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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Spice Up Your Applications with Windows Workflow Foundation 4
Discover how your applications can achieve a new degree of flexibility, transparency, and end-user control with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). Expose tailored, productive authoring experiences for your users to define business and application logic with new capabilities in WF 4, including simplified...
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Using Dynamic Languages to Build Scriptable Applications
The Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) brings the power of dynamic languages to .NET. It provides the plumbing for IronPython and IronRuby, a shared lanaguage hosting API, and also enables interoperability with static languages like C# and Visual Basic. Come hear how you can leverage these technologies...
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Developing Microsoft BI Applications - The How and The Why
Microsoft offers an extensive set of platform capabilities for building applications that provide actionable business insight. This category of applications is known as “Business Intelligence” and has been the domain of niche experts for quite some time. Microsoft Business Intelligence offers a highly...
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SQL Azure Database: Present and Future
Learn how SQL Azure has evolved and what new capabilities are planned for upcoming versions. Hear about future RDBMS capabilities in the Cloud and the integration of SQL Azure with other services.
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Exception Management – Handling and Reporting Exceptions Effectively
There are many ways to handle exceptions in .NET. What do you do to ensure that exception information is not lost? How do you report exceptions to your end-user and to your system administrator? This BOF will examine various techniques for good exception management such as publishing exceptions and data-driven...
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The "Audience API": Live Framework Present and Future
Learn about the Live Framework, our latest offering for developers programming against our Live Services from any device, platform, runtime, or programming language. Learn about Live Services protocols, APIs, and tools which enable your web, service, or client applications to access, store, and synchronize...
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Scaling out Web Applications with Microsoft SQL Azure Databases
Microsoft SQL Azure and the Windows Azure Platform provide all the necessary building blocks to develop and host rich Internet applications that can service an Internet-scale user population while storing nearly limitless amounts of data. Come learn how to build such applications and see firsthand the...