Maarten Balliauw loves building web and cloud apps. His main interests are in .NET web technologies, C#, Microsoft Azure and application performance. He is Head of Customer Success at Duende Software. Creator and maintainer of https://speaker.travel. He's an ASP Insider and former Microsoft MVP. Maarten is a frequent speaker at various national and international events and organizes Azure User Group events in Belgium. In his free time, he brews his own beer.
English session - Beginner
The .NET Garbage Collector (GC) is great. It gives our applications the illusion of having unlimited memory, so we can focus on writing code instead of manually freeing up memory. But how does .NET manage that memory? What are hidden allocations? Are strings evil? What are generations? Frozen and pinned objects? HELP!!
In this talk, we’ll go over the base concepts of .NET memory management.
English session - Beginner
Really, I don't know how to write React! I do know server-side ASP.NET Core, HTML and JavaScript. Which is all you'll need to build rich front-ends that feel like they are running client-side. Welcome, HTMX!
You can learn the basics of HTMX within a few minutes, and start using its rich collection of features to build any UI experience - usually a few HTML attributes are enough. In this session, we'll look at how you can get started with both.