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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Under the Hood: Inside the Windows Azure Hosting Environment
Learn about the internal service management system and virtualization technologies responsible for monitoring, configuring, and lifecycle management of the cloud computing environment. Hear about the mechanisms used to deliver self-healing, dynamic scaling,
and auto-deploying cloud computing data centers.
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Windows Azure: Programming in the Cloud
This session presents a detailed look at how services are programmed in the cloud, including the differences between the cloud hosting stack and a typical IIS7/ASP.NET hosting stack.
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Behind the Scenes: How We Built a Multi-Enterprise Supply Chain Application
Learn how we built a multi-enterprise supply chain application using the cloud services platform. Today, most organizations are deeply interconnected, and business applications span multiple enterprises. See how we built an application that satisfies requirements
around connectivity, identity, orchestration,...
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Panel: The Future of Unit Testing
Unit testing means different things to different people. To Agile developers, it enables Test Driven Development. To researchers, it enables test generation from static and dynamic analysis. To others, it's a means to test protocols, APIs, and other functionality
below the presentation layer. Others...
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Improving Code Quality with Code Analysis
Learn 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,...
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Visual Studio Debugger Tips & Tricks
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 debugging...
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Framework Design Guidelines
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 framework...
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Windows Embedded "Quebec": Developing for Devices
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.
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Building High Performance JScript Applications
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...
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Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5
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...