The Talks

Advanced Techniques for Web Deploy (msdeploy) to simplify the deployment of web applications

If you're still deploying your applications from inside the Visual Studio IDE, you're doing it wrong! The Publish/Deploy buttons should be completely removed from Visual Studio. Learn how to rely on an independent build server for continuous integration and see how you can standardize the packaging process of your web applications for easy deployment to any environment. Build a generic package once and only inject environment-specific values at deployment time. This session will show you to become the perfect friend of your release management team.

Bio

Pieter Gheysens is the founder of Sparkles (www.sparkles.be) and focuses as a Visual Studio ALM MVP and Certified Scrum Master on Application Lifecycle Management solutions for the Microsoft .NET Development Platform based on Team Foundation Server. During the last years, Pieter has been involved in many large enterprise development projects as a an ALM/TFS expert. He's passionate about setting up the optimal team development environment to deliver high quality software and strives to get the best out of people, tools and processes. You can read about his experiences at intoalm.net.

Building your first real-world Android app using Xamarin in just 60 minutes

Do you have a great knowledge about C#? Maybe you’ve already built a great mobile app on Windows Phone or Windows 8 or even Windows 10? Would you like to be able to use your knowledge to build an Android app without having to resort to other languages or IDEs? This is possible using Xamarin!

In this session, Gill Cleeren will take you through the creation of your first Android application: Joe’s Coffee Store. Along the way, you will learn the basic concepts of Android such as Activities and see how we can use these from Xamarin.Android. We’ll need to connect with services to get access to data and we’ll learn how to navigate in the app. You’ll see we can do this all of this directly from Visual Studio. We will finish the session by looking at how we can deploy the application to the Google Play Store so it’s ready for our users!

You’ll walk away wanting to port your code to Android!

Bio

Gill Cleeren is Microsoft Regional Director, Windows Platform MVP, Pluralsight trainer and Telerik MVP. He lives in Belgium where he works as .NET architect at Ordina. Gill has given many sessions, webcasts and trainings on new as well as existing technologies, such as Silverlight, ASP.NET and WPF at conferences including TechEd, TechDays, DevDays, NDC Oslo, SQL Server Saturday Switserland, Silverlight Roadshow in Sweden, Telerik RoadShow UK… Gill has written 2 books: “Silverlight 4 Data and Services Cookbook” and Silverlight 5 Data and Services Cookbook and is author of many articles for magazines and websites. Gill also is the organizer of Techorama (www.techorama.be). You can find his blog at www.snowball.be.

Agenda

18:00 Doors Open

18:30 Introduction

18:35 Advanced Techniques for Web Deploy (msdeploy) to simplify the deployment of web applications

19:35 Break

19:45 Building your first real-world Android app using Xamarin in just 60 minutes

20:45 Close

Location

Skyscanner,

155 St Vincent Street,

Glasgow G2 5NJ