Category Archives: Microsoft Events

Build 2016 Recap

By Shahed C on April 2, 2016

Need to catch up on Build announcements?

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Start here:

Here’s a quick recap:

Windows Facts and Features

Windows for Developers

Xbox + HoloLens

Cortana + Skype

Azure

Labs

3rd Party References:

Web Camp 2016 @ Reston VA

By Shahed C on March 2, 2016

Web Camp 2016 @ Reston VA

LINKS

AGENDA
•         8:30 AM [01] Welcome and keynote (Mostafa and Shahed)
•         9:00 – 10:00 AM [02a] Intro to ASP.NET Core 1.0, MVC and Visual Studio 2015 Web Tooling (Shahed) 
•         10:00 -11:00 AM [02b] Instructor led/hands-on labs on ASP.NET Core 1.0 & MVC 6 & VS 2015 Tooling (both) HOL Link
•         11:00 -11:15 AM Break
•         11:15 -11:45 AM [03] Demo – Building and deploying an ASP.NET application (Mostafa)
•         11:45 AM – 12:30 PM [04] Building web front ends for both desktop and mobile using the latest web standards (Mostafa)
•         12:30 – 1:00 PM Lunch (everyone)
•         1:00 PM – 2:00 PM [05a-b-c] API Services for both web and devices (Mostafa)
•         2:00 PM – 3:00 PM [5d] Instructor led / hands-on labs ASP.NET MVC 6 & SPA (both) HOL Link
•         3:00 PM – 4:00 PM [06] Running, improving and maintaining a site in the real world. (Shahed)
•         4:30 PM – 5 PM Wrap-up(Q&A) / Evaluations / Raffle

Microsoft Web Tour 2016 @ Reston VA

By Shahed C on January 28, 2016

Register for FREE here: https://www.microsoftevents.com/profile/form/index.cfm?PKformID=0x834687628

Microsoft Web Tour 2016 @ Reston VA

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Starts: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 8:30 AM
Ends: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 5:00 PM
Time zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
Welcome Time: 8:30 AM
Venue: Microsoft Office, Reston
Address: 12012 Sunset Hills Road, Reston Virginia 20190, United States
Meal: Yes
Presenter(s): Mostafa Elzoghbi, Shahed Chowdhuri,
Language(s): English.
Product(s): ASP.NET 5 (aka ASP.NET Core 1.0), Angular, Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio Code
Audience(s): Pro Dev/Programmer.

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Microsoft Connect 2015 Recap

By Shahed C on November 19, 2015

Have you caught up with all the news from Microsoft’s Connect() 2015 online conference?

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Read all the details here:

TL;DR below…

  • Visual Studio Code beta release, Added extensibility support, open source project
  • .NET Core 5 RC and ASP.NET 5 RC with Go-Live license, can start using it in production
  • Visual Studio Online is now Visual Studio Team Services, agile team collaboration and DevOps
  • Visual Studio Dev Essentials, priority forum support, Pluralsight, Wintellect,, Xamarin, (Azure early 2016)
  • Visual Studio cloud subscriptions
    • Monthly subscriptions include the VS Pro or Enterprise IDE, access to VSTS
    • Annual subscriptions includes technical support incidents, Azure credits, etc
  • Visual Studio Marketplace, central place to find, acquire, install extensions for all editions of Visual Studio
  • VS 2015 Update 1 and TFS 2015 Update 1, will both happen on November 30th.
  • Xamarin 4 support. end-to-end solution to build, test, monitor native mobile apps with VS2015 Update 1
  • iOS Build with MacinCloud on VSTS, currently in preview at $30/month per agent with no limits on build hours

Additional Announcements

There are also more than 70 on-demand videos with additional details on:

Enjoy! 🙂

ASP.NET 5 Overview at Philly Code Camp 2015.2

By Shahed C on October 10, 2015

I presented ASP.NET 5 at Philly Code Camp 2015.2 on Saturday October 10, 2015. Here is the presentation material with the slides, links and my contact information.

Download PPTX or view slideshow below

SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/shahedC3000/aspnet-5-overview-post-rtm