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With Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft has entered the league of HTML 5 browsers and with its active participation in the W3C working groups, the company proves its engagements towards the new and emerging standards. Developers however are often left wondering where the boundaries are drawn between…

The next major release of the .NET Framework, .NET 4.5, allows you to easily use Windows 8 technologies, like Windows Runtime, directly from .NET 4.5. Accessing your data is easier than ever with support for the newest features in SQL Server and support for WebSockets. Programs are more responsive,…

In this half a day event Ken Casada presented two new entries within the Microsoft's Web Stack space: WebMatrix, a small, simple and best of all free tool for building web sites; and Orchard, a free Open Source CMS being developed by Microsoft that uses ASP.NET MVC. In the first part of…

Using plenty of live demos, we will present you two new members of the Microsoft Web Stack family: WebMatrix and Orchard. WebMatrix is a brand new web development tool from Microsoft that includes everything you need in order to create, customize and publish Websites in easy and fast way. You can…

Part two of the "MSDN TechTalk: Introducing Internet Explorer 9 and HTML 5" by Sascha Corti focuses on HTML5. See what HTML 5 has to offer, how Microsoft supports and contributes to these standards and learn how to fully leverage Internet Explorer 9 as a web developer. Using many…

This session focuses the best way to use Visual Studio 2010 to develop Windows Azure applications. You‘ll learn tips, tricks and solutions to common problems when creating or moving an existing application to run on Windows Azure. Speaker: Wade Wegner Presentation (PPTX)

The keynote of the Developer Day of TechDays 11 Bern shows you a preview of Visual Studio 11. This session provides a walkthrough of Visual Studio 11 and Team Foundation Server 11. Speaker: Neno Loje Presentation (PPTX)  

Just a year after Windows Phone 7 was released to the market, Microsoft is updating the already widely popular platform to a new release called "Mango", which adds a lot of highly anticipated features, especially for developers. This session will introduce you to what's new in the Mango…

During this keynote, we will be launching the You Make IT Smart competition and we will give you the means to take part to it. Don't miss this opportunity to win fantastic Windows Phone devices, not yet on the market! Speaker: Ken CasadaPresentation (PPTX)

The Entity Framework is Microsoft's recommended data access technology, for both on-premises and the cloud. This session will show you how to leverage the best of Entity Framework to build robust, real-world applications running in the Cloud, or on-premise. It will cover common application patterns…