BUILD2011 Sessions (Slides)

Create rich, data-driven Web apps with ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms

Damian Edwards — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:31 GMT

Data has always been important for Web apps and there are increasingly a myriad of technologies available to work with data. Come join us to discuss different data paradigms life Database First, Model First and Code First, and how the tooling and framework features support them. We’ll dive into the powers of new data-related improvements in ASP.NET 4.5 Web Forms like model binders and data annotations.

What's new in .NET Framework 4.5

Joshua Goodman, Raja Krishnaswamy — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:31 GMT

The next major release of the .NET Framework, .NET 4.5, allows you to easily use Windows 8 technologies, like Windows Runtime, directly from .NET 4.5. Accessing your data is easier than ever with support for the newest features in SQL Server and support for WebSockets. Programs are more responsive, with the AWAIT keyword, faster ASP.NET startup and an improved server Garbage Collector. .NET 4.5 incorporates key customer feedback, with the newest MEF features, support for long running workflows with State Machines, and improved HTML 5 support in ASP.NET. In this overview talk, you’ll learn about all of these technologies, and get pointers to deeper dives where you can learn more.

Building apps with Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Azure

Jurgen Willis, Josh Twist — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:23 GMT

Windows Workflow Foundation shipped with .NET 4 and is a great way to build extensible apps, model long-running processes and orchestrate services. In this session, we’ll look at the options available to leverage Workflow Foundation in Windows Azure, starting with the capabilities on offer today, before taking a peek into the future and looking at some new features that the team is working on for running and managing workflows in Azure.

OData Futures: creating the web of data

Pablo Castro — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:22 GMT

The OData protocol is a great way of exposing Web APIs for use in mobile apps and 3rd party Web sites. In this session we’ll cover what’s coming next for OData. We will discuss the new features of the protocol and we’ll show how they surface in specific implementations such as the .NET and Javascript frameworks.

Building parallelized apps with .NET and Visual Studio

Stephen Toub — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:22 GMT

The Task Parallel Library (TPL), PLINQ, and Visual Studio 2010 provide managed code developers with a solid foundation for parallelizing loops, queries, and other common constructs in both server and client apps. But that’s only the beginning. In this code-intensive session, learn about what’s next for parallelization with .NET and Visual Studio, diving deep into performance enhancements, new Visual Studio tooling, and new libraries and language support for parallelization and asynchrony.

CANCELLED: Building IIS and ASP.NET apps with the power of async

Phil Haack, Damian Edwards — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:22 GMT

It’s well established from both theory and practice that Web sites and Web services achieve scale through asynchrony. If a dedicated thread is required per client connection to a server, scalability becomes limited by the number of threads the server system can support, which is typically far fewer than business requirements demand. Unfortunately, it’s also been difficult historically for developers to write asynchronous apps, due to the myriad of callbacks that have been necessary to program asynchrony successfully. Thus, businesses scale by investing in many more machines rather than by making better use of the ones they already have or the few they’re paying for use of in the cloud. All that changes with the next release of Visual Studio and .NET. New features in managed languages make writing asynchronous code as simple as writing synchronous code, thereby enabling both developer productivity and good return on investments. In this code-heavy session, learn how you can be the hero of your organization, building efficient and scalable server apps that best utilize your company’s resources.

Make your product manageable

Jeffrey Snover, Refaat Issa — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:21 GMT

Manageability is increasingly the value differentiator between products. Customers need to create management solutions quickly and reliably. They need to manage their entire IT spectrum consistently using standard-based technologies. Come to this session to learn how to make your product manageable in standard and powerful ways using the Windows Management Framework (WMF) and plug into the growing ecosystem of tools and IT management capabilities. See how the WMF enables (via .NET, Native Code, PowerShell, Workflow and CIM/WSMan) managing your product by standard-based tools, powerful command utilities, REST APIs or standard Windows graphical user interface.

A .NET developer's view of Windows 8 app development

Krzysztof Cwalina — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

This chalk talk is intended for C# and VB developers who want to start creating Windows 8 Metro style apps. In this talk, we will introduce a new profile of the .NET Framework for use in building Windows 8 Metro style apps. We'll also describe and discuss the design, architecture, features and limitations of this new profile.

Deep dive into the kernel of the .NET Framework

Mark Miller, Pracheeti Nagarkar — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:26:00 GMT

The Common Language Runtime is the cutting-edge virtual machine at the heart of the .NET Framework. In this session, we'll dive deep under the covers of the CLR and discuss some of our key innovations for .NET Framework 4.5 and Windows 8. Topics will include updates in the code-generation and diagnostics space, improvements in our garbage collector for low latency server scenarios, and automatic NGen.