I did add some additional bullet points and text content to the slide deck since I’m not a big fan of standing in front of a bunch of that during a presentation and would rather talk with the attendees and show some code. Either way, check the slides out if you’d like.

http://www.slideshare.net/adammokan/introduction-to-signalr-10082193

Next up is some tweaks to my samples, which were not cooperating with me so much during my session. I will expose that repo on Github soon and post an update.

Enjoy.

My SignalR session begins at 11:30am (hour long) and will be held in room IRN-125.

For more info on Desert Code Camp, visit http://nov2011.desertcodecamp.com

Below are the sessions I will be teaching and links for you to show interest, which will help the organizers determine the room and time it will be held (based on projected attendance/interest level).

Development Sessions

Intro to ASP.NET MVC 3 – basic intro for those with little to no experience with the Microsoft MVC implementation.

Getting Things Done With ASP.NET MVC 3 – Coverage of NuGet, Scaffolding, and other ways to get up and running faster.

Non-Development Sessions

Using simple electronics to make noise! (ages 7+) – This is a Gangplank Jr session aimed at helping kids each build a simple sound generating circuit they can take with them.

So I came up with an assembly I’m calling “ControllerNavigator” for now (http://github.com/amokan/ControllerNavigator). I didn’t spend time to come up with a cool name like the Ruby folks normally do yet. Will have to reference a cult-classic 80s flick or something if I do much more work on it. To use ControllerNavigator (man, I’m hating the name already), you reference the assembly in your MVC project, and add a line to your Application_Start() in Global.asax.

protected void Application_Start()
{
	AreaRegistration.RegisterAllAreas();

	RegisterRoutes(RouteTable.Routes);

	ControllerNavigator.Navigator.DisplayNavigator(RouteTable.Routes);
}

That generates this markup at a custom route, which you could set as the default start page in Visual Studio during development.

What happens in DisplayNavigator is some fun C# reflection code that queries your MVC assembly to find all of the controllers, methods in those controllers, and any actionfilters/attributes they have. There are options before calling DisplayNavigator() to filter out certain attributes and also to specify which base class your controllers are inherited from, if different than System.Web.Mvc.Controller. Then, by stealing some of Mr Haack’s code from his RouteDebugger, it takes the data and generates a custom route (defaults to “/Navigator”) that shows a table listing your controllers, methods, method return types (ActionMethod, JsonMethod, etc), and finally a hyperlink that will launch that route in a new window.

I have some more ideas to make this more useful, which are listed on the GitHub page, but in the meantime feel free to check it out or steal the code to make your own version. If you have questions or comments, hit me up on twitter.

I was an early smartphone adopter going back to the WindowsCE/Mobile days, then a PalmOS phone, then an iPhone, and now I'm using a Google Nexus One. I love my Nexus One, but I've not found the time to get my Java hat on and mess with much development lately. Being that the new WinPhone7 development is Silverlight, XNA, and C#, that will be very easy for me to mess with some development during lunch at work and things like that. I have some XNA experience from years ago and have been wanting to mess with that again sometime, too. This all gives me a good excuse.

I'm pretty excited about the technology stack. This blog post by Mike Hodnick (who does some awesome Silverlight audio/synthesizer development) describes his first-impressions of the tools. Sounds like the emulator is somewhat limited, but I'm sure we will see improvements over the next few months.

With this announcement and the Silverlight 4 RC release at MIX10, I expect this year to blow up with Silverlight development.

Get started with Silverlight 4

Windows Phone 7 development site