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2007... Silverlight 1.0 is released. 2010... Silverlight 4 is almost upon us. Did you lose track of all the new features that are in the platform right now? And how does Silverlight 4 compare to WPF 4? In this session, we will take you on a tour through the most exciting features that Silverlight…

Get up close and personal with Windows Azure, get a ring side view on its evolution and the key capabilities it provides for developing internet scale services. Speaker : Sumit Mehrotra 

Join Scott Hanselman as he talks about why you should blog and how you should do it. How much effort should you put into your Personal Brand online? Is Social Networking appropriate for Developers or should they hide in dark rooms and avoid other humans. Learn his rules (and when to break them)…

Join us for a fun gaming development session where Timothy Vanherberghen, 2nd prize winner in the 2008 Microsoft Imagine Cup, walks us through the steps needed to build the asteroids game with the XNA development platform. Speaker : Timothy Vanherberghen

Business Connectivity Services, formerly known as the Business Data Catalog in SharePoint 2007, enables the integration with external business applications. In this talk you will learn how to create External Content Types both with SharePoint Designer 2010 and Visual Studio 2010, what the…

SharePoint 2010 introduces a new paradigm for feature development known as Sandboxed Solutions. While the Sandboxed Solutions paradigm contributes significantly to overall farm stability, it also presents unique challenges for the SharePoint developer due to the severe restrictions placed on such…

So you want to make use of the Windows Azure cloud platform and are not sure how your existing, in-premise application can be hosted in the cloud… Learn all about getting your application ready for cloud-based hosting, scalability, worker roles and best-practices in moving your application from…

Extensibility is a key design point for many applications such as the Microsoft Office applications with their plug-in model for extensibility. Silverlight 4 ships with a new framework, the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), which provides a flexible way of building extensibility into your…

This talk is intended for the developer who knows about inner and outer joins, and knows how to write a T-SQL stored procedure. But sometimes developers bump into ‘weird’ behavior of SQL Server. This sessions dives into 5 common misconceptions developers have on SQL Server. We touch upon these…

New features in SQL Server 2008 R2 create new paradigms for designing and developing applications. This session will introduce you to 3 exciting new features and the types of application that becomes possible: Complex event processing (Codenamed Streaminsight), Data Tier Applications and…