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Learn about the internal service management system and virtualization technologies responsible for monitoring, configuring, and lifecycle management of the cloud computing environment. Hear about the mechanisms used to deliver self-healing, dynamic scaling, and auto-deploying cloud computing data…

This session presents a detailed look at how services are programmed in the cloud, including the differences between the cloud hosting stack and a typical IIS7/ASP.NET hosting stack. Daniel Wang Stefan Schackow Stefan works as a program manager on the ASP.NET team. He covers a number of…

Learn about the Concurrency Analysis Platform (CAP) from Microsoft Research and how it enables various concurrency bug-finding tools. See a demo of CHESS, a tool built on CAP for finding and reproducing Heisenbugs. Also hear about future tools from Microsoft Research, including a lightweight…

Hear about the lowest level user interface components (user32, comctl32) that appear in almost every Windows application. Learn about "recent" changes and enhancements in these subsystems, plus be subjected to some philosophical musings on how foreground activation is like love. (No…

Inefficient background activity has a dramatic impact on system performance, power consumption, responsiveness, and memory footprint. This session demonstrates best practices for background process design and dives deep on the capabilities of the Service Control Manager (SCM) and Task Scheduler.…

Direct2D and DirectWrite are latest additions to the DirectX family of APIs. Learn how you can enhance your application experience with resolution independent, high-performance vector graphics using Direct2D. Use ClearType and OpenType font technologies to layout beautiful text with advanced…

Learn how to use the latest version of Direct3D to unlock the rendering and computing power of the GPU and to target the wide variety of hardware used by your customers. Learn techniques for integrating this high-performance 3D graphics pipeline within your Win32 applications. Allison…

This session shows you how the next version of the Microsoft Sync Framework makes it easier to synchronize distributed copies of data across desktops, devices, services, or anywhere else they may be stored. Lev Novik

Learn how the next version of ASP.NET extends caching with an API that enables developers to plug-in custom cache implementations. Stefan Schackow Stefan works as a program manager on the ASP.NET team. He covers a number of areas in the ASP.NET core runtime, as well as having worked recently…

Hear about the end-to-end architecture that was developed for the 2008 Olympic Games online video broadcast experience. Learn about the capture/encoding process from Beijing, back haul to USA, massively cached CDN delivery, adaptive streaming, and Microsoft Silverlight UI development. Learn how to…