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Unbiased Developer Education: Now in FOUR Locations!

  • Las Vegas 2012
  • Brooklyn NY 2012
  • Microsoft HQ 2012
  • Orlando 2012

Speaker Call for Papers

Visual Studio Live! invites you to submit a proposal for our upcoming events:

The Visual Studio Live! New York event is May 14-17, 2012 and will be held at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bride, Brooklyn, NY.

The Visual Studio Live! Redmond 2012 event is August 6-10, 2012 and will be held at the Microsoft Conference Center (Building 33), Microsoft Campus, Redmond, WA.

Deadline for submission for both events: Friday, December 30, 2011.

Submit Proposals at: http://cfp.vslive.com/

Focus Topics: We welcome presentation proposals that include (but not limited to):

Windows 8, WinRT and Metro

  • Metro-style applications with .NET + XAML, JavaScript with WinJS + HTML + CSS3
  • Building applications with Azure and Metro
  • Building battery-efficient applications
  • Using Visual Studio 11, Expression Blend 5 and .NET 4.5
  • Deploying to the Windows store and managing your sales and downloads

Silverlight/WPF

  • Silverlight, WPF, XAML, Visual Studio 2010's XAML Designer, Expression Blend, WCF RIA Services

Web

  • Web Forms, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery

Visual Studio 2010+/.NET 4.0+

  • Visual Studio features, TFS, new language features, parallel programming extensions
  • ALM Features coming in Visual Studio 11

SharePoint

  • SharePoint 2010, Office 2010, Visual Studio Tools for Office

Cloud Computing

  • Includes cloud, server and messaging technologies
  • Windows Azure, Amazon Web Services, AppFabric (for Windows Server and Windows Azure), REST services programming, Azure DataMarket, WCF, Windows Workflow
Data Management
  • SQL Server, Microsoft BI and PowerPivot, Entity Framework, WCF Data Services, oData, Sync Services
  • SQL Azure, SQL Server "Denali" futures, Project "Crescent"

HTML 5

  • Core HTML 5: new concepts, new tags, and enhancements to old ones
  • Extensions to ECMAScript/JavaScript, CSS 3
  • Rich media in HTML 5 with the audio and video tags
  • 2D drawing/animation the canvas tag and SVG
  • Offline apps, database storage, and data entry enhancements

Windows Phone 7

  • SL for WP7
  • Expression Blend for WP7
  • XNA for WP7
  • Managing WP7 push notifications
  • Developing Web apps optimized for WP7
  • Monetizing your app on the WP7 marketplace

Cross Platform Mobile with MonoTouch and MonoDroid

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The leadership and speakers at Visual Studio Live! are top notch. -- Jim Hellmann, Visual Studio Programmer, McKee Foods Corporation
The amount of relevant information to make development and product decisions was highly beneficial and well worth the cost! -- Glenn Hanson, Group Seven Technology
I liked hearing the straight talk about what's happening in the Microsoft platforms - the good, the bad and the must-know. -- Jack Mercer, .NET Developer, Matthews Corporation