MSDN Switzerland

(A short version with all the highlights is here available.) Windows 8 metro-style apps are a huge new opportunity for all developers. Learn about the core components of the Windows 8 platform specifically provided for metro-style games and how you can assemble them into your ideal game experience.…

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…

Come see what’s coming in the next version of C# and Visual Basic. The major new feature is “Async”, which makes for much simpler code whenever you’re writing database or internet-connected apps – both in client apps that need responsive UIs, and server apps that need to be responsive. We have…

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 discusses the new "OData" standard, a "RESTful" way to share data and and make it accessible from nearly any platform. You learn how to build your own OData service in .NET using "WCF Data Services" and how to access the data from differnt types of…

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…

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,…

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)  

Silverlight 5 adds significant new features and capabilities, and enables developers to create premium media experiences and deliver rich applications across browsers, desktops and devices. Silverlight 5 offers enhanced data binding, text management, vector printing, 3D api, p/invoke support,…

In this session we will dig deeper on some of the new features and capabilities of Silverlight 5. Speaker: Ronnie Saurenmann Presentation (PPTX) Demos (ZIP)