Upcoming Events

Come see me at the following venues:

October 15th, Microsoft Silicon Valley, MSDN Unleashed

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032389212&Culture=en-US

October 16th, Microsoft San Francisco, MSDN Unleashed

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032389213&Culture=en-US

October 22nd, Microsoft San Francisco, Vista Nights

http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032389198&Culture=en-US

Berkeley / Fresno

Developing videos and samples....To be uploaded soon !

 

Bruno Terkaly, Developer Evangelist

My name is Bruno Terkaly and I am a Developer Evangelist in Northern California. Over the past few months I have been presenting a wide variety of demos and slides highlighting the wealth of new features in Visual Studio 2008.

No better way to learn - Writing the Code

My commitment to my audience is that they can do what I do when I am on stage at a launch event. Well, let me be more clear – I don’t expect my audience to demo the software, but I do expect them to be able to repeat everything I do and understand it. That’s why I’ve worked hard to create videos of everything I demo. In some ways, videos are better than books or even live lectures. The reason videos are such great learning tools are that you see exactly what the presenter did, step by step, never missing a beat. Humans are visually oriented so videos make a lot of sense. Plus, videos can be paused, rewound, and played over and over until the steps can be followed by the student.

The Theme is SaaS

Let’s face it. Development today is about connecting disparate systems and adhering to open standards. Developers today are being asked to do a lot. Take a simple example, like a hospital clerk, who processes incoming email to validate prescription fulfillment requests. Wouldn’t it be great if the clerk could just perform a patient lookup directly from within the email message body? The demos I have created demonstrate how this can be done. WCF services and LINQ make almost any data available to any client, whether that client is a web application, an Office Ribbon application, or a workflow automation application (Windows Workflow Foundation).

What you can do right now – Writing Powerful Extensions To Outlook

You can immediately start creating applications around Office 2007. I’ve created over 25 very efficient videos that show you:

• How to create a interactive user interface with the “Ribbon.” The Ribbon is an extremely powerful container for your own custom extensions to Office. Imagine learning how to give your users the ability to type look.

• How to search for information in other data stores right from within the comfort of an Outlook email message.

• Learn how to embed extremely graphical user interfaces extensions to an email message. Outlook Form Regions allow developers to inject custom user interfaces right into the message body of an email message. For example, you could perform a lookup against SQL Server, SAP, and some human resources database. LINQ allows you to integrate XML data vary easily and integrate XML data seamlessly with relational data.

• Learn how to integrate highly graphical Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) forms in your menus added to any Office application.

• Learn how to create WCF Services that integrate with stored procedures in SQL Server. Learn the techniques of distributed computing, LINQ queries, service oriented architectures.