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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SharePoint in the Cloud: Developing Solutions for SharePoint Online
With the most recent release of SharePoint comes the ability to build and deploy applications of many types and flavors. Using SharePoint Server 2010, you can develop a wide variety of applications for the enterprise using .NET, Silverlight, JavaScript, and much more. But with the release of SharePoint...
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Taking High Performance Computing to the Cloud - Windows HPC and Azure
Scale-out or conveniently parallel HPC applications are well suited to running in Windows Azure. Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 SP1 provides a gateway for running existing HPC applications seamlessly on Azure. Learn how to develop Windows HPC Cluster SOA WCF-based applications, parametric sweep and MPI...
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Programming Languages Panel
Come hear from the top of the line language designers and personalities together for a thought provoking and fun panel discussion. This year, we are very excited to present a panel of experts including C# founder Ander Hejlsberg, Newspeak creator and computational theologian Gilad Bracha, C++ language...
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Lessons Learned from Moving Team Foundation Server (TFS) to the Cloud
Team Foundation Server is a multi-tier client/server application that Microsoft is currently porting onto the Azure platform. In this session, the Team Foundation Server team will debrief on the engineering and architectural evolution that is making this shift possible, including moving from Windows...
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Windows Workflow Foundation Futures
Learn about the key investments we’re making in Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). See the WF improvements we’re working on for workflow authoring, hosting and management. Learn how we’re bringing WF to the cloud, and how WF and Windows Azure AppFabric will provide a great middle-tier platform for building,...
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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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Introduction to Windows Azure AppFabric Caching
This session will cover the concepts, scenarios and features of AppFabric Cache. Learn how AppFabric Caching can help you build high-performance & scalable web applications while lowering your total costs by reducing the pressure on the data-tier. In this session, we’ll discuss design patterns to show...
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Introduction to Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket
Windows Azure DataMarket makes it easy for developers to consume data from a variety of trusted providers. Whether you need location-based services for your next mobile app or demographics data for large-scale data processing, DataMarket makes it easy to build apps with data. Additionally, if you have...
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Inside Windows Azure Virtual Machines
Windows Azure is a cloud services operating system that provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage web applications on the internet through Microsoft datacenters. In this talk, we will dive deeper into the resources that are available within an Azure Compute instance...