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	Developing Services		LightSwitch
	Mobile Development		Programming Practices
	Silverlight / WPF		Visual Studio 2010 / .NET 4
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Cloud Computing

T4 If Not laaS, When Should I Use Windows Azure VM Role? Tuesday October 18 9:50 AM - 11:05 AM

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

T9 What Is Microsoft Marketplace DataMarket? Tuesday October 18 11:25 AM - 12:40 PM

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

T14 Deciding Between Relational Databases and Tables in the Cloud Tuesday October 18 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Michael Stiefel, President, Reliable Software, Inc.

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

T19 Building, Deploying and Managing Windows Azure Applications with Visual Studio 2010 Tuesday October 18 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM

We'll take an ASP.NET application running on IIS, and make it a scalable cloud application running on Windows Azure. more

W4 Windows Azure Platform Overview Wednesday October 19 9:50 AM - 11:05 AM

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

W9 Building Windows Azure Applications Wednesday October 19 11:25 AM - 12:40 PM

Vishwas Lele, Chief Technology Officer , AIS

This session will take an existing MVC 3 application with all the web stack goodness (MVC4, Scaffolding, EF 4,NUGet packages, validation and more) and migrate it to Windows Azure. more

W14 Building Compute-Intensive Apps in Windows Azure Wednesday October 19 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Vishwas Lele, Chief Technology Officer , AIS

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

W15 Bringing Your Data and Maps Together with Esri Cloud Services Wednesday October 19 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Arthur Haddad, Software Architect, ESRI

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W19 Building and Running the Windows Azure Developer Portal Wednesday October 19 3:35 PM - 4:50 PM

Chris Mullins, Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

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

Data Management

T10 The LINQ Programming Model Tuesday October 18 11:25 AM - 12:40 PM

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

T15 Simple Persistence for Rapid Prototyping .NET Tuesday October 18 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Eric Falsken, Developer Relations Engineer, Versant
German Viscuso, Developer Relations Manager, Versant

In this session, you will learn how to achieve simple, straight forward object persistence without the need to deal with complex APIs. more

T20 How to Take WCF Data Services to the Next Level Tuesday October 18 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM

Rob Daigneau, Senior Fellow, Construx Software

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

TH14 Creating Immersive Data Experiences with Entity Framework Thursday October 20 11:40 AM - 12:55 PM

Andrew Peters, Engineer , Microsoft

Take a deep dive into how Code First works. more

TH19 So Many Choices, So Little Time: Understanding Your .NET 4 Data Access Options Thursday October 20 2:10 PM - 3:25 PM

Leonard Lobel MVP, CTO, Sleek Technologies, Inc.

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

TH24 Using Code First (Code Only) Approach with Entity Framework Thursday October 20 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

Sergey Barskiy, Architect, Tyler Technologies

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

FWK2 SQL Server Workshop for Developers Friday October 21 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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 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

Developing Services

MWK3 Workshop: Programming with WCF in One Day Monday October 17 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

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

T3 AppFabric, Workflow and WCF – the Next-Generation Middleware Tuesday October 18 9:50 AM - 11:05 AM

Ron Jacobs, Sr. Program Manager, Microsoft

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

T8 What’s New in WCF4 Tuesday October 18 11:25 AM - 12:40 PM

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

T13 Creating Scalable State Full Services Using WCF and WF Tuesday October 18 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Marcel de Vries, CTO, Xpirit

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

T18 AppFabric Caching: How it Works and When You Should Use It Tuesday October 18 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM

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

LightSwitch

TH15 Grasping The LightSwitch Paradigm (The Taming of the Tool) Thursday October 20 11:40 AM - 12:55 PM

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

In this session, we won't just demo what LightSwitch can do. We'll explore how to master LightSwitch's concepts, and then gracefully build the apps you need. more

Mobile Development

W2 Peeking at the Source of a Successful Windows Phone App Wednesday October 19 9:50 AM - 11:05 AM

Learn what it takes to create a large Windows Phone app. more

W8 Building Native Mobile Apps with HTML5 and jQuery Wednesday October 19 11:25 AM - 12:40 PM

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

W13 Getting Started with Windows Phone 7 Wednesday October 19 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Scott Golightly, President, Grokdev, LLC

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

W18 Windows Azure and Windows Phone–Creating Great Apps Wednesday October 19 3:35 PM - 4:50 PM

Scott Golightly, President, Grokdev, LLC

This session will demonstrate how to create Windows Azure services and Windows Phone applications that work together. more

TH3 CSLA 4 for Windows Phone and Silverlight Thursday October 20 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

Learn how to build reusable business code, and you’ll see how Silverlight and Windows Phone interfaces can be created to use this common business logic. more

TH8 Working with Data on Windows Phone 7 Thursday October 20 10:05 AM - 11:20 AM

Sergey Barskiy, Architect, Tyler Technologies

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

TH13 Advanced Patterns with MVVM in Silverlight and Windows Phone 7 Thursday October 20 11:40 AM - 12:55 PM

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

TH18 Windows Phone 7 Instrumentation - How to Learn from Your App Thursday October 20 2:10 PM - 3:25 PM

Tony Champion, President, Champion DS

Discover how to instrument your application using the latest tools and how to use that information to improve the user's experience. more

Programming Practices

TH17 Using MEF to Develop Composable Applications Thursday October 20 2:10 PM - 3:25 PM

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

TH20 Static Analysis in .NET Thursday October 20 2:10 PM - 3:25 PM

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

In this session, you’ll see how you can use static analysis tools (like Code Analysis/FxCop) to find all kinds of implementation issues before they show up in a release. more

TH22 Patterns for Parallel Programming Thursday October 20 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

Tiberiu Covaci, Independent Trainer

This workshop will help you understand new technologies, like TPL and PLINQ, that will help us transition to this new way of programming in .NET 4.0. more

TH25 Modern NET Development Practices and Principles Thursday October 20 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

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

You will learn how to create effective coupling to dependencies, understand how to write and maintain unit tests, and see how mocking leads to clean unit tests. more

FWK1 Architectural Katas Workshop Friday October 21 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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

Silverlight / WPF

MWK2 Workshop: Making Effective Use of Silverlight and WPF Monday October 17 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

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

T2 Intense Intro to Silverlight Tuesday October 18 9:50 AM - 11:05 AM

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

T7 XAML: Achieving Your Moment of Clarity Tuesday October 18 11:25 AM - 12:40 PM

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

T12 Fundamental Design Principles for UI Developers Tuesday October 18 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

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

T17 Bind Anything to Anything in XAML Tuesday October 18 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

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

W7 Light up on Windows 7 with Silverlight and WPF Wednesday October 19 11:25 AM - 12:40 PM

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

W12 What’s New and Cool in Silverlight 5 Wednesday October 19 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Pete Brown , XAML and Gadget Guy, Microsoft

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

W17 Silverlight, WCF RIA Services and Your Business Objects Wednesday October 19 3:35 PM - 4:50 PM

Deborah Kurata, Microsoft MVP and Google Developer Expert

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

TH2 Bringing the Silverlight PivotViewer to Your Applications Thursday October 20 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Tony Champion, President, Champion DS

Explore the fundamentals of PivotViewer, how to create dynamic collections, and discover how to incorporate PivotViewer into your applications. more

TH7 MVVM in Practice aka "Code Behind" - Free WPF Thursday October 20 10:05 AM - 11:20 AM

Tiberiu Covaci, Independent Trainer

How you can write a WPF application without ever needing to add a single line of code in the code behind, giving your designer full control over the User Interface. more

TH12 Radically Advanced Templates for WPF and Silverlight Thursday October 20 11:40 AM - 12:55 PM

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

Visual Studio 2010 / .NET 4

MWK1 Workshop: ALM in 2011: Visual Studio 2010 and the Next Big Release Monday October 17 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

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

T1 Developing and Managing SharePoint Solutions with Visual Studio 2010 Studio 2011 Tuesday October 18 9:50 AM - 11:05 AM

See Visual Studio’s built in support for creating the most common customizations including custom web parts, event receivers, Workflows and more. more

T5 Best Kept Secrets in Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4 Tuesday October 18 9:50 AM - 11:05 AM

Deborah Kurata, Microsoft MVP and Google Developer Expert

Use Visual Studio more effectively by learning cool but lesser known features. more

Keynote - Visual Studio 11: Turning Ideas into Software Tuesday October 18 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Cameron Skinner, General Manager, Visual Studio Ultimate, Microsoft

Cameron Skinner, General Manager, Visual Studio Ultimate, will discuss how Visual Studio 11 aims to ensure that developers have all the tooling to create compelling user experiences. more

W3 Tips and Tricks: How to Use Visual Studio to the Fullest Wednesday October 19 9:50 AM - 11:05 AM

In this fast-paced session we’ll turn you into a Visual Studio rock star! more

W5 Application Lifecycle Management and Visual Studio: What’s Next Wednesday October 19 9:50 AM - 11:05 AM

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

W10 Visual Studio v.Next Wednesday October 19 11:25 AM - 12:40 PM

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

W20 NuGet: Add Reference | Awesome Wednesday October 19 3:35 PM - 4:50 PM

Matthew Osborn, Software Development Engineer, ASP.NET team, Microsoft

Learn all about NuGet more

TH4 C# and Visual Basic in Visual Studio 11: Async Made Simple Thursday October 20 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Alex Turner, Program Manager for the Visual Basic and C# Compilers , Microsoft

Learn about the language innovations for the next version of Microsoft Visual Studio. more

TH5 Design for Testability: Mocks, Stubs, Refactoring and UI's Thursday October 20 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Benjamin Day, Consultant & Trainer, Benjamin Day Consulting, Inc.

Learn the difference between unit and integration tests and how using dependency injection, mocks objects and stubs can help break dependencies and simplify your tests. more

TH9 Taking your Application Lifecycle Management to the Cloud with the Team Foundation Service Thursday October 20 10:05 AM - 11:20 AM

Clemri Steyn, Sr. Product Manager, Microsoft

Learn how Team Foundation Service differs from Team Foundation Server and what that means to you. more

TH10 Team Foundation Server 2010 Builds: Understand, Configure and Customize Thursday October 20 10:05 AM - 11:20 AM

Benjamin Day, Consultant & Trainer, Benjamin Day Consulting, Inc.

Get a tour of the new TFS2010 features and learn how to better configure your build servers and builds. more

TH23 What's New in Visual Studio 11 for Application Lifecycle Management Thursday October 20 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

Learn how to more effectively plan and track work by using the new web-based project management tools. more

Web / HTML 5

T6 Bigger, Faster, Stronger: Optimizing ASP.NET 4 and 4.5 Applications Tuesday October 18 11:25 AM - 12:40 PM

Mads Kristensen, Program Manager, Web Platforms & Tools Team , Microsoft

Learn practical and clear tips which you can apply to optimize your sites today. more

T11 ASP.NET and VS vNext : Do more with less Tuesday October 18 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Pranav Rastogi, ASP.NET Product Team, Microsoft

Learn new v4.5 features such as model binding, request validation and web optimization. more

T16 HTML5 and Internet Explorer 9: Developer Overview Tuesday October 18 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM

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

W1 HTML5 and Your Web Sites Wednesday October 19 9:50 AM - 11:05 AM

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

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

W6 Styling Web Pages with CSS 3 Wednesday October 19 11:25 AM - 12:40 PM

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

Discover what new techniques will be available (opacity, rounded corners, columns, box shadows, etc), and how some of them are possible today using jQuery and other methods. more

W11 The Best of jQuery Wednesday October 19 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

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

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

W16 ASP.NET MVC Razor and jQuery - the New Face of ASP.NET Wednesday October 19 3:35 PM - 4:50 PM

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

TH1 Creating a Data Driven Web Site Using WebMatrix and ASP.NET Razor Thursday October 20 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Rachel Appel, Senior Developer Evangelist, Microsoft

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

TH6 How Orchard CMS Works Thursday October 20 10:05 AM - 11:20 AM

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

TH11 Busy Developer’s Guide to (ECMA/Java)Script Thursday October 20 11:40 AM - 12:55 PM

Ted Neward, Director, Developer Relations, Smartsheet.com

You will learn thhe 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

TH16 Getting Started with ASP NET MVC Thursday October 20 2:10 PM - 3:25 PM

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

TH21 Test Driving ASP.NET MVC Thursday October 20 3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

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

Workshops

MWK1 Workshop: ALM in 2011: Visual Studio 2010 and the Next Big Release Monday October 17 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

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

MWK2 Workshop: Making Effective Use of Silverlight and WPF Monday October 17 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

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

MWK3 Workshop: Programming with WCF in One Day Monday October 17 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

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

FWK1 Architectural Katas Workshop Friday October 21 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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

FWK2 SQL Server Workshop for Developers Friday October 21 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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 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

Keynotes

Keynote - Visual Studio 11: Turning Ideas into Software Tuesday October 18 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Cameron Skinner, General Manager, Visual Studio Ultimate, Microsoft

Cameron Skinner, General Manager, Visual Studio Ultimate, will discuss how Visual Studio 11 aims to ensure that developers have all the tooling to create compelling user experiences. more

Keynote: Managing Your Software Development Career Wednesday October 19 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM

Rockford Lhotka, CTO, Magenic

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

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Visual Studio 11: Turning Ideas into Software

The world of software today is defined by the word “Experience”. You can see it in the way people have adopted new experiences for devices of different form factors, you can see it in how people want to experience their information and you can see it in the context of how people interact to build software solutions. Regardless of the solution you’re building, the fundamental need for a compelling experience exists. In Visual Studio 11, Microsoft aims to ensure that developers have all the tooling to create compelling user experiences, an IDE that sets a new bar for the developer experience and a family of products dramatically improves the team experience for everyone.

Cameron Skinner, General Manager, Visual Studio Ultimate, Microsoft

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