August 6-10 Microsoft Headquarters in Redmond, WA
Miguel Castro MRD, President, Melvicorp LLC
Come learn both of these technologies and how to properly use them, either apart or together. more
Ido Flatow MRD, MVP, Senior Architect and Trainer, SELA Group
Construct a secured, durable, scalable, low-latency web application with Windows Azure - Compute, Storage, CDN, ACS, Cache, SQL Azure, Full IIS, WCF and more. more
Nuno Godinho Windows Azure MVP, MCT, Cloud Solution Architect, Aditi Technologies
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Vishwas Lele, Chief Technology Officer , AIS
Take a deeper look at enhancements by walking through a number of demonstrations. more
Dive into Windows Azure’s support for Node and using Windows Azure’s scalable storage from any Node application. more
Boris Scholl, Senior Program Manager, Cloud Tools Team in Visual Studio, Microsoft
This session will focus on the productivity enhancements in Visual Studio for constructing, debugging, deploying and diagnosing cloud services (PaaS). more
Allan Laframboise, Technical Lead for Esri Developer Network (EDN) Team , Esri
David Martinez, Technology Lead , Esri
This session will illustrate how the ArcGIS platform can be used to build a variety of cloud-based solutions that consume both mapping and geoservices. more
Pratik Patel, Senior Developer, Business Platform Division, Microsoft
In this session, learn how to create OData based services; also learn how the growing ecosystem of OData services is helping businesses get more value from their data that is exposed as OData. more
See many of the new features offered by WCF 4.5 - configuration intellisense, cleaner configuration for IIS, UDP and WebSockets supports, and many more. more
Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic
Learn how to use the Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows 8 to build Azure services and Windows 8 client apps. more
Stephen Burton, Tech Evangelist, Part-time Superhero, AppDynamics
Cover a short history of application monitoring tools, performance anti-patterns, common bottlenecks, and mistakes that Dev and Ops teams make when trying to troubleshoot application performance in test and production environments more
Bryan Costanich, Director of Education, Xamarin
Look at architecture necessary to support code sharing and reuse, and best practices for minimizing fragmentation. more
Jon Flanders, iOS Developer, Ticketmaster
Learn how you can use a native mobile shell on the popular mobile platforms to host an HTML5 application. 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
Don’t miss out on this demo-centric information-packed session on the next generation of database tools for application developers! more
If you want to learn the new T-SQL enhancements in SQL Server 2012, you won’t want to miss out on this session! more
Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX
If you are familiar with SQL Server, SQL Azure will be a natural extension of your knowledge and skills. more
Learn ways to achieve Multi-Tenancy with SQL Azure more
Come to this session to get an overview of Big Data, Hadoop and the Microsoft BI stack integration more
Take a look at actual MapReduce code and see Hadoop ecosystem components HBase, Hive, Pig and Mahout in action. more
This session will cover Power View in soup-to-nuts fashion. more
Explore what OData is all about and how to expose relational and non-relational data as OData using WCF Data Services more
Gil Fink, Senior Architect, Sela
This session will cover several Entity Framework features such as Code First, and provide an overview for what to expect from Entity Framework vNext. more
Learn how to build modern web applications with HTML5 that users can access across their various platforms and devices. more
Ben Hoelting, Senior Technologist, Aspenware
Define HTML5/IE and why it is a game changer in the web world. more
Discuss the new storage options that HTML5 brings and how to use them. more
Jay Schmelzer, Director of Program Management, Visual Studio Team, Microsoft
Visual Studio 2012 provides line-of business application developers the tools they need to meet new demands with the unmatched productivity you expect from Visual Studio. more
Matt Nunn, Director, Development Tools & Technologies, Microsoft
Join us to learn about the changing state of IT and application development and learn about the “New Normal” for our industry. more
Pete Brown , XAML and Gadget Guy, Microsoft
Take a romp through the new and updated features in the latest release of WPF more
Learn what WPF offers in the area of validation more
Deborah Kurata, Microsoft MVP and Google Developer Expert
Learn how to easily bind your WinForms, WPF, or Silverlight UI to any set, subset or joined set of data using anonymous types and Lambda expressions. more
Brian Noyes, CTO and Co-founder, Solliance
See how to leverage the rich features of data binding, commands, and validation in WPF more
Walk away with a baseline architecture and sample code that will let you grow and extend your WPF and Silverlight client apps more
Al Pascual , Software Developer , Esri
This session will show how to display information using maps and how they can help visualize your data. more
Billy Hollis, XAML Slinger
You’ll see examples of next generation applications, and do interactive exercises to start down the path of creating such applications yourselves. more
This talk covers those really cool but lesser known features in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 more
Ewald Hofman, Program Manager, Microsoft
In this demo-packed session, learn how to more effectively plan and track work by using the new web-based project management tools and how to help keep team members on-task and “in the zone” with the new “My Work” and code review features. more
Jason Bock MVP (C#), Practice Lead, Magenic
This session will focus on the additions to the next version of the .NET Framework, such as asynchronous I/O, reflection, and exceptions more
Larry Guger, Program Manager, Visual Studio Ultimate Team, Microsoft
See how IntelliTrace, within Visual Studio 2012, gives you the ability retrieve rich, detailed information about problems, even in production, enabling you to spend less time on bug diagnostics and more time writing software. more
Brian Peek, Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft
If you’re looking for ways to provide a better, smoother experience for your users, don’t miss this session! more
Get a tour of the elements behind this new API, more
Tom Lindeman, Director, Developer Tools and Marketing, Microsoft
Come learn about this ecosystem, who is in it, why it is valuable, and how you can participate. more
Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies
Learn what Team Foundation Service is, why you should use it and how to use it more
Benjamin Day, Consultant & Trainer, Benjamin Day Consulting, Inc.
You're a good Scrum Master. Come find out how to be great. more
In this session, we’ll talk about 10 different things you can do to get your project started right more
You’ll see how to use it, create a feedback cycle, and link it into Team Foundation Server. more
Sean Laberee, Lead Program Manager, SharePoint Tools, Visual Studio, Microsoft
In this demo heavy session we will explore our SharePoint development tools which extend Visual Studio 11. more
John Stallo, Program Manager Lead, Visual Studio LightSwitch, Microsoft
In this demo-heavy session, see end-to-end how to build and deploy a data-centric business application using LightSwitch. more
Learn the constraints imposed by such a cross-platform goal, and how to efficiently structure your code to support all these platforms. more
Saurabh Bhatia, Program Manager, Visual Studio Tools for Office, Microsoft
0 to 60 with Apps for Office and SharePoint 2013 Using “Napa” and Visual Studio 2012 more
There’s a lot we can learn about coding efficiently, while having fun and using our.NET skills to create some really cool stuff. more
Learn to build business code that is reusable and manage your application lifecycle process using the powerful tools built into VS and supported by Team Foundation Server. more
An introduction to the platform along with the pluses and minuses of both platforms. more
See how to create HTTP services with the ASP.NET Web APIs, how to test them, and how to consume them from various clients. more
Mads Kristensen, Program Manager, Web Platforms & Tools Team , Microsoft
Join Mads on a journey through the features of the upcoming version of ASP.NET and Visual Studio to get a sneak peak on the new abilities and tools needed to build modern websites. more
Philip Japikse Microsoft MVP, MCSD, CSM, and CSP, Developer, Coach, Author, Teacher
Go through as many of these new features that we can fit into one session and learn that WebForms is far from “legacy”. more
Cover the basics of REST, how to build this type of service using WCF 3.5, and about other features this Web programming model enables. more
In this session, review the new features, and how to take advantage of them in existing projects as well as greenfield development. more
Scott Hunter, Principal Program Manager Lead, ASP.NET Team, Microsoft
Pranav Rastogi, ASP.NET Product Team, Microsoft
Learn techniques to enhance your Web Forms development experience. more
This session will cover binding, networking, XAML UI, patterns, app configuration, contracts, and much more. more
Jeffrey Ferman, Program Manager, Blend Team, Microsoft
In this session we will focus on building an end-to-end LOB app starting with the in-box templates and a common design pattern (MVVM). more
This session will discuss the changes: new functionality, changes and differences from Silverlight more
Explore the reasons to use Windows 8 Metro Style apps in the enterprise more
Ben Dewey MVP, Mobile Practice Lead, Windows Division, Tallan, Inc
This presentation will give you tools to help answer whether to go native or not on your next project. more
Learn what services are available to Windows 8 Metro style app developers, and how to use the SDK in your apps. more
Navit Saxena, Program Manager, Expression Team , Microsoft
Learn how Visual Studio and Blend can help you be more productive in building amazing Metro style apps for Windows 8. more
Go in-depth on the different charms that are available in WinRT more
Daniel Plaisted, Microsoft
We will explore how to use the new Portable Class Libraries support in Visual Studio 2012 to reuse C# or Visual Basic code between apps targeting different managed platforms. more
XAML gives you an array of capabilities to go further, and this session will show you a list of them. more
Scott Golightly, President, Grokdev, LLC
Look at how you can start developing for Windows Phone 7 for free more
This is for the iOS developer coming to Windows Phone 7 as well as the new developer in mobile devices. more
Discuss how to get your application into the marketplace and strategies for making additional money. more