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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Test Automation Everywhere
The MVC pattern in ASP.NET applications is a popular agile development pattern, thanks to a clean separation of concerns between the models, views and controllers within an application. To test each of the components of an MVC app however, you need to perform different kinds of testing: unit testing...
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Making Continuous Delivery a Reality from Product Backlog to Virtual Lab
Continuous integration is at the hub of most agile teams, but today it only extends to the compilation of source code and running of unit tests. See the end to end experiences of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate that enable a continuous delivery of high quality bits from development to test and production....
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WebMatrix: The Web Reloaded
Microsoft WebMatrix is a free tool that simplifies building, customizing and publishing websites and web applications. In this session, we’ll take a tour of what is possible with WebMatrix, including how to easily build and customize web applications based on open source applications like WordPress,...
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Building Engaging Apps with Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket
With the upcoming commercial release of Windows Azure DataMarket, learn about the new premium and public domain data available to power your consumer and business apps on any platform or device. A consistent REST-based API and flexible pricing make consuming data easy. In this session, we will develop...
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Inside the Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket
The new Windows Azure DataMarket service was built on the rest of the Windows Azure Platform, leveraging compute, storage, and security components. Find out about how the DataMarket service was architected and built and learn tips and tricks to make your next Windows Azure project a success. The discussion...
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Introduction to SQL Azure Data Sync
In this session we will show you how SQL Azure Data Sync enables on-premises SQL Server data to be easily shared with SQL Azure allowing you to extend your on-premises data to begin creating new cloud-based applications. Using SQL Azure Data sync’s bi-directional data synchronization support, changes...
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Introduction to SQL Azure Reporting
With the preview release of new SQL Azure Reporting capabilities, developers can now take advantage of familiar tools and development techniques to build reporting capabilities embedded within your Windows Azure Platform application. This new service delivers a set of processing components, tools, and...
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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...