Nov 17-19; Workshops-Nov 16 (Los Angeles Convention Center) The Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is Microsoft's premier gathering of leading-edge developers and architects. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions en http://microsoftpdc.com/Content/icons/pdc.png http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions 64 64 Microsoft PDC09 Watch the day 2 keynote at the 2009 Professional Developers Conference with Steven Sinofsky, Scott Guthrie and Kurt DelBene. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/KEY02 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/KEY02 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:52:40 GMT Microsoft PDC09 Explore enhancements to the app experience, the ability to host HTML content within Silverlight, and playback rights-protected media when offline. Get details on the new extensions to the sandbox that allow apps to run with elevated privileges and access the file system or interop with desktop components via Automation. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL20 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL20 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:01:20 GMT Client Silverlight Microsoft PDC09 Learn about enhancements to data binding and data validation as well as new support for rich text & printing in the platform that allow you to build compelling LOB user experiences. In addition, you will see how you can incorporate webcam & microphone support into your applications using Silverlight 4. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL19 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL19 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:01:20 GMT Client Silverlight Microsoft PDC09 Watch Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect, and Bob Muglia, President of the Server and Tools Business, in their day 1 keynote at the 2009 Professional Developers Conference where they describe Microsoft’s three screens and a cloud strategy. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/KEY01 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/KEY01 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:21:09 GMT Microsoft PDC09 With the announcement of “Dallas” during the PDC Keynote many developers are probably asking themselves how can they take advantage of this powerful new service. In this session we will cover the ideas behind launching Dallas and how to build applications that use this data. We will cover integrating this data directly into you applications in addition to how this can be used to light-up information worker scenarios using Excel’s new PowerPivot technologies. If you are have data that you believe developers around the world could benefit from, come hear how you can get involved. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC29 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC29 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:01:27 GMT Services WindowsAzure Microsoft PDC09 Come learn how to build rich, multi-tier applications in the cloud using PHP and MySQL, taking advantage of new Windows Azure features. This session will cover using PHP, MySQL, and memcached in Windows Azure. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC51 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC51 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:46:27 GMT Services WindowsAzure Microsoft PDC09 Come learn how to build large-scale applications in the cloud using Java, taking advantage of new Windows Azure features. This session will cover using Apache Tomcat and Java in Windows Azure. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC50 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC50 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:46:26 GMT Services WindowsAzure Microsoft PDC09 Come learn how Visual Studio advances developer productivity with new tools for application debugging, and designers for key technologies such as Sharepoint. See how the new modeling tools allow you to explore application structure while validating that implemented code conforms with architectural design. Finally, experience how the ALM tools in Team Foundation Server 2010 support agile project management and improve quality assurance efforts by facilitating great collaborations between developers and testers. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT60 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT60 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:01:15 GMT FrameworksTools Virtual VisualStudio Microsoft PDC09 Come explore beneath the hood of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, and learn about the key changes in the kernel. Topics include: scalability improvements, security improvements, power efficiency enhancements, core architecture changes to modularize Windows, and much more. Note: This session spans the 1:30 and 3pm session slots with a 10 minute break at 2:30. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL29 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL29 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:16:08 GMT Client TechnicalLeaders Virtual Windows7 WindowsServer Microsoft PDC09 Microsoft Excel workbooks are everywhere, and they are a mini-database, a data-layer, a visual designer, and a programming language all packed into a single technology. Microsoft Office 2010 introduces a new REST API and a JavaScript object model for Excel Services that will allow you to harness the full capabilities of Excel spreadsheets, whether you are developing a desktop gadget for Windows 7, an enterprise application for SharePoint, or a mash-up for the Web. This all-demo, all-code session will introduce the new Excel Web App and arm you with the examples and tools you need to unleash the power of Excel on the Web. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/PR14 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/PR14 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:16:08 GMT Office Productivity Microsoft PDC09 The Bing Maps Platform has grown immensely over the past year from our Bing Maps AJAX Map Control to our Bing Maps Web Services and now our Bing Maps Silverlight Control. Come and join us as we take you on a tour of all the features and dig deep into the code to show you how to build your own Bing Maps applications in Silverlight. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL36 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL36 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:01:10 GMT AJAX Client Silverlight Microsoft PDC09 Did you know that the new SQL Server 2008 Spatial Types are available in a redistributable library? This library can be used to build interesting location aware functionality in applications that don’t even connect to a database. See us build an Excel Add-In for spatial analysis and an application that demonstrates how to spatially-enable the new StreamInsight product. Hear about what the Spatial Library delivers today and what is coming in future releases. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR33 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR33 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:01:07 GMT Servers SQLServer Microsoft PDC09 You know the Web Services let you quickly build interoperable applications; come see how quickly as we use the business application building capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics CRM and SharePoint to build a high scale business application in one hour. We will demonstrate the speed of the framework by developing a business application complete with reporting, business functionality, security, mobility, portal and collaboration and we'll build it right in front of your eyes. We think you will find that xRM is the fastest way to build a relational business application. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/PR33 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/PR33 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:46:07 GMT Productivity xRM Microsoft PDC09 Come hear Gary Flake talk for the first time about a Microsoft Live Labs experiment that is exploring new ways to organize, access and experience large amounts of information on the web. See examples of the exciting new scenarios that are possible when browsing, search and web exploration all converge into one integrated experience. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/VTL05 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/VTL05 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:59:26 GMT FromtheLabs TechnicalLeaders Virtual Microsoft PDC09 As a developer, when building cloud applications you now have the ability to directly impact the cost for running your application. In this session, learn about the Windows Azure Platform pricing model, the service level agreements for the platform, and the top cost considerations you should make when architecting your application. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC54 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC54 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:16:07 GMT Services WindowsAzure Microsoft PDC09 A platform is only as powerful as the tools that let you build applications for it. This session focuses on using demos, not slides, to show the best way to use Visual Studio 2010 to develop Windows Azure applications. Learn tips, tricks and solutions to common problems when creating or moving an existing application to run on Windows Azure. Come see how Visual Studio 2010 supports all parts of the development cycle as we show how to take an ASP.NET application running on IIS and make it a scalable cloud application running on Windows Azure. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC53 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC53 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:59:34 GMT Services WindowsAzure Microsoft PDC09 In this demo-heavy session, learn how to easily write a applications from scratch on Windows Azure using Visual Studio 2010. The entirety of the development lifecycle will be shown from initial creation, through debugging, to deployment of the service. This session will also cover topics about new features and enhancements in Windows Azure including role definitions, APIs (Runtime, management and Storage), and SDK. This session is targeted at developers who are starting to learn about Windows Azure and want to see the easiest and fastest way to get a service up and running quickly. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC37 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC37 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:31:18 GMT CloudAttributes Services WindowsAzure Microsoft PDC09 Come find out how ASP.NET 4 runtime improvements make building ASP.NET applications faster, easier and better than ever. See how to better manage web server resources with improved resource monitoring, and hear about new features like application pool autostart. Learn how to scale web site application output caching, how to build a custom output caching engine, how to build better website performance with new session state compression, and much more. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT57 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT57 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:16:10 GMT ASPNET FrameworksTools Microsoft PDC09 Having the customer on your back to deliver features on time and under budget with tight deadlines can make you feel like you’re being chased by ninjas on fire. Join Scott Hanselman and he’ll walk through lots of tips and tricks to get the most out of the ASP.NET MVC 2 framework and deliver work quickly and with style. Come see ASP.NET MVC 2’s better productivity features as we make the most of several key features. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT59 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT59 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:59:38 GMT ASPNET FrameworksTools Microsoft PDC09 Come hear how to improve productivity while getting more control over building web applications including handling element id’s, using CSS styling, getting finer control over ViewState and controlling the markup. Also hear how to improve SEO by creating friendly URLs. See examples of the many advances that make data access simpler including how to enable automatic validation in data controls with a single line of code, how to use the new QueryExtender to easily filter data, and many advances in rapid application development with Dynamic Data. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT58 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT58 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:59:17 GMT ASPNET FrameworksTools Microsoft PDC09 See how Windows Embedded Standard 2011 fuses the power and functionality of Windows 7 with the flexibility and workflow needed for the embedded developer to make devices come to life. Discover 2 distinct development experiences, Image Based Wizard v. Image Configuration Editor, and explore the workflow for creating an embedded device with Windows Embedded Standard 2011. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL28 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL28 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:38:21 GMT Client Windows7 Microsoft PDC09 Learn how to create a positive customer experience by using the Windows Error Reporting (WER) platform. See how WER provides mechanisms to communicate directly with customers who are experiencing crashes. See how WER can be used to learn from crashes, collect additional information, and inform your customers about upgrades, patches and work-arounds. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL33 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL33 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:47:37 GMT Client Windows7 Microsoft PDC09 Learn about next generation of ASP.NET Web Deployment with tips & guidance on how you can reuse and extend the technologies available with VS 2010 to build a hassle free web deployment solution for your team. See how to use VS 2010 and MS Deploy to assist with with creating virtual directories in an automated fashion, setting up app pools correctly, uploading only the changed content, replicating servers in web farms, modifying Web.config files for testing/staging/pre-Prod/UAT/Production environments, setting up team build environment or deploying databases. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT56 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT56 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:46:51 GMT ASPNET FrameworksTools VisualStudio Microsoft PDC09 Come hear about the advertising opportunities open to developers. Get an overview of the core components of the Microsoft Advertising Platform, how they fit together, and how to use them to build your own applications that include the adPlatform. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC36 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC36 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:47:12 GMT Services Microsoft PDC09 Learn how SQL Azure has evolved and what new capabilities are planned for upcoming versions. Hear about future RDBMS capabilities in the Cloud and the integration of SQL Azure with other services. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC52 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC52 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:47:19 GMT Services SQLAzure Microsoft PDC09 Multi-touch is going mainstream as part of Microsoft Surface and Windows 7. Come to this session to learn about how to create innovative new user experiences with touch – and how .NET developers can share code between both of these platforms. You’ll get a deep dive on the new touch capabilities in WPF 4 and the subset in Silverlight 3. You will also see how the unique capabilities of Microsoft Surface take multi-touch to a whole new level. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL27 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL27 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:31:07 GMT Client Windows7 Microsoft PDC09 Hear how Windows 7 adds support in native code for accelerating media transcoding and specific playback experiences through the new asynchronous Media Foundation transform (MFT) model. Learn how to write and use accelerated MFTs, and how to license for preference in Windows Media Player and portable device operations with Windows Shell. See a managed sample using the transcoding API, and how the new Device Proxy simplifies AVStream driver based video capture in Media Foundation. Also learn about in-box support for high-definition UVC webcams and the new extensibility model, along with how the new native Source Reader object allows easy capture integration into existing applications. Finally, explore new tools for developing and debugging in Media Foundation. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL34 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL34 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:59:27 GMT Client Windows7 Microsoft PDC09 Learn how to take advantage of the latest graphics features in WPF to build polished, responsive applications. See examples of how to boost the visual sharpness of your applications, how to take full advantage of new layout rounding capabilities, how to make everything from transitions to huge element trees snappy and responsive, and how to integrate organic animations into your applications. Learn to push the bar for desktop application experiences up a notch – all with the latest that WPF 4 has to offer! http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL31 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL31 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:59:29 GMT Client WPF Microsoft PDC09 Come hear from RiskMetrics and Thuzi; two early adopters that have developed highly scalable applications using the Windows Azure Platform. Hear them share their application architecture, lessons learned, and best practices. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC32 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC32 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:46:09 GMT Services WindowsAzurePlatform Microsoft PDC09 Hear from Invensys and Active Web Solutions, two early adopters who have used Service Bus and Windows Azure to build applications that span the cloud and multiple on-premise locations with minimal investment in infrastructure. Hear them describe their solutions, detail how Service Bus and Windows Azure fit into their architectures and discuss lessons learned. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC31 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC31 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:46:09 GMT Services WindowsAzure Microsoft PDC09 Come learn from Quark and SiteMasher; two early adopters that used the Windows Azure Platform to build applications that support multiple tenants. Hear about how they have architected their application in the cloud to support isolation of data, extensibility, and availability for their customers. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC33 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC33 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:46:11 GMT CloudAttributes Services WindowsAzurePlatform Microsoft PDC09 Learn how to keep your customers, management, and quality assurance team happy by building testable Silverlight applications. Explore how the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) and Inversion of Control principles can be used with .Net RIA Services to create Silverlight applications with high testability across multiple tiers. Hear guidance from the Silverlight team on how to best use the available testing tools and technologies to take full advantage of your improved application designs to boost quality. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL32 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL32 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:38:33 GMT Client Silverlight Microsoft PDC09 Learn about two concurrency tools from Microsoft Research: "Cuzz" and "FeatherLite". Cuzz (for Concurrency Fuzzing) is a tool that significantly improves the concurrency coverage achieved with existing stress tests. Cuzz uses a randomized algorithm to fuzz thread schedules and is very effective in finding bugs. Cuzz also helps reproducing the bug once found. FeatherLite is a light-weight data-race detection tool. FeatherLite uses sampling techniques for finding data races without adding prohibitive runtime overhead. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/VTL32 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/VTL32 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:46:42 GMT FromtheLabs ParallelComputing Virtual Microsoft PDC09 Come hear an overview of the REST principles and why REST is becoming popular beyond traditional Web applications. Learn how to write applications that produce and consume RESTful services using the .NET Framework 4 and the improvements we have planned for future versions of the .NET Framework. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT55 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT55 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:01:08 GMT NETFramework FrameworksTools REST Microsoft PDC09 Dive into advances in XAML happening in future versions of .NET, Silverlight, Microsoft Visual Studio, and Microsoft Expresssion Blend. Hear about XAML parsers, markup compilers, analysis, transformations, localization, and tools. Dig even deeper into performance optimizations possible in .NET, and explore possibilities with a XAML DOM and DLR based scripting. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL24 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL24 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:46:53 GMT NET Client Silverlight WPF Microsoft PDC09 Come hear how the Microsoft Sync Framework can be used to bridge on-premises data to SQL Azure and Windows Azure storage. Learn to quickly build applications that use the cloud as a data hub for aggregation of enterprise, partner, desktop and device data. Examine how to deploy a Windows Azure Web Role containing the Sync Framework to act as a service end-point in addition to running the Sync Framework on client machines. See the future of synchronization technology related to the Windows Azure Platform. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC23 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC23 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:16:08 GMT Services WindowsAzure Microsoft PDC09 Come get a glimpse into the future of the database development using SQL Azure as we look at the management lifecycle of a database on SQL Azure. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC27 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC27 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:38:33 GMT Services SQLAzure Microsoft PDC09 Hear about our investigation into modeling directory services data using an "M"-based logical model called System.Identity, which is included in the "Repository" CTP.  See how to benefit immediately from this model by syncing data from Active Directory into the repository and then manipulating it with SQL and tools such as "Quadrant".  Establish a collaboration with the developer of System.Identity to help shape the evolution of the Active Directory programming model. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC28 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC28 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:59:37 GMT Identity Modeling Services Microsoft PDC09 Learn about the Live Framework, our latest offering for developers programming against our Live Services from any device, platform, runtime, or programming language. Learn about Live Services protocols, APIs, and tools which enable your web, service, or client applications to access, store, and synchronize user data with Live Services, obtain audience analytics data, and more. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL26 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL26 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:38:34 GMT Client LiveServices Microsoft PDC09 See how SketchFlow lets designers and developers create, distribute, review and evolve compelling, rich prototypes cost-effectively and easily. Learn how SketchFlow can help you improve your designs through rapid prototyping, and how you can extend and adapt SketchFlow to meet the needs of your projects and environments. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL23 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL23 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:38:37 GMT Client Expression Microsoft PDC09 Learn about DebugAdvisor, a search based tool to find related bugs, and other related information such as people and files, Holmes, a statistical debugger based on coverage data that can be used to root-cause a bug by narrowing down the code path that results in the error, and Darwin a symbolic execution-based tool to root cause regressions. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT54 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT54 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:46:54 GMT FrameworksTools VisualStudio Microsoft PDC09 Hear how Visual Studio Lab Management extends Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server to give you a seamless build, deploy and test workflow. Learn how every build can be automatically deployed into a virtualized multi-machine test environment and every test environment can be made available to the whole team immediately. Also learn how you can focus on diagnosing and fixing problems, even in multitier systems, without waiting for the hassle of setup. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT53 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT53 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:38:29 GMT FrameworksTools VisualStudio Microsoft PDC09 See how the Microsoft Semantic Engine brings search, structured query, and analytics together in a simple, unified Search-Discover-Organize usage model. Learn how it addresses the need to have unified access to structured and unstructured enterprise data through easy to use analytical tools. Also learn how to enable business insight to support decision making at all levels within the enterprise. Get an overview of the Semantic Engine, its architecture, the product and its APIs. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR32 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR32 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:47:26 GMT Servers SQLServer Microsoft PDC09 Hear how developers can leverage Expression Blend to rapidly create sophisticated and compelling Silverlight and WPF applications. See what a difference adding animation, transitions and interactivity can make in traditional line of business applications. Also learn how to leverage advanced data-binding techniques and also make your applications match your organization’s style guidelines. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL30 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL30 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:47:27 GMT Client Expression Microsoft PDC09 Learn how to make your application calendar or contact aware with the Exchange Web Services Managed API and Exchange Online. Get a first look at our new Exchange Web Services and Exchange Online developer story. See how developers can leverage the power of Azure and Exchange Web Services to create rich Software + Services solutions on Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) or Microsoft Silverlight. Come learn how quick and easy it is to develop an Exchange Web Services application that can be deployed to millions of seats both on-premises and in the cloud. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/PR30 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/PR30 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:46:41 GMT ExchangeServer Productivity Microsoft PDC09 See how xRM (Anything Relationship Management) provides a set of tools that allow developers to rapidly build extensible, high scale .NET-connected business applications on Microsoft SQL Server and Internet Information Services (IIS) that extend to both Web and Microsoft Office clients. Learn how solution packaging capabilities help improve team work and simplify distribution of business applications. Get a preview of the solution packaging capabilities in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 5, showing how you can version, package and deploy solutions containing your data model, .NET assemblies and user interface extensions. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/PR31 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/PR31 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:16:08 GMT Productivity xRM Microsoft PDC09 Hear best practices for getting the fastest query processing for general-purpose applications, including logical and physical database design, statistics management, query design, query tuning, problems areas to avoid, and more. Learn which query constructs cause the query optimizer to rely on guesses rather than accurate statistical estimates for the number of rows returned by sub-plan. Also learn how to work from an understanding of your query and update patterns to develop a high-performance set of indexes for database tables. Find out how parameters and local variables effect plan selection and optimality, and how that can impact performance of your applications. See how your choice of data types for join keys can affect join performance, and how data compression affects CPU overhead and I/O. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR31 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR31 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:59:31 GMT Servers SQLServer Microsoft PDC09 Get an architectural and programmatic overview of Claims based Identity implemented in SharePoint 2010 including how identity is dealt with at Sign-in and for service calls both within SharePoint and to external systems. Also see how to build solutions that work on top of SharePoint and that can use the underlying platform to deal with common problems like supporting multiple identity providers, user identity delegation between web front end code and service code and securely accessing external/LOB web services without resorting to username/password storage. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/PR11 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/PR11 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:47:13 GMT Productivity SharePoint Microsoft PDC09 Come learn from Domino's Pizza, Accenture, and CCH (Wolters Kluwer) how they migrated real world applications to the Windows Azure Platform. Hear lessons and best practices learned based on experience from Windows Azure Platform early adopters with a focus on key topics such as authentication, authorization, SQL schema and data migration, and application integration. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC22 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC22 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:46:08 GMT Services WindowsAzure Microsoft PDC09 Explore how SharePoint 2010 has undergone a shift in identity and access control by adopting the claims-based object model offered by Windows Identity Foundation (WIF). Learn how SharePoint 2010 implements the extensibility points of WIF and achieves a standards based identity solution that is designed for heterogeneous identity environments for its on-premises and cloud-based offerings. Dive deeply into how SharePoint 2010 unifies sign-in process and service access control processes by using identity delegation capabilities offered by WIF. Also, see examples of enabling advanced scenarios such as resource access in cross-farm and cross-enterprise environments by externalizing the authentication to a security token service and performing claims-based authorization. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC26 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC26 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:46:34 GMT Identity Services SharePoint Microsoft PDC09 Come hear how NASA, Oxford University, Arizona State University and Microsoft worked together to create "MapAWorld," a citizen science focused crowd-sourcing experience used to map the surface of the Red Planet. Hear from the team on: moving to the cloud, migrating from other cloud platforms, and how they used Silverlight, Windows Azure, Windows Azure Storage, SQL Azure, and ASP.NET MVC in the solution. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/VTL31 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/VTL31 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:01:13 GMT ASPNET SQLAzure Virtual WindowsAzure Microsoft PDC09 Learn how to build n-tier Rich Internet Applications (RIA) on Silverlight by tapping the power of .NET RIA Services. Walk you through an example of building an application from scratch using the pattern run-time components and tools provided by .NET RIA Services. See how it helps you write application logic to expose data and operations in a carefully controlled fashion using tools integrated into Visual Studio with support for validation, authentication, authorization and handling units of work. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL21 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL21 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:46:22 GMT NETFramework Client Silverlight WCF Microsoft PDC09 Learn how teams around Microsoft and ISVs around the world use the Fiddler web debugging tool to find bugs, troubleshoot performance problems, and uncover security vulnerabilities in both client and server code. Explore the best add-ons for Fiddler, and build your own functionality using JavaScript and .NET languages. Examine how new features in Internet Explorer 8, like Accelerators and Visual Search suggestions, utilize the network. Learn actionable best practices for building faster websites. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL25 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL25 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:46:23 GMT AJAX Client Microsoft PDC09 Come learn how to use Windows Azure to automate the deployment of your application, scale your application automatically based on usage, and stage your application in multiple environments. Also learn how to use Windows Azure to automate the entire application lifecycle. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC25 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC25 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:46:10 GMT CloudAttributes Services WindowsAzure Microsoft PDC09 Come learn about Silverlight application development patterns such as composite applications with Prism, developing using the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern, and methods of implementing large, modular, multi-page applications within your team. Hear about frameworks created to help assist in rapid development using these patterns without sacrificing good application development patterns. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL22 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL22 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:16:17 GMT Client DataServices EntityFramework Silverlight Microsoft PDC09 Hear how to model reactive applications using push-based, observable collections, and how to glue together complex event processing and asynchronous programs using declarative LINQ queries. Learn how Rx is part of the Business Platform Division and Live Labs "Cloud Programmability" project that aims to democratize the Cloud by providing tools and libraries to radically simplify the development of data intensive Cloud applications. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/VTL04 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/VTL04 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:59:24 GMT ASPNET Cloud FromtheLabs Languages LINQ Virtual Microsoft PDC09 Hear how Microsoft is evolving its application server technologies to address the challenges of building, deploying, and managing composite applications in Windows Server and Windows Azure. See how .NET-connected applications built on Microsoft ASP.NET, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) can take advantage of the improved management, hosting, and distributed object caching capabilities provided by the application server. Learn about future directions for these technologies and hear how the changing needs of enterprise applications will be addressed by a layered platform of frameworks, servers, and services. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT25 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT25 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:46:22 GMT ASPNET FrameworksTools Microsoft PDC09 Hear from the team at Live Labs that created "Seadragon" (including Silverlight Deep Zoom) about the techniques and best practices that reliably deliver production quality software while at the same time exploring new ideas that are pushing the limits of what is possible. Hear about examples of our successes (and failures) that helped cultivate and encourage innovation in all aspects of our development process. We share lessons-learned that can benefit almost any product or technology development project. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/VTL30 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/VTL30 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:01:08 GMT ASPNET FromtheLabs Virtual Microsoft PDC09 Would you like to write software that can adapt to the user, learn from examples or work with uncertain information? Infer.NET is a machine learning framework that lets you build these capabilities directly into your .NET application. The framework allows you to combine detailed domain knowledge with the latest machine learning algorithms to generate tailored code to solve your problem. An API based on random variables lets you call Infer.NET code from within your application. We provide examples of using Infer.NET in search and gaming. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/VTL03 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/VTL03 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:46:28 GMT FromtheLabs Languages Virtual Microsoft PDC09 Come hear how Code Contracts provides a set of tools for design-by-contract programming and how Pex is an advanced unit-testing tool that uses automated program exploration to intelligently create unit tests with high code coverage. See how they work together so that your code has fewer defects. Learn about new features for Code Contracts including automatic documentation generation, call-site checking for components and reference assemblies for the .NET Framework and for Pex including a light-weight mocking framework, improved support for large code bases, and more thorough test input generation. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/VTL01 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/VTL01 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:46:44 GMT ASPNET FromtheLabs Languages Virtual VisualStudio VSTS Microsoft PDC09 Axum is an incubation project from Microsoft's Parallel Computing Platform that aims to validate a safe and productive parallel programming model for the .NET framework. It's a language that builds on the principles of isolation, agents, and message-passing to increase application safety, responsiveness, scalability and developer productivity. Come learn about Axum and other advanced concepts we are exploring including data flow networks, asynchronous methods, and protocol-based component interactions. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/VTL02 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/VTL02 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:38:26 GMT FromtheLabs Languages ParallelComputing Virtual Microsoft PDC09 Windows provides applications a default experience for gestures and touch interaction. Applications that want to go beyond that basic experience have a powerful platform to build on top of. This session is targeted at developers interested in building touch-optimized experiences. We look closely at some of the more powerful portions of the Touch platform, like manipulation and inertia processors, as well as cover real-world problems that developers have encountered and overcome. Come help build the next generation of user experiences! http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL13 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL13 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:38:37 GMT Client Windows7 Microsoft PDC09 This talk covers some of the more subtle and complex aspects of designing and implementing a ribbon. Explore how to build a great gallery (a critical task for any ribbon), how to make use of contextual tabs and application modes, etc. We draw from specific experiences gained by the Windows Live team, by examining some lessons learned from these early Windows Ribbon adopters. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL18 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL18 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:46:23 GMT Client Windows7 Microsoft PDC09 The Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT) is constantly used by the Windows team to build an optimized Windows OS. Come and see how the Windows Performance team used the WPT throughout the Windows 7 development cycle to optimize for customer scenarios and how you can leverage many of its features and capabilities to help you build faster applications on Windows. This session presents case studies that demonstrate how you can use the toolkit to pinpoint areas for improvements in your application, and it provides you with some best practices developers should follow to create applications with optimum performance. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL16 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL16 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:47:11 GMT Client Windows7 Microsoft PDC09 Dig deep into the capabilities of Direct3D and Windows 7. With the onset of new Direct3D 11 hardware, gain practical knowledge to help you push graphics to the limit. Learn about the new tessellation stage in Direct3D 11, which enables an unprecedented level of rendering quality by dynamically generating geometry on the GPU. In addition, see how the multi-core improvements in the Direct3D 11 runtime can help you scale your application to take full advantage of all of the cores on a machine. Finally, learn about Direct3D 10 Level 9, which enables Direct3D 10 applications to run on pretty much every computer in the market today, and WARP, our new software rasterizer that lets your application use high-quality graphics even when there’s no graphics card available! http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL15 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL15 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:59:27 GMT Client Windows7 Microsoft PDC09 The Windows API Code Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework provides a source code library that can be used to access some new Windows 7 features (and some existing features of older versions of Windows operating system) from managed code. These Windows features are not available to developers today in the .NET Framework. This session will show you how to access features like taskbar integration, jumplists, libraries, sensor platform, Direct2D, and more. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL12 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL12 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:16:13 GMT NETFramework Client Windows7 Microsoft PDC09 How many times have you thought to yourself, “My application would be so much better if it knew where the user was?” With Windows 7 and the .NET Framework 4.0, you now have the tools at your fingertips to location-enable your applications. Based on the new Location platform for Windows 7, the location API in .NET Framework 4.0 provides a single, consistent API to get you your latitude and longitude regardless of the underlying technology that acquired it—allowing you to focus on creating exciting, differentiated location-aware applications. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL17 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL17 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:46:24 GMT NETFramework Client Windows7 Microsoft PDC09 The number of PC configurations is exploding. With the onset of netbooks as well as high-end desktop systems using the latest in graphics hardware, creating an application that can target all of these systems is getting harder every year. Join us as we explore the many options available in Windows 7 to facilitate graphics development across all different hardware configurations, from low-end integrated to top of the line discrete GPUs. Learn advanced performance and rendering techniques for Direct2D and DirectWrite, and the interoperability of Windows 7 technologies for making slick, high-quality graphics for your applications of the future. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL14 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL14 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:46:14 GMT Client Windows7 Microsoft PDC09 Come see how to use the Microsoft SQL Server "Repository" to increase speed and accuracy of development, deployment, maintenance, and management of your enterprise applications. The "Repository" is a central management database for application lifecycle metadata. Learn how to perform impact analysis, architecture validation, and manage application configuration/deployment using the UML, CLR, Identity, and deployment models in the "Repository". http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR19 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR19 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:46:44 GMT ApplicationLifecycleManagement EntityFramework Identity Modeling Productivity Servers SQLServer Microsoft PDC09 Take a deep dive into Windows 2008 R2 features including enhanced support of Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) computer architectures, along with User Mode Scheduling (UMS) and support for up to 256 logical processors (LPs). Learn how UMS enables custom thread-level scheduling within your own application. See how new extended affinity APIs unlock the ability to address more than 64 LPs, and how NUMA APIs ensure that your application performs optimally on increasingly complex topologies. Learn why developers will want to ensure their applications scale well on this new generation of high-performance commodity systems. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR18 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR18 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:01:28 GMT Servers WindowsServer Microsoft PDC09 Come get an overview of the DryadLINQ features and runtime environment, and walk through some real-world examples of DryadLINQ programs based on the familiar declarative syntax of LINQ combined with the fault-tolerant distributed graph scheduling of the Dryad runtime. Hear how DryadLINQ provides a programming model and runtime for data-parallel programs running across large clusters and partitioned data sets. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR17 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR17 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:38:25 GMT HPC Servers Microsoft PDC09 Learn how BizTalk Server 2009 lets you focus on writing the code to do the hardcore business logic and let BizTalk take care of moving the data. Hear how your development skills with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) work seamlessly with the powerful integration platform of BizTalk. Find out how BizTalk aligns with the Microsoft application server in the longer term. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR15 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR15 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:47:34 GMT BizTalk Servers WCF WF Microsoft PDC09 See how the BizTalk Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Toolkit enables you to build services that can be quickly located and connected, whether they live behind the firewall or in the cloud, without creating a brittle point-to-point link. Learn how to dramatically improve the service lifecycle of development, testing, and deployment by using the powerful messaging, routing, and transformation capabilities of the BizTalk ESB Toolkit in your solution today, and get a glimpse of future plans for BizTalk service bus/pub-sub pattern. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR16 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR16 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:31:18 GMT BizTalk Servers WCF WF Microsoft PDC09 Come learn how you can leverage Windows PowerShell to automate the administration of client and server operating systems all the way from small businesses to large enterprises and cloud services. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR13 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR13 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:59:36 GMT PowerShell Servers Microsoft PDC09 Learn how IIS Smooth Streaming is changing the way on-demand and live media is consumed by delivering rich, High-Definition adaptive media experiences. Learn how the Sunday Night Football Extra experience was built, and get an overview of how you can use these tools along with IIS Application Request Routing (ARR) to develop custom experiences for your customers using the Smooth Streaming Player SDK. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR14 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR14 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:46:24 GMT IIS Servers Microsoft PDC09 Learn how to use PowerShell to help quickly create a custom UI to simplify enterprise administration. Come find out why layering administration GUI on top of Windows PowerShell makes delivering a UX quick and easy. See how to write rich automation and integrate graphical user interfaces using Windows PowerShell. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR12 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR12 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:47:32 GMT PowerShell Servers Microsoft PDC09 Come learn how to develop Windows Server 2008 R2 applications for compatibility, readiness, and quality. Hear about our free downloadable test tools and other resources to help you perform a quick compatibility self-test. Also learn about changes to the internal implementation of APIs and kernel enhancements to support improvements in virtualization, scalability, and networking. Take advantage of expert advice for ISVs and IT Pros to help improve your application development, deployment, and performance on Windows Server 2008 R2. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR11 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR11 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:59:15 GMT Servers WindowsServer Microsoft PDC09 See examples of how to use C++ and the new Concurrency Runtime (ConcRT) to take advantage of new technologies on Windows Server 2008 R2, such as the ability to scale beyond 64 cores and User-Mode Scheduling (UMS) of threads. Learn to write code that scales even in the face of complicated processor architectures, Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA), and many-cores. Hear how ConcRT provides mechanisms that allow you to naturally express affinity requirements and schedule work on appropriate nodes without thrashing the system. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR10 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR10 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:46:31 GMT ParallelComputing Servers Microsoft PDC09 Come hear how easy it is to secure REST Web services with the Access Control Service (ACS). Learn about ACS fundamentals including how to request and process tokens, how to configure ACS, and how to use ACS to integrate your REST Web service with Active Directory Federation Services. Also see how to apply ACS in a variety of scenarios using a few popular programming models including the Windows Communication Foundation and Microsoft ASP.NET Model-View-Controller (MVC). http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC19 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC19 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:46:32 GMT NETServices Services WindowsAzure Microsoft PDC09 Explore patterns, practices, and insights gained from our early adopter programs for how to use the Service Bus to move applications into the cloud or distribute applications across sites while retaining the ability to efficiently communicate between them. Also learn how to disentangle cross-application relationships along the way. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC18 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC18 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:46:11 GMT NETServices CloudAttributes Services WindowsAzure Microsoft PDC09 Learn how the Windows Identity Foundation, Active Directory Federation Services 2.0, and the claims-based architecture can be used to provide a uniform programming model for identity and single sign-on across applications running on-premises and in Windows Azure. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC17 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC17 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:16:13 GMT CloudAttributes Identity Services WindowsAzure Microsoft PDC09 Come take an in-depth look at how to integrate and extend the Office Communicator experience into your Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight applications. See how to provide the same integration experience as Office and Outlook including contact search, contact lists, presence, contact details and more. Learn how to pass contextual data from your application using the new contextual conversation API. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/PR13 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/PR13 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:59:24 GMT Productivity UnifiedCommunications Microsoft PDC09 Come learn about a series of features and technologies available through Microsoft Visual Studio and out-of-box solutions that will make you more productive in the Visual C# IDE. Whether you're trying to come up to speed with an unfamiliar code base, navigate your way through a large solution, write in new pieces of business logic, or test your application, these tips and tricks will help you get your job done better and faster. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT35 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT35 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:46:45 GMT FrameworksTools VisualStudio Microsoft PDC09 Come review how to use “M” to build a DSL and author data schema, then hear how we're going to make “M” more relevant to you, the Microsoft .NET developer. Explore the future of “M” where DSL, schema, and lots of other great ideas come together as a single Web-centric data processing language. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT34 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT34 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:59:17 GMT EntityFramework FrameworksTools Modeling SQLServer Microsoft PDC09 Learn how to become a Visual Basic coding guru! Hear how to write code faster than a speeding bullet, leap around large projects in a single bound, and become more powerful than a locomotive with the debugger. Take a wild ride through IDE features and technologies that will help you get your job done better and faster. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT33 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT33 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:47:09 GMT FrameworksTools VisualStudio Microsoft PDC09 Come hear from several of the Microsoft senior technical leaders about the future of programming, programming languages, and tools. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT52 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT52 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:59:16 GMT FrameworksTools Languages TechnicalLeaders Microsoft PDC09 Come learn about future directions in garbage collection with the creator of the Microsoft .NET CLR Garbage Collector (GC). The GC is the managed in “managed code”, and Microsoft continues to innovate and extend the capabilities of general purpose object lifetime management in the .NET virtual machine. With all the hype about concurrency and parallelism in the age of ManyCore, come hear about new strategies for concurrent GC. Learn what big problems Microsoft is working on in this area. Hear how the GC evolved and what the future looks like for the top-of-the-line memory management infrastructure of .NET. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT51 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT51 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:59:26 GMT ASPNET FrameworksTools TechnicalLeaders Microsoft PDC09 Come learn how to use "Quadrant" and "M", part of the Microsoft data platform, to interact with Microsoft SQL Server databases in rich new ways, including dynamic views and multi-user editing. See how to rapidly create the data-tier of your Microsoft .NET-connected application, speeding overall development time. Also learn how to customize both "Quadrant" and "M" to provide domain-specific experiences over your application data. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT50 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT50 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:46:24 GMT NETFramework FrameworksTools Modeling SQLServer Microsoft PDC09 Hear how Microsoft views the future of cloud computing and how it is starting to deliver this vision in the Windows Azure platform. Learn how applications can be written to preserve much of the investment in code, programming models and tools, yet adapt to the scale-out, distributed, and virtualized environment of the cloud. Also learn about cloud computing's new operational challenges around networking, security, and compliance. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC20 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC20 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:46:55 GMT Cloud Services TechnicalLeaders WindowsAzure Microsoft PDC09 Come learn how Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX enables you to easily create and use AJAX Control Toolkit controls in both ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC applications. Learn about all of the new features and improvements to the AJAX Control Toolkit controls such as the new client Script Loader and client DataView control. Also learn how ASP.NET AJAX was designed to work seamlessly with jQuery, how you can create ASP.NET AJAX controls directly from jQuery and how you can use the jQuery library in ASP.NET AJAX code. Learn how the new features of Visual Studio 2010 enable you to more productively build AJAX applications. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT29 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT29 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:59:33 GMT AJAX ASPNET FrameworksTools Microsoft PDC09 Learn how the .NET Micro Framework leverages the power of standard communication protocols and modern graphic programming paradigms to more easily bridge intelligent devices, such as personal medical devices, industrial automation installations, energy management solutions and more, with reliable backend services. See ‘how to’ examples of using the .NET Micro Framework to create intelligent devices for a variety of applications. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT28 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT28 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:47:34 GMT NETMicroFramework FrameworksTools Microsoft PDC09 .NET 4 and Windows Server AppFabric provide new application hosting, tracking, and persistence capabilities. Learn the benefits of different hosting options and how to choose the right option for your scenario. Learn about custom tracking providers and how the built-in tracking system can be extended to meet your custom business data monitoring requirements. Learn about the new subsystem for managing durable application state using Microsoft SQL Server or custom application-specific stores. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT27 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT27 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:46:48 GMT NETFramework FrameworksTools Microsoft PDC09 The distributed in-memory caching capabilities of Windows Server AppFabric (formerly code name “Velocity”) will change how you think about scaling your Microsoft .NET-connected applications. Come learn how the distributed nature of the “Velocity” cache allows large amounts of data to be stored in-memory for extremely fast access, how AppFabric’s integration with Microsoft ASP.NET makes it easy to add low-latency data caching across the Web farm, and discover the unique high availability features of AppFabric which will bring new degrees of scale to your data tier. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT26 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT26 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:46:43 GMT ASPNET FrameworksTools Microsoft PDC09 Learn how the Microsoft Silverlight 4 introduces the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) for building customizable applications that can easily be extended by third parties. Whether you are building an extensible data grid, a custom rules engine, a pluggable editor, or a composite application such as a pluggable CRM system, you want to learn about MEF. Hear how to use MEF to decouple your applications into more maintainable and testable pieces, and partition your application into dynamically deployable chunks that download on-demand. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT24 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT24 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:01:21 GMT ASPNET FrameworksTools Silverlight Microsoft PDC09 Come see how PreEmptive Solutions built an editor extension for Visual Studio 2010 that provides in-line visualizations of usage and stability data collected from applications in production via Runtime Intelligence Services. Learn about the new code editor’s extensibility model, how to write editor extensions using the Managed Extensibility Framework, how to interact with the text buffer, how to create custom margins and Windows Presentation Foundation-based adornments, and how to distribute the extension. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT23 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT23 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:47:30 GMT FrameworksTools VisualStudio Microsoft PDC09 Come learn about the new features being introduced with ASP.NET MVC 2. Templated helpers allow associating edit and display elements with data types automatically. Areas provide a means of dividing a large Web application into multiple projects. Data annotations allows attaching metadata attributes on a model to control validation. Client validation enables form field validation without the need to perform a roundtrip to the server. Learn how these new features enable you to be more productive when building ASP.NET MVC applications. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT22 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT22 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:47:24 GMT ASPNET FrameworksTools Microsoft PDC09 Jump-start your Windows 7 experience by joining some of the top Windows 7 engineers, including Mark Russinovich, Landy Wang, and Arun Kishan, for an intense, high quality boot camp. Whether you are looking to create more performant, reliable, or secure applications, or you are an application developer looking to leapfrog past your competition, this FREE Boot Camp can get you from zero to hero in less than eight hours! This fast-paced Windows 7 marathon will cover it all including: (1) Kernel and architectural improvements, (2) new shell integration points: taskbar, libraries and search, and (3) applied tips for getting the most out of today’s hardware with the sensor & location platform, multitouch, and the new graphics libraries (Direct2D, DirectX 11) that take advantage of the GPU. Whether you’re a C++, C# or Visual Basic developer, building a .NET or a Win32 application, we’ll give you actionable tips to get the most out of the Windows platform. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/WKSP08 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/WKSP08 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:46:47 GMT Windows7 Workshop Microsoft PDC09 Come get the inside scoop on how Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) powers all its rich services – like layout, databinding, and animation. There is a lot of heavy lifting done for you under the hood; in this session, we crack open these system components, including the trees (visual, logical, and inheritance), the property system and its change notification, and a few of the routing systems that all messages go through. Bring your hard-hat for this one! http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL10 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL10 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:46:25 GMT Client WPF Microsoft PDC09 Discover how your applications can achieve a new degree of flexibility, transparency, and end-user control with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). Expose tailored, productive authoring experiences for your users to define business and application logic with new capabilities in WF 4, including simplified designer rehosting and enhanced activity and designer programming models to create domain-specific libraries of activities. Understand the options available for hosting WF and extending the runtime to add control and application visibility and see how customers are already workflow-enabling their solutions with WF 4. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT17 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT17 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:59:34 GMT FrameworksTools WF Workflow Microsoft PDC09 Many companies are looking to hosted solutions to offset IT management costs, and this means a shift in the way developers build and deploy apps. SharePoint 2010 provides you with a great way to quickly build and deploy solutions that can run on SharePoint Online, the hosted alternative to your on-premises SharePoint. Come learn how you can use Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 to build scalable solutions and deploy them into the cloud. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/PR10 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/PR10 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:46:26 GMT Productivity SharePoint Microsoft PDC09 Multi-core processors are everywhere! Parallel Language Integrated Query (PLINQ) in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 offers a minimal-code solution to take advantage of this parallel hardware, providing an implementation of the .NET Standard Query Operators that uses parallel execution techniques underneath the simple LINQ programming to make applications run faster! Come for a deep dive into PLINQ via Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. See what it looks like from the perspective of LINQ developers, the debugging and profiling support, how it's implemented under the covers, and how to best incorporate it into your applications in order to reap the performance benefits of the manycore era. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT21 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT21 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:46:32 GMT FrameworksTools LINQ ParallelComputing Microsoft PDC09 ASP.NET has evolved a lot in the last few years with the addition of ASP.NET MVC and Dynamic Data, as well as the continuous improvement of WebForms and ASP.NET AJAX. This session will provide a roadmap of the changes that are coming with ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010 and include demo’s of future directions the team is exploring. Come to this talk to hear about the future directions of ASP.NET. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT18 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT18 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:46:23 GMT ASPNET FrameworksTools Microsoft PDC09 This advanced-level .NET RIA Services session provides an "under-the-covers" view of how the technology works. Come learn about common architectural patterns, key design principles, and tools to work with a variety of data access layers, application logic patterns and client-usage scenarios. Examine query and unit of work patterns, custom methods, validation, authentication and authorization metadata, authoring custom validations, and using asynchronous operations effectively on the client. Hear tips and tricks to help you get the most out of .NET RIA Services in advanced scenarios. This session assumes existing experience with .NET RIA Services. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL07 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL07 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:46:57 GMT Client Silverlight Microsoft PDC09 Many developers use services to build and integrate applications and line-of-business systems with SharePoint. With SharePoint 2010, developers now have a wider array of options that include ASP.NET, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and RESTful services. Come get a demo-rich walkthrough of each option and discuss where each of the services might be appropriate and what you stand to gain by using them. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/PR12 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/PR12 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:46:13 GMT Productivity SharePoint Microsoft PDC09 Get an insider’s look at how Microsoft created the next-generation, large-scale integrated development environment experience using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) 4. Learn best practices and hear real-world experiences in developing mixed Win32-WPF applications that combine WPF content with Win32 HWNDs. Discover how Visual Studio 2010 uses the new WPF text-rendering stack that utilizes DWrite. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL09 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL09 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:16:09 GMT Client VisualStudio WPF Microsoft PDC09 Concurrency is increasingly important for many applications. The shift to manycore brings abundant parallelism to the desktop. The Web, Microsoft Silverlight, and distributed systems increase the demand for asynchronous solutions. F#, a functional and object-oriented language for Microsoft .NET, adds many tools to make parallel and asynchronous programming both fun and easy. Come hear the core concepts of the F# language, and see how ideas like immutability, functional design, async workflows, agents, and more can be used to meet the challenges of today’s real-world applications. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT20 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT20 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:38:36 GMT FSharp FrameworksTools ParallelComputing Microsoft PDC09 The Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) brings the power of dynamic languages to .NET. It provides the plumbing for IronPython and IronRuby, a shared lanaguage hosting API, and also enables interoperability with static languages like C# and Visual Basic. Come hear how you can leverage these technologies in your own applications, and learn why dynamic languages deserve a spot in your toolbox! http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT30 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT30 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:38:34 GMT DLR FrameworksTools IronPython IronRuby Microsoft PDC09 While the heritage of C# is as a static programming language, many objects in the world are more dynamic, whether originating from COM, JavaScript, Python, or other places. Interacting with that world from C# used to be painful and error prone, but C# 4 provides deep integration of dynamic binding into the language. Come see what we are doing, why do we do it that way, and why it is still safe. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT31 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT31 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:46:22 GMT CSharp Dynamic FrameworksTools Microsoft PDC09 Learn how to light up your Silverlight application by using behaviors to add physics-based animation and rich interactivity. Hear tips and tricks on how to create advanced behaviors, techniques to make them extensible, and how they can be integrated to create immersive applications and enhance interactive games. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL08 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL08 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:01:08 GMT Client Expression Silverlight Microsoft PDC09 Visual Basic 2010 introduces a number of new language enhancements, including statement lambdas, auto-implemented properties, line continuation removal, and more. Come hear how to use these new features, along with existing favorites like XML literals and LINQ, to pull off some simple, yet powerful, coding. We demonstrate a variety of application types, including Microsoft Silverlight and Microsoft Office. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT32 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT32 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:59:25 GMT FrameworksTools VisualBasic Microsoft PDC09 Developing concurrent applications is hard. Making them robust and responsive is even more challenging. The new Asynchronous Agents library, Parallel Pattern Library and parallel debugging and profiling support in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 simplify the situation, enabling you to develop I/O- and computationally-intensive applications that offload work from the UI and that make good use of available resources. Come for a deep dive into the power of task, actor and dataflow programming in Microsoft Visual C++ 2010. Learn how it can help you to write correct, efficient, and scalable applications. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT19 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT19 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:01:28 GMT CPlusPlus FrameworksTools ParallelComputing Microsoft PDC09 Come walk through the top performance and coding pitfalls in large-scale, complex Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications. Learn to use the performance analysis tools and methodologies to find problems in real application scenarios, and discuss solutions to optimize your WPF application for maximum performance. Understand how to tackle a non-performing app and transform it into a quality application that runs as well as it looks. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL11 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL11 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:16:15 GMT Client WPF Microsoft PDC09 Join this code-heavy session to discuss the upcoming version of ADO.NET Data Services, a simple, standards-based RESTful service interface for data access. Come see new features in action and learn how Microsoft products are using ADO.NET Data Services to expose and consume Data Services to achieve their goals around data sharing. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT12 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT12 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:16:16 GMT EntityFramework FrameworksTools REST Microsoft PDC09 Come see how the ADO.NET Entity Framework enables new capabilities to leverage multiple development approaches, for example the use of code-first, model-first, and database-first. Hear how, regardless of the development approach, developers will benefit from the Entity Framework and the deep integration with the rest of the Microsoft .NET Framework 4, such as the Microsoft ASP.NET MVC, Dynamic Data, and Windows Presentation Foundation. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT10 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT10 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:31:17 GMT NETFramework EntityFramework FrameworksTools Microsoft PDC09 Scrum for Team System v3 significantly evolves the leading Scrum process template by leveraging the capabilities of Visual Studio Team System 2010 Team Foundation Server (TFS 2010) to enhance the support for Agile best practices. Hear how a large customer extended its process model, supports its enterprise scale Scrum projects and Acceptance Driven Development. Additionally, learn how the template takes advantage of the new hierarchical work item capabilities, integrates with Microsoft Test and Lab Manager and supports the new deployment topologies for TFS 2010. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT09 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT09 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:38:35 GMT FrameworksTools VSTS Microsoft PDC09 Learn about the new features in Windows Azure for storing and manipulating blobs and files in the cloud, as well as tips, tricks, and performance guidelines for using blobs. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC14 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC14 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:16:29 GMT Services WindowsAzure Microsoft PDC09 Learn common patterns that will help you build applications that seamlessly scale. This session will cover topics such as data access, parallel processing, and managing work using queues. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC08 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC08 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:31:20 GMT CloudAttributes Services WindowsAzure Microsoft PDC09 Go beyond "Hello, World" and see how Windows Azure supports building complex, multi-tier applications with some of the new features just released. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC16 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC16 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:59:21 GMT Services WindowsAzure WindowsAzurePlatform Microsoft PDC09 Learn how to build and maintain reliable applications using the monitoring, logging, and debugging capabilities of Windows Azure using a new set of APIs being released this year. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC15 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC15 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:31:19 GMT CloudAttributes Services WindowsAzure WindowsAzurePlatform Microsoft PDC09 Learn how Windows Azure has changed since its initial preview last year and what you can expect from Windows Azure in the future. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC13 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC13 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:46:27 GMT Services WindowsAzure WindowsAzurePlatform Microsoft PDC09 SQL Azure Database is a highly available and secure relational database service that offers customers a friction free provisioning interface while maintaining a compatible programming model with SQL Server. This session will focus on the underlying SQL Azure technologies so you can understand how to best take advantage of SQL Azure databases. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC12 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC12 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:38:35 GMT Services SQLAzure WindowsAzure WindowsAzurePlatform Microsoft PDC09 At PDC 2008, Microsoft unveiled a comprehensive offering of identity software and services, based on the industry standard claims-based architecture, and designed to address the rapidly growing requirements of modern applications both on-premises and cloud. In this session, we demonstrate the progress we’ve made using real-life use cases, discuss lessons learned in adoption of claims based identity, and preview new scenarios and capabilities of the evolving identity software + services portfolio. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC10 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC10 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:31:17 GMT Services WindowsAzure WindowsAzurePlatform Microsoft PDC09 Windows Azure Tables provide the ability to store structured, non-relational entities in the highly scalable Windows Azure Storage service. Come to this session to learn about the new features for Windows Azure Tables and Queues as well as tips, tricks, and performance guidance. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC09 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC09 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:59:36 GMT Services WindowsAzure WindowsAzurePlatform Microsoft PDC09 This session presents an overview of how to expose data to a Silverlight application by accessing web services in the enterprise. We will cover a spectrum of options spanning from the client HTTP stack to WCF to WCF Data Services. We will first show off the functionality of the new client HTTP stack with respect to HTTP verbs, headers, responses, and authentication in the context of the REST protocol. On the WCF front we will walk through a demonstration of how to use Silverlight with a new WCF message pattern designed for LOB applications called server push enabling scenarios such as email clients and real-time chat. Lastly, we will end with a drill down of Silverlight friendly new features in WCF Data Services to quickly and easily create enterprise Silverlight client applications from various data sources. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL06 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL06 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:31:29 GMT Client Silverlight Microsoft PDC09 Microsoft SQL Azure and the Windows Azure Platform provide all the necessary building blocks to develop and host rich Internet applications that can service an Internet-scale user population while storing nearly limitless amounts of data. Come learn how to build such applications and see firsthand the power and elasticity of Microsoft SQL Azure and the performance gains seen while using scale-out development patterns. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC06 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC06 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:01:29 GMT Services SQLAzure WindowsAzure WindowsAzurePlatform Microsoft PDC09 SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) provides a comprehensive platform for developing and delivering rich enterprise reporting functionality over the Web. SSRS reports support rich data visualization and navigation features, and can be rendered in most popular formats. Come get a quick review of SSRS report development, and explore some of the key improvements in SQL Server 2008 R2, including new map visualizations, a new component library, using existing reports as a data source for the new PowerPivot functionality in Microsoft Excel 2010, and an improved AJAX enabled Report Viewer control for building Web-based reporting solutions. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR09 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR09 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:47:08 GMT Servers SQLServer Microsoft PDC09 This is the second session in a series focusing on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 StreamInsight, a new platform for building rich data processing over real-time event streams. Come get a detailed architectural walkthrough of the three major components of StreamInsight: input and output adapters SDK, the StreamInsight engine runtime, and the semantics of the continuous standing queries hosted in the StreamInsight engine. Learn how the engine deals with out-of-order data arrival and how to achieve close to real-time latency for queries. Examine best practices for performance and scalability, and hear a few case studies of real-world StreamInsight implementations and the lessons learned from them. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR08 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR08 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:38:27 GMT Servers SQLServer Microsoft PDC09 Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 includes an exciting new platform called StreamInsight for building rich data processing over real-time event streams. This technology is ideal for applications that need to process high volumes of event stream data with no latency. Learn the basics of how to build a StreamInsight input adapter for monitoring an event stream, how to construct real-time queries in LINQ and install them in the highly scalable StreamInsight engine, and how to build a StreamInsight output adapter to visualize the results from your queries. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR07 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR07 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:01:28 GMT Servers SQLServer Microsoft PDC09 Hear how the Microsoft Web platform fosters a powerful development ecosystem for Web applications you can plug into. Learn to extend an existing Web application with new capabilities that show off the powerful extensibility IIS 7.x provides, and how to leverage extensions the IIS team ships to improve it even more. Lastly, see how to package a Web application and move it to a live Web server. Lots of demos, just a few slides. Promise! http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR06 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVR06 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:47:24 GMT IIS Servers Microsoft PDC09 Come learn about the Open XML SDK, which provides a set of .NET APIs to help developers create and manipulate documents in the Open XML Standard Formats, and the Microsoft Office services available in SharePoint Server 2010. Hear how Word Services and Excel Services can be used to build solutions for server environments without the need of the Office clients. Come and check out all the demos and free source code. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/PR09 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/PR09 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:47:06 GMT Productivity SharePoint Microsoft PDC09 In many situations, developers used a Microsoft ASP.NET Web services approach when building and deploying solutions that integrated with the SharePoint object model. In SharePoint Server 2010, however, the options increase for building applications that interact with the SharePoint object model. Come hear about the evolution from ASMX to the SharePoint client object model. Learn how you can use the client object model to build custom solutions that truly leverage the power of SharePoint and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/PR07 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/PR07 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:46:18 GMT Productivity SharePoint Microsoft PDC09 The Business Connectivity Services (BCS) in SharePoint Server 2010 allow developers to rapidly build and deploy SharePoint and Microsoft Office solutions that integrate with LOB systems. Come learn about BCS support for read/write functionality, and about the tools and APIs. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/PR06 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/PR06 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:59:18 GMT Productivity SharePoint Microsoft PDC09 Learn how to use Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) 4, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4, and Windows Server AppFabric (formerly code name “Dublin”) to build and manage scalable, reliable, and highly-available applications. Discover the power of WF to build and coordinate WCF services and implement logic on the middle tier. Enable sophisticated messaging patterns with correlation, enhanced transaction support, durable services, and config-based activation. Learn how AppFabric makes it easier to deploy, manage, and monitor WCF and WF applications. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT14 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT14 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:46:47 GMT FrameworksTools WF Microsoft PDC09 Learn about the investments made in Windows Communication Foundation 4 that add new capabilities for service composition and reduced configuration and deployment complexity. Discover how improvements to configuration, monitoring, and deployment are enhanced by Windows Server AppFabric (formerly code name “Dublin”). See how the Routing Service makes it easier to build sophisticated intermediaries and how support for WS-Discovery adds flexibility to your services infrastructure. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT13 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT13 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:01:11 GMT FrameworksTools WCF Microsoft PDC09 Come hear about the forces that influence and shape the future of programming languages and how C# and Visual Basic are evolving to meet future customer needs. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT11 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT11 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:16:13 GMT FrameworksTools Languages Microsoft PDC09 Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010 Architecture Edition introduces a whole host of new designers and modeling tools to help enterprises and teams build software. UML Diagrams and the Layer Diagram can be used to plan and design the assets your team will produce, and communicate effectively about those designs during the entire development lifecycle. The Architecture Explorer and Graphs help you investigate and better understand the assets you have to enable more effective planning and decision making. Come learn how you can use all of these tools when investigating your current assets, and planning and designing your future work. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT08 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT08 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:46:50 GMT FrameworksTools Modeling VSTS Microsoft PDC09 As applications become more complex and pressures to decrease costs increase, we need tools to facilitate reducing the turn-around time for testers and developers to find and fix bugs. Microsoft Test and Lab Manager enables testers to collect more detailed diagnostic data during a test run leading to higher quality bugs that provide more insight to the developers on what actually went wrong when the bug occurred. With the addition of Test Strips, testers can generate automation as an artifact of their test runs helping to not only increase coverage of the application, but reducing the time it takes to manually test the application. Finally, we'll show how Test Impact Analysis helps developers test the right automated tests from within Visual Studio, while testers know what the right set of tests to prioritize and run are given recent changes introduced by the development organization”. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT16 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT16 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:46:11 GMT FrameworksTools VSTS Microsoft PDC09 Come hear about the next major wave of computing applications from Butler Lampson, a recognized leader in modern networking, and alumnus of Berkeley, Xerox PARC, and Digital’s Systems Research Center. Learn how computing applications evolved beginning with simulation, then communication, and how we're beginning to use computers for embodiment: nontrivial interactions with the physical world. Today there are sensor networks like the Inrix traffic information system, robots like the Roomba vacuum cleaner, and cameras that can pick out faces and even smiles. In a few years we will have cars that drive themselves, glasses that overlay the person you are looking at with their name and contact information, telepresence systems that make most business travel unnecessary, and other applications as yet unimagined. Hear about the new embodiment wave of computing applications from one of the leaders in the field. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL05 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/CL05 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:46:23 GMT Client TechnicalLeaders Microsoft PDC09 See why Windows Workflow Foundation 4 is a powerful platform for simplifying application coordination logic and state management. Learn about the core runtime abstractions and under-the-hood improvements related to areas such as performance, transactions, and persistence. Get insights and techniques that enhance your investments in Workflow. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-22 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-22 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:59:28 GMT FrameworksTools WF Microsoft PDC09 Hear how Windows Identity Foundation makes advanced identity capabilities and open standards first class citizens in the Microsoft .NET Framework. Learn how the Claims Based access model integrates seamlessly with the traditional .NET identity object model while also giving developers complete control over every aspect of authentication, authorization, and identity-driven application behavior. See examples of the point and click tooling with tight Microsoft Visual Studio integration, advanced STS capabilities, and much more that Windows Identity Foundation consistently provides across on-premise, service-based, ASP.NET and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) applications. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-21 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-21 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:59:23 GMT Identity Services Microsoft PDC09 Come explore beneath the hood of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, and learn about the key changes in the kernel. Topics include: scalability improvements, security improvements, power efficiency enhancements, core architecture changes to modularize Windows, and much more. Note: This session spans the 1:30 and 3pm session slots with a 10 minute break at 2:30. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-20 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-20 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:31:12 GMT Client TechnicalLeaders Windows7 WindowsServer Microsoft PDC09 Learn how File Classification Infrastructure helps developers build innovative security and data management solutions that integrate with Windows Server. See how the new classification capabilities can be leveraged by a range of products including information leakage prevention products, backup, archival and workflow management. Also see how ISVs can leverage classification to deliver compelling end-to-end solutions. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-19 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-19 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:47:15 GMT Servers WindowsServer Microsoft PDC09 See how SharePoint 2010 has undergone a major shift with the addition of many new programmability features. Learn about these exciting new capabilities of the SharePoint 2010 developer platform including ‘in-box’ features, services, APIs, and a powerful set of developer tools. Also explore the new Visual Studio 2010 capabilities for SharePoint including template support, data and services programmability, UI extensibility, and much more. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-18 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-18 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:46:49 GMT Productivity SharePoint Microsoft PDC09 Parallel programming has been more difficult than it needs to be, perhaps because its tools have been treated as an “add-on” to serial programming. The objectives of composability and productivity demand something better. Come hear a relatively recent consensus view about what is needed for productive parallel programming, and why. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-17 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-17 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:59:22 GMT FrameworksTools ParallelComputing TechnicalLeaders Microsoft PDC09 DirectX 11 introduces DirectCompute as a way to access the computational capability of the GPU in a more flexible way. It opens the door to operations on more general data-structures beyond just arrays, and to new classes of algorithms as well. This talk covers the key features of DirectCompute’s compute shader, and how they can be used by developers in their applications. These features include: explicit thread dispatch, communication of data between threads, and a rich set of primitives for random access and streaming I/O operations. These features enable faster and simpler implementations of techniques already in use on the CPU. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-16 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-16 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:46:51 GMT Client Windows7 Microsoft PDC09 Come explore the new enhancements in SQL Server 2008 R2, known as Application and Multi-Server Management, which enable a more efficient way to develop, deploy, and manage data-tier applications and instances. See how a new single unit of deployment for database applications is integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and helps enable developers to more quickly write higher quality database applications, author deployment policies based on the needs of their applications, and hand off a single package to database administrators. Also learn how improvements combine a first-class Transact-SQL IDE with a new Visual Studio 2010 project template known as .DACPAC (Database Application Component) to produce a comprehensive model of the objects, policies and runtime resources required by a data-tier application. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-15 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-15 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:38:30 GMT Servers SQLServer Microsoft PDC09 Today, the key to success with data is no longer about who can afford to acquire, store and process data effectively. That’s the cheap and easy part. The challenge now is to develop ways to better use data than your competition so you can make sense of all the data you have. Learn how algorithmic processing, at modest and extreme scale, is completely changing how we build information systems. Hear how Microsoft is dealing with this shift and using these emerging concepts in their online services. Also see examples of how some of this technology is beginning to surface in Microsoft’s product stream. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-14 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-14 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:46:21 GMT Services SQLAzure TechnicalLeaders WindowsAzure WindowsAzurePlatform Microsoft PDC09 Come watch an action-packed Visual C++ 2010 code demo. See how VC++ 2010 is a huge release for C++ developers because it helps to create the fastest applications possible while at the same time making it easier for ISVs to manage and maintain many millions of lines of code. Learn about dramatic improvements in scalability and productivity while enabling applications to seamlessly light up on Windows. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-13 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-13 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:46:42 GMT FrameworksTools Languages Microsoft PDC09 Learn how Microsoft Communications Server and Microsoft Exchange provide a comprehensive and flexible communications platform for developers. Get a first look at the next generation of this platform through a series of demos and code examples. See how to embed Communicator features in your application using new Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) controls, and learn about the new API to develop full custom clients for Communications Server. Also see how the UC Managed API 3.0 provides access to the new Voice-over-IP features of Communication Server. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-12 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-12 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:46:40 GMT Productivity UnifiedCommunications Microsoft PDC09 Take a tour of the new features in Silverlight 4 including a dive into some of the new ready for business features like printing, rich text support, and expanded databinding support. Also hear about exciting Silverlight additions to the media stack, and get an introduction to the Silverlight 4 elevated trust out of browser model. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-11 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-11 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:46:46 GMT Client Silverlight Microsoft PDC09 Learn how to leverage the Silverlight stack to optimize your managed code with a focus on the common bottlenecks in writing large Silverlight applications and complex data controls. Also learn how to profile your application, and how to use the results to optimize startup and reaction time. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-10 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-10 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:38:22 GMT Client Silverlight Microsoft PDC09 The Microsoft .NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010 include new technologies for expressing, debugging, and tuning parallelism in managed applications. Dive into key areas of support, including the new System.Threading.Tasks and System.Collections.Concurrent namespaces, cutting-edge concurrency views in the Visual Studio profiler, and debugger tool windows for analyzing the state of concurrent code. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-09 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-09 Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:01:27 GMT FrameworksTools ParallelComputing Microsoft PDC09 SQL Azure provides a fully relational database service that is based on Microsoft SQL Server and familiar concepts such as T-SQL, schema-based tables, and stored procedures. Learn patterns and best practices for developing resilient applications that allow you to take full advantage of the scale and elasticity of SQL Azure Database Service. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-08 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-08 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:16:08 GMT Services SQLAzure Microsoft PDC09 Come learn how Microsoft Dynamics CRM can be used to rapidly develop on-premises or services-based "anything" Relationship Management (xRM) applications on the Microsoft platform. See how to develop high scale, connected business solutions that extend to the cloud using current and future versions of the xRM platform and Windows Azure. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-07 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-07 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:38:28 GMT DynamicsCRM Productivity xRM Microsoft PDC09 Learn how Silverlight 3 can be used to integrate rich, powerful applications into SharePoint, both at the Web part level of integration and at the site level. Walk through a set of key developer patterns and cover topics that include "in-box" support, leveraging the client object model, service integration, site-level customizations, and more. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-05 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-05 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:46:17 GMT Productivity SharePoint Silverlight Microsoft PDC09 Come see this code-centric talk that focuses on the advances being made in tools, languages, and frameworks that simplify how to model, consume, or produce data. Hear about the future of data programming and modeling using Microsoft products and services. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-04 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-04 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:01:09 GMT NETFramework CloudAttributes EntityFramework FrameworksTools VisualStudio Microsoft PDC09 Come hear how the Windows Azure Platform provides a scalable compute and storage environment with Windows Azure, secure connectivity with Service Bus and Access Control Service, and a relational database with SQL Azure. Learn about these new services and see several demos that show how to build applications that run in and take advantage of Microsoft’s new cloud platform. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-03 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-03 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:46:35 GMT Services SQLAzure WindowsAzure WindowsAzurePlatform Microsoft PDC09 Learn how Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2010 automates the validation of code quality and enriches the interaction between developers and testers on a software team. Explore how the VSTS 2010 automated build process can be configured to validate code changes before they are committed to the source code repository. Also see how to further enhance the build process to automate deployment of a built application to a virtualized test environment for additional automated and manual testing. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-02 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-02 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:16:05 GMT FrameworksTools VSTS Microsoft PDC09 Learn how to accelerate your applications by multiple orders of magnitude using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Microsoft Excel, and Windows HPC Server 2008. See how easy it is to offload the calculations from a desktop application to an HPC Server Cluster using the HPC SOA programming model, with emphasis on performance tuning best practices. http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-01 http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/P09-01 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:47:15 GMT HPC Servers WCF