Entries tagged with advanced - Channel 9

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

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.

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

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.

"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.

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.