Event – 22/04/2013 – Edinburgh – Applied MVVM in Windows 8 apps: not your typical MVVM session!

Scottish Developers are pleased to announce that Gill Cleeren returns to Scotland on Monday the 22nd of April, in Edinburgh!

Gill Cleeren is Microsoft Regional Director, MVP ASP.NET, INETA speaker bureau member and Silverlight Insider. He lives in Belgium where he works as .NET architect at Ordina. Passionate about .NET, he’s always playing with the newest bits. In his role as Regional Director, Gill has given many sessions, webcasts and trainings on new as well as existing technologies, such as Silverlight, ASP.NET and WPF. He also leads VISUG (www.visug.be), the largest .NET user group in Belgium. He’s the author of Silverlight Data and Services Cookbook. You can find his blog at www.snowball.be

About the session
For some time now, the community has been touting the MVVM pattern as being the best way to build XAML-based applications. By now, you should be convinced that MVVM is really the way to go. But then, you start building a real-world Windows 8 application and you encounter all kinds of challenges you hadn’t thought about before. How do I properly structure an application? How do I implement navigation? How do I manage tiles or contracts from MVVM? How do I use Dependency injection correctly? And how do the new data controls in Windows 8 work in combination with MVVM?

A whole list of questions that this session will aim at answering!

Location
Microsoft (Edinburgh Office)
Conan Doyle, 4th Floor Waverley Gate
2-4 Waterloo Place
EH1 3EG Edinburgh
United Kingdom

Agenda
18.30 – Doors open
18.55 – Welcome
19.00 – Applied MVVM in Windows 8 apps: not your typical MVVM session!
20.30 – Close

There is no cost to attend this event.

Register to attend here:
http://gillcleeren2013.eventbrite.com/

Edinburgh – Aug/Sept – Windows Azure, Windows 8 UX and Windows 8 Dev Camps

Microsoft are running a series of dev camps in Edinburgh at the end of August/beginning of September.

These dev camps are great opportunities for you to spend a day with like-minded individuals and the talented evangelists from Microsoft. If you are looking to build apps for the soon-to-be-released Windows 8 operating system (and indeed, Windows Phone), attending a dev camps is the perfect way to kick-start your development!

They are free to attend and you will get fed and watered!

Windows Azure – 30th August, Edinburgh
Windows 8 UX Dev Camp – 30th August, Edinburgh
Windows 8 Dev Camp – 31st August, Edinburgh
Windows 8 Dev Camp – 1st September, Edinburgh

Upcoming Microsoft Events in Edinburgh

Friday 25th May

Windows 8 Camps – Delivered by UK Tech.Days

Ready to start coding on Windows 8?

This is a hands-on day of activity where you bring your laptop and write your first Windows 8 code. We have hands-on labs for you to work through with help from our instructors or you can bring along an existing application that you want to progress and get feedback on.

You will need

  • A laptop
  • Installation of Windows 8 Consumer Preview and Developer Tools
  • Familiarity with Windows 8 Development – either from previous event attendance or from self-study

Agenda

08.30 Registration & Delegates Set Up & Preparation
09.30 Morning Sessions:

  • Welcome, Introduction & Connecting your Kit
  • Listviews and Databinding
  • Orientation, Snapping & Semantic Zoom
12.15 Lunch
13.00 Afternoon Sessions:

  • Searching and Sharing
  • App Bars and Media Capture
  • Lifetime management
  • Settings and Preferences
  • Tiles and notifications
  • Windows Store

Wednesday 13th June, Edinburgh

Visual Studio 11 Application Lifecycle Management

Microsoft UK invites you to join us at the Microsoft Offices in Edinburgh for an overview of the Application Lifecycle Management capabilities of Visual Studio 11 Beta and Team Foundation Server 11 Beta. This session will demonstrate a slice through an agile iteration starting from our product backlog through development, testing and release.