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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.

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

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 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

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: 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.

Developing with Microsoft .NET and ASP.NET for Server Core

Charles — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:00 GMT

In the next release of Windows Server, the Server Core installation option will support a subset of .NET and ASP.NET allowing your managed applications and web servers to take advantage of the reduced management and maintenance that Server Core provides. Learn about writing new code for-and how to ensure existing code works within-the subset of .NET and ASP.NET that are in Server Core. In addition, this session covers how to use the existing toolset, a command line environment, to troubleshoot and debug on Server Core.

Ian Robinson
Andrew Mason

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.

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 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.