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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Windows Azure Present and Future
Learn how Windows Azure has changed since its initial preview last year and what you can expect from Windows Azure in the future.
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Become a Web Debugging Virtuoso with Fiddler
Learn how teams around Microsoft and ISVs around the world use the Fiddler web debugging tool to find bugs, troubleshoot performance problems, and uncover security vulnerabilities in both client and server code. Explore the best add-ons for Fiddler, and build your own functionality using JavaScript and...
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Overview of SharePoint 2010 Programmability
See how SharePoint 2010 has undergone a major shift with the addition of many new programmability features. Learn about these exciting new capabilities of the SharePoint 2010 developer platform including ‘in-box’ features, services, APIs, and a powerful set of developer tools. Also explore the new Visual...
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Accelerating Applications Using Windows HPC Server 2008
Learn how to accelerate your applications by multiple orders of magnitude using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Microsoft Excel, and Windows HPC Server 2008. See how easy it is to offload the calculations from a desktop application to an HPC Server Cluster using the HPC SOA programming model,...
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Leveraging and Extending Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 Identity Features
Get an architectural and programmatic overview of Claims based Identity implemented in SharePoint 2010 including how identity is dealt with at Sign-in and for service calls both within SharePoint and to external systems. Also see how to build solutions that work on top of SharePoint and that can use...
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Building Java Applications with Windows Azure
Come learn how to build large-scale applications in the cloud using Java, taking advantage of new Windows Azure features. This session will cover using Apache Tomcat and Java in Windows Azure.
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Data-Intensive Computing on Windows HPC Server with the DryadLINQ Framework
Come get an overview of the DryadLINQ features and runtime environment, and walk through some real-world examples of DryadLINQ programs based on the familiar declarative syntax of LINQ combined with the fault-tolerant distributed graph scheduling of the Dryad runtime. Hear how DryadLINQ provides a programming...
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Microsoft ASP.NET 4 Core Runtime for Web Developers
Come find out how ASP.NET 4 runtime improvements make building ASP.NET applications faster, easier and better than ever. See how to better manage web server resources with improved resource monitoring, and hear about new features like application pool autostart. Learn how to scale web site application...
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Evolving ADO.NET Entity Framework in .NET 4 and Beyond
Come see how the ADO.NET Entity Framework enables new capabilities to leverage multiple development approaches, for example the use of code-first, model-first, and database-first. Hear how, regardless of the development approach, developers will benefit from the Entity Framework and the deep integration...