Conference Talks

NDC Conferences

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Turtle - Functional Programming in Practice

A familiar turtle graphics API is pushed through 13 implementations to show functional programming techniques in practice.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 5 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

NDC Conferences

How to Build Real-World Applications with Orleans

See how Orleans grain, smart-cache, event-sourcing, and streaming patterns address challenges in building cloud services.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

NDC Conferences

What Were They Thinking? Language Design Choices That Seem Wrong, Until They Don't

Explores controversial C# design choices by explaining why the language team made decisions developers still debate.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

NDC Conferences

The Rest of ReST

Explore real-world REST API patterns for reducing request overhead, supporting partial updates, and connecting clients through hypermedia.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

NDC Conferences

Introduction to C++ Template Metaprogramming

Use compile-time type inspection and specialization in C++ to check template constraints, select algorithms, and perform computation.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

NDC Conferences

Understanding Parser Combinators - A Deep Dive

Build a parser combinator library from scratch in F# and use it to create a full featured JSON parser.

• YouTube
• 53 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

NDC Conferences

Making Blazor Work with Everything, Plus WebAssembly on the Server

See how Blazor components cross framework and app boundaries, and how WebAssembly may extend .NET workloads to sandboxed server applications.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

NDC Conferences

Functional Programming with C#

Explore how familiar C# features can express functional programming patterns to make code more robust, readable, and maintainable.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

NDC Conferences

Back to Basics - Efficient Async and Await

Learn how to prevent deadlocks and apply async and await patterns safely in .NET applications.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

NDC Conferences

Fractals, Factories and Fast Food

A pizza’s trip from ordering app to doorstep opens a look at the networks and innovations behind everyday conveniences, their failures, and their future.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

NDC Conferences

Hacking C# from the Inside - How to Do Anything in .NET

Explore how C# can emit machine code, bend its type system, override sealed types, and keep objects hidden from garbage collection.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

NDC Conferences

What's Next for Blazor, and .NET on WASI

A demo-driven look at Blazor’s latest capabilities and the experimental use of .NET on WASI for cloud and edge hosting.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

NDC Conferences

Domain-Driven Refactoring

Learn to spot code smells in existing procedural code and refactor it safely toward a more cohesive domain model.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

NDC Conferences

Developing for Linux on Windows

A live-demonstration tour of how far Windows Subsystem for Linux can support Linux application development, including its limits and relationship to Windows Terminal and Docker.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 9 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

NDC Conferences

Software Architecture, Team Topologies and Complexity Science

Examines how team structure, software architecture, and complexity interact as organizations scale high-performing software.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk