Alvin Ashcraft - Speaking Resources

Resources from my speaking engagements:

• Slides
• Projects
• Links
• Videos
• Etc.

Meet me in-person in 2025

• CodeMash 2025 - January 14-17, 2025
• NDC London - January 27-31, 2025
• VSLive! Las Vegas - March 10-14, 2025

My current sessions

• Learn, Share, and Grow: How to Become a Microsoft Learn Contributor
• Building a modern, native application for Windows: Which UI framework should you choose?
• Get Started Building Windows Apps with WinUI and the Windows App SDK
• The Life of a Content Developer Working on Microsoft Learn
• Create a WinUI App with Microsoft's Community Toolkits (Workshop)

Recent Speaking Engagements

• VSLive Chicago 2024
  • April 30th (Contributing to Microsoft Learn)
  • April 30th (Choosing a Native Windows UI Framework)
• Hampton Roads .NET User Group
  • May 14, 2024 (Contributing to Microsoft Learn)
• VSLive at Microsoft HQ 2024
  • August 6th (Choosing a Native Windows UI Framework)
  • August 8th (Contributing to Microsoft Learn - Fast Focus Session)
• CSharp.TV Software Architecture Conference - 3rd Edition
  • August 16, 2024 (Choosing a Native Windows UI Framework)
• TechBash 2024, Pocono Manor, PA
  • September 27 (Choosing a Native Windows UI Framework)

My books

• Learn WinUI 3: Leverage WinUI and the Windows App SDK to create modern Windows applications with C# and XAML, 2nd Edition
• Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6: A modern approach to building faster, more responsive, and asynchronous .NET applications using C# - Great with .NET 8 too!
• Learn WinUI 3.0: Leverage the power of WinUI, the future of native Windows application development - The 1st edition