Speaker: K. Scott Allen
Scott Allen is the founder of OdeToCode.com and a member of the technical staff at Pluralsight. In 15 years of commercial software development, Scott has worked on solutions for everything from 8-bit embedded devices to highly scalable ASP.NET web applications. Scott is a Microsoft MVP and writes the “Extreme ASP.NET” column for MSDN Magazine.
Building Applications with ASP.NET MVC
tuesday - morning
This tutorial will cover all aspects of ASP.NET MVC development, including the best practices for building models, views, and controllers. We'll see how to extend and customize the framework and development environment to suit our own needs and conventions, and see how to drive an MVC design using TDD.
Putting the M in ASP.NET MVC
thursday 14:15 - 15:05
This session is an in-depth look at building models in ASP.NET MVC applications. We’ll talk about the best practices and trade-offs to evaluate when deciding on model objects. We’ll look at using popular persistence frameworks and discuss the pros and cons of entities versus data transfer objects as models. By the end of this session you should have all the information you need to build effective models for an ASP.NET MVC application.
Advanced LINQ Queries & Optimizations
friday 10:15 - 11:05
Correlated sub queries, join strategies, and other advanced topics will be the focus in this session on writing advanced LINQ queries against objects, and relational data. We will also explore some of the lesser-known LINQ operators that we can use in common development scenarios, and provide practical demonstrations of optimizing LINQ queries.
