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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A Lap Around Microsoft Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2010
Come learn how Visual Studio advances developer productivity with new tools for application debugging, and designers for key technologies such as Sharepoint. See how the new modeling tools allow you to explore application structure while validating that implemented code conforms with architectural design....
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Introduction to Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 StreamInsight
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 includes an exciting new platform called StreamInsight for building rich data processing over real-time event streams. This technology is ideal for applications that need to process high volumes of event stream data with no latency. Learn the basics of how to build a StreamInsight...
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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...
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Axum: A .NET Language for Safe and Scalable Concurrency
Axum is an incubation project from Microsoft's Parallel Computing Platform that aims to validate a safe and productive parallel programming model for the .NET framework. It's a language that builds on the principles of isolation, agents, and message-passing to increase application safety, responsiveness,...
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Microsoft Visual Studio Lab Management to the Build Setup Rescue
Hear how Visual Studio Lab Management extends Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server to give you a seamless build, deploy and test workflow. Learn how every build can be automatically deployed into a virtualized multi-machine test environment and every test environment can be made available...
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Oslo Modeling and DSL
"Oslo provides capabilities for modeling data using “M”, but in addition using the DSL tools available to us with MGrammar should provide a good framework for modeling behaviors and business rules in our applications. Have you tried using Oslo to model behaviors or other aspects beyond modeling data?...
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Developing Applications for Scale-Up Servers Running Windows Server 2008 R2
Take a deep dive into Windows 2008 R2 features including enhanced support of Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) computer architectures, along with User Mode Scheduling (UMS) and support for up to 256 logical processors (LPs). Learn how UMS enables custom thread-level scheduling within your own application....
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Automating the Application Lifecycle with Windows Azure
Come learn how to use Windows Azure to automate the deployment of your application, scale your application automatically based on usage, and stage your application in multiple environments. Also learn how to use Windows Azure to automate the entire application lifecycle.
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Windows Presentation Foundation 4 Plumbing and Internals
Come get the inside scoop on how Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) powers all its rich services – like layout, databinding, and animation. There is a lot of heavy lifting done for you under the hood; in this session, we crack open these system components, including the trees (visual, logical, and...