Over 25 new session posted for PDC 2009

Advanced Diagnostics, Historical Debugging and Test Automation

As applications become more complex and pressures to decrease costs increase, we need tools to facilitate reducing the turn-around time for testers and developers to find and fix bugs. Microsoft Test and Lab Manager enables testers to collect more detailed diagnostic data during a test run leading to higher quality bugs that provide more insight to the developers on what actually went wrong when the bug occurred.  With the addition of Test Strips, testers can generate automation as an artifact of their test runs helping to not only increase coverage of the application, but reducing the time it takes to manually test the application.  Finally, we'll show how Test Impact Analysis helps developers test the right automated tests from within Visual Studio, while testers know what the right set of tests to prioritize and run are given recent changes introduced by the development organization”.

Habib Heydarian

Code Visualization, UML, and DSLs

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010 Architecture Edition introduces a whole host of new designers and modeling tools to help enterprises and teams build software. UML Diagrams and the Layer Diagram can be used to plan and design the assets your team will produce, and communicate effectively about those designs during the entire development lifecycle. The Architecture Explorer and Graphs help you investigate and better understand the assets you have to enable more effective planning and decision making. Come learn how you can use all of these tools when investigating your current assets, and planning and designing your future work.

Cameron Skinner

Developing Rich Reporting Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2

SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) provides a comprehensive platform for developing and delivering rich enterprise reporting functionality over the Web. SSRS reports support rich data visualization and navigation features, and can be rendered in most popular formats. Come get a quick review of SSRS report development, and explore some of the key improvements in SQL Server 2008 R2, including new map visualizations, a new component library, using existing reports as a data source for the new PowerPivot functionality in Microsoft Excel 2010, and an improved AJAX enabled Report Viewer control for building Web-based reporting solutions.

Developing Solutions with Business Connectivity Services in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

The Business Connectivity Services (BCS) in SharePoint Server 2010 allow developers to rapidly build and deploy SharePoint and Microsoft Office solutions that integrate with LOB systems. Come learn about BCS support for read/write functionality, and about the tools and APIs.

Steve Fox

Embodiment: The Third Great Wave of Computing Applications

Come hear about the next major wave of computing applications from Butler Lampson, a recognized leader in modern networking, and alumnus of Berkeley, Xerox PARC, and Digital’s Systems Research Center. Learn how computing applications evolved beginning with simulation, then communication, and how we're beginning to use computers for embodiment: nontrivial interactions with the physical world. Today there are sensor networks like the Inrix traffic information system, robots like the Roomba vacuum cleaner, and cameras that can pick out faces and even smiles. In a few years we will have cars that drive themselves, glasses that overlay the person you are looking at with their name and contact information, telepresence systems that make most business travel unnecessary, and other applications as yet unimagined. Hear about the new embodiment wave of computing applications from one of the leaders in the field.

Butler Lampson

Future Directions for C# and Visual Basic

Come hear about the forces that influence and shape the future of programming languages and how C# and Visual Basic are evolving to meet future customer needs.

Luca Bolognese

Networking and Web Services in Silverlight

This session will present an overview of how to expose data to a Silverlight application by accessing SOAP WCF services and REST services. In the WCF space, we will cover Silverlight 3 approaches for securing services and improving their performance and maintainability. We will also cover a specific message pattern called server push, which allows you to implement scenarios such as email clients and real-time chat. In the REST space, we will walk through the Silverlight 3 client HTTP stack and new functionality it offers around HTTP verbs, headers, responses, and cross-domain access and talk about future plans for networking and web services in Silverlight.

Patterns for Building Scalable and Reliable Applications with Windows Azure

Learn common patterns that will help you build applications that seamlessly scale.  This session will cover topics such as data access, parallel processing, and managing work using queues.

Brad Calder

Scaling out Web Applications with Microsoft SQL Azure Databases

Microsoft SQL Azure and the Windows Azure Platform provides all the necessary building blocks to develop and host rich internet applications that can service an internet scale user population while storing nearly limitless amounts of data.  Come learn how to build such applications and see firsthand the power and elasticity of Microsoft SQL Azure and the performance gains seen while using scale out development patterns.

David Robinson

Software + Services Identity Roadmap Update

At PDC 2008, Microsoft unveiled a comprehensive offering of identity software and services, based on the industry standard claims-based architecture, and designed to address the rapidly growing requirements of modern applications both on-premises and cloud.  In this session, we will demonstrate the progress we’ve made using real life use cases, discuss lessons learned in adoption of claims based identity, and preview new scenarios and capabilities of the evolving identity software + services portfolio.”

Kim Cameron

Storing and Manipulating Blobs and Files with Windows Azure Storage

Learn about the new features in Windows Azure for storing and manipulating blobs and files in the cloud, as well as tips, tricks, and performance guidelines for using blobs.

Using ADO.NET Data Services

Join this code-heavy session to discuss the upcoming version of ADO.NET Data Services, a simple, standards-based RESTful service interface for data access. Come see new features in action and learn how Microsoft products are using ADO.NET Data Services to expose and consume Data Services to achieve their goals around data sharing.

Pablo Castro

What’s New for Windows Communication Foundation 4

Learn about the investments made in Windows Communication Foundation 4 that add new capabilities for service composition and reduced configuration and deployment complexity. Discover how improvements to configuration, monitoring, and deployment are enhanced by Microsoft project code name "Dublin".  See how the Routing Service makes it easier to build sophisticated intermediaries and how support for WS-Discovery adds flexibility to your services infrastructure. Gain insight into the improved authoring experience for REST services applications including new support for caching, multiple formats, and fault handling.

Ed Pinto

Windows Azure Present and Future

Learn how Windows Azure has changed since its initial preview last year and what you can expect from Windows Azure in the future.

Manuvir Das

Workflow Services and “Dublin”

Learn how to use Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) 4, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4, and “Dublin” to build and manage scalable, reliable, and highly-available applications. Discover the power of WF to build and coordinate WCF services and implement logic on the middle tier. Enable sophisticated messaging patterns with correlation, enhanced transaction support, durable services, and config-based activation. Learn how "Dublin" makes it easier to deploy, manage, and monitor WCF and WF applications.

Mark Fussell