Visual Studio 2010 is the most significant release of Visual Studio since the introduction of .Net Framework. In this session we will review the new tools for ALM, architecture, testing and code-focused tools that help developers automate testing, reproduce bugs, model software, collaborate, adhere to requirements and more.

Today 70% of all testing in companies is manual, because automation is considered to be complex and difficult. In this session will see how manual testing becomes automated easily and how CodedUI Test and Microsoft Test Manager improve automation abilities for desktop and web applications.

Test Driven Development is an agile software development technique which enables you to respond to changes faster and more safely. With Visual Studio Team System 2010 this task becomes easier than ever. In this session we will demonstrate this by implementing TDD using VSTS 2010.

Visual Studio 2010 has various new and useful debugging capabilities which dramatically reduce the possibility that you will be unable to reproduce an error. Learn more about Breakpoint import/export, notes, IntelliTrace (Historical Debugging) in this hands-on session.

ASP.Net has evolved to version 4, and this evolution gives us significantly more power and better control of our code. Learn about the new ASP.Net core & runtime changes, new controls and the new IDE features for web developers.

This session explores the new features in CLR 4 and some of the enhancements in the Base Class Library, such as type identity, side by side hosting, MEF, System.IO improvements, code contracts and more.

In this session you’ll be introduced to the new Workflow Services 4 and we will build a live demo of a long running & multi client workflow based application hosted in Windows Server AppFabric. We will see that implementing, deploying and monitoring applications using Windows Server AppFabric are simple and intuitive tasks.

End-user desktops are heading towards eight cores; Windows Server 2008 R2 supports 256 processors. It’s time to embrace parallel programming! We’ll discuss the parallelism and concurrency features in .NET 4.0, concurrency debugging in Visual Studio 2010, and patterns for effective concurrent applications

ADO.Net Entity Framework is a very comprehensive data access technology. In this session we will explore the major changes in ADO.Net Entity Framework 4 and see how they can contribute to build better data access layers.

WCF 4 includes exciting improvements like simplified configuration, discovery, routing services and web HTTP programming. In this session we will explore those features and many more goodies that WCF 4 has to offer, and learn how to design and use the enhanced WCF 4 infrastructure.

.Net Framework 4 introduces an entirely new version of Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), written from scratch. In this demo we will see how we build workflows using its asynchronous and persistence features for both long-running and short-running scenarios.

Microsoft does it again! With .Net Framework 4 Microsoft takes the C# language to new levels. In this session we will learn how to write better code using Dynamically Typed Objects, Optional & Named Parameters and Co-variance and Contra-variance.

Come learn about the new features being introduced with ASP.NET MVC 2. In this session we will learn how templated helpers allow associating edit and display elements with data types.

This session will walk you through an example of building an n-tier Rich Internet Application (RIA) with Silverlight using the pattern, run-time components and tools provided by WCF RIA Services. See how it helps you write application logic to expose data and operations using tools integrated into Visual Studio 2010 with support for validation, authentication, authorization and handling units of work.Building n-tier RIA applications on Silverlight with WCF RIA Services Walk you through an example of building n-tier Rich Internet Application (RIA) on Silverlight using the pattern, run-time components and tools provided by WCF RIA Services. See how it helps you write application logic to expose data and operations using tools integrated into Visual Studio with support for validation, authentication, authorization and handling units of work.

Take a tour of the new features in Silverlight 4 including webcam, printing, rich text and native Hebrew support. Also get an introduction to the Silverlight 4 elevated trust, out-of-browser model applications and improved databinding and styling support.

This session will introduce you to cloud computing and to Windows Azure. We will cover patterns for deploying reliable & secure applications to Windows Azure and discuss ways to provide a bridge between on-premises and cloud applications.

A deep dive session on how developers should change the way they write code which (eventually) will be deployed to the cloud. We will build real world (WCF) services & ASP.Net pages for Windows Azure to create fast, scalable and secure applications.

SharePoint Server 2010 has many new developer oriented features for creating collaboration applications using Visual Studio 2010. In this session, we'll demonstrate exciting features for building user interfaces, enhancing the data platform and making SharePoint 2010 a powerful application platform for developers.

With SharePoint 2010, new data access technologies like LINQ and the Client Object Model change the way we work with SharePoint. Come and hear about these exciting new technologies, and how they can help you access data in SharePoint.

Merging the powerful presentation layer of Silverlight with the SharePoint platform allows developers to build rich applications in a very productive way. In this session, we’ll demo the new Silverlight Object Model and SharePoint Data Services to create the ultimate web application.

Windows 7 provides many exciting new features for an improved User Experience. In this lecture you will see how WPF 4 makes it easy to add these to your application, improving its usability and giving it a modern, Windows 7 look and feel

Although IIS 7 has been around for quite a long time, many developers are not aware of its power. In this session we'll demonstrate the five coolest and most useful features of this product's latest version, which key features for every web developer.

SQL Server 2008 R2 offers new features to help users develop, deploy, and manage the data-tier of their applications more efficiently. In this session, we will go through the methodology of deploying applications using DAC (Data-Tier Application), leveraging the new SQL Server Management Studio and Visual Studio 2010.