What’s New in Visual Studio 2017 + VS Code | Adam Cogan

Visual Studio 2017 is a great step forward for developer productivity. Thanks to a new/refreshing/cool/awesome change of attitude, Microsoft is embracing the winning tools in the development space and is building them into the next version of Visual Studio. The open sourcing of .NET Core and ASP.NET Core along with the release of the free…

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Search Indexing: It’s your Data – But Faster | Brendan Richards

Ever wonder why Google can return results from billions of pages in a fraction of a second while your database query across mere thousands seems to drag? In this session we’ll show you how to really rock search by leveraging the capabilities of the top Open Source search index tools and libraries – either embedded…

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Hanselman Unplugged 2 – Back Down Under

Scott Hanselman was in Australia as a special guest presenter at NDC Sydney. Scott was awesome enough to stop in at SSW to give a talk at an extra-special Sydney .NET users group. In this session, audience members were given the unique opportunity to ask any questions they wanted to Scott. Scott was incredibly “edutaining”…

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Enhanced .NET Unit Testing | David Gardiner

In this fast-paced talk David shows you a bunch of really useful libraries and tools that can make writing unit tests faster, simplify reading and understanding test code and help you identify the root cause of failed tests. A great mix of general and special purpose libraries to have in your unit testing toolbox. Take…

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Performance Tuning from the Trenches – Eric Phan

Performance is often the last thing that developers think about when working on their projects. Often times it is after the website has crashed and burned before performance gets brought to the top of the backlog. In this session Eric will share war stories from helping clients performance tune their applications and guide you through…

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