Visual Studio Team System makes your site better and more robust with its Web Testing capabilities. In this session we will see how to test your web application in various ways, how to extend the out-of-the-box rules and how to integrate it in the daily build.

Test Driven Development assures that your code behaves as it should while overcoming changes and keeping a live documentation of its functionality. In this session we will see how to implement TDD on your code and Database using Visual Studio Team System.

Visual Studio Team System is not all about source control, and contains many tools for the developer. In this demo-driven session we will see tools such as Code Metrics, Hot Pathing, Code Analysis, Performance Run, Schema Compare & more.

From choosing a UI Platform and Data Access Layer up to Offline support and more architectural aspects in a real-world medical application in the IDF.

A good architecture for scalable applications will use a distributed cache as the initial tier for all data access. In this session we will look into the architecture and API of Microsoft’s In-Memory distributed cache (code name “Velocity”) to increase your application’s performance, scale and availability.

In this session we will see how to use WCF 3.5 to build REST Web Services that agents can interact with using simple HTTP verbs. We will also look into how ADO.Net Data Services were implemented.

You have seen how exciting Silverlight applications are, now you want to do it yourself. With 50 minutes of demo-time you'll learn how to build Silverlight applications, give them a little style, and connect them to services and their data.

After we have seen how to build a simple standalone Silverlight 2 application we will see how to integrate it into existing sites, and how to communicate with DOM elements and JavaScript functions.

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 lets you leverage the new features in SQL Server 2008 such as Table Valued Parameters, Change Tracking, FILESTREAM and the new Date and Time types. In this session we'll see how easy they are to use, and how you can do it today.

Learn about the cloud services that enable developers to easily create or extend their applications and services. In this session we take a tour of Windows Azure by building and running a simple service using the platform SDK. This is a demo-heavy session.

Internet Explorer 8 brings new enhancements for the web developer. From CSS standards, through the new development tools and the new features, we will see how you can benefit from them all.

In this session we will introduce another way for building great web applications. We will talk about the new ASP.NET MVC Framework, take a Look at each layer, and the new routing mechanism.

Security, Rich UI, Usability, Organization Navigation & Search, Improve File System and Better Networking are six good reasons to target your application to Windows Vista, and be compatibile with Windows 7. In the session you will see new features of Windows 7 from the user's perspective as well as the developer's point of view. We will also talk about what to be aware of regarding your application compatibility with the upcoming Windows 7.

Dynamic languages (Python, Ruby, etc.) have been receiving bigger slices of the dev cycle pie. Microsoft joins the ride and future frameworks will incorporate more dynamic capabilities. Come and see how dynamic languages will effect application development in various programming environments.

In this session we will talk about the challenges of Composite UI development, and learn how to leverage Composite Application Guidance for WPF on behalf of WPF for implementing modern enterprise applications UI.

You don’t want to reinvent the wheel, so you look for design patterns –lessons learnt by those who've faced same software design problems before. In this session we will look at key OO design principles and dive into design patters such as Decorator, Strategy, Template method, observer, Visitor and others, using the new features of C# 3.0.

This talk is a deep dive into the internals, the unknown and undocumented aspects of AJAX. It's a crucial for developers wishing to architect, design and build high performance user experiences the truly take advantage of the AJAX client-server paradigm.

We must develop concurrent applications today, but with concurrency come data races, contention and deadlocks. From System.Thread, the thread pool, through the Parallel Extensions for .NET – we will analyze design patterns specific to concurrent applications and learn to avoid common pitfalls.

Many developers already use LINQ on a daily basis, but most only scratch the surface of what’s possible. In this session we will dive more deeply into LINQ and see how it works behind the scenes, share tips, tricks and common pitfalls.

This almost demo-only session will explore the powerful, but less known capabilities of the C# language. Topics include partial classes & methods, expression trees & lambda expressions, dynamic delegates, extension methods, elegant iterators, anonymous delegates and more advanced stuff. Will be fun!