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Demystifying .NET 4.5 Async
Mitchel Sellers introduces .NET 4.5 Async, showing how to use it by means of examples.
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The Evolution of Windows: WinRT
Raymond Chen tells the story of Windows’ API evolution from the beginning up to its latest version, WinRT.
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History of MonoGame
Dominique Louis covers the history of MonoGame from its roots in XNA and how the team ported it to 8 platforms. He demoes taking a simple 3D XNA sample from Windows to Android and Windows Phone 8.
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Modern Legacy Systems
Robert Annett explores some of the issues of upgrading, maintaining or replacing legacy Java and .NET applications that haven't been touched in a decade, providing advice on solving common problems.
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Shuttle Service Bus
Eben Roux introduces messaging using a service bus, explaining the differences between WCF, web services and a service bus, and demoes how Shuttle handles messages.
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F# for Trading
Phil Trelford describes and demonstrates areas where F# excels, such as domain modeling, computation and concurrency.
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Functional DSLs for Biocomputation
Colin Gravill talks about how using F# to construct a shared analysis engine and the languages used to make the individual tools.
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Reverend Bayes, Meet Countess Lovelace: Machine Learning and Programming
Andy Gordon discusses machine learning using functional programming, explaining how Infer.NET Fun turns the succinct syntax of F# into an executable modeling language for Bayesian machine learning.
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F# Big Data Scripting
Matthew Moloney shares some of the F# tools built at Microsoft Research for dealing with Big Data.
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Staged Program Development
K. Rustan M. Leino advocates developing in stages by using languages that offer both design level abstractions – types, contracts, higher-level constructs, ghost constructs- and implementation ones.
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Information Rich Programming with F# 3.0
Donna Malayeri speaks on information rich programming with F# 3.0’s type providers and query expressions, explaining how type providers work under the hood.
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Types vs. Tests: An Epic Battle?
Amanda Laucher and Paul Snively debate solving problems through types and tests using different approaches.