pdc2008

The Visual Studio Debugger provides a slew of features that make the task of debugging both easier and more efficient. Learn about time-saving tips and tricks for all versions of the Visual Studio Debugger, including the new debugger features in Visual Studio 2010. Hear about the new mixed-mode…

Learn about guidelines that have helped the Microsoft .NET Framework grow into the most popular developer framework Microsoft has ever created. After ten years of use, we have an enormous amount of real customer data about what makes great framework design. Whether you are building your own…

Do you need to understand how to extend your applications and services to embedded devices using Windows 7 technologies? See the new Windows Embedded roadmap and hear plans for our next-generation offering built on Windows 7 technologies. Shabnam Erfani

In this talk, we take a look at the various components that contribute to deliver a high performance Javascript application. We also look at the some of the script performance tools that we can leverage to measure the performance of our application. Finally, we learn about the various improvements…

Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V), formerly known as Microsoft Softgrid Application Virtualization, allows companies to create and customize "virtual packages" of desktop applications that can be streamed over the web providing a SAAS experience without a costly rewrite of the…

Learn the concepts, benefits and challenges of scale-out application design. Partitioning your app, your data, introducing the concept of roles and dealing with inconsistent state across the system are all topics we cover. We use a lot of examples of how we've built several of the cloud services,…

Live Services building blocks expose a platform-independent, language neutral, protocol-based programming model. The framework is designed from the get-go to not be bound to any platform-specific technology (Microsoft's or otherwise) or implementation. Dive into how to exercise this programming…

What's it like building an application that uses feeds and synchronization? The Live Services resource and synchronization model offers a lot of flexibility to developers and a different approach to development from typical database or SQL replication. I built one of the first Mesh applications at…

Come learn how to extend your existing web applications and get them to live and breathe within Live Mesh. Mesh-enabled web applications can be accessed from anywhere through a web browser as well as run locally (and offline) on a user's desktop and can take full advantage of many Mesh value-add…

Come learn about the new Silverlight Controls that are being launched here at PDC and the plans for more great controls in the future. This talk takes you through the paces of the new controls and shows you how to use and customize them for your applications, demonstrates some great new control…