Imagine if you will, your Manager asks you to develop a new desktop application. You're so used to web development that you don't know how to get started. What should you do? Dig out your old VB 6 or WPF books or learn a new technology? Better yet, keep those web skills and use Electron. Electron is the cross-platform application shell GitHub originally built for the Atom editor.

The focus of this workshop will be to develop an Agile Project Tracking app. The workshop will allow you to leave with the following skills:

• Learn what Electron is, the technologies it is built upon, and how to work with it to build desktop applications with Javascript.
• Learn how to manage Electron's multi-process architecture and facilitate communication between processes.
• Learn how to take advantage of native operating system features on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
• Learn how to build native applications for the most popular operating systems.
• Learn how to test and debug Electron applications.

Web APIs drive the most popular and powerful web and mobile apps—making the developer who can build a robust web API a developer that's in demand. Get started creating your own with ASP.NET Core, the open-source framework for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

You know you have to have a great experience when you develop your apps, right? The greatest experience for your user's centers around their data. That’s why developing a great set of Web APIs is so important. Using ASP.NET Core Web API is a modern framework for the modern web. The secret to it all is knowing how to architect your Web APIs for the best experience.

Using the architectures (N-Tier and Hexagonal) taught in this talk allows your APIs specifically to work better due to:

• Allowing a clear decoupling of the API endpoints, Data Access (Synthetic or Production) and finally the Data Domain classes.
• The API Endpoints (Controllers) have no knowledge or responsibility of Data Domain and behind it Data Access
• Because of the decoupling and separation of responsibilities testing can be done easily and without issues.
• Data Access segments of the architecture can easily be switched out without impacting the Domain or API Endpoints.

By using these architectures not only does the development story become easier but your end users get a much more stable API set to consume. The talk will explain and get you started on using these concepts with your ASP.NET Core 2.1 Web API solutions.

We will be building an API for an online music store during this workshop.