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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ASP.NET MVC 2: Ninjas Still on Fire Black Belt Tips
Having the customer on your back to deliver features on time and under budget with tight deadlines can make you feel like you’re being chased by ninjas on fire. Join Scott Hanselman and he’ll walk through lots of tips and tricks to get the most out of the ASP.NET MVC 2 framework and deliver work quickly...
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Making Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Fly
Hear best practices for getting the fastest query processing for general-purpose applications, including logical and physical database design, statistics management, query design, query tuning, problems areas to avoid, and more. Learn which query constructs cause the query optimizer to rely on guesses...
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Coming Together in the Cloud
Come hear how NASA, Oxford University, Arizona State University and Microsoft worked together to create "MapAWorld," a citizen science focused crowd-sourcing experience used to map the surface of the Red Planet. Hear from the team on: moving to the cloud, migrating from other cloud platforms, and how...
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Mastering WPF Graphics and Beyond
Learn how to take advantage of the latest graphics features in WPF to build polished, responsive applications. See examples of how to boost the visual sharpness of your applications, how to take full advantage of new layout rounding capabilities, how to make everything from transitions to huge element...
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Future of Garbage Collection
Come learn about future directions in garbage collection with the creator of the Microsoft .NET CLR Garbage Collector (GC). The GC is the managed in “managed code”, and Microsoft continues to innovate and extend the capabilities of general purpose object lifetime management in the .NET virtual machine....
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Media Foundation: Supporting Hardware Codecs and Cameras
Hear how Windows 7 adds support in native code for accelerating media transcoding and specific playback experiences through the new asynchronous Media Foundation transform (MFT) model. Learn how to write and use accelerated MFTs, and how to license for preference in Windows Media Player and portable...
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Code Like the Wind with Microsoft Visual Basic 2010
Visual Basic 2010 introduces a number of new language enhancements, including statement lambdas, auto-implemented properties, line continuation removal, and more. Come hear how to use these new features, along with existing favorites like XML literals and LINQ, to pull off some simple, yet powerful,...
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Microsoft Project Code Name “M”: The Data and Modeling Language
Come review how to use “M” to build a DSL and author data schema, then hear how we're going to make “M” more relevant to you, the Microsoft .NET developer. Explore the future of “M” where DSL, schema, and lots of other great ideas come together as a single Web-centric data processing language.