DevDays 2010 NL

This talk looks at the next version of ASP.NET Ajax (4.0) and how it improves your client-side development experience. Specifically, it will cover the new client-side template and data binding model, declarative control instantiation, the new DataView control, markup extensions, and bindings. …

Where are programming languages going today and in the future? In this talk Anders shares his views of the trends that influence programming languages in general and C# in specific. This keynotes session is presented by Anders Hejlsberg during Microsoft DevDays 2010 in The Hague in…

The C# language and the .NET platform introduced many new features to support language integrated query. In this session, we’ll look at using these LINQ related features to build rich, intention revealing logic. We’ll dive into the magic of expression trees and use them to implement type-safe…

As REST continues to grow in popularity, it’s important to stop and ask yourself why REST? REST is by no means a silver bullet but it does offer some advantages over traditional SOAP and WS-* architectures when it fits well into your scenario. There are also times when SOAP makes more sense…

Extensibility is a key design point for many applications such as the Microsoft Office applications with their plug-in model for extensibility. Silverlight 4 ships with a new framework, the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF), which provides a flexible way of building extensibility into your…

Silverlight 4 has truly changed the game for business applications. In this session, Ingo shows you how you - as a developer of desktop business applications - can combine Silverlight with WCF RIA (Rich Internet Application) services to allow easy access to your data and business logic. You will…

Learn about new features in WCF4, such as configuration-less services, service discovery, routing, REST-support, declarative services and others. This session will discuss this out-of-the-box functionality and dive into the details about building Silverlight Applications. Silverlight will be used…

If you are new to Windows Phone, or Game Development then this session is for you. Find out what hardware and software you will need to get started, and what the game development options are for this exciting new platform. Learn how to get the drop on the competition and be first in the Windows…

So you think you know the VB language? Come put your expertise to the test with this unique set of brainteasers and corner cases, from the unexpected to the downright mysterious…Lucian is the Spec Lead for Microsoft Visual Basic in Redmond, USA. Before that he was a post-doc at the University…

This sessions covers how to leverage the latest WCF Data Services in .NET 4.0 to build a hosted and distributed data services which integrate a heterogeneous set of data sources. The content of this session is derived from a real world incubation project which is built on top of WCF data…