My Sela Dev-Days Experience

Gil Fink — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 01:21:02 GMT

My Sela Dev-Days Experience

Today I finished my Sela Dev. Days experience. Sela Dev. Days is a conference which include 5 days, 15 top experts, 25 session, and a whole lot of attendees (around 600 people registered for this week). If you are not familiar with Sela Dev. Days you can go to the conference’s site. In the conference I had three tutorial days in three different subjects:

ASP.NET MVC 3, EF Code First integration, and Razor: Oh My!
In this one day tutorial I co-operated with Sebastian Pederiva, a senior consultant in Sela. In the day we gave a crash dived into Microsoft Web Platform – including ASP.NET MVC 3, EF, Web Platform Installer, Razor view engine and more. At the beginning session I introduced Microsoft web platform and ASP.NET MVC. Then, I talked about building models and data access layers for MVC applications on top of Entity Framework and in particular with Code First. In the third session I talked about how to work with controllers and about the routing concept in ASP.NET. Sebastian talked about Razor and how to integrate AJAX into MVC applications using the jQuery library.
HTML 5
In this one day tutorial I talked about what to expect out of the coming HTML5 standards, the new HTML5 elements, how to migrate HTML4 applications to HTML5 (here I gave a case scenario and with the help of the attendees we migrated a blog web page to HTML5) and about some of the new HTML5 API such as Geolocation, Web Workers, Web Sockets, Canvas and more.
Entity Framework 4.1 and Code First
In this one day tutorial I co-operated with Ido Flatow, another senior architect in Sela. I delivered four sessions – introduction to ORMs and EF, querying and manipulating data using Entity Framework, Entity Framework internals and Code First. Ido gave a session about Entity Framework in distributed applications.

I want to thank all the attendees that joined me in the days I delivered.
All the demos can be downloaded from here.

Sela Dev. Days 2011

Gil Fink — Fri, 20 May 2011 19:19:42 GMT

Sela Dev. Days 2011

Next month, June 26-30, Sela is going to have a mini conference – Sela Dev. Days. In the conference you will have the opportunity to meet Israel and world lead experts and learn about the new and coming Microsoft technologies that everyone will talk about in the next following years. The conference includes 25 one day workshop in subjects such as Silverlight 5, Parallel programing, Windows Phone Mango, ASP.NET MVC 3 and more.
In the conference I’m having the following three workshop days:

ASP.NET MVC 3, EF Code First integration, and Razor: Oh My!
ASP.NET MVC is a mature Microsoft web platform that enables the creation of quality web applications by using the MVC pattern. ASP.NET MVC 3 facilitates separation of concerns, total control over content generation using its built-in view engines and full support for test-driven development. In this one day tutorial you will get to know the framework and how to use it.
HTML 5
HTML is the markup language that every web developer uses to structure and present content in the Internet. HTML5 is the standard that is being shaped and developed currently. It extends and improves the last HTML4 standard and takes it to the next level with multimedia, communication support and more. In this one day tutorial you will get to know what is HTML5 and how you can use it even now in your web applications/sites.
Entity Framework 4.1 and Code First
Entity Framework is the new ORM and data access technology introduced by Microsoft. Entity framework provides an easy and efficient mapping from relational data into business entities. It is easy to use and it is integrated with many other Microsoft technologies. The ADO.NET Entity Framework is designed to enable developers to create data access applications by programming against a conceptual application model instead of programming directly against a relational storage schema. This one day tutorial will deep dive into EF4 and will also include an introduction to EF4.1 with Code First approach.

I recommend to attend all the workshops in the conference but these are the workshops that I would have chosen if I could attend the conference as an attendee:

I hope to see you there!

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My Sela Dev-Days Experience

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Sela Dev. Days 2011

Sela Dev. Days 2011