The Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is the definitive event focused on the technical strategy of the Microsoft developer platform. Attendees come from around the world to learn about the future of Microsoft developer technology directly from the people who make it happen. If you’re a developer, architect or technology leader involved in making strategic technology decisions, the PDC is for you.
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Day 1 Keynote
Watch Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect, and Bob Muglia, President of the Server and Tools Business, in their day 1 keynote at the 2009 Professional Developers Conference where they describe Microsoft’s three screens and a cloud strategy.
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Day 2 Keynote
Watch the day 2 keynote at the 2009 Professional Developers Conference with Steven Sinofsky, Scott Guthrie and Kurt DelBene.
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Microsoft Silverlight 3: Advanced Performance and Profiling Techniques
Learn how to leverage the Silverlight stack to optimize your managed code with a focus on the common bottlenecks in writing large Silverlight applications and complex data controls. Also learn how to profile your application, and how to use the results to optimize startup and reaction time.
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Silverlight Development Tools – Picking the Right Ones
The list of tools for Silverlight is bewildering: Prism, MVVM, RIA Services, ADO.NET Data Services, MEF, Reactive Framework and the list goes on. What are the core tools for being successful? Let’s get together and talk about how to select the right tools for the right job. Perhaps more importantly,...
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Embodiment: The Third Great Wave of Computing Applications
Come hear about the next major wave of computing applications from Butler Lampson, a recognized leader in modern networking, and alumnus of Berkeley, Xerox PARC, and Digital’s Systems Research Center. Learn how computing applications evolved beginning with simulation, then communication, and how we're...
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Infer.NET: Building Software with Intelligence
Would you like to write software that can adapt to the user, learn from examples or work with uncertain information? Infer.NET is a machine learning framework that lets you build these capabilities directly into your .NET application. The framework allows you to combine detailed domain knowledge with...
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Building Hybrid Cloud Applications with Windows Azure and the Service Bus
Explore patterns, practices, and insights gained from our early adopter programs for how to use the Service Bus to move applications into the cloud or distribute applications across sites while retaining the ability to efficiently communicate between them. Also learn how to disentangle cross-application...
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Lighting up Windows Server 2008 R2 Using the ConcRT on UMS
See examples of how to use C++ and the new Concurrency Runtime (ConcRT) to take advantage of new technologies on Windows Server 2008 R2, such as the ability to scale beyond 64 cores and User-Mode Scheduling (UMS) of threads. Learn to write code that scales even in the face of complicated processor architectures,...
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Web Deployment Painkillers: Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 & MS Deploy
Learn about next generation of ASP.NET Web Deployment with tips & guidance on how you can reuse and extend the technologies available with VS 2010 to build a hassle free web deployment solution for your team. See how to use VS 2010 and MS Deploy to assist with with creating virtual directories in an...
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PLINQ: LINQ, but Faster!
Multi-core processors are everywhere! Parallel Language Integrated Query (PLINQ) in the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 offers a minimal-code solution to take advantage of this parallel hardware, providing an implementation of the .NET Standard Query Operators that uses parallel execution techniques underneath...
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Optimizing for Performance with the Windows Performance Toolkit
The Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT) is constantly used by the Windows team to build an optimized Windows OS. Come and see how the Windows Performance team used the WPT throughout the Windows 7 development cycle to optimize for customer scenarios and how you can leverage many of its features and capabilities...