Empowering Developers Since 1993

Attend the educational conference created by developers with deep coverage of existing and new technologies that you can use on the job today.

Join your fellow developers for:

• Over 45 sessions on WFP, WCF, LINQ, ASP.NET, Oslo, Azure, Team Foundation Server and more
• Cutting edge techniques needed to solve today’s development challenges
• Marketing free, real world information provided by industry experts
• Face to face time with speakers to ask your toughest questions.

Agile / Design

These sessions focus on Patterns, general Best Practices (not implementation-specific), and how to structure and architect .NET applications.

The focus is at the strategic level, examining what technologies to use — and where — in large, n-tier applications.

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TFS

This track focuses on the Team Foundation Server side of the team system, including work item tracking, version control, testing, release management, and build management.

If you're concerned about how your development process works, what methodologies to use, and whether (and how) to use Unit Testing, this is your track.

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Core .NET / LINQ

This track covers issues common to all .NET programming. We'll focus on .NET programming practices, language features, and enhancements to the core .NET framework.

We'll also cover new features in Visual C# 3.0 and VB 9.0, and upcoming features in both C# 4.0 and VB 10.

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WCF / Azure / Oslo

These sessions cover the entire spectrum of using and building services, from SOA and workflow-oriented infrastructure for your applications to designing services for, and using services in, the Cloud. We'll cover both SOAP and REST services, and support of REST in WCF.

You'll also learn about Microsoft's Cloud offering, including the Azure Services Platform and Windows Azure, how to use .NET Services, Windows Live Services, and Mesh-enabled Web applications. We'll also look at “Dublin,” a new server infrastructure for deployment/hosting WF workflows and WCF services.

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Windows Presentation Foundation

How do you make sense of the many technologies and tools available now for building Rich Client line-of-business applications? This set of sessions covers the next-generation user interface environments and the tools to create them, including WPF, Silverlight and the XAML technology underlying them both.

We'll look at new features in Silverlight 2.0, and offer more information on WPF. You'll learn about core concepts and programming techniques and we'll explore design philosophies for building business applications with more attractive, intuitive and complex user interfaces.

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ASP.NET

Everything specific to ASP.NET programming is covered here. Expect sessions on utilizing best practices for caching, and building high performance applications.

We'll cover ASP.NET support for jQuery and the new MVC framework.

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