Description: Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems are normally thought of as fulfilling the needs of sales or marketing departments, but the relational nature of these systems enables them to provide a capable foundation for building a line of business applications. This session will look at some of the advantages offered by Dynamics CRM that provide the rapid creation of robust applications with small development teams.

Speaker: Vivek Joshi, GLUGnet president

Description: Asynchronous programming is becoming more important as services are pushed to the cloud and UI responsiveness becomes more business critical. These requirements, though, add on a great deal of complexity- especially when needing to synchronize several asynchronous events. Fortunately, Reactive Extensions provide a way to reign in all these events using the power of LINQ. Events can now be queried, composed, and combined making for much more expressive code in complicated situations. In this talk, I'll cover the basic concepts and terms of RX while walking through several examples where RX provides an elegant, readable, and testable solution to a complex problem.

Bio:
Joel Dart is a systems developer from Indianapolis, IN where he works at DyKnow (www.dyknow.com) on real-time, client-side software for K-12 and higher-education classrooms. Graduating from DePauw University in 2007, Joel dove in head-first into .NET working with WinForms, WPF, LINQ, and complex garbage collection issues. Joel has been an active member in Indy's c# special interest group for the past two years, and coming from a long line of teachers, most enjoys sharing his knowledge with others in the community.