The Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is the definitive developer event focused on the technical strategy of the Microsoft developer platform. Attendees come from around the world to learn about the Microsoft developer platform directly from the people who make it happen.
The PDC is for developers, architects and technology leaders who are involved in making strategic technology decisions for their company or organization.
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The Future of C# and Visual Basic
Come hear technical fellow Anders Hejlsberg describe the roadmap for C# and Visual Basic in vNext and beyond. See how these languages are evolving to address developer needs, and get an update on projects underway.
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LINQ, Take Two – Realizing the LINQ to Everything Dream
At PDC a few years back, we introduced LINQ to solve the impedance mismatch between various data models by means of integrated query syntax in mainstream programming languages. Today, we’re seeing a rich ecosystem around LINQ providers that allow developers to reach out to many more data models. However,...
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Building, Deploying, and Managing Windows Azure Applications
In order to take full advantage of Windows Azure and SQL Azure, you need to know more than just how to write the code. You need to know how to incorporate your application in a team environment, deploy, monitor, manage and retrieve diagnostic information back from the cloud. In this session, you will...
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Building Windows Phone 7 applications with the Windows Azure Platform
Learn how to build Windows Phone 7 applications that are backed by scalable cloud components hosted in Windows Azure. This demo-heavy session will cover best practices relating to communication, authentication, and data synchronization between phone applications and cloud components.
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Migrating and Building Apps for Windows Azure with VM Role and Admin Mode
Learn how to run your existing applications on Windows Azure using two new and highly requested features: VM Role and Admin Mode. We’ll demonstrate best practices for building and uploading customized OS images, deploying and managing services using those images, and automating configuration using Admin...
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Mysteries of Windows Memory Management Revealed, Part 1 of 2
If you want to know the difference between System Committed memory and Process Committed memory, wondered what all those memory numbers shown by Task Manager really mean, or want to gain insight into the memory-related impact of a process, then this talk is for you. Using various memory analysis tools...
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Code First Development with Entity Framework
The Entity Framework (EF) is making it easier than ever to build data-centric applications as quickly as possible. A key piece to this is Code First, an upcoming EF capability that enables a code-centric experience for interacting with models and databases. This session will preview several new and future...
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Creating Custom OData Services: Inside Some of The Top OData Services
What does it take to build a real-world OData (Open Data Protocol) service that’s secure, scalable and works great with all clients across the Web? Come to hear all the details on how some of the most popular OData services are built. We will discuss how WCF Data Services is used in typical and not-so-typical...