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REST, it’s more than data | Glenn Block

Today it's very common to simply throw some data over the wire and call it REST. But REST as Roy Fielding described it is much, much more. Come to this session and we’ll explore the tenants of a RESTful system. We’ll start with looking at traditional web services,...

Update:  Version 1.2 is now available for download on Codeplex

The Instant Feature Builder is a personal project I built to see if I could make a drag/drop experience for Visual Studio that built simple (non-modeling/non-menu-exposing) Feature Extensions that would run on VS Pro (and above)...

Patterns of Healthy Teams using Visual Studio and TFS | David Starr

Many teams working with Microsoft technologies are moving to Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio ALM. Most are not using the platform to its full potential. This session shows how some teams are using Visual Studio ALM tools to...

The Next Generation of Automated Guidance | Michael Lehman

The Visual Studio Ultimate team recently released the Feature Builder Power Tool for Visual Studio 2010. Feature Builder provides an easy-to-use authoring environment for building Visual Studio Extensions (VSIXs) which combine tools, code and...

Visual Studio 2010 Keynote by Jason Zander

Design With Data | Ward Bell

Forms-over-data are the bread-and-butter of business applications. Someone has to write those forms and that someone is probably you. You know you suck at it … but could you suck less? Or put in economic terms, could you produce better results that are easier to maintain...

Prism v4 Navigation in a Line of Business Application | Karl Shifflett

Prism v4 includes new guidance and content on Model-View-ViewModel and application navigation. This in-depth, "how to" session will cover leveraging and extending the Prism v4 Navigation API's to create a cloud/Intranet...

jQuery: The way JavaScript should be | Damian Edwards

Hate the thought of writing JavaScript? Get frustrated by cross-browser DOM quirks? Ever wondered how those spiffy sites do that animation without Flash or Silverlight? Think that JavaScript isn't a real programming language? Well come and see how...

Designing Applications for Scale - Leveraging the Windows Azure Platform | Scott Densmore and Bob Brumfield

The cloud offers unique opportunities that were once available only for big companies: geo-distributed datacenters, virtually infinite amount of resources and elastic resource provisioning. How...

Model-View-ViewModel Pattern Primer | Karl Shifflett

The Model-View-ViewModel (M-V-VM) UI design pattern is a very natural fit for the Microsoft XAML platforms (WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7) and is one of the most written and talked about topics in this space. This session will explain what M-V-VM...