.NET UK Tour 2020 - Special Event

As part of the .NET Tour UK 2020, we're holding a special meetup that's taking place simultaneously with other .NET meetups around the UK, with some amazing speakers who are in town for NDC London. We'll be meeting at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in Westminster, which is also the venue for NDC London - our thanks to NDC Conferences for providing the venue.

Luce Carter - Zero to Mobile Hero - Intro to Xamarin and Cognitive Services

You can be faced with a nightmare of Xcode, Android Studio, Swift, Objective C, and other options. This means not only learning multiple languages and frameworks but also having to support two different codebases for the same application. But Xamarin Native and Xamarin.Forms offer a powerful, cross-platform development solution for .NET developers looking to target smartphones, tablets, TV’s, computers and IoT devices.

In this talk, Luce shares what Xamarin is including Native and Xamarin.Forms for both C# and F#, how to get started creating a simple HelloWorld app from scratch and a more complex example (will involve at least one Azure service including Cognitive Services for facial recognition). Also some awesome examples of apps written using Xamarin including ones used to save lives!

Luce will take examples from xamarin.com/customers as well as show this demo about how Xamarin was used alongside other technologies to aid with Skin Cancer prediction.

This talk will include slides, demos, code samples, live coding and the audience will walk away feeling like they too can create a mobile app in just a few minutes and carry their work around with them in their pocket or backpack!

Luce is a Microsoft MVP, Twilio Champion and lover of code, sunshine and trains, based in Manchester, England. When not writing mobile apps for fun in her spare time, she curates the Xamarin Weekly newsletter, edits for James Montemagno and speaks at events around the UK and Europe. Follow Luce on Twitter @LuceCarter1 and also her Blog at lucecarter.co.uk

Isaac Abraham - SAFE Stack - The Pit of Success for Functional Web Programming

SAFE stack is a free, open-source, functional-first stack for cloud-ready web applications. It allows you to develop web applications almost entirely in F#, without needing to shoehorn your codebase into an object-oriented framework or library, and without needing you to be an expert in CSS or HTML. This talk will demonstrate the value proposition behind the SAFE Stack, illustrating how we can develop unified client / server applications that take the best features of F# and apply them throughout the stack, whilst still integrating naturally with technologies such as ASP .NET, JavaScript and React. You’ll see how to create data driven server-side APIs, and then surface those APIs in a rich, responsive web application running in the browser using a combination of .NET and JavaScript libraries and tools. Lastly, we’ll see how easily SAFE apps can be hosted on a cloud platform such as Microsoft Azure.

Isaac is an. NET MVP and a .NET developer since .NET 1.0 with an interest in cloud computing and distributed data problems. He is the author of Get Programming with F# and is the director of Compositional IT. He specializes in consultancy, training and development, helping customers adopt high-quality, functional-first solutions on the .NET platform.

Olia Gavrysh - The future of Windows desktop and porting to .NET Core

In this talk you’ll learn about the future of Windows desktop platforms (WinForms and WPF), the differences between .NET Core and .NET Framework as a target platform and what is a better fit for your applications. You’ll also see how to port your existing desktop application from .NET Framework to .NET Core.

Olia is a program manager on the .NET team, Microsoft. She focuses on desktop applications and porting applications to .NET Core experience. Before that, she was working on machine learning framework for .NET. Based in Redmond, USA.