Tuesday

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Wednesday

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Thursday

10:30 AM

Async/Await from the Ground Up

Presented by: Stephen Cleary
Time: Thursday 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

An async refresher course for developers who use async and await but want to really understand what's going on. This session is a "re-introduction" to async and await. It covers what the keywords mean and - just as importantly - what they *don't* mean. We'll be covering What You Need To Know,...

Room: CypressTrack: Programming PrinciplesTags: .NET, C#, Code QualityFormat: General SessionLevel: Intermediate
11:45 AM

Modern Authentication and Authorization with OIDC, OAuth2, and Resource-based Permissions

Presented by: Eric Boyd
Time: Thursday 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM

Open web standards for authentication, authorization and delegation are especially important in our connected, integrated, and mobile world. There are expectations for single sign-on, integration with external partners, multi-tenancy, identity across application tiers, and authentication with...

Room: NileTrack: SecurityTags: .NET, Backend, SecurityFormat: General SessionLevel: Intermediate
1:00 PM

Dev Containers. What are they and why do you need them?

Presented by: Joseph Guadagno
Time: Thursday 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

You're onboarding a new team member, or your team recently inherited a project that uses a different SDK/framework version than your current project uses. What do you do? Install the old SDK/framework versions? Can they even be installed at the same time on the same machine? What if I told you...

Room: NileTrack: DevOpsTags: .NET, DevOps, CI/CDFormat: General SessionLevel: Intermediate

Friday

8:30 AM

State of Mobile Development

Presented by: Sam Basu
Time: Friday 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

It’s 2024. Thankfully, developers have a lot of choice in how to build for mobile form factors. Mobile strategy can often be an afterthought – in reality, it needs to be driven by type of app, audience, platform reach, developer expertise & need for code reuse. Is Mobile web still an option?...

Room: Indigo BayTrack: MobileTags: .NET, JavascriptFormat: General SessionLevel: Intermediate
9:45 AM

Clean Architecture with ASP.NET Core 8

Presented by: Steve Smith
Time: Friday 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM

Clean Architecture is a very popular approach for DDD and Microservices, and for good reason. It's not a new approach, and went by other names in the past (e.g. Onion, Hexagonal, Ports-and-Adapters). One of the main benefits of the approach is its focus on business logic and its reduction in...

Room: OrangeTrack: ArchitectureTags: .NET, C#, Backend, Object Oriented Programming, Programming Principles, Architecture, System Design, Code QualityFormat: General SessionLevel: Intermediate
11:00 AM

CQRS with Event Sourcing using the “Critter Stack”

Presented by: Jeremy Miller
Time: Friday 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Do you have a system where you think would be a good fit for a CQRS architecture that also uses Event Sourcing for at least part of its persistence strategy? Are you intimidated by the potential complexity of that kind of approach? Fear not, using a combination of the Postgresql-backed Marten...

Room: Salon DTrack: ArchitectureTags: .NET, Databases, ArchitectureFormat: General SessionLevel: Intermediate
12:15 PM

All your secrets are belong to us

Presented by: Callum Whyte
Time: Friday 12:15 PM - 1:15 PM

Admit it: we've all checked in an API key or password to a repo at some point... Oops... No one wants their secrets to accidentally leak, so this session is your essential refresher on secret management (and mismanagement!) for your applications and beyond! Let's explore the range of methods and...

Room: OrangeTrack: SecurityTags: .NET, Security, DevOpsFormat: General SessionLevel: Intermediate
2:45 PM

Rebuild your APIs Better, Strong, Faster with Minimal APIs

Presented by: Jonathan "J." Tower
Time: Friday 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM

If you currently have a controller-based API built in ASP.NET or ASP.NET Core, you might be eager to embark on the journey of transitioning it to a Minimal API approach, but not know the best process to make it happen. If so, this talk is tailor-made for you. We will delve into the advantages of...

Room: CypressTrack: Programming PrinciplesTags: .NET, C#, BackendFormat: General SessionLevel: Intermediate
4:00 PM

MSBuild Unleashed: Breaking Free From Complex CI Pipelines

Presented by: Dan Siegel
Time: Friday 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

In today's rapidly evolving software landscape, Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) are the linchpins of a streamlined and efficient development process. However, with myriad build platforms, technologies, and tooling, we often find ourselves entangled in complex build...

Room: Salon ATrack: DevOpsTags: .NET, Programming Principles, CI/CDFormat: General SessionLevel: Intermediate