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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Day One Keynote - Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson
Microsoft 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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Microsoft Dynamics CRM: The Appealing Business Application
Have you ever built a business application that people actually enjoy using? Learn how you can build appealing business applications using the Microsoft Dynamics CRM product and its application constructs, including the client-side compositing framework,
page layout, and forms. See how Dynamics CRM...
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SQL Server 2008: Developing Large Scale Web Applications and Services
As a developer of mission critical, large-scale web applications and services, do you worry about supporting large numbers of users with lightning fast response times, scaling to terabytes of data, designing multi-tenant services, as well as the cost of
building these applications? If you answered...
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Live Services: Mesh Services Architecture and Concepts
You've heard how Live Mesh combines the world of the web and the world of digital devices. But what does it mean for you? Take a look under the hood at how the mesh works on the client and in the massively scalable cloud, and learn insights about how to
light-up your own solutions for the mesh world....
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Live Services: Building Applications with the Live Framework
Learn how you can use the Live Framework within web (ASP.NET) and client (.NET Framework) applications to integrate with various Live Services. See how to get started, integrate exciting new capabilities into your app, and target unique new scenarios that
reach new users.
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Live Services: A Lap around the Live Framework and Mesh Services
Learn about the Live Framework, our latest offering for developers programming against our Live Services from any device, platform, runtime, or programming language. See new and future services (such as Mesh Services), protocols, APIs, and tools which
enable your web, service, or client applications...
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SQL Services : Under the Hood
Learn how we built SQL Server Data Services to address hard distributed systems and operations challenges. We describe how we solved problems like failure detection, leader election, and automatic failover using a new innovation called Distributed Data
Fabric. We go deep and elaborate on the changes...
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Architecture of the .NET Services
Dive into the architecture that links many of the Microsoft .NET services and lets ISVs and businesses deliver compelling solutions. Learn how to compose these services with SQL Services to create applications in the cloud and connect them with on-premises
systems. In this session we cover the next...
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A Lap Around the Azure Services Platform
Learn about the Azure services that enable developers to easily create or extend their applications and services. From consumer-targeted applications and social networking web sites to enterprise class applications and services, these services make it
easy for you to give your applications and services...