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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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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Is Open Source Old News?
Microsoft’s stance on open source has shifted dramatically. Not only is Microsoft releasing an ever-growing stable of open source projects (including the DLR, MEF, and MVC), they’re even contributing back to the Linux kernel. Has the open source movement has moved beyond controversy? In this BOF,...
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BOF @Lunch: Fear and Loathing in IT Security
Wherever we look we find security threats that are made out to be the end of the world as we know it. The problem is that there is a lot of wolf-crying going on in this space.
Is this part of your job description or responsibilities?
How do you assess what threats are real?
How have security threats,...
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Windows Azure Tables and Queues Deep Dive
Windows Azure Tables provide the ability to store structured, non-relational entities in the highly scalable Windows Azure Storage service. Come to this session to learn about the new features for Windows Azure Tables and Queues as well as tips, tricks, and performance guidance.
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Extending Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.x
Hear how the Microsoft Web platform fosters a powerful development ecosystem for Web applications you can plug into. Learn to extend an existing Web application with new capabilities that show off the powerful extensibility IIS 7.x provides, and how to leverage extensions the IIS team ships to improve...
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Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 2: The New Stuff
Come learn about the new features being introduced with ASP.NET MVC 2. Templated helpers allow associating edit and display elements with data types automatically. Areas provide a means of dividing a large Web application into multiple projects. Data annotations allows attaching metadata attributes on...
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Microsoft Application Server Technologies: Present and Future
Hear how Microsoft is evolving its application server technologies to address the challenges of building, deploying, and managing composite applications in Windows Server and Windows Azure. See how .NET-connected applications built on Microsoft ASP.NET, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), and Windows...