Sunday, September 27, 2009

Conference - Houston TechFest 9/26/2009

The conference was held in University of Houston main campus. It was such a great free conference. Highly recommend it to other tech folks in Greater Houston Area. Below are the sessions I have attended to give some ideas to have the complete list, you can go to the following link.

http://houstontechfest.com/

Session 1: Preparing for Your Organization’s SharePoint Future in SharePoint 2010

by Erin O’Connor

  • Ribbon Styled
  • Visio 2010 Added
  • Silverlight
  • BDC changed to two-way BCS
  • Performance Point to bring BI
  • Firefox, Safari and IE compatible. No support IE 6 anymore
  • Offline workspace support
  • Only support 64 bits server
  • SPaaS

Session 2: Microsoft Dynamics xRM by Daniel Hunter

  • xRM 4.0 demo

Birds of a feather – Staying Alive: Social Media Tips for Techies

Session 3: What’s new in C# 4.0

  • Optional Parameters
  • Named Parameters
  • Dynamics (same as object, however it defer the binding in runtime).

Session 4: VSTS/TFS 2010 (Mike Azocar, and Mike Moles)

  • Best improvement: QA, Architecture, and Gated Check-in
  • Branch Visualization
  • Work Item Tracking
  • Work Item Hierarchy (even working in Excel)
  • Track change set across branches
  • Rolling tests, Test impacted test cases (Unit Tests Improvement)
  • QA: Historical Debugging – No repro
  • QA: Test and Lab Manager
  • Built on WPF
  • Catch a bug earlier will save cost by multiple times
  • Build Controller with WF

Session 5: Best practices on Developing and Customizing Web Parts

  • Recommend using built-in web parts such as DataForm and DataView
  • MVP – Model, View, and Presenter

Final Session: Prize Drawing

  • I won a Resharper license worthy of the market value $199.00.

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