The NextWeb is upon us and this track brings you the latest from Microsoft Web platform. Get in-depth coverage on ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Internet Information Services (IIS) and Windows Server AppFabric. Whether you are interested in taking your ASP.NET development to the next level, or finding out how you can use your .NET development skills to build world-class web applications, the Next Web track is for you!

The Windows Client track will offer insights into Windows 7 development. Key focus areas include a technical dive into Applications powered by the power of the Full PC - sensors, haptics and more. The Windows Client track will help you to prepare for the challenges and opportunities while building applications for your customers.

TBD: SQL Dev., ADO.NET, Denali developer enhancements

Want to know what's new in the .NET 4.0 runtime or which Data Access Methods should I use where? Then this track is for you!

Amplify your application development impact with Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) best practices using Visual Studio Test Elements,and Team Foundation Server. Acquire the skills that you need to make an immediate impact in your organization while preparing for adoption of the latest version of Visual Studio.

Now more than ever, your business needs access to the right information to make smarter, more informed decisions. This track covers how to integrate, analyze, and report on all of your corporate data easily using the Microsoft BI platform, tools, and analytics. Learn how to build robust BI solutions using SQL Server 2008 R2 (Integration Services, Analysis Services and Reporting Services) and get a sneak peek into SQL Server "Denali".

As amazing as the web is, its potential is immeasurably greater. Internet Explorer 9 was designed to let that potential shine through. Web developers & designers alike, get ready for creating a more beautiful web using HTML5 and IE9.

Deep-dive into individual Azure platform features (AppFabric, Virtual Connect, Storage, SQL Azure Data Sync)

SharePoint offers immense amount of potential for integrating applications, workflows, composite applications as well as Silverlight integration. And with Visual Studio 2010 support for designing, developing and deploying SharePoint applications, it gets even better!

Solutions that save time, reduce costs and provide for an efficiently managed data center. Powerful features such as RemoteFX, DirectAccess, NAP and Windows PowerShell version 2.0 combine to give customers greater control, increased efficiency, and the ability to react to front-line business needs faster than ever before. Here is where you can update your knowledge, or focus on a specific technology or feature that will benefit you & your organization.

Building a Private Cloud? Learn how Microsoft System Center Suite of products empower you with tools to build & manage your unified IT management solution that enables simpler and efficient performance across virtual and physical servers, PCs, hardware, software and IT services from a single console.

SharePoint is the fastest selling server in Microsoft history. Attend this track to prepare yourself and your datacenter for SharePoint, learn how to plan for capacity, upgrade to SharePoint 2010 & how SharePoint will change your day!

Microsoft Office 365 brings together cloud versions of our most trusted communications and collaboration products with the latest version of our desktop suite for businesses of all sizes. Tune into this track to learn more about Office 365 and prepare your journey to the Cloud.

The SQL Server data platform helps your organization manage any data, any place, any time with the security, reliability and scalability that your mission-critical applications require. In this track, we will introduce unique ways to monitor SQL Server health & activity as well as pushing the very limit of performance, scalability and upgrading to SQL Server 2008 R2. You will also get a sneak peek into what SQL Server "Denali" release offers for Database Administrators.

Deploying Windows 7 & Office 2010, building base images, VDI, MDOP & Sysinternals tools

The focus for the track is to bring in uniqueness and offer niche topics. Focus here is to offer niche topics under Web, Middleware, Data & Cloud. We open the track with a role play that leads into individual sessions for the day.

Using patterns & practices offerings, can shrink the design & dev cycle of your custom app dev projects, reduce project technical risk, and position you to take advantage of future Microsoft technologies. Each patterns & practices offering contains a combination of re-usable source code, a reference implementation & documentation! This track focuses on the latest guidance and offers an opportunity to interact with the PnP team.

Sessions in this track are designed to help architects, to make better architecture choices–whether it's researching and evaluating new technology and platforms, choosing or creating patterns, guidelines and practices, concepts visualization or influencing and educating the business team. Learn about potential processes which you can use to translate business vision, intent, and strategy into effective technological change in the Enterprise. Hear great and renowned speakers share their views, best practices around the skills of creating, communicating, and improving the key tenets, principles, and models that help architects in their day to day life to understand and describe the Enterprise's future state and enable its transformation, evolution, or migration.

In this fast track world, there is a need to innovate oneself and rediscover oneself on the personal fronts, productivity fronts etc. to win the dreams one has built over years. Dreaming is one aspect, working towards achieving the dreams is another, which a very few succeed. We will also look at how one can do work-life balance to achieve greater heights. Also this track will bring out aspects of influencing your stakeholders, management in an effective way and many more...

 

Businesses today need the ability to seamlessly interoperate and integrate with multiple vendor technologies, systems, and applications, both within the organization and with external customers & partners. IT departments have to juggle the needs of business users with the complexities of building or deploying applications that provide information from a range of IT resources that — increasingly — need to link together, and can no longer be isolated islands of information. The Integration and Interoperability track focuses on the ability to develop or enhance applications to enable the types of integration required by today’s business processes. Sessions define the issues and offer strategies for solutions that provide interoperability of technologies that will enable you to link, couple, migrate, and consolidate Microsoft and non-Microsoft platforms to provide flexible, intelligent IT solutions.

WebMatrix, Web Apps, PHP on IIS, PHP on Azure, RS on PHP, HTML5

Microsoft goes beyond your workplace to bring your digital life together across devices and services. In today's high-tech world, almost everyone has several electronic devices—a PC, a laptop, a cell phone, a game console, an HDTV. In the past, we used these devices independently for a single purpose. But today, we can connect these devices together to deliver a greater combined user experience. Boost your productivity when you work with Office 2010 as it helps you accomplish your work more intuitively, so you can focus on the task at hand and produce better results.

For the first time in Tech·Ed India, we are introducing Unplugged sessions. These sessions are in a unique “free-style” format, offering you an opportunity to pose questions spanning a variety of niche products & technology areas.

We look forward to having great dialog and Q&A, so come armed with questions and be prepared to have a lot of fun!