Search-based solutions are applications that use a search page as the primary interface. Solutions such as image searching or travel searching in Bing are good examples of search-based solutions.…

This is the keynote presentation of SharePoint Connections 2010 in The Hague in the Netherlands. What's our Cloud story, how does SharePoint fit in. How can we connect SharePoint and Azure. This…

SharePoint 2010 provides new opportunities to access list-based items from across the network. This session demonstrates development techniques involving the Client Object Model and WCF Data…

Microsoft injected strong support for metadata, taxonomies and folksonomies in SharePoint 2010 with the addition of the Managed Metadata service application and Managed Metadata field type. While…

SharePoint 2010 introduces a new security architecture based on claims, federation and the Windows Identity Framework (WIF). This session introduces the concepts and architecture of claim-based…

This session covers the lessons learnt by early enterprise deployments of SharePoint Server 2010. Focusing on SharePoint 2010 specifics, the session will detail these lessons along with best…

Migrating to SharePoint 2010 from MOSS 2007 involves in depth planning and an understanding of the potential pitfalls. There are a few tools with which ITPros should be familiar in order to be…

FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 provides new capabilities for building rich “conversational” user experiences on websites. This session will drill into these unique capabilities, including;…

SharePoint 2010 provides all the tools you need to create content centric Internet/Extranet/Intranet facing solutions that do not fit the mold of traditional SharePoint collaboration solutions. These…

SharePoint Server 2010 provides a powerful platform for creating Business Intelligence (BI) solutions using PerformancePoint Services (PPS). PPS makes it possible to create a visual front end to Data…

SharePoint Designer has been a great tool to customize SharePoint list forms for a long time. Now in SharePoint 2010, you can use InfoPath 2010 to customize the forms as well. What’s the difference?…

With the upcoming release of Windows Phone 7, many developers are starting to look to SharePoint 2010 to develop phone applications. In this session, you will learn how to develop SharePoint…

SharePoint Designer can be used to make connections to and present data from internal and external data sources such as SharePoint lists, libraries, xml files, databases and web services. The focus…

This session will take the attendee from Level 1 to 7 in the OSI model on configuring security in a SharePoint 2010 environment. We will cover such topics as NAP, LoopbackCheck, IAG, as well as…

Come to this demo rich session that discusses the challenges with identity when you have multiple types of backend systems and how ForeFront Identity Manager with SharePoint can address and solve…

The new Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Tools represent a significant step forward for SharePoint as a development platform. While this new tools set provides a great deal of functionality out of the…

SharePoint 2010 introduced a new way to work with SharePoint data when you have an application that does not run on the server: the Client Object Model (ClientOM). In this session, you’ll see how to…

There is immense opportunity for you to build and deploy cloud-centric solutions using the Windows Azure platform. However, what does that opportunity look like when integrated with Microsoft…

The new Windows Phone is coming! Get a high-level overview of the new application platform and a complete picture of the developer story. Learn about the developer tools, the application frameworks,…

Having the customer on your back to deliver features on time and under budget with thight deadlines can make you feel you're being chased by ninjas on fire. Join Scott Hanselman and he'll walk…

Where are programming languages going today and in the future? In this talk Anders shares his views of the trends that influence programming languages in general and C# in specific. This keynotes…

Join Scott Hanselman as he explains ASP.NET MVC from File -> New Project. We’ll dig into the details and try to put MVC into perspective. Is WebForms going away? What’s better about MVC vs.…

In this talk Microsoft Technical Fellow and C# Chief Architect Anders Hejlsberg gives an overview of the new features in C# 4.0, including dynamic typing, co- and contra-variance, named and optional…

VB and C# together share about 50% of the “garbage-collected languages” market. I’ll talk about how we design these languages. Where do we get ideas? How do we incorporate new paradigms without…

This session is part 2 of 2; it is recommended, though not required, that you attend part 1 of this session in order to benefit most. In this demo-rich session we examine the end-to-end software…

Learn how to use Open XML in consort with Word Services and Excel Services in custom solutions. You'll see how to populate spreadsheet and documents using the Open XML SDK. Understand how to use…

This session will demonstrate practical LINQ tips you can use to improve the performance of an application. We’ll see the advantages of deferred execution, re-write correlated sub queries, and offer…

This talk looks at the next version of ASP.NET Ajax (4.0) and how it improves your client-side development experience. Specifically, it will cover the new client-side template and data binding…

Extensibility is a key design point for many applications such as the Microsoft Office applications with their plug-in model for extensibility. Silverlight 4 ships with a new framework, the Managed…

In this session, Scott Hanselman gives a deep and broad tour of the .NET 4 release, with a focus on making your development experience easier. See lots of demos (and very few slides) showcasing the…

The C# language and the .NET platform introduced many new features to support language integrated query. In this session, we’ll look at using these LINQ related features to build rich, intention…

As REST continues to grow in popularity, it’s important to stop and ask yourself why REST? REST is by no means a silver bullet but it does offer some advantages over traditional SOAP and WS-*…

So you think you know the VB language? Come put your expertise to the test with this unique set of brainteasers and corner cases, from the unexpected to the downright mysterious…Lucian is the Spec…

The cloud offers a new low-cost option for storing large amounts of data that can be accessed from geo-centric datacenters located around the world. Come learn about the cloud storage opportunities…

The Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) makes it easy for web applications and services to use the modern, claims-based model of identity. This model allows you to factor authentication and many…

In this session, Ingo Rammer gives you an overview of Windows AppFabric - the new application server extension from Microsoft. You will learn how to develop, deploy and control WCF and WF…

If you are new to Windows Phone, or Game Development then this session is for you. Find out what hardware and software you will need to get started, and what the game development options are for…

This session is a practical tour of the “write less, do more” JavaScript library – jQuery. In this session we will build an application using ASP.NET and jQuery while learning about CSS selectors, DOM…

Silverlight 4 has truly changed the game for business applications. In this session, Ingo shows you how you - as a developer of desktop business applications - can combine Silverlight with WCF RIA…

One of the enhancements in SharePoint 2010 is the introduction of a set of client side object models. These object models will allow developers to easily connect to SharePoint 2010 and consume the…

This sessions covers how to leverage the latest WCF Data Services in .NET 4.0 to build a hosted and distributed data services which integrate a heterogeneous set of data sources. The content of this…

Windows Workflow Foundation 4 (WF4) provides a truly declarative programming model and a brand new runtime architecture that makes it easily accessible for .NET developers. What that means for…

In SharePoint 2010 we’ve got out-of-the-box support for hosting Silverlight Applications in the Silverlight Web Part. This session will discuss this out-of-the-box functionality and dive into the…

Identity is a rapidly evolving field. From WS-Federation, CardSpace, and SAML to OAuth and OpenID, the identity landscape has been in considerable flux over the last few years. There are many…

Learn about new features in WCF4, such as configuration-less services, service discovery, routing, REST-support, declarative services and others. This session will discuss this out-of-the-box…

Are you tired of spending hours trying to reproduce and diagnose bugs? Do you have a hard time getting testers and developers to talk to each other? Is it difficult to determine which tests are most…

In this session we’ll take a demo-based approach to exploring the top new features that come with Silverlight 4. We’ll take a look at the capabilities that combine to make Silverlight great for…

Companies need infrastructure to integrate services for internal enterprise systems, services running at business partners, and systems accessible on the public Internet. And companies need be able to…

Learn about the developer tools, the frameworks and the new functionality for Silverlight applications that is unique to the Windows Phone application platform. We will cover the new input paradigms…

In this demo-rich session we will take a tour of many of the new capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 for application lifecycle management. This includes a look at the new build automation, project…

Met Azure betreed Microsoft de wereld van cloud computing. Zijn Windows en SQL Azure geschikte onderdelen van jouw applicatie architectuur? Is het ontwerpen van een Azure applicatie wezenlijk anders?…

Microsoft Office 2010 expands your productivity solution options by offering improved development options and tools, simplified solution design, richer programmability for Office data and formats, and…

The fourth release of the ASP.NET platform includes many new features both in ASP.NET and in ASP.NET Ajax. This session takes you through all you need to know that the new version offers. More…

Windows Azure provides a new execution environment for your .NET applications in the cloud. This ultimately means your applications will run in highly-scalable datacenters located throughout the…

In this session we’ll take a demo-based approach to exploring the top new features that come with Silverlight 4. We’ll take a look at the capabilities that combine to make Silverlight great for…

Tired of hearing statistics about the high rate of failure for ECM initiatives? In this session, you will learn about the new features in SharePoint 2010 and discover how Microsoft is changing the…

The Open XML Formats are the new default file formats for Word, Excel and PowerPoint (docx, xlsx, pptx). With the Open XML SDK, which provides a set of .NET APIs that allows developers to create and…

This session will provide you with an overview of SharePoint development with Visual Studio 2010. Specific topics covered will include an overview of the project and item templates, a walkthrough of…

Building custom Web Parts is a great developer opportunity in SharePoint. This session will focus on the enhancements for Web Part developers such as Visual Web Parts, the Web Part Page Services,…

With SharePoint 2010 a lot will change for developers, but of course you will still want to keep using some of the cool solutions that you built for SharePoint 2007. This session will explain how you…

Forms and Workflows are important for automating business processes. Companies usually rely on programmers to create the forms and workflows using code. Not anymore! With InfoPath 2010 and…

SharePoint 2010 has new improvements for customizing the SharePoint user interface. The new Ribbon interface is fully extensible, allowing you to add or remove pieces to easily customize the…

Want a customised SharePoint experience but not the custom code headaches? Have a hosted SharePoint environment but need a custom solution to meet a specific business requirement? This session will…

From centrally managing and maintaining a shared image library for use in authoring Word documents and PowerPoint presentations, to sharing online video, SharePoint 2010 has a number of new features…

In SharePoint 2010 we’ve got out-of-the-box support for hosting Silverlight Applications in the Silverlight Web Part. This session will discuss this out-of-the-box functionality and dive into the…

You will learn about the major investments in claims-based identity in SharePoint 2010. You will understand how to use SharePoint in an heterogeneous identity environment for both sign-in and…

The key aspect of any workflow is its capability to handle a large variety data. Traditionally SharePoint workflows were mostly focused on handling SharePoint data in the form of list items and…

Search is much more than just finding something; concepts such as Information Architecture, Information Organization, and Findability are very important when implementing SharePoint. Come to this…

SharePoint Designer 2010 can be used to integrate data from a variety of sources into a single SharePoint composite solution. This session will demonstrate how the Data View Web Part in SharePoint…

Come and learn about the new and improved Web Content Management features for building public facing websites and intranets. This session will discuss the new publishing infrastructure, the improved…

One of the key factors determining adoption of developer tools is whether you can make the tool do what you want. When picking the right tool for the job you should at least consider three things.…

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In this session, we will introduce you to the new functionalities of Office 2010 and what functionalities makes working with SharePoint 2010 in combination with Office 2010 a blast. This demo-filled…

SharePoint Designer 2010, which is a free application, is “The Preferred” tool to design powerful no-code solutions and applications in SharePoint 2010. In this session you will get a broad overview…

The new FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 provides new capabilities for building rich “conversational” user experiences. This session will drill into these unique capabilities, including: *…

In this session, you will get an overview of the Business Intelligence or Insights part of SharePoint 2010. We talk about the new functionality and about the improved features. Topics discussed or…

SharePoint 2010 has many new developer-oriented features. Developers can build collaboration applications on the platform features of SharePoint 2010, the new tools for SharePoint 2010 make…

This session by Matthijs Hoekstra provides an overview of SharePoint 2010 covering end user features in different workloads from Sites to Composites. Expect to see a lot of demos of some of the…

SharePoint Services are challenging for unit testing because it is not possible to execute the SharePoint Service without being connected to a live SharePoint site. For that reason, most of the unit…

In this (Experimental) presentation from SharePoint Connections 2010 in Amsterdam you will learn all about the new social computing capabilities of SharePoint 2010. Social bookmarking, tagging and…

This is the story of SharePoint told by former MS employee Mike Fitzmaurice who worked on every version of SharePoint, even before we called it SharePoint. Where did we start with SharePoint, how and…

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Presentation from Scott Guthrie on September 25 2009.Scott gives a presentation with lots of demos of our new development environment VS2010 with our new .NET 4 framework.Organized by DotNED developer…

Built on top of the Web Programming Model of WCF, ADO.NET Data Services is a framework for building RESTful services. In this session you will learn how to use the ADO.NET Data Services Framework to…

For years, Windows has supported a rich, built-in authentication and authorization framework. If you can assume clients will have a Windows account, you can rely on Windows integrated authentication…

Met het Azure Services Platform begeeft Microsoft zich in de wereld van cloud computing. In deze sessie krijg je een overzicht van het Azure Services Platform. Wat zijn de bouwstenen die je kunt…

Microsoft recently announced a set of enhanced Windows Server capabilities codenamed "Dublin" that offer greater scalability and easier manageability around WCF/WF applications.…

The new Windows 7 desktop experience, including the new taskbar and Aero Snap, is both a major user experience change for Windows and an early success story. How did we go about evolving pieces of UI…

In today's complex world ensuring a high-quality is not a trivial task. Quality is nothing you can add to your project at some point – you need to do it from the beginning and throughout the process.…

This session offers a historical perspective about where C# comes from and the trends that shaped the thinking for C# 3.0 and C# 4.0. These trends include declarative programming, dynamic &…

Deze presentatie gaat over application compatibility voor Windows7. Er wordt overzicht gegeven van UAC, IE 8, Windows7 logo certificatie, en Windows Error Reporting. Tijdens de presentatie worden de…

For some applications, time to market is simply critical. If your application is heavily-data driven and backed by a well-designed database schema, you could help yourself a lot be looking at the…

Windows 7 staat bol van de nieuwe mogelijkheden. In deze sessie flitsen ze voorbij: De vernieuwde User Interface, de nieuwe mogelijkheden van Branch Cache, Direct Access, AppLocker, BitLocker To Go,…

A great user experience starts with the user interface. In this talk, we will explore best practices in user interface design in a learn-by-example approach of the good, bad and the ugly in user…

Silverlight is arguably the biggest shift in web technologies in the last decade. But is Silverlight ready for prime time business applications? In this code-focused talk, you will learn how…

Microsoft werkt met Oslo aan de volgende generatie van hun ontwikkelplatform voor applicaties. Oslo gebruikt domein-specifieke modellen, de taal M en nieuwe tooling om je productiever te laten…

.NET 4.0 brings several improvements in the areas of WCF and WF, including improved REST capabilities, a new workflow model, seamless integration between WF and WCF, and a new visual designer. It also…

Silverlight 3 promises a new wealth of functionality around its traditional strengths of graphics, user interface and multi-media for rich internet applications. At the time of writing, the features…

Microsoft Research describes F# as "a scripted/functional/imperative/object-oriented programming language". Combining all those aspects in one language is certainly not an easy task, but…

Despite the abundance of multicore PCs, the software world has yet to catch up with the parallel world. Application developers are under pressure to write applications that make use of the extra…

In deze sessie zullen we behandelen hoe je in een multi-platform omgeving interoperability kunt bereiken tussen services gebouwd op het Microsoft platform en services die leven in de Java Enterprise…

This is a dutch 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…

Met de komst van Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 is er ook een opvolger voor Content Management Server 2002. In deze sessie wordt aan de hand van ContentTypes, PageLayouts, Masterpages,…

Companies need infrastructure to integrate services for internal enterprise systems, services running at business partners, and systems accessible on the public Internet. And companies need be able to…

What is an application platform? Why is it important? And how should we think about application platforms in a world of cloud computing? In this session, David Chappell looks at all of these topics,…