Tracks -- Visual Studio Live!: Training Conferences and Events for Enterprise Microsoft .NET and Azure Developers

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	ASP.NET		Cloud Computing
	Cross-Platform Mobile Development		JavaScript / HTML5 Client
	Keynotes		SharePoint/Office
	SQL Server		Visual Studio / .NET Framework
	Windows Client		Windows Phone
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ASP.NET

T02 What's New in MVC 5 Tuesday October 7 9:15am - 10:30am

Miguel Castro MRD, President, Melvicorp LLC

In this session, you will learn what's changed and what's new with MVC 5 and dev techniques for using new features. more

T06 ASP.NET Reloaded: Web Forms vs. MVC vs. Web API Tuesday October 7 10:45am - 12:00pm

Dino Esposito, Technical Evangelist, JetBrains

In this session, we will discuss the business scenarios where Web Forms, ASP.NET MVC and Web API fit better. more

T10 What's New in Web API 2 Tuesday October 7 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Miguel Castro MRD, President, Melvicorp LLC

Join Miguel as he discusses the changes and new features in Web API 2 and shows the development techniques for using the new features. more

T14 Never Mind the Mobile Web; Here's the Device Web Tuesday October 7 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Dino Esposito, Technical Evangelist, JetBrains

In this session, Dino debunks some of the myths of Responsive Web Design and brings up the need for different HTML views. more

W02 A Survey of Two Popular Visual Studio Tools - Web Essentials and NuGet Wednesday October 8 9:30am - 10:45am

John Petersen, National Solutions Director, Neudesic

In this session, John will introduce Web Essentials and NuGet and will show you, with practical examples, how to get the most out of them. more

W06 ASP.NET MVC - Rudiments of Routing Wednesday October 8 11:00am - 12:15pm

Walt Ritscher, Staff Author, Lynda.com at LinkedIn

The session covers the fundamentals of routing, touching on custom routes, useful URL constraints and proper route error handling. more

W10 Slice Development Time with ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, and Razor Wednesday October 8 1:30pm - 2:45pm

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

In this session, Phil will show you how to speed development with Visual Studio MVC features as well as the Razor View Engine to cut repetitive tasks to shreds. more

W14 Build Data Driven Web Sites with WebMatrix 3 and ASP.NET Web Pages Wednesday October 8 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Rachel Appel, Senior Developer Evangelist, Microsoft

In this session, you'll learn how to do the basics to get a web application up and running using WebMatrix and the Web Platform Installer, from start to deployment. more

W18 Build Real Time Websites and Apps with SignalR Wednesday October 8 4:30pm - 5:45pm

Rachel Appel, Senior Developer Evangelist, Microsoft

This session covers what you need to know to build a SignalR app that connects multiple clients instantaneously. more

Cloud Computing

T12 Moving Web Apps to the Cloud Tuesday October 7 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

In this session, we will take a simple, traditional ASP.NET app and walk through the migration to Windows Azure using Windows Azure Web Sites and Windows Azure Cloud Services. more

T16 Solving Security and Compliance Challenges with Hybrid Clouds Tuesday October 7 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Eric D. Boyd, Founder and CEO, responsiveX

Learn how to use Windows Azure securely and protect sensitive information and achieve regulatory and compliance mandates, like PCI compliance. more

W17 Continuous Integration and Testing in Production with Azure Websites and Visual Studio Online Wednesday October 8 4:30pm - 5:45pm

Byron Tardif, Program Manager, Microsoft

Learn the best practices to achieve an “Agile” process that includes continuous integration to your production workloads. more

TH09 Cloud or Not, 10 Reasons Why You Must Know "Web Sites" Thursday October 9 11:00am - 12:15pm

Vishwas Lele, Chief Technology Officer , AIS
Steve Michelotti, Architect/Developer, Applied Information Sciences

In this session, we will look the 10 reasons why, as a web developer, you need to be up to speed with "Web Sites." more

TH13 Azure in the Enterprise - The Makings of an Ultimate Hybrid Thursday October 9 1:15pm - 2:30pm

Vishwas Lele, Chief Technology Officer , AIS

This hybrid nature of Azure deployments is the focus of this session. more

TH17 Not Your Father's BizTalk Server: Building Modern Hybrid Apps with Microsoft Azure BizTalk Services Thursday October 9 2:45pm - 4:00pm

Rick Garibay, Senior Software Development Manager, Amazon.com

Join Rick as he explains how to build modern hybrid apps with Microsoft Azure BizTalk services. more

Cross-Platform Mobile Development

W03 Getting Started with Xamarin Wednesday October 8 9:30am - 10:45am

Walt Ritscher, Staff Author, Lynda.com at LinkedIn

This introductory session shows how easy it is to start working with Xamarin projects. more

W11 The Great Mobile Debate: Native vs. Hybrid App Development Wednesday October 8 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Nick Landry, Senior Technical Evangelist , Microsoft

Join Nick as he covers one of the most hotly contested debates in modern IT. more

W15 Busy .NET Developer's Guide to iOS Wednesday October 8 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Ted Neward, Director, Developer Relations, Smartsheet.com

In this session, we're going to go over just enough Java to get the .NET developer up to speed on what programming for iOS is like: the language, the virtual machine, the toolchain, the ecosystem, and most of all, the iOS APIs. more

W19 Busy .NET Developer's Guide to Android Wednesday October 8 4:30pm - 5:45pm

Ted Neward, Director, Developer Relations, Smartsheet.com

In this session, we're going to go over just enough Java to get the .NET developer up to speed on what programming for Android is like: the language, the virtual machine, the toolchain, the ecosystem, and most of all, the Android APIs. more

TH03 Visual Studio 2013, Xamarin and Microsoft Azure Mobile Services: A Match Made in Heaven Thursday October 9 8:00am - 9:15am

Rick Garibay, Senior Software Development Manager, Amazon.com

Learn how you can harness the power of Visual Studio 2013 with the flexibility of Xamarin and the power of Microsoft Azure Mobile Services. more

JavaScript / HTML5 Client

MW03 Workshop: Data-Centric Single Page Applications with Angular, Breeze, and Web API Monday October 6 9:00am - 6:00pm

Brian Noyes, CTO and Co-founder, Solliance

Join Brian as he shows you how to build data-centric single page applications with Angular, Breeze, and Web API. more

T01 Great User Experiences with CSS 3 Tuesday October 7 9:15am - 10:30am

Robert Boedigheimer, Principal Systems Developer, Schwans Shared Services, LLC

In this session you will learn how to create great user experiences using CSS 3. more

T05 Using jQuery to Replace the Ajax Control Toolkit Tuesday October 7 10:45am - 12:00pm

Robert Boedigheimer, Principal Systems Developer, Schwans Shared Services, LLC

In this session, you will learn the benefits of moving to jQuery, and discover a mapping between popular ACT controls and jQuery plugins. more

T09 Build an Angular and Bootstrap Web Application in Visual Studio from the Ground Up Tuesday October 7 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Deborah Kurata, Microsoft MVP and Google Developer Expert

Join Deborah as she builds an Angular and Bootstrap Web Application in Visual Studio from the ground up! more

T13 JavaScript for the C# (and Java) Developer Tuesday October 7 3:00pm - 4:15pm

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

In this session, Phil shows you, the C# programmer, what you need to know to take your JavaScript to the next level. more

W01 Writing Next Generation JavaScript with TypeScript Wednesday October 8 9:30am - 10:45am

Rachel Appel, Senior Developer Evangelist, Microsoft

Come to this session and learn all about the TypeScript language from its object oriented features to its ES6-style capabilities. more

W05 Building Single Page Web Applications Using Kendo UI and the MVVM Pattern Wednesday October 8 11:00am - 12:15pm

Ben Hoelting, Senior Technologist, Aspenware

This talk will define the MVVM pattern and the benefits of using it. more

W09 Introduction to AngularJS Wednesday October 8 1:30pm - 2:45pm

John Petersen, National Solutions Director, Neudesic

In this session, John will introduce you to how to use Angular from within the Visual Studio context and outside the Visual Studio context. more

W13 Creating Angular Applications Using Visual Studio LightSwitch Wednesday October 8 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Michael Washington, Founder, AiHelpWebsite.com

In this session, you will learn how to create angular applications using Visual Studio LightSwitch. more

Keynotes

Keynote: Build Better Applications with Visual Studio + Azure Tuesday October 7 8:00am - 9:00am

Matt Nunn, Director, Development Tools & Technologies, Microsoft

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Keynote: Mobile 2.0: Folks, YOUR time has come! Wednesday October 8 8:00am - 9:00am

Jonathan Zuck, President, Association for Competitive Technology

Learn how the mobile market is changing and why the opportunities for serious programmers have just begun. more

Conference Wrap-Up Thursday October 9 4:15pm - 5:15pm

Andrew Brust, Senior Director, Market Strategy and Intelligence, Datameer
Jason Bock MVP (C#), Practice Lead, Magenic
Ben Hoelting, Senior Technologist, Aspenware
Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic
Brian Peek, Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft

Join some of your favorite Visual Studio Live! Washington, D.C. speakers as they discuss the new content presented during the conference. more

SharePoint/Office

TH15 Visual Studio Cloud Business Apps Thursday October 9 1:15pm - 2:30pm

Michael Washington, Founder, AiHelpWebsite.com

Learn how to create business applications for Office 365/SharePoint online using Visual Studio LightSwitch technology. more

TH19 Best Practices: Building Apps for Office Using HTML/JavaScript Thursday October 9 2:45pm - 4:00pm

Mark Michaelis, Chief Software Architect, IntelliTect

Attend this session to learn how to build applications that run both in the browser or the Office 2013 (rich) clients. more

SQL Server

MW02 Workshop: SQL Server for Developers Monday October 6 9:00am - 6:00pm

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 SQL Server 2012. more

T07 Introduction to In Memory OLTP Using Hekaton in SQL Server 2014 Tuesday October 7 10:45am - 12:00pm

Kevin Goff Microsoft SQL Server MVP, Practice Manager, SetFocus, LLC

This session will cover the benefits of Hekaton, why developers and DBAs would want to use Hekaton, and the different options for creating Hekaton tables. more

W04 SQL for Application Developers - Attendees Choose Wednesday October 8 9:30am - 10:45am

Kevin Goff Microsoft SQL Server MVP, Practice Manager, SetFocus, LLC

In this session, Kevin will show 25 possible topics and attendees vote on which topics to cover. more

W08 Database Development with SQL Server Data Tools Wednesday October 8 11:00am - 12:15pm

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

Don't miss out on this demo-centric information-packed session on the current generation of database tools for application developers! more

W12 Learning Entity Framework 6 Wednesday October 8 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

In this session, Lenni will show how quickly you can start working with EF6 and boost your productivity when building data-centric .NET applications. more

TH01 Excel, Power BI and You: An Analytics Superhub Thursday October 9 8:00am - 9:15am

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

In this session, you will look at the analytics capabilities in the core Excel product and the combination of Excel 2013 Data Model, Power Pivot, Power View, Power Query and Power Map and learn how to use them together. more

TH05 Big Data 101 with HDInsight Thursday October 9 9:30am - 10:45am

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

In this session, Microsoft BI expert and ZDNet Big Data blogger Andrew Brust will explain what Big Data is all about and how Hadoop works. more

Visual Studio / .NET Framework

MW01 Workshop: Deep Dive Into Visual Studio 2013, TFS, and Visual Studio Online Monday October 6 9:00am - 6:00pm

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

In this workshop Brian will cover everything you need to know about Visual Studio 2013, TFS and Visual Studio Online. more

T03 New IDE and Editor Features in Visual Studio 2013 Tuesday October 7 9:15am - 10:30am

Deborah Kurata, Microsoft MVP and Google Developer Expert

This session covers the coolest new features in the Visual Studio 2013 IDE and Editor. more

T11 Making the Most of the Visual Studio Online Tuesday October 7 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

In this session, Brian will show you how to get started with the service, load up code, track your work and run builds. more

T15 Cross-Platform Dev (iOS, Android and Java) with TFS and Team Explorer Everywhere Tuesday October 7 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

In this session, Brian will show you how to develop using iOS, Android and Java with TFS and Team Explorer Everywhere. more

W16 Team Foundation Server for Scrum Teams Wednesday October 8 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Richard Hundhausen, Consultant & Trainer, Accentient

In this session, you will learn how to implement Scrum and perform release planning, sprint planning, forecasting, and tracking of work. more

W17 Continuous Integration and Testing in Production with Azure Websites and Visual Studio Online Wednesday October 8 4:30pm - 5:45pm

Byron Tardif, Program Manager, Microsoft

Learn the best practices to achieve an “Agile” process that includes continuous integration to your production workloads. more

W20 Team Foundation Server: Must-Have Tools and Widgets Wednesday October 8 4:30pm - 5:45pm

Richard Hundhausen, Consultant & Trainer, Accentient

In this session, we will spend the time exploring the more interesting and useful tools and solutions from the ever-expanding Visual Studio community, including the top 10 must-have tools for Team Foundation Server administrators. more

TH04 What's New in the .NET 4.5 Thursday October 9 8:00am - 9:15am

Jason Bock MVP (C#), Practice Lead, Magenic

In this talk, we'll focus on the additions to the latest version of the .NET Framework, such as asynchronous I/O, reflection, and event handling. more

TH08 Essential C# 6.0 Thursday October 9 9:30am - 10:45am

Mark Michaelis, Chief Software Architect, IntelliTect

In this session, Michael will preview the C# language changes that will be part of C#6.0. more

TH16 Asynchronous Debugging in .NET Thursday October 9 1:15pm - 2:30pm

Jason Bock MVP (C#), Practice Lead, Magenic

In this session, you'll see how you can use tools in Visual Studio 2013 that help you find issues in your code. more

TH20 Adventures in Unit Testing: TDD vs. TED Thursday October 9 2:45pm - 4:00pm

Ben Hoelting, Senior Technologist, Aspenware

Join Ben as he documents his adventures into implementing TDD and defines the pros and cons of TDD vs. TED. more

Windows Client

T04 Creating Universal Windows Apps for Business Tuesday October 7 9:15am - 10:30am

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

Learn how to take full advantage of shared projects in Universal App solutions to share code across these different platforms. more

T08 WPF Data Binding in Depth Tuesday October 7 10:45am - 12:00pm

Brian Noyes, CTO and Co-founder, Solliance

In this session, you will learn to leverage the full power of data binding in WPF. more

TH02 What's New in WPF 4.5 Thursday October 9 8:00am - 9:15am

Walt Ritscher, Staff Author, Lynda.com at LinkedIn

Join Walt for this information packed session showcasing the improved features in WPF 4.5. more

TH06 WPF for the Real World Thursday October 9 9:30am - 10:45am

Brian Lagunas, Product Manager, Infragistics

This session will concentrate on the basic building blocks required to be a successful WPF developer. more

TH10 Deploying WinRT Apps Without the Store Thursday October 9 11:00am - 12:15pm

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

Learn the process necessary to write your own private organizational store so your users can browse and install your business apps onto their Windows 8 devices. more

TH14 Creating Cross Platform Games with Unity Thursday October 9 1:15pm - 2:30pm

Brian Lagunas, Product Manager, Infragistics

In this fun and interactive session Brian will cover all the basics of using the Unity game engine, and your current C# or JavaScript skills, to get you started writing games for a number of mobile platforms. more

TH18 Use Your .NET Code in WinRT with Brokered Assemblies Thursday October 9 2:45pm - 4:00pm

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

Learn how to create a brokered assembly and how to use it to take advantage of existing .NET assemblies and code. more

Windows Phone

W07 Getting Started with Windows Phone Development Wednesday October 8 11:00am - 12:15pm

Nick Landry, Senior Technical Evangelist , Microsoft

This session is your fast track into the new wonderful world of Windows Phone development. more

TH07 Building Your First Windows Phone 8.1 Application Thursday October 9 9:30am - 10:45am

Brian Peek, Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft

Learn the fundamentals of Windows Phone development while building a very simple application. more

TH11 Building Games for Windows and Windows Phone Thursday October 9 11:00am - 12:15pm

Brian Peek, Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft

In this session we will delve into the many options available to developers, including DirectX, Unity, MonoGame, and more! more

Workshops

MW01 Workshop: Deep Dive Into Visual Studio 2013, TFS, and Visual Studio Online Monday October 6 9:00am - 6:00pm

Brian Randell, Partner, MCW Technologies

In this workshop Brian will cover everything you need to know about Visual Studio 2013, TFS and Visual Studio Online. more

MW02 Workshop: SQL Server for Developers Monday October 6 9:00am - 6:00pm

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 SQL Server 2012. more

MW03 Workshop: Data-Centric Single Page Applications with Angular, Breeze, and Web API Monday October 6 9:00am - 6:00pm

Brian Noyes, CTO and Co-founder, Solliance

Join Brian as he shows you how to build data-centric single page applications with Angular, Breeze, and Web API. more