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 …
The main reason to attend the PDC is for the unique workshop and session content. At the PDC, attendees will have the first opportunity to learn about the future of the Microsoft developer platform from the people that make it happen. PDC content covers a range of Microsoft products, services and technologies with topics that focus on clients, services, servers, developers tools, developer frameworks, programming languages, and much more.
Glenn Block in Hall F on Thursday at 11:30 AM
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 …
Stefan Schackow in 515B on Tuesday at 3:00 PM
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 …
Scott Hunter in Petree Hall D on Wednesday at 2:00 PM
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 …
Murali Krishnaprasad in 502A on Wednesday at 4:30 PM
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 …
Scott Stanfield, Bill Crow in 408B on Tuesday at 12:30 PM
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 …
Mike Barnett, Nikolai Tillmann in 408A on Tuesday at 4:30 PM
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 …
Erik Meijer in 502A on Wednesday at 3:15 PM
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 …
Vishal R. Joshi in Petree Hall D on Thursday at 8:30 AM
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 …
Patrick Dussud in Petree Hall C on Wednesday at 1:00 PM
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 …
Michele Leroux Bustamante in 515A on Monday at 10:00 AM
Developers have increasingly more on their minds and on their plates. Though Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft .NET Framework both provide tools that yield an overall increase in productivity …
Jeff Norris, Rick Boykin, Marc Mercuri in 515B on Wednesday at 1:00 PM
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 …
Stephen Walther in Petree Hall D on Wednesday at 3:15 PM
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 …
Stephen Walther in Petree Hall D on Wednesday at 4:30 PM
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 …
Anil Nori in Hall F on Tuesday at 1:30 PM
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 …
Jonathan Carter, Scott Hunter in Petree Hall D on Tuesday at 1:30 PM
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 …