pdc2008

The New COM API for Accessibility and Automation in Windows 7

System — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:45:36 GMT

The new COM API for UI Automation (UIA) is a significant advance over previous OS support for programmatic access to UI from native code. The Windows 7 UI Automation API also introduces new support for ARIA properties, virtualized controls, and customizable patterns. This presentation also shares key information about implementing accessibility for custom controls using the UI Automation Provider API. The demos and code samples are primary written in C++.

Michael Bernstein

Best practices for signing and verifying code on Windows 7

System — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:45:34 GMT

This is a web exclusive session which was not delivered at PDC2008, but provides complimentary content aligned with PDC. How does Windows use code signatures to enhance security? How do I sign my application to get the best user experience with features in Windows 7? How can my application's security benefit from verifying code signatures? This session will review key features in Windows 7 that leverages code signatures, such as signing for Internet Explorer, 64 bit kernel, User Account Control (UAC), and Software Restriction Policies (SRP). We will show you best practices and review common mistakes when signing code. We will also show you how to sign your application's product updates and verify signatures from with-in your application.

Ben Nick

Research in the 21st Century

System — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:44:44 GMT

One of the defining characteristics of the human spirit is its ability to aspire to a greater tomorrow. Whether it be good health, sustainable resources, improved living standards, or better education, human beings exhibit an inexhaustible capacity to imagine a brighter future-and to work to make such dreams real. At Microsoft Research, we share a commitment to making the world a better place. Our work is all about advancing the frontiers of knowledge, overcoming challenges, and getting to the solution of important problems. Microsoft Research is focused on developing new technologies that can improve all our lives and in cooperation with academia, governments and industry we are applying our results to make the world a better place.

Day Two Keynote - Chris Anderson and Don Box

System — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:44:43 GMT

Chris Anderson and Don Box take the microphone over in Keynote 3 and explore Microsoft's latest technologies through the eyes of working developers.

Day Two Keynote - Ray Ozzie, Steven Sinofsky, Scott Guthrie and David Treadwell

System — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:44:41 GMT

Microsoft Executives Steven Sinofsky, Julie Larson Green, David Treadwell, Scott Guthrie and Takeshi Numoto provide insights to Windows 7, Office 14 for the Web, Web and Windows Development with Visual Studio and .NET and building rich social applications with Live Services in this keynote at PDC2008.

Day One Keynote - Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson

System — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:42:50 GMT

Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie introduces Windows Azure and Azure Services Platform during the PDC2008 opening keynote. Explore how Microsoft is transforming Microsoft's offerings across the board with announcements from Amitabh Srivastava, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft with responsibility for major components of the company's next-generation services platform; Senior Vice President of the Server and Tools Business Bob Muglia, Corporate Vice president of Microsoft Online David Thompson.

Panel: The Future of Unit Testing

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:39:31 GMT

Unit testing means different things to different people. To Agile developers, it enables Test Driven Development. To researchers, it enables test generation from static and dynamic analysis. To others, it's a means to test protocols, APIs, and other functionality below the presentation layer. Others still see it as a means to do conformance testing. Hear four experts debate the perspectives on the advances of the last decade and the trends of the next. Audience participation is encouraged.

Jim Newkirk
Nikolai Tillmann
Nikolai Tillmann has been with Microsoft Research for 6 years. He is currently leading the Pex project, building an automated test case generation tool for .NET based program analysis. Previously, he worked on Spec Explorer, a model-based testing tool.
Euan Garden
Peter Provost
Peter Provost is a Sr. Program Manager with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Architect Edition. He is a recognized agile coach, author and presenter and brings more than 10 years of agile development and project management experience. Peter is currently working with VSTS Architect Edition to help create the next wave of architectural and modeling tools.

Improving Code Quality with Code Analysis

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:39:29 GMT

Learn how to catch critical bugs earlier in the development cycle by identifying issues such as buffer overruns and SQL injection attacks before they actually cause a security exploit. The Code Analysis features in Microsoft Visual Studio help you tune application security, robustness, performance, and more. Learn about Code Analysis (for native and managed) and how to apply it effectively within your team's development lifecycle. Also hear about new features in Visual Studio 2010, including the new Rule Sets feature that makes it easy to manage, configure, and maintain rules.

Ravs Kaur

Visual Studio Debugger Tips & Tricks

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:39:27 GMT

The Visual Studio Debugger provides a slew of features that make the task of debugging both easier and more efficient. Learn about time-saving tips and tricks for all versions of the Visual Studio Debugger, including the new debugger features in Visual Studio 2010. Hear about the new mixed-mode debugging feature, the breakpoints window enhancements, the new WPF visualizers, and a number of other features. Also learn about thread debugging enhancements, new features for making stepping into properties easier, and more. Join us as we crack open the toolbox and walk through some of the debugger's best practices.

John Cunningham
John has been in the business of debuggers and diagnostic tools for around 15 years. He cut his teeth on debuggers for Windows 16 and 32bit, SunOS and Solaris. After a brief stint doing embedded debuggers at Wind River Systems, John joined Microsoft during the Visual Studio .Net product cycle. He has worked as a developer and lead on native and managed debuggers. John was part of the TeamSystem team from Day -30, working on the VS profiler and code coverage. Since then John has worked on starting the project for the application flight recorder as well as continuing to develop debugging and profiling technologies. John dreams in CodeView records. There is no cure.

Research: Concurrency Analysis Platform and Tools for Finding Concurrency Bugs

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:39:25 GMT

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 data-race detection engine and a tool for finding memory-model errors.

Thomas Ball
Thomas Ball is Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research where he manages the Software Reliability Research group (http://research.microsoft.com/srr/). Tom has been at Microsoft Research since 1999. He is one of the originators of the SLAM project, a software model checking engine for C that forms the basis of the Static Driver Verifier tool, made freely available by Microsoft for finding defects in device drivers. Tom's interests range from program analysis, model checking, testing and automated theorem proving to the problems of defining and measuring software quality.
Madan Musuvathi
Madan Musuvathi is a Researcher at Microsoft Research and is interested in building program analysis tools to improve the productivity of developers and testers. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2004.

Panel: The Future of Programming Languages

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:39:22 GMT

Learn about the future of programming from some of the leading programming languages experts in the world. Hear how programming will be affected by a number of fundamental changes that are occurring like many-core machines, cloud computing, and more. Also hear about the biggest challenges that face the industry. This will be a fascinating expert panel discussion for anyone that is involved with developing applications or services.

Douglas Crockford
Douglas Crockford discovered the JSON data interchange format. He is leading an effort at ECMA to develop a secure successor to JavaScript. He is the author of JavaScript: The Good Parts.
Gilad Bracha
Gilad Bracha is the creator of the Newspeak programming language. He is currently Distinguished Engineer at Cadence Design Systems. Previously, he was a Computational Theologist and Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems. He is co-author of the Java Language Specification, and a researcher in the area of object-oriented programming languages. Prior to joining Sun, he worked on Strongtalk, the Animorphic Smalltalk System. He received his B.Sc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Ben Gurion University in Israel and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Utah.
Jeremy Siek
Jeremy Siek is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado. Jeremy's areas of research include generic programming, programming language design, and compiler optimization. Jeremy received a Ph.D. at Indiana University in 2005. His thesis laid the foundation for the constrained templates feature in the next C++ Standard. Also while at Indiana, Jeremy developed the Boost Graph Library, a C++ generic library for graph algorithms and data structures. Jeremy did a post-doc at Rice University where he developed gradual typing: a type system that integrates dynamic and static typing. Jeremy is currently developing a gradually-typed version of Python.
Anders Hejlsberg
Anders Hejlsberg is a Technical Fellow in the Developer Division. He is an influential creator of development tools and programming languages. He is the chief designer of the C# programming language and a key participant in the development of the Microsoft .NET framework. Since its initial release in 2000, the C# programming language has been widely adopted and is now standardized by ECMA and ISO. Before his work on C# and the .NET framework, Hejlsberg was an architect for Visual J++ development and the Windows Foundation classes. Before joining Microsoft in 1996, Hejlsberg was one of the first employees of Borland International Inc. As principal engineer, he was the original author of Turbo Pascal, a revolutionary integrated development environment, and chief architect of its successor, Delphi. Hejlsberg co-authored "The C# Programming Language", published by Addison Wesley, and has received numerous software patents. In 2001, he was the recipient of the prestigious Dr. Dobbs Excellence in Programming Award. He studied engineering at the Technical University of Denmark.
Erik Meijer
Wolfram Schulte
Wolfram Schulte is a principal researcher and the founding manager of the Research in Software Engineering area, at Microsoft Research Redmond, USA. Wolfram’s research concerns the practical application of formal methods. At Microsoft, Wolfram co-lead research projects on language design and runtimes (the AsmL, Cw, TPL projects), software testing (the Pex, SpecExplorer, and nModel projects), software analysis and verification (the Spec#, Vcc and Hypervisor project), and lately on model-driven engineering of applications for the cloud (formula and bam). Among Schulte’s contributions to Microsoft technologies are his work on model-based and concolic testing, on contract-based static analysis, on data access integration and concurrent runtimes. Wolfram lives with his spouse Rita and 2 kids in Bellevue. In his spare time, he enjoys the beautiful outdoors of the cascades.

Project "Velocity": Under the Hood

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:39:20 GMT

Learn about the architecture of Velocity, Microsoft's main memory distributed caching framework. Hear how Velocity was built to meet the performance, scale, latency, and availability requirements of large scale enterprise and web applications. Learn about Velocity components and discuss design tradeoffs and mechanisms for in-memory storage, data placement, and data replication for performance, scale, and availability. Also, hear how Velocity provides database capabilities like LINQ support, indexing, concurrency control, and data consistency.

Anil Nori

The Concurrency and Coordination Runtime and Decentralized Software Services Toolkit

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:39:18 GMT

Get an overview of Microsoft's CCR and DSS Toolkit 2008 and the technologies it contains for building loosely-coupled, highly concurrent, and distributed applications. Learn how the technologies are already being used and get a run-down of how to evaluate whether the technologies may be right for you.

George Chrysanthakopoulos

Natural Interop with Silverlight, Office, and Python in Microsoft Visual C# and Microsoft Visual Basic

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:39:16 GMT

Learn how the new C# and VB language features make interop with JScript, COM, and Python more natural. Dynamically control the HTML DOM within Silverlight, automate Word and Excel with less code, or access Python libraries, all from your favorite .NET language!

Alex Turner
Alex Turner is the Program Manager for the C# Compiler at Microsoft, where he makes sure that C#’s new language features and compiler services become a reality. Alex graduated with an MS in Computer Science from Stony Brook University and has been a speaker at TechEd and TechDays.

Team Foundation Server 2010: Cool New Features

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:39:14 GMT

Dive deep into the next version of Team Foundation Server (TFS), and learn how TFS has factored its learnings about usability, industrial scale, geographic distribution, manageability, and development process into the next version of the product. See a demonstration of build automation, policy checks, parallel development, new project planning and tracking features, such as agile planning, end to end traceability, reporting, and dashboards, administration and ops --all designed to improve transparency and velocity for teams from size 5 through 50,000.

Brian Harry

Research: Contract Checking and Automated Test Generation with Pex

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:39:13 GMT

In theory, Design by Contract and unit testing are excellent approaches to improve code quality. Learn how to use code contracts that express pre-conditions, post-conditions, and object invariants in any managed language that improve testability, enhance static analysis, and serve as checked API documentation. Contracts are leveraged for advanced static analysis and translated into runtime checks. See how automated program exploration (Pex) discovers boundary conditions in code that cause failures and generates traditional unit test suites with high code coverage. Contracts and Pex work together to target contract checks, runtime failures (null dereferences, index out of range, etc.), and any other kind of assertions. Use them to write higher quality software with less effort.

Nikolai Tillmann
Nikolai Tillmann has been with Microsoft Research for 6 years. He is currently leading the Pex project, building an automated test case generation tool for .NET based program analysis. Previously, he worked on Spec Explorer, a model-based testing tool.
Mike Barnett
Mike Barnett has been at Microsoft Research since 1995. He has spent the last several years working on the Spec# project, an advanced verification environment and language for .NET.

Research: BAM, AjaxScope, and Doloto

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:39:11 GMT

See Microsoft Research present new technologies for developing, debugging, and deploying web applications. Hear how BAM can turn a simple specification into a web-based cloud application with the click of a button. Learn how AjaxScope and Doloto automatically instrument and rewrite your web applications' JavaScript code for end-to-end monitoring and optimization.

Ethan Jackson
Emre Kiciman
Emre Kiciman is a researcher in the Internet Services Research Center (ISRC) at Microsoft Research, where his interests are broadly in the area of large-scale Internet services, their operations, and their end-to-end reliability. His work focuses on monitoring and machine learning analysis of system behavior to improve reliability and performance. Most recently, he's been working on Web application performance and debugging.

Microsoft .NET Framework: Overview and Applications for Babies

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:39:09 GMT

Join Scott Hanselman for this lots-of-code-minimal slides talk that walks through the sheer joy of building out a .NET Framework application with Visual Studio using many of the new advances in the .NET Framework 3.5SP1 and 4.0. We have a data layer with Entity Framework, use REST web services with WCF and ADO.NET Data Services, write an ASP.NET site for reporting using Dynamic Data and MVC. All the data will come from a WPF client application and a Silverlight application that the audience will run live! All this, plus it's an application that babies and toddlers will love!

Scott Hanselman
Scott Hanselman works for Microsoft as a Principal Program Manager in the Developer Division, aiming to spread good information about developing software, very often on the Microsoft stack. Before this he was the Chief Architect at Corillian Corporation, now a part of Checkfree, for 6+ years. He was also involved in a few Microsoft Developer things for many years like the MVP and RD programs and will speak about computers (and other passions) whenever someone will listen. He's written a few books, most recently with Bill Evjen and Devin Rader on ASP.NET. He blogs at http://www.hanselman.com and podcasts at http://www.hanselminutes.com.

Microsoft Visual Studio: Web Development Futures

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:39:08 GMT

Get a first look at the next version of Visual Studio for web developers. See how the new deployment tools enable frictionless transfers of web projects from machine to machine. Learn about the new code generation aides and the next generation of JavaScript editing and navigation tools. Finally, see how the updated WYSIWYG design view enables standards-based development.

Jeff King
Jeff King is a Program Manager in Microsoft's Developer Division. He is responsible for the Visual Studio ASP.NET, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript editors. In previous releases, Jeff has also been responsible for the WYSIWYG design surface, delivering the Visual Web Developer Express Edition product, and authoring the Personal Web Site Starter Kit. On the side, he enjoys developing user experiences with WPF.

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System: A Lap Around VSTS 2010

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:39:06 GMT

In the spirit of an agile sprint, see how to use the next version of Visual Studio Team System to manage user stories and re-factor existing architecture. Learn how to diagnose real production problems, debug in-production virtual labs, capture test data to eliminate the no-repro bugs, transparently plan, monitor, and adapt software projects.

Cameron Skinner
Cameron Skinner joined Microsoft in 2005 and is currently a product unit manager on the Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) team. He is responsible for overseeing the Team Edition – Architect product line. Prior to Microsoft, Mr. Skinner was the CTO and chief architect of application development tools for Embarcadero Technologies. Earlier in his career, he served as CTO for Advanced Software Technologies. In his limited spare time, Mr. Skinner enjoys spending time with his wife and three children, and playing his acoustic bass.

Microsoft Visual C# IDE: Tips and Tricks

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:39:02 GMT

Learn tips and tricks that will make C# code editing faster and more fun using Microsoft Visual Studio.

Dustin Campbell

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Database Edition: Overview

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:59 GMT

Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) Database Edition enables developers to apply agile practices to the database tier. VSTS takes "One Version of the Truth" for database objects and moves it into source control. See how it interoperates with external data sources like MySQL, Oracle, IBM DB2, and Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

Gert Drapers
Gert Drapers is the Group Engineering Manager for the Visual Studio Team System Database Edition product as known as the “Data Dude”. After 3 years of Ashton-Tate where he was first introduced to SQL Server in 1988, Gert joined Microsoft in 1991. Prior to his current position he was a member of the SQL Server development team where he held various positions varying from development to management. He contributed to SQL Server 7.0, 2000 and 2005; some SQL Server artifacts he worked on are: BULK INSERT, SQL-DMO, SQL Query Analyzer, SQL Profiler, DTS, SQL Agent and SMO. After SQL 2000 he joined the Indigo team where he designed the System.Transactions API and worked on MS-DTC and the web services (WS-AT) transaction specification. In September of 2003 he joined the SQL Server Customer Advisory Team where he focused on helping customers design and implement the largest SQL Server implementations in the world. In July 2005 he started the DataDude project, which goal in life is to provide an offline schema development and deployment environment for SQL Server and other data stores. Right now the team is finishing up the 3rd release of the product! When Gert is not working, he is spending time with his wife and three lovely daughters; loves to cook and make music. Besides that he is serving the SQL Server community by writing tools and articles which are published on http://SQLDev.Net and various magazines.

IronRuby: The Right Language for the Right Job

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:57 GMT

IronRuby is a new dynamically-typed language for Microsoft .NET that offers more runtime flexibility at the expense of compile-time verification. Find out why this is a good thing in the right situations: static compile-time verification for components that need additional rigor, and dynamic typing for more fluid parts of a program. See how to use dynamic typing to create internal Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) and how to use them for systems that you create.

John Lam
John works on the IronRuby compiler at Microsoft.

Microsoft XNA Game Studio: An Overview

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:55 GMT

Learn about XNA Game Studio and the XNA Framework and how they help to quickly and easily create games using Microsoft Visual C# that run on Windows, the Xbox 360, and Zune. Hear about the goals and features of XNA Game Studio and the XNA Framework and the types of games that can be created; we even create a game during the session. Finally, hear about the vibrant community around XNA Game Studio and Xbox LIVE Community Games, where games can be distributed via Xbox LIVE Marketplace.

Frank Savage
Frank Savage is veteran game developer with 17 years of professional experience. Starting at Origin Systems in 1991, Frank worked on Strike Commander and was the lead on Wing Commander 3. After leaving Origin in 1995, he worked on the MechCommander game at the startup FASA Interactive. FASA was acquired by Microsoft in 1999 and after completing MechCommander Gold and MechCommander 2 for Microsoft Game Studios, Frank went to work for the Advanced Technology Group in Xbox just before the launch of the first Xbox console. In 2004, Frank joined the XNA team which has evolved into the XNA Community Game Platform team and now works as an architect on the Framework and Tools team delivering XNA Game Studio.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008: Powering MSDN

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:53 GMT

Hear how the MSDN team created the multi-terabyte system (over 12 million documents) that serves as the core of the web platform and provides integration of content from MSDN and TechNet into Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Exchange Server, and Windows Server. Learn about advanced features like: designs around Blob and associated content from other stores, MERGE delta-processing, Index Filtering, Table Value Parameters, and Data Compression. Everything is demonstrated in the MSDN production system with real-world scenarios.

Mark Johnston

"Dublin" and .NET Services: Extending On-Premises Applications to the Cloud

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:51 GMT

Would you like to extend your existing SharePoint and .NET applications both on-premises and to the cloud in a non-intrusive way? This session will show you real-world examples of how to harness .NET Services workflow, access control and service bus to enhance business processes and add new capabilities to your application. We will demonstrate the use of "Dublin" Windows Application Server technologies to build extended application functionality. Lastly, you will see how workflow can be used to integrate across multiple organizations and the cloud. For ISVs, this session will provide a blueprint for how to sell more products to your installed base without requiring them to upgrade.

Jacob Avital
Koby Avital has over twenty years experience as a senior executive, GM (SVP/VP) of Engineering and CTO in highly competitive software companies in enterprise applications and solutions, networking, communications, Internet applications, Internet security and multi-tiers real-time systems. Koby join Microsoft two years ago from SAP (GM composite applications, and a co-GM of SAP’s Enterprise Service Architecture) and from PeopleSoft (Chief Scientist and HCM head of development). With Microsoft Koby is heading CSD technology and products integration projects with internal Microsoft products to achieve better alignment across divisions. Koby is using his broad experience and market understanding to influence Microsoft products direction aiming on providing short and long term solutions to existing and future markets

Coding4Fun: Windows Presentation Foundation Animation, YouTube, iTunes, Twitter, and Nintendo's Wiimote

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:49 GMT

Spend time with Coding4Fun authors as they walk through some DIY Development projects: TwitterVote, Wiimote, InnerTube, and BabySmash.

Brian Peek
Brian is a Microsoft C# MVP who has been actively developing in .NET since its early betas in 2000, and who has been developing solutions using Microsoft technologies and platforms for even longer. Along with .NET, Brian is particularly skilled in the languages of C, C++ and assembly language for a variety of CPUs. He is also well-versed in a wide variety of technologies including web development, document imaging, GIS, graphics, game development, and hardware interfacing. Additionally, Brian has co-authored the book "Debugging ASP.NET" published by New Riders, and is currently co-authoring a book titled "Coding4Fun: 10 .NET Programming Projects for Wiimote, YouTube, World of Warcraft, and More" to be published by O'Reilly in November 2008. Brian is also an author for MSDN's Coding4Fun website. You can reach Brian via his blog at http://www.brianpeek.com/ .
Dan Fernandez
Clint Rutkas
Clint Rutkas works for Microsoft as an Academic Developer Evangelist. Before Microsoft, Clint developed web applications with ASP.Net and c# for two separate companies in Chicago, IL. In his spare time, he builds “interesting” c# hardware projects like disco dance floors, self-balancing skateboards, and automated bartenders. He blogs at http://betterthaneveryone.com along with http://blogs.msdn.com/coding4fun.
Scott Hanselman
Scott Hanselman works for Microsoft as a Principal Program Manager in the Developer Division, aiming to spread good information about developing software, very often on the Microsoft stack. Before this he was the Chief Architect at Corillian Corporation, now a part of Checkfree, for 6+ years. He was also involved in a few Microsoft Developer things for many years like the MVP and RD programs and will speak about computers (and other passions) whenever someone will listen. He's written a few books, most recently with Bill Evjen and Devin Rader on ASP.NET. He blogs at http://www.hanselman.com and podcasts at http://www.hanselminutes.com.

WCF: Zen of Performance and Scale

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:47 GMT

Join us for an interactive lunch discussion about different kinds of performance and scale requirements that are a crucial part of any distributed systems development life cycle. Learn the principles of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) throughput and responsiveness optimization. Hear about WCF scalability improvements in the next version of the Microsoft .NET Framework.

Nicholas Allen

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System: Leveraging Virtualization to Improve Code Quality with Team Lab

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:45 GMT

Would you like to test fixes in a production-like environment before checking them in to source control? The Visual Studio Team System (code name "Rosario") release of Team Lab improves productivity and quality while reducing the cost of building and testing world class products. Learn how Team Lab provides a fast and easy way to create a test environment and tear it down, target specific test environments, and take snapshots of an environment for easy deployment.

Ram Cherala
I am the Principal Program Manager in the VSTS Test Business which is part of the Developer Division. I enjoy building well integrated set of tools and technologies that enable developers build, test and ship quality software. I started my career at Microsoft 18 years ago in the Windows Division after 3.5 years working as a programmer in India and a M.S.(CS) from Oregon State University. After working as a Developer and Development Lead and shipping several releases of the award winning Routing and Remote Access Services for Windows, I moved to the MS India Development Center (MSIDC) in Hyderabad. I was a founding member of the team of employees who moved from Redmond to create MSIDC. As Development Lead and Manager I shipped the award winning Services For Unix (2.0 and 3.0). I then moved on to build the Windows Sustained Engineering team from ground up culminating in shipping the Windows 2000 URP release. Before joining the Developer Division I was the Product Unit Manager for the Windows Client Servicing group in Redmond.

WCF: Developing RESTful Services

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:40 GMT

Learn the latest features in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)for building Web 2.0-style services that use URIs, HTTP GET, and other data formats beyond XML. See how these features can be applied to AJAX web sites, "REST" applications, and data feeds.

Steve Maine

Managed and Native Code Interoperability: Best Practices

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:38 GMT

Learn when, where, and how to use the various managed to native interoperability technologies. See upcoming features and tools and how they make interoperability even easier.

Jesse Kaplan

Managed Extensibility Framework: Overview

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:34 GMT

The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a new extensibility model in the .NET framework that provides a simple declarative model for application developers and extenders to build openly extensible applications. Come to this session and you'll learn about our Composition model and the APIs that work with it. You'll learn about composable parts, exports, imports and the composition container that brings them all together. You'll see how using the model you can develop open-ended applications that can easily be extended both internally and by third-parties.

Glenn Block

Microsoft Visual Studio: Customizing and Extending the Development Environment

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:32 GMT

The next version of Visual Studio moves beyond add-ins and packages to unleash powerful new ways to customize and extend the environment. Learn about the Visual Studio extension model-built on a common Microsoft .NET extensibility framework--that makes it easy to customize Visual Studio in new ways. See how to create extensions for the new code editor and project system, and hear how to build your own graphical designers and specialized development environments.

Tim Wagner
Dr. Wagner is a former Eclipse board member and lead of the Eclipse Web Tools Platform, now working with the Visual Studio platform team to enhance the Visual Studio product line with extensible technologies and to exploit WPF to create new user interaction scenarios. His interests include IDEs, compiler front ends, and the creation of extensible platforms and APIs.

"Oslo": Building Textual DSLs

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:30 GMT

The "Oslo" modeling language can define schemas and transformations over arbitrary text formats. This session shows you how to build your own Domain Specific Language using the "Oslo" SDK and how to apply your DSL to create an interactive text editing experience.

Chris Anderson
Giovanni Della-Libera
Giovanni has been a developer at Microsoft for 12 years. In that time, he's worked on VB5, VJ6, WinForms, ADO.Net, WCF and WS-Security* specifications. He's currently working on Oslo's "M" language.

Microsoft Sync Framework Advances

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:29 GMT

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

Live Labs Web Sandbox: Securing Mash-ups, Site Extensibility, and Gadgets

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:27 GMT

Aggregating third-party capabilities and services drives Web 2.0 innovation. Developers must make trade-offs in quality of service and security to achieve rich and personalized experiences. The trade-offs threaten not only future innovation, but also existing experiences, business models, and everything that relies on mashing up data and/or functionality. Understanding and mitigating this risk is essential for all web applications. We present a prototype of an open technology for mashing up code while maintaining better process isolation, quality of service protection, and security. This will foster more efficient cross-browser development, increased mash-up innovation, and new third-party extensibility models. Join us as we discuss and showcase the architecture and invite you to get involved.

Scott Isaacs
Dragos Manolescu
Dragos Manolescu is Senior Program Manager at Microsoft Live Labs, a confederation of engineers and scientists working on advancing the state-of-the-art in Internet products and technology. Most recently he's been interested in web programming, social media, Web 2.0 and cloud computing. Prior to joining Microsoft Dragos worked in consulting, start-ups, as well as academia. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

"Oslo": Repository and Models

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:25 GMT

"Oslo" is making news. We're taking silos of proprietary, platform, and application data and opening it up for sharing. What gets shared? Deployment configuration, web services definitions, workflow definitions, and that's just a start. Learn how to utilize platform models, how to extend models, and how to add your own models to the repository using the "Oslo" modeling language. Also learn how to version, secure, and deploy models.

Chris Sells
Martin Gudgin

"Oslo": The Language

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:23 GMT

The "Oslo" language, at the heart of the Oslo modeling platform, allows developers to quickly and efficiently express domain models that power declarative systems, such as Windows Workflow Foundation and "Dublin." In this session, we'll get you started writing models for your own domains by introducing you to key features of the language, including its type system, instance construction, and query. You'll learn to author content for the Oslo repository and understand how to programmatically construct and process the content to target your own specific runtime environment.

Don Box
David Langworthy

Parallel Programming for Managed Developers with the Next Version of Microsoft Visual Studio

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:22 GMT

Come learn how the next version of Visual Studio and the Microsoft .NET Framework can help you write better performing and more scalable applications. We take a tour of new .NET APIs, including the Task Parallel Library (TPL) and Parallel LINQ (PLINQ). We also introduce new features in the debugger that help you quickly identify concurrency issues and visualize the internal state of your application.

Daniel Moth
Daniel Moth has been with Microsoft since April 2006. Before that he worked in industry as a consultant, a developer and he was also an MVP for mobile development (a topic he wrote a book about). Recently he joined the Parallel Computing Platform to work on developer tools for the next versions of Visual Studio. Daniel's interests include anything to do with .NET and he blogs about that at http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog, which is also the best way to reach him.

Parallel Programming for C++ Developers in the Next Version of Microsoft Visual Studio

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:20 GMT

Build more responsive C++ programs that take full advantage of multicore hardware. We demonstrate how the new Parallel Pattern Library (PPL) enables you to express parallelism in your code and how the asynchronous messaging APIs can be used to separate shared state and increase your application's resilience and robustness. Finally, we take a look at some of the new capabilities of C++0x and Visual Studio to help you efficiently code and debug your multi-threaded applications.

Rick Molloy

Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:19 GMT

Performance must be considered in each step of the development lifecycle. See how to integrate performance in design, development, testing, tuning, and production. Work with tools and technologies like: static analysis, managed memory profiling, data population, load testing, and performance reports. Learn best practices to avoid the performance pitfalls of poor CPU utilization, memory allocation bugs, and improper data sizing.

Steve Carroll
Steve is the development lead for the Visual Studio Profiler and has been with that team for five years. Before that he was a compiler researcher studying at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ed Glas
Ed Glas is group manager for the Visual Studio Team Test team in Raleigh, NC. Ed led the development of the web and load testing features in Visual Studio Team System from their inception, and is now also leading development of the test case management server. Prior to working at Microsoft, Ed co-founded HAHT Software, where he led the development of the HAHTsite web application IDE and application server. He also worked at startups OneTree Software, creator of SourceSafe, and Q+E software. In his spare time Ed enjoys spending time with his wife and five children and playing soccer.

A Lap around "Oslo"

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:15 GMT

Please Note: This session will be repeated on October 29th at 4:45PM. "Oslo" is the family of new technologies that enable data-driven development and execution of services and applications. Come and learn how to capture all aspects of an application schematized in the "Oslo" repository and use "Oslo" directly to drive the execution of deployed applications.

Douglas Purdy
Douglas Purdy is a product unit manager at Microsoft working on next-generation languages and tools to broaden the franchise of people building applications. His vision is to “make everyone a programmer” (even if they don’t know it). Previously, Douglas was the group program manager for the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF/Indigo) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF/WinOE) teams. Douglas has been with Microsoft, on and off, since 1998 where he has worked in consulting, evangelism and engineering.
Vijaye Raji

Concurrency Runtime Deep Dive: How to Harvest Multicore Computing Resources

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:13 GMT

Learn how the Concurrency Runtime provides an efficient and scalable infrastructure for multiple concurrent programming models by bringing together cooperative work scheduling and resource management into one component. This deep dive presentation gives you an idea of what it means to target the Concurrency Runtime with your domain-specific library or language. We also cover many of the internal algorithms of the runtime to help educate you on the applicability of the runtime to your scenarios.

Niklas Gustafsson

WF 4.0: Extending with Custom Activities

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:11 GMT

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) 4.0 coordinates and manages individual units of work, encapsulated into activities. WF comes with a rich library of activities. Learn how to extend this library by encapsulating your own APIs with custom activities. See how to compose those basic activities into higher level units using rules, flowchart, and state machine control flow styles. Learn how to build your own WF control styles. Learn how to customize and re-host the workflow authoring experience using the new WF designer framework.

Matt Winkler
Matt is currently the program manger focused on building the WF Designer in Visual Studio.

Entity Framework Futures

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:10 GMT

The next version of the Entity Framework adds scenarios in the areas of model driven development, domain driven development, simplicity, and integration. See a preview of production and prototype code for the next version of the Entity Framework as well as a candid discussion with members of the development team.

Tim Mallalieu

Microsoft Visual Studio: Bringing out the Best in Multicore Systems

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:08 GMT

Learn how to prepare for the new challenges in developing and tuning concurrent applications. Hear about important steps in the creation of or conversion to parallel applications with demonstrations of the parallel performance analysis and optimization tools in the next release of Microsoft Visual Studio. See how to identify opportunities for parallelism and how to exploit those opportunities by choosing applicable coding patterns using existing or future programming models. Finally, watch a demonstration that shows how to optimize parallel code by focusing on common sources of inefficiency such as I/O and synchronization.

Hazim Shafi
Dr. Hazim Shafi received a BSEE from Santa Clara, and MS and PhD degrees from Rice University. He joined Microsoft in 2005 from IBM Research. Hazim has over a decade of experience in parallel and distributed processing and has numerous publications and patents in the area. He is currently a Principal Architect on the Parallel Computing Platform team leading its efforts in parallel performance analysis tools. He also teaches classes on multithreaded application development at Microsoft.

"Oslo": Customizing and Extending the Visual Design Experience

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:07 GMT

"Oslo" provides visual tools for writing data-driven applications and services. Learn how to provide a great experience over domain-specific schemas, and explore the basic user model, data-driven viewer construction, user-defined queries, and custom commands. See how the design experience itself is an "Oslo" application and is driven by content stored in the "Oslo" repository.

Don Box
Don Box is a Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft working on declarative languages and tools to simplify developing applications and services. In that role, Don is involved in creating languages, frameworks, and end-to-end experiences to help people translate their intentions and desires for software into a machine readable and executable form. Don joined Microsoft in 2002 as an architect of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), where he worked on software to enable programs to safely and securely interoperate with one another. Don’s responsibilities included both the design and architecture of the runtime stack, as well as interoperability protocols with IBM and other partners. Before joining Microsoft, Don was an independent consultant focused on software integration technologies. Don was the leading external voice for Microsoft’s Component Object Model (COM) and Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) and helped shape the way developers across the globe experience those technologies. In 1996, Don worked as a consultant to Software AG and Microsoft on the UNIX-based Distributed COM project; that work gave Don the desire to move away from shared-runtime distributed architectures and embrace data-centric message passing using XML. To that end, Don worked with Microsoft and Dave Winer to create the original SOAP specification in 1998. Don is a respected writer on software development topics, serving as a series editor at Addison Wesley and as a contributing editor to C++ Report, Microsoft Systems Journal (MSJ), and MSDN Magazine. Don’s first book, Essential COM, remains a part of the C++ developer’s canon. Don was the first blogger to publish RSS from a Microsoft web property (http://www.gotdotnet.com/) and now (sporadically) maintains a blog at http://www.pluralsight.com/blogs/dbox/ Don has a Master’s degree in Information and Computer Science from U.C. Irvine and a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from C.S.U. Long Beach.
Florian Voss

WF 4.0: A First Look

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:06 GMT

Programs coordinate work. The code for coordination and state management often obscures a program's purpose. Learn how programming with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) 4.0 provides clarity of intent while preserving the functional richness of the .NET framework. See how easy it is to build workflows with the new Visual Studio workflow designer. Learn about text-based authoring options for WF. Hear how WF integrates well with other Microsoft technologies (WCF, WPF, ASP.NET). If you've looked at WF before, come and see the changes to data flow, composition, and new control flow styles. Significant improvements to usability, composability, and performance make Workflow a great fit for a broad range of solutions on both the client and the server.

Kenny Wolf
Kenny Wolf is an Architect at Microsoft responsible for WF and WCF. Previously, Kenny was the Technical Lead for WCF Transports and Channels. Kenny has been with Microsoft since 1997. After shipping 3 versions of Office for the Macintosh, Kenny joined a platform incubation called "Indigo" (now WCF). Kenny holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Science from Yale University.

The Future of C#

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:03 GMT

Please Note: This session will be repeated on October 29th at 3:00PM. In this talk Microsoft Technical fellow and C# Chief Architect Anders Hejlsberg outlines the future of C#. He describes the many forces that influence and shape the future of programming languages and explain how they fit into C#.

Anders Hejlsberg
Anders Hejlsberg is a Technical Fellow in the Developer Division. He is an influential creator of development tools and programming languages. He is the chief designer of the C# programming language and a key participant in the development of the Microsoft .NET framework. Since its initial release in 2000, the C# programming language has been widely adopted and is now standardized by ECMA and ISO. Before his work on C# and the .NET framework, Hejlsberg was an architect for Visual J++ development and the Windows Foundation classes. Before joining Microsoft in 1996, Hejlsberg was one of the first employees of Borland International Inc. As principal engineer, he was the original author of Turbo Pascal, a revolutionary integrated development environment, and chief architect of its successor, Delphi. Hejlsberg co-authored "The C# Programming Language", published by Addison Wesley, and has received numerous software patents. In 2001, he was the recipient of the prestigious Dr. Dobbs Excellence in Programming Award. He studied engineering at the Technical University of Denmark.

Architecture without Big Design Up Front

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:02 GMT

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS), code-name "Rosario" Architecture Edition, introduces new UML designers, use cases, activity diagrams, sequence diagrams that can visualize existing code, layering to enforce dependency rules, and physical designers to visualize, analyze, and refactor your software. See how VSTS extends UML logical views into physical views of your code. Learn how to create relationships from these views to work items and project metrics, how to extend these designers, and how to programmatically transform models into patterns for other domains and disciplines.

Peter Provost
Peter Provost is a Sr. Program Manager with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Architect Edition. He is a recognized agile coach, author and presenter and brings more than 10 years of agile development and project management experience. Peter is currently working with VSTS Architect Edition to help create the next wave of architectural and modeling tools.

Project "Velocity": A First Look

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:00 GMT

It is predicted that all large applications will use a distributed data cache as the initial tier for all data access. This session presents an overview of "Velocity," Microsoft's distributed in-memory cache, and shows how it works with IIS, ASP.NET, ADO.NET and SQL Server Data Services.

Murali Krishnaprasad
I am a principal architect of Velocity - the distributed caching platform. Before Microsoft I worked in the Oracle database engine building the object-relational support, XMLDB, XQuery and secure enterprise search product.

Microsoft .NET Framework: Declarative Programming Using XAML

Adam Kinney — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:00 GMT

If you're using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), or Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), then XAML is your new best friend! Learn how an entire application-from presentation to data to services to workflow--can be authored using simple, declarative XAML notations introduced in the next version of the .NET Framework. Learn about XAML additions like: support for generics, object references, non-default constructors, and more.

Daniel Roth

Daniel Roth has been working on the Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation for the past four years. He is excited to bring the benefits XAML to the world of webservices and workflows.
Rob Relyea

Microsoft Visual C++: 10 Is the New 6

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:37:58 GMT

Get more done. The next version of Visual C++ is all about improving developer productivity for large-scale applications. Learn about the IntelliSense and browsing experiences, changes to the project and build system, project-less browsing, collaboration through remote symbol indexing, and custom visualization of symbolic information.

Boris Jabes

Future Directions for Microsoft Visual Basic

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:37:56 GMT

Hear language architect Paul Vick and specification lead Lucian Wischik discuss the future direction of the Visual Basic language. Learn about the new capabilities of the next version of the language, including additional LINQ features, syntax simplifications, and a host of other improvements. Also gain insight into possible future features, including meta-programming and scripting.

Lucian Wischik
Paul Vick
Paul Vick is the language architect for Visual Basic, where he leads the language design team. Paul originally began his career working at Microsoft in 1992 on the Microsoft Access team, shipping versions 1.0 through 97 of Access. In 1998, he moved to the Visual Basic team, participating in the design and implementation of the Visual Basic compiler and driving the re-design of the language for the .NET Framework. He is the author of the Visual Basic .NET Language Specification and the Addison Wesley book "The Visual Basic .NET Language." His weblog can be found at http://www.panopticoncentral.net.

An Introduction to Microsoft F#

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:37:54 GMT

Learn about Microsoft's new language, F#, a typed functional programming language for the Microsoft .NET Framework. F# combines functional programming with the runtime support, libraries, tools, and object model of .NET. Understand how F# asynchronous workflows help tame the complexity of parallel and asynchronous I/O programming and how to use F# in conjunction with tools such as Parallel Extensions for .NET.

Luca Bolognese

Deep Dive: Dynamic Languages in Microsoft .NET

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:37:52 GMT

The CLR has great support for dynamic languages like IronPython. Learn how the new Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) adds a shared dynamic type system, a standard hosting model, and support for generating fast dynamic code. Hear how these features enable languages that use the DLR to share code with other dynamic and static languages like Microsoft Visual Basic .NET and C#.

Jim Hugunin

Agile Development with Microsoft Visual Studio

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:37:49 GMT

Visual Studio has built-in tool support for agile practices such as Scrum, XP, and others. The next version adds practices like test-driven development, continuous integration, and single product backlog. See how these can be applied at scale and across geographies.

Sunder Raman
Lori Lamkin
Lori Lamkin is the Product Unit Manager of the Redmond Team Foundation team. The product is part of a suite of lifecycle tools designed to increase collaboration of software development teams. Team Foundation is a work item tracking, project management and reporting solution for project managers and team members. She joined Microsoft in 1990 supporting customers with the C/C++ language product and in 1993 became the Unit Manager of C/C++ technical customer support, leading over 100 managers, engineers and outsourced partners to high quality, low cost customer service and product improvement. She joined the Microsoft product development team in 1996 as a Lead Program Manager for C/C++ and became the Group Program Manager for C/C++ and C# in 2001. She moved into the lifecycle tools business in early 2003 to work on Visual Studio Team System as the Group Program Manager of Team Foundation. As Group Program Manager, she was responsible for defining product vision, driving deep customer relationships, building a strong design team, and leading the design and delivery of this version 1.0 product across three Microsoft Development Centers. She holds a B.S. in Mathematics with an emphasis in Computer Science from the University of Washington. Lori enjoys reading, golf, and spending time with her husband and twin boys.

Offline-Enabled Data Services and Desktop Applications

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:37:47 GMT

The ADO.NET Data Services Framework (a.k.a. Project "Astoria") introduced a way of creating and consuming flexible, data-centric REST services. By combining data services with the Microsoft Sync Framework, learn how to create offline-capable applications that have a local replica of their data, how to synchronize that replica with an online data service when a network connection becomes available, and how replicas can be used with the ADO.NET Entity Framework. Also, hear us talk about our plans, see the tools that help client- and server-side setup, and discuss the runtime components and APIs.

Pablo Castro
Pablo is a Software Architect in the SQL Server group at Microsoft. He has worked in various areas of SQL Server and he's currently focused on making data and the web work well together with technologies such as Data Services (Project Astoria).

Developing Applications Using Data Services

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:37:45 GMT

In the near future, applications will be developed using a combination of custom application code and online building block services, including data-centric services. In this session we discuss advancements in the Microsoft development platform and online service interfaces to enable seamless interaction with data services both on-premises (e.g., ADO.NET Data Services Framework over on-premises SQL Server) and in the cloud (e.g., SQL Server Data Services). Learn how you can leverage existing know-how related to LINQ (Language Integrated Query), data access APIs, data-binding, and more when building applications using online data.

Mike Flasko

WCF 4.0: Building WCF Services with WF in Microsoft .NET 4.0

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:37:44 GMT

Eliminate the tradeoff between ease of service authoring and performant, scalable services. Hear about significant enhancements in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4.0 and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) 4.0 to deal with the ever increasing complexity of communication. Learn how to use WCF to correlate messages to service instances using transport, context, and application payloads. See how the new WF messaging activities enable the modeling of rich protocols. Learn how WCF provides a default host for workflows exposing features such as distributed compensation and discovery. See how service definition in XAML completes the union of WF and WCF with a unified authoring experience that simplifies configuration and is fully integrated with IIS activation and deployment.

Ed Pinto

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Team Foundation Server: How We Use It at Microsoft

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:37:43 GMT

Take a detailed look at the present and future of Team Foundation Server (TFS). With close to 14,000 users, 2,000 projects, 33 million files, and over 2 million work items, Microsoft runs one of the largest known installations of TFS. In this session we share our internal best practices for version control, branching and merging, work item tracking, metrics, reporting, testing, and integrations with TFS.

Stephanie Saad
Stephanie Saad is a Group Manager at Microsoft and is currently building tools for agile development. She has been working in the Visual Studio design team for the last 6 years, most of them on planning various new cool stuff for VSTS. She thinks Visual Studio is the coolest thing ever, although she still can't explain to her mom what she does.

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System: Software Diagnostics and Quality for Services

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:37:41 GMT

In this session we present processes and tools from the upcoming Visual Studio Team System code name "Rosario" release and Microsoft Research and show how we deliver on quality, scalability, and experience goals for the new class of applications that demand rich UI, service consumption, and frequent release.

Habib Heydarian
Habib Heydarian is a Lead Program manager on the VSTS Development group. His main responsibilities include the Visual Studio debugger, profiler, code coverage and pretty much anything related to troubleshooting and diagnosing applications. He joined Microsoft in 2000 and has been in Developer Division ever since. Before joining Microsoft, Habib studied computer science at the Australian National University in Canberra. While not at work, Habib spends his time playing with robots, shooting hoops or chasing that elusive Yellowfin. One of his favorite possessions is a Washington state license plate with the label "RUNTIME".
Justin Marks
Justin Marks started at Microsoft in 2002 after receiving his BS in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT. He has worked on MSN.com as a Systems Engineer, Windows as a Software Design Engineer in Test, and now Visual Studio as a Program Manager. As the PM on the Diagnostics team, Justin has been working on the Historical Debugger feature for the next release of Visual Studio 2010.

Under the Hood: Advances in the .NET Type System

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:37:40 GMT

Enhancements to the type system in the next version of .NET Framework allow for loose type-coupling of components comprising your application. This talk is an in-depth examination of the changes in the Common Language Runtime and managed languages. See how these changes help to simplify versioning and deployment of components targeting either COM based and/or fully managed applications. For Office developers, learn how to eliminate the need to redistribute primary interop assemblies.

Andrew Whitechapel
Andrew has 20+ years experience in the industry as a developer and architect. He is a Program Manager in the Business Apps team, where he is focused on designing strategic features of the Visual Studio toolset for building Office Business Applications.
Misha Shneerson
Misha Shneerson has been working in Visual Studio Tools for Office team for the past 6 years. Being responsible for the development of VSTO runtime Misha has gained invaluable experience about the live between managed and unmanaged worlds. Misha is passionate about bringing these two closer together and has played the key role in the last improvements in this area.

Office Business Applications: Enhanced Deployment

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:37:39 GMT

This session explores how Microsoft Visual Studio 10 supports development for OBAs. We focus on the new enhancements to deployment and security, including ClickOnce multi-project and custom action support, configurable updates, background updating, and delay-loading add-ins.

Saurabh Bhatia
Andrew Whitechapel
Andrew has 20+ years experience in the industry as a developer and architect. He is a Program Manager in the Business Apps team, where he is focused on designing strategic features of the Visual Studio toolset for building Office Business Applications.

Services Symposium: Cloud or No Cloud, the Laws of Physics Still Apply

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:37:36 GMT

Bandwidth is not infinite and certainly not free, latency is bound by speed of light, and storage density is increasing. How will all this affect your architecture? In this final session, we discuss emerging patterns that take into account the physical aspects of a cloud-based application.

Gianpaolo Carraro

Services Symposium: Enterprise Grade Cloud Applications

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:37:35 GMT

Today, hosted applications do not offer many of the features that large enterprises expect related to identity, management, and data. See detailed examples of "enterprise grade" hosted application design. Learn how to implement a federated identity scenario, enable remote application management, and provide richer control of data storage.

Eugenio Pace

Services Symposium: Expanding Applications to the Cloud

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:37:34 GMT

Take an enthusiastic--yet pragmatic--look at cloud opportunities. First, hear about a model for determining what should be pushed to the cloud and what should be kept in-house. Second, explore examples of cloud-based infrastructure as part of an existing application. Finally, discuss architectural tradeoffs and best practices.

Gianpaolo Carraro
Simon Guest

Parallel Symposium: Future of Parallel Computing

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:37:33 GMT

Hear Intel describe its near-term support for Microsoft Visual Studio with Intel Parallel Studio. Learn about incubation technologies related to parallel computing, such as Intel Threading Building Blocks on Concurrency Runtime, software transaction memory, agents, Intel Ct and tools.

James Reinders
James Reinders is an expert in the area of parallelism, Intel’s leading spokesperson on tools for parallelism, and author of the O’Reilly Nutshell book on the C++ extensions for parallelism provided by the popular Intel Threading Building Blocks. James has decades of experience with high degrees of parallelism having worked on groundbreaking compilers and architectures such as the systolic arrays WARP and iWarp, and the world’s first TeraFLOP supercomputer (ASCI Red). James is a frequent blogger, columnist on go-parallel.com, and the author and co-author of several books in addition to the recent TBB Nutshell book.
Selena Wilson
Niklas Gustafsson
Sean Nordberg
David Detlefs
Dave got his Ph.D. from Carnegie-Mellon in 1990. He was a researcher at DEC's System Research Center from 1990 to 1996, working on program verification and garbage collection. He moved to Sun Laboratories in Massachusetts in 1996, working there on parallel and concurrent garbage collection, lock-free algorithms, and just-in-time compilation techniques. He moved to Microsoft's CLR in 2005, and has been working on transactional memory and various CLR architectural issues. He holds 32 patents, and has been on a number of program committees for academic conferences.

Parallel Symposium: Application Opportunities and Architectures

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:37:32 GMT

Parallel Computing opens up potential for new categories of applications and user interaction. Hear Intel discuss its vision for Connected Visual Computing followed by Microsoft's guidance on how to architect applications that are correct, scalable, and responsive.

Jerry Bautista
John Feo
John Feo is a principal architect leading the applications framework group in PCP. Prior to joining Microsoft, John worked at Cray Inc and Lawrenece Livermore National Laboratory. At Cray, John developed applications and worked with early customers of the Cray MTA systems. At LLNL, John was the group leader of the Computer Research Group and principal investigator of the Sisal Language Project. John's interest are parallel algorithms, parallel programming models, functional languages, and performance.

Parallel Symposium: Addressing the Hard Problems with Concurrency

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:37:31 GMT

Hear about the challenges of applying multi-core processors to general-purpose software and the key impacts this will have on developers and platforms. Learn about the hard problems that must be addressed to enable parallel software to be deployed with the same reliability and productivity of mainstream software. Hear about the key architectural changes Microsoft is making to Windows to enable the efficient execution of parallel software.

Lynne Hill
David Callahan
David Callahan joined Microsoft in 2005. He is a Distinguished Engineer leading the Parallel Computing Platform Team within Visual Studio® focused on incubating technology for the coming manycore processors. This team is producing exciting new technologies as part of Visual Studio and also driving the Parallel Computing Initiative, a company wide effort to deliver customer value from the power of future high-performance processors. David’s background is in programming languages, parallel programming techniques, and compilation techniques focused on expressing and exploiting concurrency.

Hands On Analysis with Windows Performance Toolkit (General)

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:36:34 GMT

This is a web exclusive session which was not delivered at PDC2008, but provides complimentary content aligned with PDC. This session will provide examples of case studies for several typical performance issues, analyzed using the Windows Performance Analyzer. Best practices on how to avoid some of the common problems will also be covered.

Michael Milirud
Sharif Farag

Developing compatible applications for Windows

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:36:32 GMT

This is a web exclusive session which was not delivered at PDC2008, but provides complimentary content aligned with PDC. Learn the best practices on how to write compatible applications for the Windows® operating system and migrate Windows XP applications. Also, discuss common application compatibility changes so you can effortlessly get your applications up and running.

Uday Shivaswamy

Driving for software quality through customer feedback

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:36:30 GMT

This is a web exclusive session which was not delivered at PDC2008, but provides complimentary content aligned with PDC. Your customers are feeling pain, are you listening? This session will highlight how ISV's can gain access to feedback data sent to Microsoft via the Windows Error Reporting harness. This session will demo the web portal and the service layer interface to customer data.

Kevin Hill

Commerce Server "Mojave": Overview

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:36:28 GMT

In this session you will get an in depth look into the new Commerce Server "Mojave" product release. Learn how you can use Commerce Server's next-generation e-commerce API to develop performant, multi-channel e-commerce websites. See improvements to the programming model, improved functionality for working with the desktop and devices, and integration of Commerce Server with SharePoint and ASP.NET. We'll also show how to use the "Mojave" e-commerce web parts to quickly build rich, custom user experiences.

Tom Schultz
Kerry Havas
Kerry is a Product Architect on the Microsoft Commerce Server Product Unit. Before joining the product unit, he worked with MCS to deliver Commerce Server engagements. Before joining MCS, he worked with JCPenney to deliver their award winning E-Commerce site.

Framework Design Guidelines

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:36:25 GMT

Learn about guidelines that have helped the Microsoft .NET Framework grow into the most popular developer framework Microsoft has ever created. After ten years of use, we have an enormous amount of real customer data about what makes great framework design. Whether you are building your own framework or just want to get the most out of the .NET Framework, this is a must-attend talk! Join Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams, authors of the Dr. Dobbs award winning "Framework Design Guidelines" book, and get a sneak peek at the content from the 2nd edition (first available at PDC2008).

Krzysztof Cwalina
Krzysztof Cwalina is a program manager on the .NET Framework team at Microsoft. He started his career at Microsoft designing APIs for the first release of the Framework. Currently, he is leading the effort to develop, promote, and apply the design guidelines to the .NET Framework. He is a coauthor of Framework Design Guidelines (Addison-Wesley, 2005). Reach him at his blog at blogs.msdn.com/kcwalina.
Brad Abrams

Windows Embedded "Quebec": Developing for Devices

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:36:23 GMT

Do you need to understand how to extend your applications and services to embedded devices using Windows 7 technologies? See the new Windows Embedded roadmap and hear plans for our next-generation offering built on Windows 7 technologies.

Shabnam Erfani

Oomph: A Microformat Toolkit

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:36:21 GMT

Microformats are cool -- more than cool -- they're about enhancing the web, representing data using HTML. Targeted at web developers and designers, Oomph makes it easier to create, consume, and style Microformats. Oomph is an amalgamation of applications: an Internet Explorer Add-in written in C++; a cross-browser HTML overlay written in JQuery; a Virtual Earth visualization that geocodes on the fly; a set of beautiful CSS styles; and more. Hear how and why we built it, as well as how you can be part of the burgeoning Microformat movement.

Karsten Januszewski

Mono and .NET

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:36:19 GMT

See how Mono, the open source implementation of the .NET Framework, offers a platform for developers to leverage .NET in new and unconventional scenarios. Explore many of these innovations: the C# shell and the embeddable, C# runtime "eval"; how and why developers are choosing to embed Mono in applications and games on Windows and other platforms; static compilation with Mono enables .NET to be supported on more devices.

Miguel de Icaza
Miguel de Icaza is Novell's Vice President for the Developer Platform where he runs the open source Mono and Moonlight projects (open source implementations of the .NET Framework). Previously he founded the GNOME project, one of the most popular desktop environments for Linux and Unix systems.

Building High Performance JScript Applications

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:36:17 GMT

In this talk, we take a look at the various components that contribute to deliver a high performance Javascript application. We also look at the some of the script performance tools that we can leverage to measure the performance of our application. Finally, we learn about the various improvements in the JScript engine and how you can take advantage of these improvements.

Sameer Chabungbam
Sameer Chabungbam is a Program Manager in the JScript team at Microsoft, where he is focussed at building tools for web developers. Earlier, he had worked on providing Javascript intellisense in Visual Studio. Recently, he worked on the JScript Profiler that shipped in Internet Explorer 8.

Windows 7: Writing World-Ready Applications

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:36:15 GMT

This session centers on globalization features for Windows 7, including sorting and string comparison, locale support, and coverage for new languages, with an eye to helping developers extend their applications to a global user base. This session introduces the Extended Linguistic Services API, the next step in the evolution of globalization support for Windows developers. This session also covers the Multilingual User Interface (MUI) technology inside Windows 7 and .NET, and walks you through an end-to-end look at how to make your application MUI-enabled so that you can easily take your application worldwide and extend your customer base into new language markets.

Yaniv Feinberg
Erik Fortune

Windows 7: Best Practices for Developing for Windows Standard User

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:36:13 GMT

The application development requirements in Windows 7 for UAC-compatibility are exactly the same as in Windows Vista: Vista-compatible applications will interact with UAC in Windows 7 without any modification. No new APIs are required or provided. The UAC improvements for Windows 7 will impact the user's experience but not the application interface. Logo requirements regarding UAC compatibility are the same as in Vista.

Crispin Cowan

Windows 7: Using Instrumentation and Diagnostics to Develop High Quality Software

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:36:11 GMT

Learn how to enhance the quality and supportability of your software during developing and deployment using the Windows 7 instrumentation and troubleshooting platforms. This session will focus on key aspects of the event and performance counter infrastructures, and discuss best practices around adding instrumentation to your code. We will introduce the new Windows PowerShell-based troubleshooting platform, and how it enables you to easily monitor multiple data sources to empower the end user and IT pro to detect and resolve software problems.

Ricky Buch
Kevin Woley

Microsoft .NET Framework: CLR Futures

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:36:09 GMT

Learn about the new features in the next major version of the Common Language Runtime (CLR) from the people building it. Hear about support for in-process side-by-side CLR version support. Get a look at development improvements including code contracts and tools, mini dump debugging in Visual Studio, and enhanced base class libraries including BigInteger, tuples, and trees. Learn how improvements to the GC allow for greater scalability for multiple processors and much more!

Joshua Goodman
Joshua Goodman is currently the Group Program Manager for the Common Language Runtime team -- the team that builds the garbage collector, JIT (just-in-time-compiler), security model, hosting model, and base class libraries for .NET. Prior to that, he was Technical Assistant to Bill Gates, and before that he spent 8 years Microsoft Research, where he ran a small team. Many many years ago he was a developer at a speech recognition company.
Ian Carmichael

Research: Designing the World Wide Telescope

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:36:08 GMT

Hear from the architect of the World Wide Telescope discuss the challenges and opportunities in creating World Wide Telescope as a massively scalable software plus services application. Understand the scale of the data, the communities and capabilities of user generated content, and the rich client application and the service behind it.

Jonathan Fay
Jonathan is a 15 year Microsoft veteran who focuses on studying the intersection of graphics/imaging and networks. He is currently the architect of Microsoft WorldWide Telescope. Jonathan is also an avid amateur astronomer and designed built his own automated domed observatory as well as helped develop the field of DSLR astrophotography. When he is not at work on WorldWide Telescope Jonathan tries keep up with his 5 children and explain to them the majesty of the stars.

Microsoft Expression Blend: Tips & Tricks

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:36:06 GMT

See how Expression Blend can be used to design user interfaces for the desktop and the Web using both Windows Presentation Foundation and Microsoft Silverlight 2. Learn how to design consistently for both technologies and how the resulting XAML provides elegant workflow between developers and designers.

Douglas Olson
Peter Blois

WPF Roadmap

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:36:05 GMT

See the future roadmap for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). Learn about improvements that are planned for graphics, data visualization, interop, performance, and "line of business" application development.

Kevin Gjerstad
Kevin Gjerstad is the Group Program Manager for Windows Presentation Foundation. He has been at Microsoft for fourteen years and has worked on numerous projects including multiple versions of Internet Explorer as well as the presentation bits in Windows. Underpinning all his work is a passion for significantly improving user experience and usability by making it easier for developers to build great applications. Kevin is a graduate of the University of Washington in Seattle.
Anson Tsao

WPF: Data-centric Applications Using the DataGrid and Ribbon Controls

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:36:05 GMT

Business apps live on data. In this demo-focused talk, we'll show how we've made building data-centric business applications in WPF easier with the new DataGrid, Ribbon, and Calendar/DatePicker controls. As we build the application, we'll also give you a sneak peek at how building data-bound apps will be significantly easier in Visual Studio 2010.

Mark Wilson-Thomas
Mark is a Program Manager on the "Cider" team, which builds the WPF and Silverlight Designers in Visual Studio. He is responsible for the layout features of the designer. Prior to joining developer division Mark worked in Microsoft Services as a Development Lead, building large scale web-based UIs for the UK Government, the BBC and others.
Samantha Durante
Samantha is a Program Manager on the Windows Presentation Foundation team. She is responsible for Tree Services & Controls, including the DataGrid and Ribbon controls, and the Syndicated Client Experiences (SCE) Starter Kit. Prior to joining Microsoft, Samantha was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology.

Windows 7: Programming Sync Providers That Work Great with Windows

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:36:04 GMT

Learn how you can enable your application to synchronize with other applications that use the Microsoft Sync Framework. This session covers how to implement sync for contacts and other PIM data, how to package sync providers for distribution and installation, and how to register sync provider for use on Windows.

Moe Khosravy
Moe is the Lead Program Manager on the Microsoft Sync Framework and has been with the project since its incubation - currently driving the group's incubations and device to cloud strategies related to content flow...
Jason Roberts
Jason is the Program Manager responsible for syncronization of Personal Information Manager (PIM) data between new windows certified portable devices and PC applications. Jason has come to Windows after working with PIM data on Exchange Server.

Deep Dive: What's New with user32 and comctl32 in Win32

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:36:02 GMT

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 really, it will actually help you write better software.)

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen has been involved in the evolution of Windows for over a decade. He currently works in the Windows User Experience group. He also writes The Old New Thing Web site and TechNet Magazine's Windows Confidential column. He has been called insane by Zack Simpson.

Windows 7: Deploying Your Application with Windows Installer (MSI) and ClickOnce

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:36:00 GMT

If you are a developer involved in the creation of application deployment packages using Windows Installer (MSI) or ClickOnce, this session is for you. Learn how you can take advantage of new features in Windows 7 to shorten application installation times, reduce UAC prompts, write less custom code, take less time to write installations for complex packages, and much more!

Tyler Robinson

ASP.NET: Cache Extensibility

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:58 GMT

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 on the Html bridge feature in Silverlight 2.

SQL Server Compact: Embedding in Desktop and Device Applications

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:57 GMT

Learn how SQL Server Compact can be used to create data files for your applications, run applications directly from DVD, capture user activity, and sync "back home." Learn the different deployment options, including the newly released 64-bit support and best practices for performance.

Steve Lasker
Steve is Program Manager at Microsoft on the SQL Server Copmact team, working to empower developers to enable their occasionally connected users. For Visual Studio and SQL Server 2008, Steve focused on the design for Sync Services 1.0. For VS 2005, Steve worked on many of the data design time features including the Typed DataSet designer, TableAdapters, Object Binding and the Data Sources Window. Prior to joining Microsoft, Steve was a technical architect with an early internet eCommerce company moving to a consulting firm building web, client and device applications for corporate customers. With an engineering background in the remote broadcasting industry Steve lived the life of the mobile workforce where he gained his passion for the occasionally connected user.

Inside the Olympics: An Architecture and Development Review

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:55 GMT

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 implement a similar solution and understand how and where to apply Silverlight 2 technologies.

Eric Schmidt
Jason Suess

Silverlight Controls Roadmap

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:53 GMT

Come learn about the new Silverlight Controls that are being launched here at PDC and the plans for more great controls in the future. This talk takes you through the paces of the new controls and shows you how to use and customize them for your applications, demonstrates some great new control skins that are being offered with the controls, and takes a look at the roadmap of the other controls to look forward to and how to get them. And for the WPF users out there, we'll be showing off some of the control work being done for that platform as well.

Shawn Burke
Shawn Burke has at Microsoft since 1997, spending all of that time in Developer Division developing UI framworks such as Windows Forms, ASP.NET AJAX, and Silverlight Controls. Shawn is currently the Product Unit Manager of the WPF/Silverlight Controls Team. Shawn holds a Bachelors of Business Administration a Bachelors of Science from the University of Washington in Seattle.

Open XML Format SDK: Developing Open XML Solutions

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:51 GMT

The Open XML Format is an ISO/IEC 29500 standard and is the default file format for Microsoft Office Word 2007, Microsoft Office Excel 2007, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007. The next version of the Open XML Format SDK provides a set of .NET classes to help developers create solutions using Open XML Formats. See how to use the SDK for document assembly and document manipulation.

Zeyad Rajabi
Eric White

Microsoft Visual Studio: Easing ASP.NET Web Deployment

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:49 GMT

Learn how to use the web.config transformation engine to transform a developer web.config file to production. See how to create specific transformations for testing, staging, and production. Hear how to package and deploy applications with the new Web Deployment Pipeline and MSBuild.

Vishal Joshi
Vishal works as a Sr. Program Manager with Visual Studio Web Developer Team and helps in building Technologies and Tools the ASP.NET and IIS space. He has been with Microsoft since last 3 years. Before joining Microsoft he was a Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET working as a Systems Architect for Compuware Corporation. Few of the projects that Vishal has worked on in the recent past are ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio Tools for SharePoint, ASP.NET Web Site, ASP.NET Web Applications, Visual Studio Web Developer (VWD) Express and ASP.NET Web Deployment.

ASP.NET AJAX Futures

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:47 GMT

Explore the new ASP.NET AJAX client template and data binding framework, including declarative UI, controls, data binding in the browser, and integration with Data Services and server pages.

Bertrand Le Roy

ASP.NET and JQuery

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:47 GMT

JQuery is an open source JavaScript library that has a passionate following among Ajax developers. Microsoft is integrating the open source JQuery library into both the ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC frameworks and providing full product support. Learn how you can take advantage of JQuery to build richly interactive client-side Ajax applications when developing either ASP.NET Web Forms or ASP.NET MVC applications. Also see how JQuery works in combination with ASP.NET AJAX to provide the best framework for building Ajax applications.

Stephen Walther
Stephen Walther is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft who is responsible for ASP.NET MVC content and community. He is the author of the best-selling book on ASP.NET, ASP.NET Unleashed. He is writing ASP.NET MVC Unleashed.

ASP.NET Dynamic Data

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:46 GMT

The next version of ASP.NET MVC contains a new scaffolding feature based on Dynamic Data that provides a rich framework for creating data driven web sites. Learn how to quickly build a Dynamic Data web site using features like model level validation, field and entity templates, and scaffolding.

Scott Hunter
Started out writing bulletin board software with Turbo Pascal which became a startup software development business. Graduated from California State Bakersfield with a degree in Computer Science and Economics. Scott has spent the past 8 years developing software in the .NET space mainly in the ASP.NET area. For the past year Scott has worked at Microsoft on the ASP.NET as a Program Manager currently working on Dynamic Data and all things around data.

Microsoft Silverlight 2: Control Model

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:45 GMT

Learn about the different types of controls in Silverlight, the differences between UserControls and custom controls, and how to customize their appearance through styling and skinning. Also learn how Microsoft Expression Blend can be used to customize the look of controls.

Karen Corby
Karen Corby is a Program Manager on the Silverlight team who focuses on control customization and HTTP networking. She holds a MS in Computer Science from Stanford University. In her spare time, Karen enjoys hiking, reading, travel, and photography. Her blog is http://scorbs.com/work.

Microsoft Silverlight, WPF and the Microsoft .NET Framework: Sharing Skills and Code

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:41 GMT

Come get an in-depth understanding of the compatibility between Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight. Learn the relationship between WPF and Silverlight's various subsystems including: XAML parsing and serialization, control instantiation, styling and templating, layout, rendering, and more. Learn how to build applications that fully exploit both Silverlight and WPF.

Ian Ellison-Taylor
Ian Ellison-Taylor is the General Manager for Microsoft’s Presentation Platforms and Tools Team (PP&T) which creates technologies that enables developers and designers to build revolutionary next-generation user experiences for the desktop, the web and devices. Currently the group produces the UI framework (known as “WPF”), controls and developer tools for .Net and Silverlight. Ian has been working on various user-experience related platforms at Microsoft for more than 15 years across a variety of products including Windows, Internet Explorer and Visual Studio. He joined Microsoft in 1990 as developer on the Windows 3.1 team having graduated from the University of Durham, England.

Microsoft Visual Studio: Building Applications with MFC

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:39 GMT

The next release of MFC will provide encapsulations around a number of new Windows platform features. With this functionality you can easily build applications that integrate into features such as desktop search, application restart and recovery functionality, leverage the new Windows UI metaphors such as Live Icons and Rich Preview. These features represent one of the most significant updates to MFC in years. Come learn the details on all these new classes so you can rapidly build Windows applications that stand out from the crowd.

Damien Watkins

Windows 7: The Sensor and Location Platform: Building Context-Aware Applications

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:38 GMT

Windows 7 introduces a platform for using sensor devices, such as light sensors or GPS sensors, to create environmental or location awareness in programs. In this session, you will learn how to use sensors to make your programs more functional, easier to use, and more aware of the surrounding environment.

Dan Polivy
Dan Polivy is a lead program manager in the PC|3 Division at Microsoft, where he is responsible for the Windows SideShow platform and other new features for Windows 7. Previously, he was a developer working on the design and implementation of Windows SideShow. He has been at Microsoft for over six years, and started as a member of the Tablet PC team. Dan graduated from Brown University with a degree in Computer Science, and currently resides in Seattle, Washington with his wife.

Windows 7: Welcome to the Windows 7 Desktop

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:36 GMT

The Windows desktop is evolving--is your application ready to evolve also? This session sets the stage for exciting enhancements to the taskbar, Start Menu, and other desktop elements.

Chaitanya Sareen

Windows 7: Integrate with the Windows 7 Desktop

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:36 GMT

This session dives into new APIs that enable integration with the latest Windows desktop features. Learn about new extensibility methods to surface your application's key tasks. Discover how enhancements to the taskbar, Start Menu, thumbnails and their desktop elements provide new ways for you to delight your users. This talk is a must for application developers who wan to provide the best user experience for their applications on Windows 7.

Rob Jarrett
Rob Jarrett is a Sr. Software Design Engineer on the Core User Experience team, and is a key contributor to the architecture, interaction, visuals, and animation of the Windows 7 taskbar. Rob joined Microsoft in 2000, spending nearly 6 years on the Tablet PC team. During that time, he worked on digital inking and pen/touch interaction in many forms, and co-authored the book "Building Tablet PC Applications". In 2006, he joined the Windows Shell team to explore and enhance window management, primarily focusing on the taskbar. Prior to Microsoft, Rob was a software developer in Toronto, Canada for 8 years.

Windows 7: Design Principles for Windows 7

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:35 GMT

Together, we can increase customer enthusiasm, satisfaction and loyalty by designing user experiences that are both desirable and harmonious. In this session we introduce the Windows User Experience Principles approach to shipping software. Along the way we share stories and lessons learned along the journey of designing the user model and experience for Windows 7, and leave you with a set of principles that you can apply as you build your applications for Windows.

Samuel Moreau

ASP.NET MVC: A New Framework for Building Web Applications

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:34 GMT

Learn how the new ASP.NET MVC framework differs from the current ASP.NET Web Forms framework. Learn to take advantage of ASP.NET MVC to build loosely coupled, highly testable, agile applications. See how ASP.NET MVC provides you with fine-grained control over HTML and JavaScript.

Phil Haack
As a code junkie, Phil Haack loves to craft software. Not only does he enjoy writing software, he enjoys writing about software and software management on his blog, http://haacked.com/. Phil is a Program Manager with the ASP.NET team working on the ASP.NET MVC project. Prior to joining Microsoft, Phil worked as a product manager for a code search engine, a dev manager for an online gaming company, and as a senior architect for a popular Spanish language television network, among other things. In his spare time, Phil contributes to various open source projects and is the founder of the Subtext blog engine project, which he recently learned powers the blogs on MySpace China.

ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:33 GMT

Take a walk through the 4.0 landscape from ASP.NET and learn how you can get involved in shaping ASP.NET future. This talk focuses on the next release of ASP.NET including web forms and MVC. Do you love web forms? See how you can taking control of your control IDs, display images using the new DynamicImage control, learn about better ViewState managment in GridView and ListView, and get more control over the CSS markup of ASP.NET server controls. See how Dynamic Data makes building you data-driven apps easy. If you're interested in AJAX, we show you further advancements in client rendering and binding. If you're considering MVC, we look at the feature set and understand how to create applications with this technology.

Scott Hunter
Started out writing bulletin board software with Turbo Pascal which became a startup software development business. Graduated from California State Bakersfield with a degree in Computer Science and Economics. Scott has spent the past 8 years developing software in the .NET space mainly in the ASP.NET area. For the past year Scott has worked at Microsoft on the ASP.NET as a Program Manager currently working on Dynamic Data and all things around data.

Windows 7: Introducing Direct2D and DirectWrite

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:31 GMT

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 typography within your GDI and Direct2D applications. Also learn how you can port your GDI code to Direct2D and DirectWrite, and understand how to interoperate with other Windows graphics APIs.

Leonardo Blanco
Leonardo Blanco has been at Microsoft since 1996. He is a Principal Development Lead in the Windows Desktop and Graphics Technologies team, where he focuses on development and maintenance of existing and new mainstream graphics APIs for Windows. During the Window Vista timeframe, Leonardo worked on the graphics stack that forms the basis of the Windows Presentation Foundation, most notably the composition and animation engines. He also helped build the Windows Vista Desktop Window Manager, which is responsible for Aero Glass and the Flip3D effect. Prior to Windows Vista, Leonardo worked on Windows CE, delivering multimedia technologies to both mobile and embedded devices. Leonardo holds a degree in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Kam VedBrat
Hi, I'm Kam VedBrat, and I'm the Lead Program Manager for Mainstream Graphics API's on the Windows 7 team. I work on technologies including GDI, GDI+, the Windows Imaging Component, the Windows Color System, and (new for Windows 7) Direct2D and Direct Write. Over the last 10 years at Microsoft I've worked on Windows Vista, MSN Explorer, and Internet Explorer. Before Microsoft, I studied Computer Science at Purdue University (Go Boilers!), and graduated in 1998. My favorite color is orange, and if you want to learn more about me, read my blog! Thanks, -Kam

Developing for Microsoft Surface

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:30 GMT

This session introduces the newly available Microsoft Surface SDK. Hear about the unique attributes of Microsoft Surface computing, dive into vision-based object recognition and core controls like ScatterView, and learn how the Surface SDK aligns with the multi-touch developer roadmap for Windows 7 and WPF. Additionally, learn how you can become a part of the expanding partner ecosystem for Microsoft Surface and leverage your existing investments in WPF and Visual Studio to build engaging end user applications. Attendees of this session will receive access to the Microsoft Surface SDK.

Robert Levy
Robert Levy has led the design development of the APIs and controls in the Microsoft Surface SDK. He has been on the Surface team for over two years. His previous projects at Microsoft include the SDKs for Windows Mobile 2003 SE and Windows Mobile 5.0.
Brad Carpenter
Brad leads SW Platform Development efforts for Microsoft Surface, including the development of the sub-system, Shell, and SDK. Previously Brad was General Manager in the Unlimited Potential group, developing Windows solutions & business opportunities to provide computing & information access for people in emerging economies. Previous to that, Brad was Director of HW & Driver Quality for Windows, responsible for device & driver coverage; development of driver development tools; overseeing WHQL & WinHEC; and partnering with the industry to fix blue screens. Brad started on LAN Manager in 1991, moved to work on Windows 95 and subsequent versions of Windows.

Windows 7: Empower users to find, visualize and organize their data with Libraries and the Explorer

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:28 GMT

Learn how you can enable a familiar experience for users and light up your application by using the Windows Search API and Library API and File Dialog. Also learn how you can integrate your web service with Windows search by using the OpenSearch standard without writing any client code. Master how to provide a rich experience for your data type in the Windows 7 Explorer with metadata, thumbnails, verbs and previews.

David Washington
David Washington is a Program Manager on the Find and Organize team and is responsible for the Windows Explorer platform. David first arrived at Microsoft in 2002 as an intern on the Microsoft CRM team, and eventually ended up on the Windows Shell team where he worked on the Windows Vista Common File Dialog.

Windows 7: Benefiting from Documents and Printing Convergence

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:26 GMT

Discover how updating your printing infrastructure to XPS allows your application to seamlessly bridge across both electronic and physical paper and benefit from new document workflow and interoperability scenarios.

Adrian Ford

Windows 7 Scenic Ribbon: The next generation user experience for presenting commands in Win32 applications.

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:24 GMT

Windows 7 includes a new user interface platform component that enables existing and new Windows application to take advantage of the next generation commanding experience ("Ribbon"). In this session, you'll learn about the features provided by the ribbon, the Win32 application programming interfaces required to use it, and simple techniques for adding a ribbon to your application.

Nicolas Brun

Windows 7: Building Great Audio Communications Applications

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:23 GMT

Using the PC as a phone is central to the future of communications, and this session will provide you with the essentials to build the end to end experience. Windows 7 provides APIs for integrating communications capabilities into your applications. This session covers attenuating and muting sounds during a phone call, receiving a phone call using a Bluetooth headset, improving the latency of a phone call, and selecting the appropriate communications device.

Larry Osterman
Larry started working at Microsoft back in the dark ages back when computers shipped with kilobytes of memory and a 10 megabytes of disk space. Over his 24 year career he has worked on networking, email servers, embedded controllers for home automation and most recently he works as a developer on the Windows Sound team.

Deep Dive: The New Rendering Engine in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:21 GMT

Users will be able to browse the web with brand new, standards compliant rendering engine in Internet Explorer 8, while continuing to support existing web content. We take a deep dive look into how this engine works and why it means hasLayout is gone. Get ready to roll up your sleeves and dive into the intricacies of HTML, CSS, and everything else that affects the web you view.

Alex Mogilevsky

Microsoft Silverlight Futures: Building Business Focused Applications

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:19 GMT

What if you could develop your solutions with the ease pioneered by Microsoft Office Access, deploy them like an Internet application, and take advantage of the power of Microsoft .NET? Learn about an exciting new technology that is all about making business applications for RIA (Rich Internet Applications) much easier to build. In this session, hear how we've made n-tier application development as simple as traditional 2-tier, provided application level solutions to developers, and how we're doing all of this with the same .NET platform and tools on both the client and server.

Jamie Cool

Microsoft Silverlight 2 for Mobile: Developing for Mobile Devices

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:17 GMT

Wouldn't it be super cool if the Silverlight apps you build for the desktop can now run on Millions of Mobile Devices ? If you have been building Silverlight applications and are wondering how to extend them mobile devices, this is just the right session for you. In this session, filled with some very cool demos you will not only learn how to extend your existing Silverlight 2 applications to work on Windows Mobile but also learn how to build rich mobile Silverlight apps that play media, handle simple gestures, have cool animations, and web services. We will also talk about tooling enhancements in Visual Studio that support Silverlight app development on Windows Mobile, what to consider when delivering eye-popping UI on mobile, and help you understand the key differences from developing Silverlight apps for the desktop.

Amit Chopra
Giorgio Sardo
Giorgio Sardo is a Technical Evangelist for Microsoft Corporation. Moving from Italy to the United Kingdom, Giorgio studied at Polytechnic of Turin and successfully obtained a Master of Computer Engineering with distinction. For four years he has been a Microsoft Student Partner Lead, leading a national university community forum. In 2007 he started working in Microsoft UK as User Experience Consultant, delivering stunning solutions based on Silverlight, WPF and Silverlight for Mobile. Later 2008 Giorgio will move to Redmond, to work as Technical Evangelist for Web Technologies (ASP.NET, IE8, ...).

WPF: Extensible BitmapEffects, Pixel Shaders, and WPF Graphics Futures

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:16 GMT

Come learn how new Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) graphics enhancements in the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 can be seamlessly integrated with existing WPF features. Take advantage of machine hardware by creating your own custom GPU-based effects. DirectX interop allows you to easily compose your existing DirectX graphics surfaces with other WPF content such as controls, text and layout. Use fast, custom software bitmap manipulation to create stunning, high performance application UI. Finally, get a look into what new WPF graphics capabilities will be included in the next release of WPF.

David Teitlebaum

Deep Dive: Building an Optimized, Graphics-Intensive Application in Microsoft Silverlight

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:15 GMT

In this deep dive session we pull the covers off of the layout, rendering, and media pipelines to discuss how things work and how to optimize your application. This session covers how to set goals with your designer and developer teams, what happens behind the scenes with control visuals, the underlying mechanisms of our media stack, and how to profile your application.

Seema Ramchandani

Windows 7: Unlocking the GPU with Direct3D

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:13 GMT

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 Klein
Allison Klein is the senior lead program manager for Direct3D technologies. She received her Ph.D. in computer graphics from Princeton University and before (re)joining Microsoft in 2006 she was briefly a university professor of Computer Science.

Windows 7: Writing Your Application to Shine on Modern Graphics Hardware

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:12 GMT

This session centers on the new enhancements to DirectX that enable Win32 applications harness the latest innovations in modern graphics hardware. Learn how to use the Windows 7 graphics infrastructure to enable your applications to display graphics content on different generations of graphics hardware, across multiple displays and on a remote desktop. Also learn how you can test your application for DPI awareness, what to look for, and how to make it provide the best experience on high-DPI displays.

Anantha Kancherla
Anantha is a Graphics nut and joined Microsoft to work on 3D Graphics after dabbling in Virtual Reality in Grad School. In Microsoft, Anantha has worked on a number of aspects of Graphics in a variety of roles. He was a developer on the D3D team for multiple versions. He lead the development team for D3D 9 and since then has been Program Managing various aspects of low level Graphics in Windows such as DX, GDI, Display Drivers, Window Manager. His proudest moment was accepting a Technical Emmy for DirectX technologies on the behalf of his team.

Windows 7: Developing Multi-touch Applications

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:11 GMT

In Windows 7, innovative touch and gesture support will enable more direct and natural interaction in your applications. This session highlights the new multi-touch gesture APIs and explains how you can leverage them in your applications.

Reed Townsend
Anson Tsao

Windows 7: Extending Battery Life with Energy Efficient Applications

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:10 GMT

A single application can accidentally halve battery life for the average laptop. This session demonstrates best practices for designing energy efficient applications and shows utilities for diagnosing common application battery life problems. Learn about how Windows 7 makes it easier for developers to design energy-efficient applications which do not negatively impact mobile PC battery life.

Pat Stemen

Windows 7: Designing Efficient Background Processes

Charles — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:00 GMT

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. It also covers how to use new Windows 7 infrastructure to develop efficient background tasks.

Vikram Singh

Windows 7: Web Services in Native Code

Charles — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:35:00 GMT

Windows 7 introduces a new networking API with support for building SOAP based web services in native code. This session discusses the programming model, interoperability aspects with other implementations of WS-* protocols, and demonstrates various services and applications built using this API.

Nikola Dudar

Nikola Dudar is a program manager on Windows Networking team. He is working on a new Windows API for connecting web services and native code. In his previous position, he was a Program Manager on Visual C++ team. He worked on building new features in VC++ libraries. Prior joining Microsoft, Nikola has been involved in a research of architectures for data warehouses used in scientific data analysis and machine learning. He has MS in Computer Science degree from the University of New Mexico and MS degree in Control Systems and Automation from Vinnytsya National Technical University.

Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:34:15 GMT

Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V), formerly known as Microsoft Softgrid Application Virtualization, allows companies to create and customize "virtual packages" of desktop applications that can be streamed over the web providing a SAAS experience without a costly rewrite of the application. Learn how App-V improves the deployment, test, and support cost savings achieved by moving to virtual applications.

Elsie Nallipogu
John Sheehan