The Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is the definitive developer event focused on the technical strategy of the Microsoft developer platform. Attendees come from around the world to learn about the Microsoft developer platform directly from the people who make it happen.
The PDC is for developers, architects and technology leaders who are involved in making strategic technology decisions for their company or organization.
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An Introduction to Microsoft F#Learn about Microsoft's new language, F#, a typed functional programming language for the Microsoft .NET Framework. F# combines functional programming with the runtime support, libraries, tools, and object model of .NET. Understand how F# asynchronous workflows help tame the complexity of parallel... -
The Future of C#Please Note: This session will be repeated on October 29th at 3:00PM. In this talk Microsoft Technical fellow and C# Chief Architect Anders Hejlsberg outlines the future of C#. He describes the many forces that influence and shape the future of programming languages and explain how they fit into C#. ... -
Microsoft Expression Blend: Tips & TricksSee how Expression Blend can be used to design user interfaces for the desktop and the Web using both Windows Presentation Foundation and Microsoft Silverlight 2. Learn how to design consistently for both technologies and how the resulting XAML provides elegant workflow between developers and designers. ... -
Day One Keynote - Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David ThompsonMicrosoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie introduces Windows Azure and Azure Services Platform during the PDC2008 opening keynote. Explore how Microsoft is transforming Microsoft's offerings across the board with announcements from Amitabh Srivastava, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft with responsibility...
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Improving Code Quality with Code AnalysisLearn how to catch critical bugs earlier in the development cycle by identifying issues such as buffer overruns and SQL injection attacks before they actually cause a security exploit. The Code Analysis features in Microsoft Visual Studio help you tune application security, robustness, performance,... -
Parallel Programming for Managed Developers with the Next Version of Microsoft Visual StudioCome learn how the next version of Visual Studio and the Microsoft .NET Framework can help you write better performing and more scalable applications. We take a tour of new .NET APIs, including the Task Parallel Library (TPL) and Parallel LINQ (PLINQ). We also introduce new features in the debugger... -
Parallel Programming for C++ Developers in the Next Version of Microsoft Visual StudioBuild more responsive C++ programs that take full advantage of multicore hardware. We demonstrate how the new Parallel Pattern Library (PPL) enables you to express parallelism in your code and how the asynchronous messaging APIs can be used to separate shared state and increase your application's... -
Improving .NET Application Performance and ScalabilityPerformance must be considered in each step of the development lifecycle. See how to integrate performance in design, development, testing, tuning, and production. Work with tools and technologies like: static analysis, managed memory profiling, data population, load testing, and performance reports.... -
A Lap around "Oslo"Please Note: This session will be repeated on October 29th at 4:45PM. "Oslo" is the family of new technologies that enable data-driven development and execution of services and applications. Come and learn how to capture all aspects of an application schematized in the "Oslo" repository... -
Concurrency Runtime Deep Dive: How to Harvest Multicore Computing ResourcesLearn how the Concurrency Runtime provides an efficient and scalable infrastructure for multiple concurrent programming models by bringing together cooperative work scheduling and resource management into one component. This deep dive presentation gives you an idea of what it means to target the Concurrency...
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