CodeCampSA 2009 – Day 2

19th July 2009

Presentation notes

Nigel Spencer – WPF in 2010

• Easing functions – affect animation velocity
• Behaviours
• Demo of customising Visual Studio home page – XAML-based
• Model View ViewModel – templates

Greg Low – Spatial SQL

• sys.spatial_reference_systems

Dave Glover – Windows 7 APIs

• Windows 7 Training Kit

Omar Besiso

• Sync Framework (seemed strangely familiar!)

Jason Stangroome – PowerShell and build automation

• Join-Path
• Use pipeline if possible
  • % { } (same as foreach)
• Example of using netstat to confirm that build service is listening on specified port
• Recommend reading - Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers) by Michael Nygard.

Jason Schluter – Silverlighter

• XHTML to Silverlight converter

James Chapman-Smith – Model View ViewModel and Unit Testing

• ViewModel handles
  • UI logic
  • input validation
• Thought while observing Jame’s code – could you have INotifyPropertyChanged take a lamba expression instead of a string? – Apparently yes!

Peter Cornish – AdWords