Immerse yourself in hundreds of IT learning opportunities. Explore a broad set of current and upcoming Microsoft technologies, tools, platforms and services. Plus, see how other organisations have addressed key challenges and created new opportunities using existing platforms and tools.
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ASP.NET MVC: Building for the web (and even mobile) with ASP.NET MVC
In this session, ASP.NET MVP Damian Edwards will demonstrate why ASP.NET MVC is a great platform upon which to build modern web experiences. Learn how to create optimised interfaces for different devices from a common code base and how ASP.NET MVC can help you to meet the challenges of building for the...
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Building Business Applications In Silverlight
Is Silverlight ready as a platform for business applications? What can I as a developer do in Silverlight, and where will I face problems? How do I implement the features I need for my application in Silverlight? Why should I use Silverlight when building my business applications? These questions...
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Your Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit
Hook your website instantly into a social graph of over 400 million users with Windows Live Messenger Web Toolkit. In this session Vaughan Knight will discuss how to get started with the Live Messenger UI controls, and then dive in deep with the Windows Live Messenger API. Come away from this session...
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Modular User Interfaces: Easier than Ever
WPF & Silverlight, the new cool neighbours you always wanted to have. Yet you're still scared to introduce yourself. Well in this session Omar Besiso will not only introduce to the beautiful world of simple WPF, but will also show you using the WPF composite framework & the Model-View-ViewModel pattern...
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An Overview of the Azure Services Platform
Cloud computing looks like the biggest change to hit our industry in many years. One important aspect of this change is the rise of platforms that let developers create applications for the cloud. This session takes a broad look at the Azure Services Platform, Microsoft's entry in this area. The topics...
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ASP.NET MVC vs ASP.NET Webforms - will webforms be replaced by MVC?
ASP.NET MVC is currently the technology flavour of the season. ASP.NET webforms has been a dominant development platform for a long time but MVC is receiving a lot of focus and is the choice of architetecural purists. Does this signal the demise of ASP.NET webforms? Should we be choosing MVC for all...
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Building Fast, Public Websites
Building public websites can be hard at the best of times. Making them fast can be even harder. What makes a website faster? What makes it appear faster to users? How can you leverage features of ASP.NET to get the best experience for your users? Tune in to hear two ASP.NET MVPs share some of the problems...
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Building Fast, Standards Compliant ASP.NET sites
In this demo-packed session, Damian Edwards (MVP) and Tatham Oddie (MVP) will share their experiences from building Australia's largest e-commerce site with ASP.NET Web Forms. They'll show you how to be a good web citizen by covering standards compliance (properly!), cross browser and accessibility considerations,...
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Bing your data to life, the Virtual Earth Silverlight control
Bing Maps (formerly Virtual Earth) provides a slick and powerful data visualisation engine for your spatial information. Join John O'Brien for a look at how the core control can be combined with other Silverlight components including DeepEarth and Photosynth to produce a rich and engaging interface....