IT Training
Sparkles will provide advanced training courses in Belgium with international experts on a variety of software development topics. Learn IT from the experts! |
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An exclusive partnership with IDesign is set up to bring the best training to Belgium. IDesign’s Master Classes are usually 5 days of hands-on training, and are the world’s most intensive, most comprehensive .NET training classes. There is simply no substitute for being trained by the world's leading experts in the subject, and the IDesign architects offer a profound insight on the technology and its applications. The material presented goes well beyond anything that can be found using conventional training sources often presenting IDesign's original techniques and breakthroughs. In addition to the frontal presentations, the classes use lab exercise and numerous conceptual demos and original tools and utilities. The demos are useful not only in training but afterwards, serving as a starting point for new projects, and as a rich reference and samples resource. |
March 1-5, 2010 - Antwerp, Belgium (TBD)
Architecting WPF Applications
Brian Noyes (IDesign)
To build great compelling, responsive, secure smart client applications with WPF you need to master not just the basic building blocks of WPF but how to compose the rest of the application that sits behind the façade of the user interface. You need to understand user interface presentation patterns to have good separation between your UI definition and the supporting logic code. You need to have loose coupling between different pieces of functionality in your application so they can be independently developed, maintained, tested, and deployed. You need to be able to communicate between the loosely coupled parts of your application with events and commands. You need to secure the application, collect credentials from the user, authenticate them, authorize actions and authenticate against remote services, databases, and other external resources. You need to manage concurrent and asynchronous work in the client and deal with the threading issues of the UI context. You need to retrieve and update data, even cache it locally for offline use, and synchronize that data when you go back online. You also need to make calls to services and be notified on events outside of your application, such as changes to back end data. And finally, you have to deploy your application.
May 3-4, 2010 - Ghent, Belgium
ALM with Visual Studio 2010
Pieter Gheysens (Sparkles)
Releasing software applications into a production environment isn’t anymore all about writing code, but much more. A lot of different stakeholders (business analyst, architect, developer, tester, database administrator, IT professional, …) are now closely involved in the software development process and need integrated tools to collaborate. Today, much of application development remains isolated throughout the enterprise, leading to decreased productivity and lengthy product development cycles. With Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010, Microsoft is taking the next step forward in giving individuals and development organizations an advanced solution that enables them to integrate effectively and build and deliver high-quality applications. This includes new capabilities that make it easier for all contributors on the software team to participate throughout the life cycle — from the core developers and testers to the wider team of project managers, designers and business analysts.
October 5-9, 2009 - Compuware Belgium, Zaventem
.NET Design Master Class
Dino Esposito (IDesign)