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09:30 - 10:30	A Lap Around Internet Explorer 8: How to Improve Your Website’s Compatibility and Increase Interaction Download Presentation Internet Explorer 8 is brand new, and with it come tons of new features and improvements. Find out how to develop innovative user experiences using Web Slices, Accelerators and Visual Search. Discover new security enhancements, privacy controls and performance improvements. Lastly, see why IE8 is one of the most standards-compliant Web browsers available today. Cormac Keogh	What's New in Silverlight 3 Download Presentation Silverlight 3 promises a new wealth of functionality around its traditional strengths of graphics, user interface and multi-media for rich internet applications. New features include H.264 video support, "3D" support, "hardware acceleration" and new application development features. In this session, we'll take a good look at all of the bg features coming in Silverlight 3 dropping down into code and demos wherever it makes sense to illustrate the core concepts that make up the new functionality. Expect to see XAML, code and the highlights of what makes Silverlight 3 an exciting release for developers of browser-based applications. If you don't build for the browser then come along anyway - you might go away wanting to build with Silverlight 3 anyway :-) Mike Taulty
10:45 – 11:45	Throwing Client Collaboration Out the Window: The Stalinist Web Design Model Web designers and agencies of all sizes almost universally promote themselves as agreeable team players in a collaborative partnership. But what happens when you throw that practice out the window and adopt a process that isn’t a collaborative creation, a model where you don’t give the client choices, and a project management style where you constantly say No to the customer? Sabrina Dent argues that the clients are just as happy, the end users are better off, and the design and build takes less time with fewer tears. Sabrina Dent	ASP.NET and MVC ASP.NET MVC is a fairly new web application framework that allows the developer to very close to what the web can offer you. Daniel is going to take you back in time to see what the differences are, from the good old ASP classic days, to ASP.NET webforms, to Microsoft’s latest ASP.NET framework. You will get a feeling of how MVC works, and why you should use it. There will be some code for you to take home and work on. Daniel Mellgaard Frost
11:45 – 13:15	Lunch
13:15 – 14:15	Introduction to the Azure Services Platform Download Presentation The Azure Services Platform is designed to help developers quickly and easily create, deploy, manage, and distribute Web services and applications on the Internet. Windows Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting, and service management environment for the Azure Services Platform. It provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale, and manage Web applications on the Internet through Microsoft data centers. This is an introductory session for developers who are interested in targeting the Azure Platform. Ronan Geraghty	What’s New in Windows Presentation Foundation 4.0? The next version of .NET, shipping with Visual Studio 2010, will include updates to the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). There are enhancements graphics, including better text rendering, and performance–oriented improvements. Support for Windows 7 features such as multitouch and taskbar integration will be added. Additional control and theme support is planned. The Xaml parsing infrastructure is enhanced and more open. This session introduce these and other planned WPF improvements. Ian Griffiths
14:30 – 15:30	From Concept to Production: Prototyping with Blend 3 & SketchFlow Download Presentation Learn how to use the new version of Expression Blend to design great user experiences, from concept to production, with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight. See how Expression Blend 3 makes design workflow faster, easier and richer, and explore how designers can lead the interactive experience throughout the design process. Find out about the new Behaviors and SketchFlow. Martin Tirion	The Challenge of Silverlight Architectures (300 level) Silverlight represents a sweet spot between rich client WPF and WinForms applications and the ease of web deployment. Now that .NET code runs on the browser client, we’re confronted with the many differences between the two versions of the CLR. A valid question arises about what code should run on the client. This talk looks at the mechanics of the problem – how to reuse code across the two platforms, how to pass data between the platforms, and how to support databinding. Then it launches into issues of validation, authorization and calculations. You’ll see a DTO (Data Transfer Object) approach and understand the alternative mobile object solution and touch on some of the great support for visualizing data using the Visual State Manager. This talk presents Silverlight from the perspective of a rich client programmer demanding all the functionality and ease of coding inherent in the stateful, intelligent Silverlight model. Kathleen Dollard
15:45 – 17:00	Guerrilla Web Strategy: Don’t let budget impede effective user experience Download Presentation Typically freelance designers, small studios (and even bigger ones), do not have clients who see value in paying for a 'discovery and planning stage' - but you can't develop effective, user centric web experiences without it. Leeanne will offer strategies for ensuring this key stage happens in a meaningful way, and a framework for how to do it (no matter how small the project budget). Leeanne Lowe	Where Next with Windows Azure: Storage and even PHP with Azure! Windows Azure is Microsoft’s cloud based operating system. With Azure you can host different types of web applications, plug into a broad suite of services, save data and a lot more. Daniel has build a small solution that shows how the storage model in Windows Azure works and at the same time how you can use the Microsoft technology stack to interact with this model. Azure offers PHP hosting via FastCGI and Daniel will briefly show you how that works. Daniel Mellgaard Frost
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