Shannon Braun's Weblog

Last week Jeff Brand (Microsoft DPE), Rocky Lhotka and I sat down to discuss the good and bad of the Mix 08 conference.  You can get the podcast from Jeff Brand's blog.

You can download the attached presentation on Defying Occasionally Connected Challenges with Smart Clients... it contains the deck... the demos for the Microsoft Sync Framework that I presented at the launch event are in the VS2008Launch.zip.  It does not include the demo on syncing Outlook Contacts with the File System, you can get that here.

Here is the presentation that I gave at the Twin Cities .NET user group last night.

UtilizingSoftwareFactoriesInSoftwareDevelopment.zip (655.03 KB)

6/8/2007 4:15 - The link has been updated and should work now.

I was asked to speak at a InformationWeek and InRule sponsered webcast in regards to what I am seeing as current trends in the industry around business logic automation. 

My part of the presentation is called "Designing Highly Customizable Applications". It dicusses the trend we are seeing with Web 2.0, mashups and composite applications that is moving away from developer driven applications and more towards empowering the user to construct and configure their own applications.  It also discusses drivers behind this shift, how to adapt to the shift and talks about some of the Technical Pitfalls in applications that are completely customizable.

You can register for the webcast on the InformationWeek website.

During the holiday I had some spare time... one of things that I worked on was putting together a library of graphics I could draw upon for presentations.  Most of the grahpics were “borrowed” from Patterns & Practices presentatations. 

Download DesigningApplicationAuthorization.zip below.

Download: AppBlocksWebCast-FINAL.zip

Friday night and I am clicking away at the keyboard preparing for next Wednesday's (October 29, 2003 11:00am - 12:30pm PST)  MSDN Webcast.  You can find the link to it here .  You have to like the title... is that a mouthful or what?

Here is the description:

Applying Microsoft Application Blocks to Increase Developer Productivity and Reduce Application Time-to-Market

The Microsoft Platform Architecture Group (PAG) has produced reusable code components written around common technical challenges. These Application Blocks help reduce the cost of building a solution and help developers to be more productive on Microsoft® .NET. They make it easier to move away from the "build your own" mentality by supplying proven, scalable, tested components built using best practices published by Microsoft. And, of course, the source code is provided.

The webcast will get IT managers and development leads up-to-speed on the Application Blocks and how to take advantage of them to create higher quality software solutions in less time.

The main theme behind the C# Language Primer presentation was to get consultants up to speed on OO techniques as related to the C# language.  The following topics are covered in the presentation:

Inheritance
Derivation / Controlling Derivation
Member Overloading
Bases and Method dispatching
Using virtual/abstract/ new/sealed modifiers

C# Language Primer.zip (816.58 KB)

This is the presentation that I did for Microsoft DevCare, January 2003.  It has a bunch of code examples... including Smart Client deployment, Shadow Copying dll's and setting up security for Smart Client deployments.

Other presentations to follow.