DOWNLOAD LINKS: Public Sector Developer Conference (LA / San Diego)

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UPDATE: Added VSTO deck and some LINQ lab links (say that three times fast) Joel promised folks.

Thanks to everyone who attended!  As promised, I have gathered all the decks and code.  Here are the links:

 

The Benefits of Visual Studio Team System to Your Organization – deck

Silverlight for Developers: Leveraging Visual Studio 2008 and Blend 2 – deck

What’s New for Web Developers in Visual Studio 2008 & the .NET Framework 3.5 – deck, code

What’s New for Data Access in Visual Basic 9 – deck

Building Office Solutions Using  Visual Studio Tools for Office – deck

What’s New in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow (WF) in Visual Studio 2008 & the .NET Framework 3.5 – deck, code

 

Joel also mentioned that he promised the following links:

Visual Basic LINQ Hands On Labs for Visual Studio 2008

LINQ and Deferred Execution

 

If you are looking for my sample of hosting Workflow Services in a Windows UI using named pipes it is here.  The sample is a rewrite of the SimpleExpenseReport SDK sample.  However, I replace the use of ExternalDataExchangeService with Workflow Services.  I am working on a channel 9 screencast walking through the sample.

 

Pete Brown: Silverlight, WPF, Windows Forms, Ajax – Which One is for Me?

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Pete just gave me a heads up on a blog entry he wrote.  I just read through it.  If you you are asking yourself the same question, then you might be interested in Pete’s thoughts.

 

Unit testing WPF applications using MVC

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Josh Smith has great article on his approach to building “unit test-friendly” WPF applications by using the Model View Controller (MVC) pattern.  I just love this statement from the article:

“If you put ten software architects into a room and have them discuss what the Model-View-Controller pattern is, you will end up with twelve different opinions. In the next section of this article, I provide my definition of MVC. Some of the purists out there will inevitably have qualms with what I refer to as ‘MVC.’ Feel free to leave a flaming comment on the message board at the bottom of this Web page. I will gladly entertain different perspectives on what MVC means, but keep in mind that I do not care. I am too busy getting work done to care about the ‘philosophically ideal’ definition and implementation of MVC.”

I have always felt that software architecture patterns should be your friend, not your enemy.  You use certain approaches because they work and solve a problem.  If they don’t, modify them so they do.  Seems pretty simple to me.  However, I’ve wasted too much time in my life before Microsoft arguing with “fellow architects” about the “philosophically ideal” elements of software design/architecture.  That’s time that could have been used to actually contribute to shipping something!  I have read through Josh’s article and went through his accompanying sample.  Regardless of your opinion of what is the “right way” to implement MVC, his approach is a solid, proven way of setting up a structure which allows you to unit test your WPF applications.

UPDATE: Here’s the direct link to the post.