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The 5th annual Toronto Code Camp takes place next Saturday, May 1st, in the SEQ building on Seneca College’s York Campus (Seneca@York). If you’re a developer who builds or is thinking of building on the .NET platform, you want to catch this free event!

Last year’s event had over 350 attendees who caught 25 sessions, including the infamous “Data Bondage with Silverlight”, which opened with the equally infamous “assless chaps and accordion performance”. I make no guarantees this year, other than that I’ll be there and that this year’s event will be the biggest and best one yet, with a whopping 40 sessions arranged into 8 tracks.

Seneca@York campus at night

Code Camp happens because of Chris Dufour, .NET community guy extraordinare, who’s been making it happen for the past few years. It’s a free-as-in-beer event, a labour of love carried out by Chris and a team of dedicated volunteers and funded by generous sponsors including The Empire.

Here’s a run-down of Toronto Code Camp 2010’s agenda:

Time	What’s Happening
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.	Registration
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.	Keynote
9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.	Sessions Scrum with VS 2010 and TFS Generating PDF/Excel using Report Viewer Control jQuery is Your Friend Delivering Business Value with Rich Web Applications Why SharePoint is a great application development platform Developing for the “Third Screen” – Windows Phone 7 The Basics Of Unit Testing Regular Expressions: The World’s Most Powerful Text Parsing Language
10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.	Break
11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.	Sessions The ultimate architecture experience with VS 2010 Setting your Data Free with Open Data IronPython: Adding Scripting Capabilities To Your Applications Silverlight Essentials Exploring the new SharePoint 2010 Service Applications Building Windows Phone 7 Series Games with XNA Game Studio 4.0 BDD – End to end testing for web applications in the .net world using User Stories Introduction to BlackBerry Widgets
12:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.	Lunch
1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.	Sessions Scale Your Data Tier with Windows Server AppFabric XML in SQL Server. Why bother? Optimizing Ajax for Maximum Performance Silverlight Breaks Free of the Browser Connecting SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft CRM 4.0 with Visual Studio 2010 Developing Windows Phone 7 Applications using Silverlight Overview of Bing Maps and Search What’s New in DotNetNuke V5.0
2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.	Break
3:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.	Sessions Parallel Computing Support in .NET 4.0 What is MS Sync. Framework The Rich Standard: Getting Familiar with HTML 5 Will your code blend? Architectural and Code Level Best Practices for Developing Applications in SharePoint 2010 Adding Location Intelligence to your Windows Phone 7 Apps with Bing Maps Code Generation in Visual Studio using T4 DotNetNuke Skinning
4:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.	Break
4:30 p.m. – 5:45 p,m.	Sessions Getting out of the Authentication Game: Moving to Claims-Based Identity for your ASP.NET Web Application Self-Tracking Entities and Entity Framework 4 Building Applications with ASP.NET MVC Silverlight Data Matters Building InfoPath Applications in SharePoint 2010 Understanding the BlackBerry Web Development Platform Developing BizTalk Adapters
5:45 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.	Break
6:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.	Closing
6:30 p.m.	“The Hive” Afterparty If you want to attend this event, please register!
Later	After the afterparty, a tour of York University’s astronomy observatory!

I’ll be present at the event, making myself useful as an official Microsoft representative and as a Windows Phone 7 Champ and Azure go-to guy.

Toronto Code Camp takes place in the SEQ building at Seneca’s campus at York University, which is at 70 The Pond Road. Click the map below to see a Bing map and get directions: