• “3 Screens and a Cloud”
• Azure
• Silverlight 4
• WCF RIA Services
• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4
• Parallelism

What can I do with MEF? 

The Managed Extensibility Framework has left excitement and confusion in its wake as .NET 4 moves towards release. What can I use this for? What should I use this for? Is this another IoC/DI container? What about Unity? What about the System.AddIn namespace? In this talk we will explain the workings of MEF using straightforward examples and then dig deep into the real power of MEF using examples including MEF for Silverlight, MEF for WPF, and MEF for Enterprise services.

Presented By Damon Payne

On November 18, 2009, at the Professional Developer’s Conference in Los Angeles, Microsoft Corp. unveiled a Beta version Silverlight 4. This latest version delivers hundreds of features and controls that, when combined with the continued innovation in Microsoft’s world-class tools for designers and developers — Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft Expression Blend – present the leading edge in rapid, powerful application development. With printing support, rich reporting and charting, and integration with back-end systems and server products including Microsoft SharePoint, Silverlight is ready for business.

Presented By Dave Bost

SharePoint 2010 is Microsoft's latest iteration of SharePoint, the fastest growing product in Microsoft history. The beta for SharePoint 2010 features lots of the improvements that will be available when the product launches next year. Come get a sneak peak of some of the great features that will be coming soon for developers. Some of the items to be highlighted will  be:

•  Introduction to SharePoint 2010
• Visual Studio 2010 Integration
• Business Connectivity Services
• Package Deployment improvements
• LINQ TO SharePoint
• Much more

 Presented By John Ptacek

Every year the industry develops new technologies and new trends. With Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft delivers tooling and framework support for the latest innovations in application architecture, development and deployment. Two of the major advances in development trends occurring soon are the extension of development to the cloud and the ability to easily construct applications that use the latest multi-core hardware in parallel.

Presented By Greg Levenhagen

Business Intelligence (BI) has become increasingly important in today's marketplace, from the smallest businesses up to the largest firms. Understanding what makes good BI starts with proper foundations.

Those foundations are best understood by asking "What is BI?", working through a few common approaches and finishing by diving into building a real BI solution. We'll use Microsoft technologies to build many of the common BI foundational components including a warehouse, an ETL process, an OLAP database with dimensions and a cube and Excel Pivot Tables.

Another important foundation of a successful BI project is the organization of the project collateral during the development lifecycle. This session will cover the usage of Visual Studio 2008, building up all of the BI collateral into one VS2008 solution.

Presented By Christopher Barwick

As a Developer or Technical Leader, how does your role change on a Scrum project? Your technical skills are just as valuable but your “soft” skills (e.g. teamwork, communication, etc.) become even more important. This presentation will introduce you to different agile “methodologies” and the Scrum framework, one of the more popular agile methods. We will discuss differences and similarities between agile and traditional software development.  What tools and skills do you have that will still work? What new tools will you need? 

Even if your organization is not planning to transition to agile in the near future, you will leave this session with ideas that you will be able to apply on your traditional projects.

In this presentation you will:

1. Understand various agile approaches and the Scrum framework
2. Compare and contrast agile and traditional methodologies
3. Discuss the role of a Developer on a Scrum project and how it differs from traditional projects
4. Learn how you can become a more effective team member regardless of the methodology