Robin Shahan

Speaking Sessions

• Microsoft Azure for Beginners

  1:45 PM Saturday   Room: 1401

  What the heck is Azure other than a nice shade of blue? How do you pronounce it? Why would you want to use it? How would you use it? What would you use it for? What does the programming look like? This session is for enquiring minds who want to know the answers to these questions, and more. I will also show how to create and run a WCF service in a web role, talk about deployment, and show how to convert an existing Silverlight application to run on Azure.

• Migrating to Microsoft Azure from a Traditional Hosted Environment

  5:00 PM Saturday   Room: Hearthside Lounge

  I have a dekstop client application that talks to public web services (asmx) that talk to private web services (asmx) behind a firewall that talk to the SQLServer database with the servers all residing in a standard hosted environment. In this session, I'll discuss the whys and wherefores of migrating from this old-school environment to Microsoft Azure. I'll also show you how to create a WCF Service running over TCP in a worker role, and how to use Intellitrace to debug your application in the cloud.

• Deploying .NET Smart Client Applications

  11:15 AM Saturday   Room: 3402

  This session is for those of you with Windows Forms or WPF applications or Office Add-ins written with VSTO that would like to learn about using ClickOnce deployment to easily make your applications available to your customers and provide automatic incremental updates. If you already use ClickOnce, bring any questions or problems you have and I will help you resolve them.