The 3-day event filled with knowledge and networking opportunities

November 12-14, 2015

Ameristar Casino & Resort
One Ameristar Blvd
St. Charles, MO 63301 (Map)

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Cross-Platform


3 Platforms at once? Yes with Xamarin Forms

Following their Multi-platform compilation, Xamarin recently released Xamarin.Forms as an attempt solve the greatest source of frustration for developer, especially mobile developers: interface design ... more

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Jason Farrell

Topics: Cross-Platform  


A Look at Team Foundation Server 2015 Build vNext

Team Foundation Server (TFS) has a powerful build system for years. Nevertheless, the next version of TFS will introduce a completely new system. Wondering what this is about and why (again) belongs t ... more

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Paul Hacker

Topics: Cross-Platform   Visual Studio  


Build Awesome Mobile Apps With Visual Studio, HTML5 and the Ionic Framework

We all know how important it is to have a native mobile app for your business these days. In the past, shipping an app on multiple mobile platforms either required separate codebases, kludgy write-onc ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: Mike Hamilton

Topics: Cross-Platform   HTML5   Visual Studio  


Intro to Calabash and Xamarin Test Cloud

With 18,000 different Android devices and various flavors of the Android OS installed on said devices, ensuring quality via testing on Android is extremely difficult. Enter Xamarin Test Cloud. In t ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: Ben Bishop

Topics: Cross-Platform  


Microsoft Azure Without Microsoft

Microsoft Azure is a highly-scalable cloud computing platform. But what if my business is built on Linux and Oracle? What if I build iPhone or Android apps for a living? What if I’m a PHP developer or ... more

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: David Giard

Topics: Azure & Cloud   Cross-Platform  


Mind the Gap: Building Cross Platform Applications in Visual Studio 2015

This is a session that will dive into building cross platform mobile applications using Visual Studio 2015 with Cordova. I will cover creating Cordova applications, access device features such as the ... more

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Jeffrey St. Germain

Topics: Cross-Platform   Visual Studio   Web Services  


Rapid Mobile Prototyping with Xamarin.Forms

Prototypes are extremely useful, but can be expensive and time consuming to create - especially if you are asked to create them for multiple platforms. In this session, you will be introduced to wiref ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: Krystin Stutesman

Topics: Cross-Platform   Mobile  


Real-Time Cross-Platform Mobile Apps using Xamarin and SignalR

Refreshing is out, real time data is in. No longer is it good enough to expect your users to pull to refresh or reload an app to get the latest data from your service. Modern frameworks have made it ... more

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Spencer Schneidenbach

Topics: Cross-Platform   JavaScript  


Smaller Not Taller: Defeating the Mobile Application Architecture giant

Making the right decisions for a mobile project can be a very involved process of trial and error before you find a good fit. Wouldn't it be nice if you had a map? In this session we will compare fram ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: Heather Downing

Topics: Cross-Platform   Mobile  


The .NET Execution Environment (DNX) and its Ecosystem

Microsoft is investing heavily in the Open Web and cross-platform development. This investment has led to the creation of the .NET Execution Environment (DNX) and a host of new tools to support it. ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: Darren Hale

Topics: Cross-Platform  


You arent using Xamarin? You really should be

Xamarin is cross compilation framework that allows developers to have their cake and eat it too. Leveraging a consistent language and the ability to share large amount of across multiple platforms, n ... more

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Jason Farrell

Topics: Cross-Platform