeslot: 12:00-13:00

Notes:

• At least 2 threads in SilverLight
• UI Thread
• Compositer Thread (Phone specific)
• User Threads
• Debug Tools:
• Counters
• Redraw Regions
• Calculate Fill Rate
• CacheMode = new BitmapCache();

Managed Extensibility Framework in Action

Speaker: Dino Esposito (dino.esposito@crionet.it)
Link: http://www.msteched.com/2010/Europe/DEV402
Timeslot: 14:30-15:30

Notes:

• MEF:
• A special IoC framework available right within the .NET FX 4.0
• Component based
• Does IoC, but has different goals
• and IoC overlap, but are different
• Imports are automatically
• Overlap: Injecting code into classes

Software Testing with Visual Studio 2010: Making it Real for YOU

Speaker: Brian Keller
Link: n.a.
Timeslot: 16:30-17:30

Notes:

• Discussion session about VS 2010 capabilities for software testing.
• VS 2010 Ultimate supports a record mechanism for automated UI testing.
• References UI elements by their name (if possible), not their clicked mouse positions.
• Replay is default as fast as possible, but can be slown down by inserting special commands.

Agile Estimation

Speaker: Stephen Forte (Telerik)
Link: http://www.msteched.com/2010/Europe/DPR201
Timeslot: 18:00-19:00

Notes:

• Very informative (and humorous) session about how agile projects and planning.
• The Cone of Uncertainty:
  
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