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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Better Code Through Smart Assertions and Unit Tests
Learn how to write better code and unit tests by using Code Contracts, Pex and Moles. Code Contracts provide a set of tools for design-by-contract programming. Pex is an advanced unit-testing tool that uses automated program exploration to intelligently create unit tests with high code coverage. Moles...
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ASP.NET + Packaging + Open Source = Crazy Delicious
Lots of great open source software is available, but it’s hard to figure out the best choice, get it, set it up, run it and update it. Visual Studio 2010 just came out but now we’ve got ASP.NET MVC 3, Razor, EF Magic Unicorn, SQL Compact Edition, HTML 5 and lots more coming at us fast. How can I easily...
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Lambdas, Lambdas Everywhere
Why care about C++0x lambda functions? Syntactically, they are nothing but sugar for function objects. However, they are an essential and enabling sugar that will change the way we will write C++ code more often than most people realize. This talk will cover what lambda functions are and how to use...
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Building Scale-Out Database Solutions on SQL Azure
SQL Azure provides an information platform that you can easily provision, configure, and use to power your cloud applications. In this session we will explore the patterns and practices that help you develop and deploy applications that can exploit the full power of the elastic, highly available, and...
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Building High Performance Web Applications with the Windows Azure Platform
Windows Azure Platform enables developers to build dynamically scalable web applications easily. Come and learn how new application services like AppFabric Caching in conjunction with services like the Windows Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) can help you build high-performance web applications in...
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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 F#: Data and Services at your Finger Tips
Programming today exhibits a voracious appetite for information, and one of the most important trends in languages today is to make access to data and services fluent and seamless. Come and see the latest from the F# team, and learn how we are extending F# to embed the analytical programmer instantly...
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Taking Advantage of Pinned Sites with Internet Explorer 9 and Windows 7
Internet Explorer 9 allows developers to more tightly integrate their websites with the Windows 7 task bar and start menu. With Pinned Sites, you can add a website to the start menu, define Jump List tasks, create custom Jump List items, provide visual notifications on the task bar with icon overlays...