Matthijs Hoekstra

Where are programming languages going today and in the future? In this talk Anders shares his views of the trends that influence programming languages in general and C# in specific. This keynotes session is presented by Anders Hejlsberg during Microsoft DevDays 2010 in The Hague in…

This session will demonstrate practical LINQ tips you can use to improve the performance of an application. We’ll see the advantages of deferred execution, re-write correlated sub queries, and offer advice on choosing between the two flavors of LINQ syntax. In addition, we’ll spend time looking…

The C# language and the .NET platform introduced many new features to support language integrated query. In this session, we’ll look at using these LINQ related features to build rich, intention revealing logic. We’ll dive into the magic of expression trees and use them to implement type-safe…

One of the enhancements in SharePoint 2010 is the introduction of a set of client side object models. These object models will allow developers to easily connect to SharePoint 2010 and consume the data in their applications. This session will focus on the three of the Client Object Model flavors…

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…

The cloud offers a new low-cost option for storing large amounts of data that can be accessed from geo-centric datacenters located around the world. Come learn about the cloud storage opportunities offered by Windows Azure and how they can benefit your business today.    This…

The Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) makes it easy for web applications and services to use the modern, claims-based model of identity. This model allows you to factor authentication and many authorization decisions out of your applications and into a central identity service. This model makes…

The new Windows Phone is coming! Get a high-level overview of the new application platform and a complete picture of the developer story. Learn about the developer tools, the application frameworks, the support for Silverlight, and the support for XNA.   This session is presented by…

VB and C# together share about 50% of the “garbage-collected languages” market. I’ll talk about how we design these languages. Where do we get ideas? How do we incorporate new paradigms without breaking the existing languages? Where will we go in the future, and how will we get there? I’ll…

Silverlight 4 has truly changed the game for business applications. In this session, Ingo shows you how you - as a developer of desktop business applications - can combine Silverlight with WCF RIA (Rich Internet Application) services to allow easy access to your data and business logic. You will…