Lunch Session

The next generation conferencing team discusses why the cloud computing platform was selected for a next-generation, high-scale conferencing service that requires high performance and reliability and the ability to automatically adjust scale. The team shares learnings from the prototyping phase…

Learn how we built a multi-enterprise supply chain application using the cloud services platform. Today, most organizations are deeply interconnected, and business applications span multiple enterprises. See how we built an application that satisfies requirements around connectivity, identity,…

Learn how CRM has designed and architected a single code-base to target a cloud-based and on-premises offering. The architect of Microsoft Dynamics CRM will describe how they look at using cloud services, the management and development patterns they use when moving an application to the cloud.…

Do you want to understand how to model and orchestrate business process in your application? Learn how Microsoft Dynamics AX is using .NET 4.0, specifically focusing on illustrating how to use Windows Workflow Foundation to drive process execution and the intuitive new Flow Chart modeling style…

Senior architects from Accenture, Epicor and Infosys, who have been using Microsoft's cloud platform for the last while, walk through the applications they've built on the platform, the architectures they've used and the lessons they've learned on what works and what doesn't. Get a real world…

Learn how to use the Authority-Container-Entity (ACE) concepts to build large scale, high-throughput applications using SQL Services and other cloud-based services. David Robinson David Robinson is a Senior Program Manager on the SQL Server Data Services (SSDS) team. David is responsible for a…

Clicks are the single cell organism of the digital advertising world. See how a click moves through the advertising ecosystem covering all the basic components, including delivery engines, billing systems, reporting systems, data pipelines, and fraud detection systems. Robert Devine Robert…

What's it like building an application that uses feeds and synchronization? The Live Services resource and synchronization model offers a lot of flexibility to developers and a different approach to development from typical database or SQL replication. I built one of the first Mesh applications at…

Learn what application developers and DBAs should consider to help secure data. Topics discussed include authentication, authorization, execution contexts, and encryption with focus given to the new security features introduced in SQL Server 2008. Il-Sung Lee Il-Sung Lee is a Program Manager…

The combination of FAST ESP and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 allows for the development of powerful search-driven portals. Learn about the architecture and functionality of FAST ESP, and see how FAST ESP can complement and extend existing search features in MOSS 2007. Watch a…