Visual Studio Live! 2011 Orlando

Bayer White, Vice President, Product Development, Pragmatic Works

Look at the options available to leverage Workflow Foundation in Windows Azure. more

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

Explore the traditional Azure web and worker compute roles, the architecture and internals of Windows Azure, the new VM Role and the tradeoffs to consider when using the Azure VM Role. more

Michael Stiefel, President, Reliable Software, Inc.

Learn about Microsoft Dallas: how to use data provided by Dallas, integrate this data into an excel spreadsheet for analysis and to make this data available to others. more

Michael Stiefel, President, Reliable Software, Inc.

This session will discuss how to architect, design, and implement data storage in this new world. more

Vishwas Lele, Chief Technology Officer , 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, Chief Technology Officer , 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

Chris Mullins, Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

This session focuses on designing, building, and running an Enterprise class application on Windows Azure. more

Vishwas Lele, Chief Technology Officer , AIS

Learn proven patterns and practices to build your next scalable app. more

Andrew Brust, Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence, Datameer

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

This full-day workshop will get you up to speed on powerful new features in SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, and (the upcoming) SQL Server 2012. more

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

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

Andrew Brust, Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence, Datameer

Learn how you can enable visualized analysis of your application’s data, in an actionable way, with Microsoft Power View. more

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

Lean about the benefits and scenarios for BI in the cloud. more

Sergey Barskiy, Architect, Tyler Technologies

High level overview of Entity Framework and how various approaches to use it fit into application development lifecycle. more

Marcel de Vries, CTO, Xpirit

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

Miguel Castro MRD, President, Melvicorp LLC

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

Bayer White, Vice President, Product Development, Pragmatic Works

Learn what AppFabric is and where it is going in the future. more

Ido Flatow MRD, MVP, Senior Architect and Trainer, SELA Group

Examine the improvements of WCF 4 and how they affect the way we create and consume WCF services. more

Marcel de Vries, CTO, Xpirit

Learn how to build stateless WCF services that appear to be stateful by leveraging Windows Workflow Foundation. more

Jon Flanders, iOS Developer, Ticketmaster

This session focuses on AppFabric Caching technology from Microsoft and provides a technical view of how developers can take advantage of it. more

Jon Flanders, iOS Developer, Ticketmaster

Learn the basics of REST, how to build this type of service using WCF 3.5, and other features this enables. more

Mary Jo Foley, Journalist and Author

Moderated By: Andrew Brust, Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence, Datameer

Andrew Brust will interview ZDNet’s “All About Microsoft” blogger Mary Jo Foley more

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

How to manage your career in and benefit from periods of change. more

Ben Hoelting, Senior Technologist, Aspenware

This session will go in depth on how to create a simple framework that loads and composes functionality using MEF. more

Ted Neward, Director, Developer Relations, Smartsheet.com

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, XAML Slinger

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

Billy Hollis, XAML Slinger

This session will discuss the most important basic concepts, including the ones that are radically different from UI technologies you’ve used before. more

Miguel Castro MRD, President, Melvicorp LLC

This session will show you the basics of how XAML works and cover its syntax, control usage, the visual tree, and binding. more

Pete Brown , XAML and Gadget Guy, Microsoft

Learn about features for business application development, visualization, graphics, and casual gaming. more

Billy Hollis, XAML Slinger

If you expect to design XAML-based user interfaces, or work with a professional designer on a project, this session is a great starting point. more

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

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

Pete Brown , XAML and Gadget Guy, Microsoft

Learn about the new and updated features in the latest version of WPF. more

John Papa, Principal Developer Advocate , Microsoft

What the MVVM pattern is, why it exists, when it works well and what parts you may want to use or not use. more

Pete Brown , XAML and Gadget Guy, Microsoft

Learn how to make your Silverlight apps look great and look native using COM, platform API calls, and the Native Extensions. more

Vishwas Lele, Chief Technology Officer , AIS

This session will introduce the key concepts behind a Windows 8 Metro style App, including Windows RunTime, language projections and WinRT Type System. more

Billy Hollis, XAML Slinger

You’ll learn basic technologies needed for templating, and then see how to use Expression Blend to create data and control templates. more

Pete Brown , XAML and Gadget Guy, Microsoft

During this code-heavy session, we'll create an MVC site with resources exposed through the WCF Web API. more

Brian Peek, Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft

You will learn how to make your applications multi-touch aware and capable. more

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

Learn how you can leverage CSLA 4 capabilities to build compelling business applications that scale with the needs of your business and users. more

Andrew Brust, Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence, Datameer

This session will cover the basics of LightSwitch and point out its extensibility points. more

Marcel de Vries, CTO, Xpirit

In this session we will dive into the way Team Foundation server automated build works. more

In this session you will learn that there is practically nothing you can do in normal Silverlight application that you cannot do in LightSwitch. more

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

Learn what's next in Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 tools and technologies to help you build better applications. more

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

Learn what you can expect in 2012 and beyond in Microsoft’s next big release for the Visual Studio for Professional developers. more

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

Learn how to build higher quality applications using Visual Studio 2010’s Application Lifecycle Management Tools and Team Foundation Server 2010. more

Todd Anglin, EVP Cross-Platform Tools & Services, Telerik

Learn new features in HTML5 and CSS3, with special attention to how these technologies can be used today in new and old browsers. more

Todd Anglin, EVP Cross-Platform Tools & Services, Telerik

Learn how HTML5 is helping business developers simplify working with data and input validation, and see practical techniques for leveraging these features across all browsers, old and new. more

Adam Tuliper, Principal Software Engineer, DX, Microsoft

Learn how to utilize some of the fantastic MVC features to do common tasks. more

Ido Flatow MRD, MVP, Senior Architect and Trainer, SELA Group

You will learn, understand the architecture of ASP.NET MVC, learn about the Razor view engine for ASP.NET MVC, learn how to use jQuery in your ASP.NET MVC applications. more

Rachel Appel, Senior Developer Evangelist, Microsoft

Learn how to use WebMatrix for building ASP.NET Web Pages with the Razor syntax. more

John Papa, Principal Developer Advocate , Microsoft

This session will demonstrate common techniques to separate structure (HTML), behavior (JavaScript) and presentation (CSS) with modern Web development. more

Adam Tuliper, Principal Software Engineer, DX, Microsoft

Explore the most common attacks on web applications, how they work to exploit your app, and how to protect against them. more

Rachel Appel, Senior Developer Evangelist, Microsoft

An overall session on Orchard Open Source project on CodePlex including an introduction, discussion on how the system works and a deep dive into the architecture and mechanics. more

Ben Hoelting, Senior Technologist, Aspenware

This session will start by defining HTML5/IE9 then discuss what HTML5/IE9brings to the developers toolbox and finally, we will discuss the timeline for broad adoption of these technologies. more

Philip Japikse Microsoft MVP, MCSD, CSM, and CSP, Developer, Coach, Author, Teacher

You will learn the differences between ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET WebForms, how to create MVC applications, the differences between the WebFormsViewEngine and Razor. more

Philip Japikse Microsoft MVP, MCSD, CSM, and CSP, Developer, Coach, Author, Teacher

You will learn, how to write testable ASP.NET MVC applications, how to test ASP.NET applications, including routing, controllers, and models, and how to test the User Interface (all using free/open source tools). more

Chad Church , Product Manager , Syncfusion

This hands-on session will walk you through how to create a website using ASP.NET MVC more

Ted Neward, Director, Developer Relations, Smartsheet.com

You will learn the power of the ECMAScript language, how to use ECMAScript outside of a browser, and a deeper understanding of how libraries like jQuery, dojo, or Prototype work internally. more

John Papa, Principal Developer Advocate , Microsoft

Examine common techniques to present data in the UI including loading JSON data in and out of HTML elements using jQuery, presentation through templates. more

Dave Isbitski, Sr. Developer Evangelist, Microsoft

We’ll dive into XNA to learn about the basic Windows Phone model, explore its core device characteristics, and review highlights of the XNA phone framework. We’ll also explore cool games developed specifically for Windows Phone and how to build one. more

Brian Peek, Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft

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

Sergey Barskiy, Architect, Tyler Technologies

This session will go over various approaches to work with data on Windows Phone 7. more

Jon Flanders, iOS Developer, Ticketmaster

In this session you’ll see how you can use a native mobile shell on the popular mobile platforms to host an HTML5 application and how to interact with native APIs, handle offline mode, and deal with devices with different resolutions. more

Scott Golightly, President, Grokdev, LLC

In this session we will look at how you can start developing for Windows Phone 7 for free. more

Andrew Brust, Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence, Datameer

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

This full-day workshop will get you up to speed on powerful new features in SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, and (the upcoming) SQL Server 2012. more

Billy Hollis, XAML Slinger

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 MRD, President, Melvicorp LLC

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

Ted Neward, Director, Developer Relations, Smartsheet.com

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

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

Learn how to build higher quality applications using Visual Studio 2010’s Application Lifecycle Management Tools and Team Foundation Server 2010. more