Being one of the newer development platforms in use today .NET is a good choice for begining developers who want to jump in and become effective programmers quickly. .NET has taken years of experience and research to provide the most powerful development platform around. Many of the tools needed for developing quality web applications are included in .NET without having to track down extra components. .NET easily handles all of the web 2.0 features that you have become used to. 5 reasons why projects using DDD fail 17 Jun 10 440 PM.mp4 Many people try applying Domain Driven Design and #fail miserably. This presentation looks at five top reasons for failure and discusses how to avoid them. A Style of Programming 16 Jun 10 917 AM.mp4 This talk describes a set of coding principles that constitutes a style of programming that focuses on ease of coding, ease of changing the code, and ease of testing the code. The presentation aims at helping programmers understand how the principles relate to actual code. Every principle is made concrete through examples. This style of programming is influenced by leading object oriented and agile developers, and it is perfect for applying on object oriented languages such as C#. ASP.NET MVC vs Ruby on Rails - The .NET Rocks Smackdown.mp4 Shay Friedman's comparison of ASP.NET MVC and Ruby on Rails gets redesigned for an NDC 2010 exclusive. Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell joins in and moderates a smackdown between the two leading web frameworks featuring Rob Conery, Chris Hardy, Hadi Hariri, Scott Bellware and of course Shay Friedman. This is you're chance to be part of a lively discussion which will be broadcasted on the leading .NET talkshow .NET Rocks this summer. ASP.NET performance for free using caching 17 Jun 10 53.mp4 Is your ASP.NET application not performing like you wished it would? Performance not what it has to be? Have you considered caching? While many developers know the basics of caching in ASP.NET, there's actually a lot more possible than initially thought. Also, not every technique is good to solve every problem. In this session, we'll do an overview of all the options ASP.NET has to offer for caching and state management, helping you to get a better performing application. Advanced Debugging with Visual Studio 17 Jun 10 1017 AM.mp4 Basically every .NET developer knows the Visual Studio debugger, but only few know its little secrets. In this session, Ingo shows you what you can achieve with this tool beyond the setting of simple breakpoints. You will learn how advanced breakpoints, debugger macros and visualizers, interactive breakpoints, tracepoints and interactive object instantiation at development time can support your hunt for bugs in your applications. Ingo will also show you the new crash