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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Enabling Single Sign-On to Windows Azure Applications
Learn how the Windows Identity Foundation, Active Directory Federation Services 2.0, and the claims-based architecture can be used to provide a uniform programming model for identity and single sign-on across applications running on-premises and in Windows Azure.
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Rx: Reactive Extensions for .NET
Hear how to model reactive applications using push-based, observable collections, and how to glue together complex event processing and asynchronous programs using declarative LINQ queries. Learn how Rx is part of the Business Platform Division and Live Labs "Cloud Programmability" project that aims...
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Networking and Web Services in Silverlight
This session presents an overview of how to expose data to a Silverlight application by accessing web services in the enterprise. We will cover a spectrum of options spanning from the client HTTP stack to WCF to WCF Data Services. We will first show off the functionality of the new client HTTP stack...
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The State of Parallel Programming
Parallel programming has been more difficult than it needs to be, perhaps because its tools have been treated as an “add-on” to serial programming. The objectives of composability and productivity demand something better. Come hear a relatively recent consensus view about what is needed for productive...
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REST Services Security Using the Access Control Service
Come hear how easy it is to secure REST Web services with the Access Control Service (ACS). Learn about ACS fundamentals including how to request and process tokens, how to configure ACS, and how to use ACS to integrate your REST Web service with Active Directory Federation Services. Also see how to...
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Windows Azure Blob and Drive Deep Dive
Learn about the new features in Windows Azure for storing and manipulating blobs and files in the cloud, as well as tips, tricks, and performance guidelines for using blobs.
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Scaling Your Data Tier with Windows Server AppFabric
The distributed in-memory caching capabilities of Windows Server AppFabric (formerly code name “Velocity”) will change how you think about scaling your Microsoft .NET-connected applications. Come learn how the distributed nature of the “Velocity” cache allows large amounts of data to be stored in-memory...
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Petabytes for Peanuts! Making Sense out of “Ambient” Data.
Today, the key to success with data is no longer about who can afford to acquire, store and process data effectively. That’s the cheap and easy part. The challenge now is to develop ways to better use data than your competition so you can make sense of all the data you have. Learn how algorithmic processing,...