Visual Studio Live! 2011 Las Vegas

Deborah Kurata, President, InStep Technologies, Inc.

This talk focuses on communication between your Silverlight application and your own existing business objects using WCF RIA Services. more

Leonard Lobel, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

Learn how to work with EF in disconnected and service-oriented architectures more

Billy Hollis, Next Version Systems

Learn useful controls helper components, surprising capabilities and features of XAML. more

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

This chalk talk will provide an overview of the release of CSLA 4, including support for Windows Phone 7 and ASP.NET MVC 3. more

Ted Neward, Architectural Consultant, Neudesic

A look at the ECMAScript language, examine its basic structure and syntax. more

Vishwas Lele, Architect, AIS

See how web applications can use the scalable compute and storage services with Windows Azure, secure connectivity with Service Bus and Access Control Service, and a relational database with Microsoft SQL Azure. more

Vishwas Lele, Architect, AIS

This session will introduce the basic tools of Azure and will illustrate the architectural and design tradeoffs that must be made with cloud applications. more

Vishwas Lele, Architect, AIS

In this session, we will build a Monte Carlo Simulator in Azure from scratch. more

Srivatsn Narayanan, Developer, C# and VB Compiler Team , Microsoft Corporation

Lucian Wischik, Specification Lead for Visual Basic, Microsoft Corporation

A demo-packed session on building Windows Phone 7 applications that scale with your user base. more

Jeffrey McManus, CEO, Platform Associates

See some real-world demonstrations of using Windows Azure cloud services with PHP Web applications. more

Leonard Lobel, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

Learn how to work with EF in disconnected and service-oriented architectures more

Marcel de Vries, Technology Manager, Info Support

This session will help programmers that are less interested in how LINQ works but just want to use it for their day to day programming work. more

Leonard Lobel, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

Attend this session and develop a clear perspective of .NET data access in to-day’s world. more

Andrew Brust, Founder and CEO, Blue Badge Insights

Leonard Lobel, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

Get up to speed on key new features of SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2, as well as the emerging pre-release features of the next version of SQL Server code-named “Denali.” more

Dave Mendlen, Senior Director, Developer Platform and Tools, Microsoft Corporation

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Andrew Brust, Founder and CEO, Blue Badge Insights

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Ken Getz, Senior Consultant, MCW Technologies, LLC

Brian Randell, Senior Consultant, MCW Technologies

Learn how to build a single mobile application that runs on Windows Phone 7, iOS 4, and Android. more

Walt Ritscher, Consultant / Trainer, Wintellect

This session provides a broad overview of the Windows Phone 7 platform and programming environment. more

Joe Marini, Principal Program Manager, Windows Phone, Microsoft Corporation

Learn the principles behind sites that work well and look great on Windows Phone 7 and across other mobile devices. more

Walt Ritscher, Consultant / Trainer, Wintellect

A wide ranging tour of the software and hardware API’s available for the Windows Phone 7. more

Christian Weyer, CEO, Solution Architect, thinktecture

Learn how you can leverage your existing C# skills and .NET codebase to build sophisticated apps and mobile frontends to your services-based applications. more

Christian Weyer, CEO, Solution Architect, thinktecture

Learn how to create web pages and mobile apps that can run on multiple devices with one codebase. more

Brian Peek, Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft

Learn how to build an XNA game targeted for Windows Phone 7. more

Benjamin Day, Architect / Trainer / Coach, Benjamin Day Consulting, Inc.

David Starr, Instructor / Curriculum Lead, Pluralsight

Scrum and Kanban: two competing ways to develop and deliver software may seem like natural enemies but there’s a lot of commonality between them – especially considering they both have the goal of developing high-quality, working software. more

David Starr, Instructor / Curriculum Lead, Pluralsight

This session shows how some teams are using Visual Studio ALM tools to enable genuine agility and deliver well-crafted software. more

Marcel de Vries, Technology Manager, Info Support

Learn to use the the Microsoft Visual Studio toolset combination to produces better quality code. more

Ted Neward, Architectural Consultant, Neudesic

Participants will be given problems to solve, create an architecture to solve it, then defend their architecture against challenges and monkey-wrenches thrown at them from all corners. more

Billy Hollis, Next Version Systems

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

Are you ready to move to next generation XAML-based interfaces? Come and hear some real-world advice from a couple of industry notables who have been working with WPF and Silverlight for years. more

Deborah Kurata, President, InStep Technologies, Inc.

This talk focuses on communication between your Silverlight application and your own existing business objects using WCF RIA Services. more

Billy Hollis, Next Version Systems

Learn useful controls helper components, surprising capabilities and features of XAML. more

Ken Getz, Senior Consultant, MCW Technologies, LLC

If you've never used Silverlight, this session will get you up and running quickly. more

Miguel Castro, Architect, IDesign

This session will be structured in a way to keep a constant analogy in all topics between the world of Windows Forms and the world of Windows Presentation Foundation. more

Miguel Castro, Architect, IDesign

Learn how to use WPF to provide jump lists for your application, how to customize the task-bar popup as well as the task-bar icon, how to add features to the task-bar thumbnail, and how to add aero-glass visuals to any part of your application. more

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

Learn how to use binding in WPF, Silverlight and WP7. more

Billy Hollis, Next Version Systems

See all five prototypes for a real-world application that was featured on an episode of .NET Rocks TV and has been used by Microsoft as a demo application in their booth at TechEd. more

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

Learn the basic principles of the pattern and take an in-depth tour of an MVVM implementation. more

Benjamin Day, Architect / Trainer / Coach, Benjamin Day Consulting, Inc.

Learn how to avoid a lot of pain on your current and next Silverlight projects. more

Brian Peek, Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft

Learn how to make your applications multi-touch aware and capable using each of these platforms, how to handle gestures and manipulations properly across platforms, and learn where multi-touch is heading in the future with regard to Microsoft development. more

Walt Ritscher, Consultant / Trainer, Wintellect

This session provides the guidance you need to get started with XAML. more

Dominick Baier, Security Consultant, thinktecture

This talk discusses how the Silverlight security system works and gives some general guidance for writing “secure” applications. more

Robert Green, Technical Evangelist, Developer Platform and Evangelism (DPE), Microsoft Corporation

Go beyond the basics of LightSwitch to create screens with more advanced capabilities. more

Michael Washington, Programmer, LightSwitchHelpWebsite.com

Learn how to create superior LightSwitch applications to provide a compelling end-user experience. more

Charles Nurse, Senior Architect, DotNetNuke Corporation

Explore the new Razor syntax and how Razor is being used as part of Web Pages - a new simpler approach to building Web Applications. more

Charles Nurse, Senior Architect, DotNetNuke Corporation

Take a deep-dive into many of the components that make up WebMatrix, and show how they can be used to build real world Data-Centric Web Applications. more

Lucian Wischik, Specification Lead for Visual Basic, Microsoft Corporation

Hear about how they create the .NET languages at Microsoft. more

Deborah Kurata, President, InStep Technologies, Inc.

Learn the Best Kept Secrets in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 more

Brian Randell, Senior Consultant, MCW Technologies

Learn how integration with Team Foundation Server’s Build functionality can make your day to day debugging tasks easier and more productive. more

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

This chalk talk will provide an overview of the release of CSLA 4, including support for Windows Phone 7 and ASP.NET MVC 3. more

Ted Neward, Architectural Consultant, Neudesic

Spend some time with the parallel extensions, how they work, and where to best utilize them. more

Tiberiu Covaci, Independent Trainer

Learn how to design applications in the era of many-core computing more

Torsten Grabs, Lead Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Learn how to build end-to-end applications over event stream data using Microsoft StreamInsight. more

Philip Japikse, Patterns & Practices Evangelist, Telerik

Learn what you need to know to start using ASP.NET MVC, but also make an informed decision between ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Webforms for your next project. more

Philip Japikse, Patterns & Practices Evangelist, Telerik

Learn to test your routes, controllers, and models BDD style with MSpec and MbUnit, and use WatiN to certify the user interface. more

Tiberiu Covaci, Independent Trainer

Learn how to improve your ASP.NET Application Performance with Asynchronous Pages and Actions more

Ben Hoelting, Senior Software Developer, Intelligent Software Solutions, Inc

Learn what HTLM5/IE9 brings to the developer's toolbox and how it works with Visual Studio 2010 SP1. more

Robert Boedigheimer, Web Application Architect, Schwans Shared Services, LLC

Learn strategies for introducing HTML5 elements on current web sites, and how older browsers will react. more

Robert Boedigheimer, Web Application Architect, Schwans Shared Services, LLC

Learn new techniques available in CSS 3 and which are supported by browser versions more

Jeffrey McManus, CEO, Platform Associates

This session will cover three technologies: postMessage API, Web Workers, and Web sockets. more

Jeffrey McManus, CEO, Platform Associates

This session will demonstrate a set of real-world paradigms for creating data-driven Web applications using JSON Web services and jQuery with JavaScript on the client side. more

Robert Boedigheimer, Web Application Architect, Schwans Shared Services, LLC

Go beyond the basics and learn how major web sites are using jQuery to their advantage. more

Dominick Baier, Security Consultant, thinktecture

This talk takes a close look at the different Single Sign-On options and where and how they can be applied. more

Miguel Castro, Architect, IDesign

Learn design and development of WCF services from the ground up using a best-practice approach from the beginning. more

James Bender, VP of Technology, Improving Enterprises

Learn REST based services and how to create these services in .NET with either WCF or ASP.NET MVC. more

Jesus Rodriguez, Chief Architect, Tellago and Tellago Studios

Deep dive into the different options that enable the implementation of RESTful services in the Microsoft platform. more

Rob Daigneau, Director of Cloud Platforms, BlueMetal Architects

See how to create WCF services that leverage WF in order to invoke asynchronous long-running processes. more

Christian Weyer, CEO, Solution Architect, thinktecture

If you need to apply WCF in your projects or try to get more out of WCF, don't miss this session. more

Jesus Rodriguez, Chief Architect, Tellago and Tellago Studios

This WCF session presents a series of solutions and best practices for addressing important aspects such as configuration management, endpoint discovery, automated unit/load testing, service dependencies, etc. more

Rob Daigneau, Director of Cloud Platforms, BlueMetal Architects

Learn how to take your Data Services to the next level. You'll see how to leverage the power of custom Interceptors to alter the default behaviors of services. more

Ken Getz, Senior Consultant, MCW Technologies, LLC

Brian Randell, Senior Consultant, MCW Technologies

Learn how to build a single mobile application that runs on Windows Phone 7, iOS 4, and Android. more

Billy Hollis, Next Version Systems

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

Are you ready to move to next generation XAML-based interfaces? Come and hear some real-world advice from a couple of industry notables who have been working with WPF and Silverlight for years. more

Miguel Castro, Architect, IDesign

Learn design and development of WCF services from the ground up using a best-practice approach from the beginning. more

Ted Neward, Architectural Consultant, Neudesic

Participants will be given problems to solve, create an architecture to solve it, then defend their architecture against challenges and monkey-wrenches thrown at them from all corners. more

Andrew Brust, Founder and CEO, Blue Badge Insights

Leonard Lobel, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

Get up to speed on key new features of SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2, as well as the emerging pre-release features of the next version of SQL Server code-named “Denali.” more