Earlier this month I was lucky enough to both attend and speak at the Norwegian Developer Conference 2009. What a blast! The NDC09 featured a perfect mix of content – everything from the latest in technology, to the core principles of software craftsmanship and agile development. The speaker lineup this year was AMAZING, and I feel humble to be invited among such a group of incredibly talented people. Hopefully I was able to keep up with the level of the rest the speakers.

I gave two presentations at NDC09; one on the MVVM design pattern (more easily referred to as View Model) and one on .NET RIA Services. I think both talks went well – with the View Model talk being the strongest one, as this is something I’ve been presenting on many times before.

I’ve uploaded both the slides and the demos from my talks. The MVVM demo is basically a the Dive Log example application taken further, with multiple View Models communicating through an Event Aggregator and a touch of navigation using the Silverlight 3 navigation framework. The .NET RIA Services demo is a “plain” data centric application, as well as a second demo app which uses nHibernate and the XML Metadata Provider (something I have to revisit in a later blog post).

In addition to the technical content delivered at NDC09 it was great fun to hang out with old and new friends. Here are some of the highlights: Had some great conversations with Glenn Block about different aspects and approaches to the View Model pattern. Got to catch up with Andrew Browne, a good friend from the Melbourne developer community. Had dinner with Carl and Richard from .NET Rocks, Udi Dahan and Capgemini colleagues. Had tons of good conversations with fellow Norwegian developers. Went fishing with Tim Huckaby.

Thanks to all the speakers, organizers and attendees for making NDC2009 such an awesome event. Hope to see you all back there next year!

MVVM Design Pattern for Silverlight Applications

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For a collection of more resources check out my MVVM tagged links on Delicious.

.NET RIA Services

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Download Fishbook Demo

Download Fishbook nHibernate Demo

For more resources check out my .NET RIA Services tagged links on Delicious, as well as the talk “.NET RIA Services - Building Data-Driven Applications with Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft ASP.NET” and “Building Amazing Business Centric Applications with Microsoft Silverlight 3” from MIX09.