Entries tagged with intermediate - Channel 9

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.

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 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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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: 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

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

Showcase: How HP Built their Magcloud Service on Windows Azure

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:34:13 GMT

Hear from an online magazine publishing service that was prototyped on Microsoft cloud services. Learn from the development team about what they built, why they built it, and what they learned about the platform along the way.

Andrew E Fitzhugh
Steve Marx

Datacenters and Resilient Services

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:34:11 GMT

Microsoft Global Foundation Services (GFS) continues to learn by running online services while also building the next generation of services that are both resilient and cost effective. A key factor in realizing these goals is to apply innovation and lessons learned during the design phase. Take a look at the datacenter operations, and explore the challenges of managing large-scale services, such as Windows Live ID (WLID), which handle billions of transactions per day.

Benjamin Ravani
Ben Ravani is a General Manager in the Global Foundation Services at Microsoft. Ben brings 21 years of experience in the high tech industry from business planning and product development to services design and operations support. Ben currently leads an organization that manages over 100 of Microsoft’s online properties with 10,000’s of servers deployed in data centers globally providing services to Hundreds of Millions of users worldwide. The scope of his responsibilities includes managing services with over a Billion transactions per day and 10’s of millions of concurrent sessions. He is responsible for operating a number of platform services including Windows Live ID, Messenger and Anti Phishing. Ben has provided design consulting to services such as WLID, Microsoft’s online Billing platform, Microsoft’s Rights Management Platform, and Microsoft’s award winning Internet Safety platform. Ben joined Microsoft over 14 years. Since then, he has held various leadership roles at Microsoft involved in developing and building a number of products and services. Ben started his career in developing technologies in the automotive and aerospace industries. He led an engineering team in the Boeing 777 development program responsible for the Electrical and Avionics Engineering Computing. He holds a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Showcase: Windows Azure Enables /Nsoftware and Full Armor

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:34:09 GMT

Learn how early adopter customers built their services on the Microsoft cloud platform. Hear details about the experience related to design and development of their services, and why they chose to build their service on the cloud platform.

Gent Hito
Danny Kim
Danny Kim is a Microsoft MVP and recognized industry expert on Windows Group Policy, Active Directory, and PowerShell. Kim has helped more than 30 Fortune 100 companies, including Bank of America, Boeing, and Wal-Mart, design and deploy their Group Policy and DataCenter infrastructure. He has also architected and developed several leading Windows policy management products which have been licensed by Microsoft, NetIQ, Citrix, HP, Sony, Toshiba and others. Kim holds a BS in Computer Science from Cornell University.
Steve Marx

Windows Azure: Cloud Service Development Best Practices

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:32 GMT

This session goes beyond the "Hello World" development experience, giving best practices across common tasks for serious service developers. These tasks include logging, debugging, deployment, management, and maintenance of individual services.

Sriram Krishnan
Sriram is a mild-mannered Program Manager on the Cloud Infrastructure Services team at Microsoft. Before this, he worked on Popfly and Visual Studio for Devices. He loves to game on his XBox 360 and tries to hide his love for all things Star Trek

Showcase: Industry Leaders Moving to the Cloud

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:24 GMT

Senior architects from Accenture, Epicor and Infosys, who have been using Microsoft's cloud platform for the last while, walk through the applications they've built on the platform, the architectures they've used and the lessons they've learned on what works and what doesn't. Get a real world perspective and questions answered from architects who have been getting their hands dirty with cloud services.

Jitendra Thethi
Jitendra is a part of Microsoft Technology center at Infosys and an Architect on Catalytic IT, a joint IT Transformation Program with Microsoft. Currently he leads the Cloud Computing group and defines how various solutions and service offerings in Infosys should leverage this disruptive technology to provide a better value to our customers.
Larry Beck
Erik Johnson
Erik Johnson is Sr. Director of Product Research for Epicor Software, the 6th-largest global ERP software supplier and responsible for managing software architecture strategy and relationships with technology partners. Erik represented Epicor at the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I), where he contributed to the WS-I Basic Profile 1.0 and chaired the XML Schema working group. As an enterprise solutions architect, Erik was named to the Microsoft Architecture Advisory Board and a Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP. Prior to joining Epicor, Erik worked as a senior software architect and development manager at DataWorks Corporation.
Brandon Watson

Microsoft Advertising Platform: A Day in the Life of a Click

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:15 GMT

Clicks are the single cell organism of the digital advertising world. See how a click moves through the advertising ecosystem covering all the basic components, including delivery engines, billing systems, reporting systems, data pipelines, and fraud detection systems.

Robert Devine
Robert works in adCenter managing a couple billion dollars in billing one click and impression at a time. He has worked in the software-as-a-service space for the better part of a decade, joining most recently from the Live Meeting team.