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mvcConf Virtual ASP.NET MVC conference

mvcConf 2 roster

The people who made the program.

Framework team members, open source maintainers, consultants, and product developers made up the mvcConf 2 speaker list. Each person below led a session in the program.

27 speakers

Roster notes

The roster reflects the published mvcConf 2 program. Speaker affiliations changed after the event, so this archive lists names and session topics rather than current job titles.

The groups below follow the shape of the program, from framework and architecture to testing, delivery, and the view layer.

Platform and framework

The people closest to the framework, including members of the ASP.NET and IIS teams.

Scott Guthrie Opening keynote
Phil Haack Packaging and sharing with NuGet
Brad Wilson Beyond the basics in MVC 3
Steve Sanderson Scaffolding with MvcScaffolding
Vaidy Gopalakrishnan A developer view of IIS Express
Glenn Block RESTful services with WCF
Ben Dornis Extending MVC 3 view engines

Application architecture

Sessions on domain modelling, persistence, composition, and the shape of a maintainable application.

Chris Canal MVC 3 with NHibernate and Castle Windsor
Ashic Mahtab CQRS and event sourcing in practice
Chris Zavaleta Code first with Entity Framework
Sebastien Lambla Composite web applications
Steve Hebert Model binding for derived types
Roberto Hernandez Extending the MVC pipeline

Testing and quality

Practical approaches to acceptance tests, behaviour driven tests, and the quality of the code that ships.

Amir Barylko Acceptance testing for the web
Mitch Denny Behaviour driven testing with MSTestContrib
Brandon Satrom BDD with SpecFlow and WatiN
Eric Sowell jQuery and Ajax patterns for MVC

Delivery and tooling

How applications move from a working build to a deployed service, and the tools that make the trip shorter.

Troels Thomsen Cloud deployment for MVC
Andy Wahrenberger NuGet in the enterprise
John Sheehan Voice and SMS apps with Twilio
Rob Conery A tour of WebMatrix
Andrew Davey Email templates with view engines

Community and views

Open questions, view engine choices, and the client side work that turns markup into an interface.

Jeffrey Palermo Open Q&A with the community
Shay Friedman Choosing a view engine
Chris Bannon Rich views with jQuery UI
John V. Petersen MVC 3 fundamentals
Steve Smith Performance tuning for MVC