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.