A New Direction for the Group
The North Dallas .NET Users Group is going through big changes in format and focus. We announced them at the April meeting and have posted the big ideas up on our about page.
Multi-Targeting and .NET Standard
One library to rule them all and in the compiler connect them. Microsoft has been promising this kind of shared code since the Framework fragmentation began. Now with .NET Standard, you can really write one library and multi-target for all the platforms you want.
Hard-Core .NET Core and the new Standard in .NET Development
This session will cover the evolution of the .NET Framework over the last several years - from .NET Core to .NET Standard.
Intermediate Aurelia: Taking Your SPA to the Next Level
Getting your app running with the basic data-bindings in place is only the first step. Aurelia provides the tools to create an experience your users will love, rather than just tolerate. Build a great data entry experience with Aurelia's powerful fluent validation plugin.
Pursuing Quality
Quality is hard to define and even harder to achieve. Chris has spent the last 5 years working as a developer in a Quality role. This talk includes a philosophy on quality, lessons learned, tools, and techniques that can help you define and achieve quality in your code.
Lessons Learned from Teaching at a Coding Bootcamp
If you have ever considered teaching at a coding bootcamp, pondered starting one, or have wondered if hiring a graduate is a good idea, come for the discussion and bring your questions. For the last year and a half I've taught at a coding bootcamp called The Iron Yard.
Creating an Alexa Skill with AWS Lambda
Amazon's Alexa platform is taking the world by storm, helping empower smart homes around the world. But what many developers may not realize is that this is not a closed platform, in fact it has a thriving marketplace for programs, or Skills as Amazon calls them.
Execute Order 66 - Mixed Reality for .NET Developers
Powerful Augmented, Mixed and Virtual reality devices like HoloLens make science fiction movie technology become reality for consumers.
A Tale of Two Clouds: Building an App Across AWS and Azure
Today's enterprise cloud consumers have a difficult decision to make when deciding where to deploy their application workloads: AWS, Azure or both? Both platforms share many similar services but have critical differences that are important to understand.
Practical Functional Programming
Bring your laptop for this hands-on training! Functional Programming is the heart of many exciting new technologies including big data, microservices, the cloud, and a surprising number of familiar libraries. If you write C# or JavaScript code you are already functional programmer.
Exception Driven Development
If customer facing issues are your top priority, then you already adhere to the primary principle of Exception Driven Development.
Sharpen Your C# Skills
Features like async/await have often taken the spotlight away from other features in C# that are a lot more important for developer efficiency and productivity. This talk will be diving into some of the lesser-known features in C#, a language developed by Microsoft as part of its .
Sharpen Your C# Skills
Features like async/await have often taken the spotlight away from other features in C# that are a lot more important for developer efficiency and productivity. This talk will be diving into some of the lesser-known features in C#, a language developed by Microsoft as part of its .
Getting to the core of ASP.NET Core
Microsoft has created a new base library for ASP.NET which powers all of ASP.NET MVC, but sometimes it is useful to take a step back and understand just the fundamentals. So in this talk we will review creating a basic web server with just ASP.
Up and running with React in ASP.NET
React is a JavaScript library for building modern user interfaces. It's often used in a node-based stack, but needn't be. You can build your next feature in React in your existing ASP.NET MVC application seamlessly.
Building Single-Page Applications with Aurelia and .NET Core
These days, the SPA framework space is crowded. Aurelia stands out from its contemporaries in a few important ways. Creating components using vanilla Javascript classes, leveraging convention to minimize development overhead, and future-proofing for upcoming technologies like Web Components are just a few of the advantages Aurelia offers.
Building UWP apps that Successfully Run on Multiple Devices
UWP makes it easy to build an app that will deploy to any Windows 10 device, regardless of the device type. However, that does not mean that the app will run well on that device.
Bringing 3D & VR into HTML with JavaScript
Update: Here is a link to Ron's presentation.
JavaScript Events: What They Are and How to Use Them
Events are central to web programming for anything but the most trivial of web applications. In this Meetup we'll discuss topics such as how to use common events (e.g.
Real World Scalability
As developers and architects, we talk about “scalable solutions”, but often fail to prove how well our solutions scale. Here, we will build a Web API on Microsoft Azure, and demonstrate how to implement more scalable applications, using async/await, distributed caching, and Azure auto-scaling.