pdc2008

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

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

"Dublin": Hosting and Managing Workflows and Services in Windows Application Server

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

Hear about extensions being made to Windows Server to provide a feature-rich middle-tier execution and deployment environment for Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) applications. Learn about the architecture of this new extension, how it works, how to take advantage of it, and the features it provides that simplify deployment, management, and troubleshooting of workflows and services.

Dan Eshner

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

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 .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