PDC 09 content & learning resources

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11/23/2009

PDC 09 (premier Professional Developers Conference) was held in Los Angeles, CA from Nov. 15^th-19^th 2009. We covered some exciting technologies (Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010, Windows Azure, Silverlight 4, Office 2010 and Sharepoint Server 2010, etc), so we have listed some resources to make it easier for you to get familiar with them. Folks that weren’t available to travel can watch most/all of the sessions (available online), check out the decks and other resources (training materials). Feel free to share this blogpost with your colleagues and development staff.

PDC 09 Online Sessions: https://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions

1. Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4: (Beta2 is available and includes Go-Live license)

· Training on Channel9 https://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/VS2010/

· 10-4 Shows on Channel9: https://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4/

· Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit - October Preview

2. Windows Server 2008 AppFabric Beta 1 (includes Project Dublin and Velocity Distributed In-Memory Caching): https://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/app-main.aspx (AppFabric will also be available for Windows Azure next year)

3. Windows Azure

· Learning on Channel9

· Training - Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – November Update

· Short Training Videos on Windows Azure

· Webcasts on Windows Azure

· Windows Azure SDK

· Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (November 2009)

· Microsoft .NET Services SDK (Nov 2009 CTP)

4. Identity Developer (Windows Identity Foundation has gone RTW)

· Identity Management homepage (has links to the bits, documentation, webcasts, kit, etc) https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/security/aa570351.aspx

· Identity Developer Training Kit

· Training on Channel9