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The Business of Microsoft Silverlight
Thursday, March 6 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM, San Polo 3501A
Speaker(s): Danny Riddell (Metaliq)
Audience(s): Business
Session Type: Breakout
This session discusses the business aspects of Microsoft Silverlight, including how to ramp up an agency to be ready for Silverlight and how to pitch Silverlight to your clients. Learn how to optimize current workflow, ramp up a team, and achieve a return on Silverlight investments. Learn how the differences between Silverlight 1.0 and 2 affect business and staffing strategy.


Nerd + Art: Ten Code Snippets to Empower Your Inner Artist
Friday, March 7 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM, Lando 4201
Speaker(s): Nathan Dunlap (Identity Mine), Robby Ingebretsen (Identity Mine)
Audience(s): Business, Creative
Session Type: Breakout
Learn how to increase what a designer can do with Windows Presentation Foundation and Microsoft Silverlight 2 using our designer's code "toolbox"-10 simple concepts that will give you an edge when making your best ideas a reality. We share the code, teach you how to use it and introduce the concepts behind it.


Take Your Content Mobile with Windows Mobile, Microsoft Expression, and Zumobi
Friday, March 7 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM, Delfino 4005
Speaker(s): Shannon Carter, Kyle Lampe, John Sangiovanni
Audience(s): Business, Creative, Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Come watch us debunk the myth that creating content for mobile phones is a limiting proposition. We demonstrate how the triple-play of Windows Mobile, Microsoft Expression and Zumobi can help you light up devices with your content (and make money doing it).


Designing Next Generation User Interface Experiences with Microsoft Expression Blend and Windows Presentation Foundation
Friday, March 7 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Delfino 4003
Speaker(s): Johnathan Lansing, Stuart Mayhew, Nicholas Petterssen
Audience(s): Business, Creative, Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Learn how Electric Rain utilizes the power of .NET 3.5 (Windows Presentation Foundation / Windows Communication Foundation) to build its breakthrough StandOut user interface using Microsoft Expression Blend and Microsoft Visual Studio C#. This session covers early traditional user interface concept designs, using Blend and .NET 3.0 for 2D and 3D UI prototypes, and ultimately creating a final award-winning user interface experience. Find out what worked (and what didn't) and what you can apply to your own next-generation UX projects.


Understanding Microsoft Partner Programs for Designers, Developers, and Agencies
Wednesday, March 5 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM, Delfino 4005
Speaker(s): Hakan Soderbom, Bill Vlandis
Audience(s): Business, Creative, Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Come learn about the partner programs that Microsoft has to offer designers, developers, and agencies to help more quickly grow their businesses. Hear how any size organization, ranging from small startups to large international companies, can benefit from Microsoft Partner Programs.


Future of Advertising Technology
Friday, March 7 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Lando 4201
Speaker(s): Eric Picard
Audience(s): Business, Creative, Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Come learn how Microsoft views advertising and is approaching the rapidly changing advertising industry.


Integrating Media in Silverlight Applications
Thursday, March 6 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM, San Polo 3501A
Speaker(s): Ed Maia
Audience(s): Business, Creative, Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Come learn how to incorporate media into Microsoft Silverlight applications including video playback capabilities and programmatic control of the media display. Also learn about the new content protection features of Silverlight, including the proper workflow for implementing content protection and integrity.


Anatomy of a Dynamic SharePoint Website
Friday, March 7 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Delfino 4101A
Speaker(s): Ben Robb
Audience(s): Business, Creative, Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Learn how Hed Kandi (http://beta.hedkandi.com/Pages/default.aspx) built their site on SharePoint using common Web Content Management features including identity/authentication and UI/UX skinning.


Encoding Video for Microsoft Silverlight Delivery Scenarios
Wednesday, March 5 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM, Delfino 4105
Speaker(s): Ben Waggoner
Audience(s): Business, Creative, Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Learn how to optimize your video encoding quality regardless or the specific distribution and infrastucture approaches you use. Detailed scenarios will cover optimizing video encoding quality for progressive download, streaming, self-hosting, Windows Live Silverlight Streaming, and third-party content delivery networks (CDNs).


Welcome to Internet Explorer 8
Wednesday, March 5 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM, Lando 4201
Speaker(s): Chris Wilson
Audience(s): Business, Creative, Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Come get an overview of the new features and capabilities of Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.


Building AOL's High Performance, Enterprise Wide Mail Application With Silverlight 2
Thursday, March 6 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM, Lando 4201
Speaker(s): Stefan Gal, Eric Hoffman, Marc Katchay
Audience(s): Business, Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Come join the Rich Internet Application engineering team from AOL and see first-hand how AOL created a rich, scalable mail application using Microsoft Silverlight 2.


Building RESTful Real World Applications with the ADO.NET Data Services Framework
Friday, March 7 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Delfino 4101A
Speaker(s): Mike Flasko
Audience(s): Business, Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Come hear from developers creating real-world applications and user-interface controls on top of the ADO.NET Data Services Framework (aka Project "Astoria"). Learn best practices for building RESTful applications and components,.


Advanced Search Engine Optimization: Generating More Site Traffic from Search
Wednesday, March 5 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM, San Polo 3501A
Speaker(s): Nathan Buggia
Audience(s): Business, Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Come learn how to use search to drive significantly more traffic to a site including the top ten best practices for designing and developing a site for search engine optimization (SEO).


Silverlight on a LAMP Site for Media: UVNTV.com
Friday, March 7 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Delfino 4003
Speaker(s): Luke Conner, Rick Freeman
Audience(s): Business, Technical
Session Type: Breakout
UVNTV.com is a LAMP site (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) that is using Windows Media servers to recreate a TV experience on the web using Silverlight. They chose to use Silverlight becuase of the higher quality they were getting out of WMV/VC-1 than Flash's On2 codec. The team will explain how and why they changed their site to use Silverlight from Flash.


Introducing SQL Server Data Services
Thursday, March 6 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Delfino 4005
Speaker(s): Nigel Ellis
Audience(s): Business, Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Come learn about our new cloud-based storage service and how it addresses a number of business scenarios. This session introduces the new Microsoft SQL Server Data Services, as well as outlines business models and terms.


Silverlight and the Advertising Opportunity
Wednesday, March 5 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM, San Polo 3501A
Speaker(s): Mark Kapczynski, Dan Penn, Michael Scherotter, Eric Schmidt, Jon Tabak (Panache), Alex Thompson (EyeWonder)
Audience(s): Business, Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Come learn how advertisers, vendors, and publishers are using Microsoft Silverlight to create amazing rich media and monetize in-stream video ads. This session covers popular topics including packaging content for ad servers, Silverlight and Flash co-existence, using Microsoft Expression Encoder to create innovative in-stream experiences, time- vs. frame-based tracking, and more.


Monetization 101
Thursday, March 6 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM, Delfino 4003
Speaker(s): Erynn Petersen
Audience(s): Business, Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Come get an overview of Microsoft's complete advertising platform and hear how it is being built.


Bringing Hosters and Developers Together with IIS7
Wednesday, March 5 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM, Delfino 4005
Speaker(s): Robert Cameron, Tito Leverette
Audience(s): Business, Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Come learn about all the great new features in Microsoft Internet Information Services 7 for hosters and web farm managers including creating a highly customizable environment for building scalable and reliable ASP.NET applications.


How to Become a XAML-Ready Agency with Expression Blend
Friday, March 7 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM, San Polo 3501A
Speaker(s): Arturo Toledo
Audience(s): Creative
Session Type: Breakout
Come learn how to get your Agency ready to create rich, dynamic XAML-based experiences using Microsoft Expression Blend, including how to quickly get designers up to speed with Microsoft Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).


Using Microsoft Silverlight for Creating Rich Mobile User Experiences
Thursday, March 6 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM, Lando 4204
Speaker(s): Giorgio Sardo
Audience(s): Creative
Session Type: Breakout
Come learn how use Microsoft Silverlight for Mobile to build rich mobile experiences including best patterns and practices, fluid and intuitive navigation, smart content organization, small form factor and cross-device support. This session also covers how to use tools like Microsoft Expression Blend to move beyond size considerations to create create stunning and meaningful vector-based graphics applications.


Virgins, Spaceships and Hob-nailed Boots!
Thursday, March 6 4:15 PM - 5:30 PM, Delfino 4005
Speaker(s): Paul Dawson
Audience(s): Creative
Session Type: Breakout
Experience Design must go wider than simply 'the Web'-for any business. Using well known brands like Virgin and Harrods as case studies, you will learn how to create Experience Architectures that touch all customer interactions and how great offline customer experience can flow into digital media.


Microsoft Expression Web: From Comp, to CSS, to Code!
Thursday, March 6 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM, Delfino 4105
Speaker(s): Nishant Kothary, Tyler Simpson
Audience(s): Creative
Session Type: Breakout
Explore key features of Microsoft Expression Web through real-world scenario-based exercises focused around building a great blog template. The topics cover PHP support, Photoshop comp import workflow, CSS features, and more.


Overview of Microsoft Ad Formats
Thursday, March 6 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM, Delfino 4003
Speaker(s): Alam Ali
Audience(s): Creative
Session Type: Breakout
Learn about all the innovation involving Microsoft ad products ranging from mobile devices and games to desktops and televisions.


Building Rich Internet Applications Using Microsoft Silverlight 2, Part 1
Wednesday, March 5 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM, Lando 4201
Speaker(s): Mike Harsh, Joe Stegman
Audience(s): Creative, Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Learn how to use Microsoft Visual Studio to create applications, how to create UI using XAML markup and code, how to build a custom control, how to retrieve data from a Web service, and how to manipulate data with XML and LINQ. (Part 1 of 2)


Building Rich Internet Applications Using Microsoft Silverlight 2, Part 2
Wednesday, March 5 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM, Lando 4201
Speaker(s): Mike Harsh, Joe Stegman
Audience(s): Creative, Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Learn how to use Microsoft Visual Studio to create applications, how to create UI using XAML markup and code, how to build a custom control, how to retrieve data from a Web service, and how to manipulate data with XML and LINQ. (Part 2 of 2)


Silverlight as a Gaming Platform
Thursday, March 6 4:15 PM - 5:30 PM, San Polo 3501A
Speaker(s): Joel Neubeck
Audience(s): Creative, Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Come learn how Microsoft Silverlight was used to create Tunnel Trouble, an online game built using Silverlight 2. This session covers concepts of using Silverlight technologies and tools to build game boards, animations, collision logic, game loop logic, integrating media into game play as well as integrating with web services and being more efficient with managed code.


Crossing the Usability Chasm - Advanced and Adaptive User Interfaces
Wednesday, March 5 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM, Delfino 4005
Speaker(s): Gil Hupert-Graff, Yochay Kiriaty
Audience(s): Creative, Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Come learn how Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) can be used to create a flexible and adaptive UI that matches our cognitive abilities. Learn how to create a UI that solves the "too hard for beginners, and too easy for pros" problem. Find out what it takes to create real, efficient UX using adaptive UI, and review real production applications that implement the paradigm.


Bring Your Data to Life with Windows Presentation Foundation
Friday, March 7 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM, San Polo 3501A
Speaker(s): Anson Tsao
Audience(s): Creative, Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Learn how easy it is to use Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) to unite your UI with your data in a way that brings the data to life. This session demonstrates how WPF's extensive UI-data models, data binding, templates, and controls all empower the developer to create a richer, more dynamic user experience in less time.


Applications = Designers + Developers
Friday, March 7 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Lando 4201
Speaker(s): Kirupa Chinnathambi, Celso Gomes
Audience(s): Creative, Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Behind the scenes, great applications feature not only clever code, but they also expose a great user experience and design. We illustrate the workflow possible using the Microsoft Expression tools and Microsoft Visual Studio to create great applications.


Cross-Browser Layout with Internet Explorer 8
Thursday, March 6 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM, Delfino 4105
Speaker(s): Scott Dickens
Audience(s): Creative, Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Learn the new layout and how to take advantage of new layout functionality in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 to create cross-browser-compatible layout designs.


Making it Simple: Designer/Developer Workflow
Wednesday, March 5 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM, Delfino 4001A
Speaker(s): Marcelo Marer (Avenue A Razorfish), Ken Azuma (Second Factory), Robby Ingebretsen (Identity Mine), Ryan Lane (Wunderman), Mark Ligameri (frog design), Christian Schormann (MODERATOR), Robert Tuttle (frog design)
Audience(s): Creative
Session Type: Panel
How do you combine a designer's vision with the requirements of productive software? Left brain/Right brain workflow is a sophisticated problem that impacts us all but has no easy answers. Industry experts will share their learnings and invite you to join in on a lively discussion about the merits and costs of different approaches.


Designing at the Speed of Light
Wednesday, March 5 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM, Delfino 4001A
Speaker(s): Ryan Dawson, Daniel Makoski (Microsoft), Zachary Jean Paradis (Sapient), John Reid (McCann Erickson), Cinthya Urasaki (Microsoft)
Audience(s): Creative
Session Type: Panel
Your customer needs a breakthrough design for their new business solution - yesterday. What are the secrets to delivering quality design quickly? Accurate project estimation and process can help but the real answers often come from hard-to-make scope and resource decisions. Hear the varying directions these experts have taken in real world projects. Join in with your thoughts around parameters such as buy vs build, strong integrator or no integrator and more.


The Open Question
Thursday, March 6 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM, Delfino 4101A
Speaker(s): Rob Conery (Microsoft), Miguel de Icaza, Andi Gutmans (Zend Technologies), Sam Ramji (Microsoft), Mike Schroepfer (Mozilla)
Audience(s): Technical
Session Type: Panel
Everyone is open now. But what does that mean to users? How open is open? Hear industry leaders share their thoughts on the characteristics that differentiate open from a marketing exercise to a value add. Add your commentary to this discussion with Microsoft, Mozilla, Novell and more


Web 2.0 and Beyond: What Is the Business Reality?
Wednesday, March 5 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM, Delfino 4101A
Speaker(s): Frank Arrigo (Microsoft), Bryan Biniak (CEO Jacked), Tim Kendall (Facebook), Loic Le Meur (CEO Seesmic), Chris Saad
Audience(s): Business
Session Type: Panel
While Web 2.0 and beyond sites, built on the family of technologies that encompass it, are undeniably cool, the question remains: How can one make money off it? Join us as well known Web 2.0 firms debate the revenue model in this brave new world.


What Is the face of the next Web?
Wednesday, March 5 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM, Delfino 4001A
Speaker(s): Chris Bernard (MODERATOR), Paul Dain (Tribal), Anthony Franco (EffectiveUI), Tjeerd Hoek (Frog), Mark Kurtz (Gage), Garrick Schmitt (Avenue A | Razorfish)
Audience(s): Business, Creative, Technical
Session Type: Panel
Web 2.0 appeared almost overnight from innovative uses of technology to break through the traditional HTML/JS browser ceilings. But what comes next? What is the face of the next web? What are the expectaitons for user interaction and experience? What about a mobile web?


Social Networks: Where Are They Taking Us?
Thursday, March 6 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM, Lando 4201
Speaker(s): Garrett Camp, Marc Canter (Broadband Mechanics), Allen Hurff (MySpace), Guy Kawasaki, David Morin, John Richards, Joseph Smarr
Audience(s): Business, Creative, Technical
Session Type: Panel
Social Networking sites are popping up all over the place. How many networks do we want to have? Should there be one network to rule them all? What is the future of Social Networks? Is it a ubiquotous site? Is it an application? What are the platform opportunities for making money in social networks?


I Wanna Go Mobile!
Thursday, March 6 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM, Delfino 4001A
Speaker(s): Eric Breitbard (Schematic), David-Michel Davies (Webby Awards), Derrick Oien (Intercasting), Michael Platt (MODERATOR), Chad Stoller (Organic)
Audience(s): Business, Technical
Session Type: Panel
What is the next wave of mobile computing? Is the mobile browser enough? How will mobile phones complement PCs? This panel explores trends in mobile application development and explores the mobile phone's role within the growing world of connected experiences.


Touch Me: Where Are Interfaces Going?
Thursday, March 6 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM, Delfino 4101A
Speaker(s): Chris Bernard (MODERATOR), Doug Cook (Thirteen23), Dale Herigstad (Schematic), Daniel Makoski (Microsoft), Yoshihiro Saito (2nd Factory), Dave Wolf
Audience(s): Business, Creative, Technical
Session Type: Panel
The keyboard and mouse are aging input devices. For the future of computing and UX, where are interfaces going? Are these enough? Is touch-screen Surface/iPhone/iPod Touch just a gimmick? Where should Man Machine Interface (MMI) go?


How Design Impacts the Bottom Line
Thursday, March 6 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Delfino 4101A
Speaker(s): Dave Blakely, Jason Brush, Jimmy Kim, Will Tschumy (Moderator), David Watson, Luke Wroblewski
Audience(s): Business, Creative
Session Type: Panel
Is good design good business? Listen to these customers discuss how good design helped them:
- Reach the market faster with lower development costs
- Increase the revenues and retained earnings of their products or services
- Increase market share

You'll hear how design has created real competitive advantage for businesses across the spectrum from consumer to business brands. Hear from the design professionals who did the work, and the customers who hired them.


E-commerce Done Right
Thursday, March 6 4:15 PM - 5:30 PM, Delfino 4101A
Speaker(s): Gerard Johnson (HSN), Steve Nelson (Netflix), Matthew Rechs (Schematic), Nicholas Rockwell (MTV Networks)
Audience(s): Business, Creative
Session Type: Panel
Companies strive to provide great digital experiences that promote their content. We are in a new wave where enhancing the experience can open up new avenues for selling content. E-Commerce businesses have other tough compromises to make between customer privacy, security, and one-click convenience. Make the right choices and your business can become an online goldmine. Learn how some of the world's most successful companies made these difficult decisions, and how new technologies might change that equation.


Opportunities and Challenges in Mashing Up the Web
Wednesday, March 5 1:30 PM - 2:45 PM, Delfino 4101A
Speaker(s): Shawn Burke, Aaron Fulkerson (MindTouch), Andi Gutmans (Zend Technologies), Sam Ramji (Moderator), Mike Schroepfer (Mozilla)
Audience(s): Business, Technical
Session Type: Panel
There are lots of different vendors offering lots of different technologies on which platforms may be built. Web 1.0 and Web services suffered from interoperability problems. What should we, as designers and developers of the next web do to avoid the same mistakes? What standards are best for us? Does JSON answer our data needs? Is HTTP enough?


What's the Secret Formula?
Wednesday, March 5 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM, Delfino 4101A
Speaker(s): Dan Harrelson, Jensen Harris, Nishant Kothary, Daniel Makoski (Microsoft), Mike Schroepfer (Mozilla)
Audience(s): Creative
Session Type: Panel
We've built airplanes that travel faster than sound, ships that resemble small towns, rockets that take people to the moon, and phones that you can carry everywhere you go. Why is it, then, that we haven't found a way to build software that always looks good, feels good, and just works? Shouldn't it be easy in comparison? Is there a secret formula to building great software?


Is Web 2.0 sustainable? What business models will work?
Thursday, March 6 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM, Delfino 4001A
Speaker(s): Don Dodge, Dave McClure, Ryan McIntyre, Kimbal Musk, Kevin Rose (Digg), Robert Scoble
Audience(s): Creative
Session Type: Panel
Web 2.0 applications are easy and cheap to build. Free services can attract lots of users, but how will they make money? Social networking applications are fun and "sticky" but do they have sustainable value? What is the optimal social business model around content distribution? This panel will predict Web 2.0 winners and losers, and explore various business models like advertising, Freemium, affiliate marketing, e-commerce, and others.


Real World Design: Working with Silverlight and WPF in the Design Studio
Thursday, March 6 8:30 AM - 9:45 AM, Delfino 4001A
Speaker(s): Beau Ambur (Metaliq), Chip Aubry (Tribal), Chris Bernard (MODERATOR), Nathan Dunlap (Identity Mine), Jeffrey McLean (projekt202), Rich Weston (Neudesic)
Audience(s): Creative, Technical
Session Type: Panel
Silverlight and WPF represent a new way for designers and developers work together. But what happens in a professional practice that's focused more on employing designers than developers and using Macs versus PCs for much of their daily design work? Join us as we find out how practitioners from companies like Tribal, Projekt202, Metaliq and Identity Mine discuss the learning curves and the workflow that they adapted with their visual designers and rich interactive developers to get up to speed with Expression Studio, XAML and Silverlight. You'll hear the unvarnished truth about the challenges and rewards of how Silverlight is enabling the digital design practice.


Silverlight and Web Analytics
Friday, March 7 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM, Delfino 4101A
Speaker(s): Aaron Fossum, William Garrison, Bret Grinslade, Michael Scherotter
Audience(s): Business, Technical
Session Type: Panel
Rich Interactive Applications (RIAs) and media players built with Microsoft Silverlight are easily integrated with web analytics services like WebTrends On Demand, Omniture SiteCatalyst, and Microsoft AdCenter Analytics. In this panel, you will learn from experts at each of these companies about the different ways that Web analytics services collect data about web usage behavior and allow businesses to measure how web sites perform against business goals. Each panelist will discuss how to incorporate their company's web analytics services into Silverlight applications and then take advantage of the separation between the design in XAML and code in JavaScript to do effective A/B testing.


Encoding Video for Microsoft Silverlight Delivery Scenarios
Thursday, March 6 5:45 PM - 7:00 PM, Delfino 4001A
Speaker(s): Ben Waggoner
Audience(s): Business, Creative, Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Learn how to optimize your video encoding quality regardless or the specific distribution and infrastucture approaches you use. Detailed scenarios will cover optimizing video encoding quality for progressive download, streaming, self-hosting, Windows Live Silverlight Streaming, and third-party content delivery networks (CDNs).


Introducing SQL Server Data Services
Thursday, March 6 5:45 PM - 7:00 PM, Delfino 4005
Speaker(s): Nigel Ellis
Audience(s): Business, Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Come learn about our new cloud-based storage service and how it addresses a number of business scenarios. This session introduces the new Microsoft SQL Server Data Services, as well as outlines business models and terms.


Building Rich Internet Applications Using Microsoft Silverlight 2
Thursday, March 6 5:45 PM - 7:00 PM, Delfino 4003
Speaker(s): Mike Harsh, Joe Stegman
Audience(s): Creative, Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Learn how to use Microsoft Visual Studio to create applications, how to create UI using XAML markup and code, how to build a custom control, how to retrieve data from a Web service, and how to manipulate data with XML and LINQ.


Crossing the Usability Chasm - Advanced and Adaptive User Interfaces
Thursday, March 6 5:45 PM - 7:00 PM, Delfino 4101A
Speaker(s): Gil Hupert-Graff, Yochay Kiriaty
Audience(s): Creative, Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Come learn how Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) can be used to create a flexible and adaptive UI that matches our cognitive abilities. Learn how to create a UI that solves the "too hard for beginners, and too easy for pros" problem. Find out what it takes to create real, efficient UX using adaptive UI, and review real production applications that implement the paradigm.


Windows Presentation Foundation Using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
Friday, March 7 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Delfino 4105
Speaker(s): Mark Wilson-Thomas
Audience(s): Technical
Session Type: Breakout
This session introduces many of the core features in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 for the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) programming model, such as XAML, layout, controls, resources, styling, and data binding. Using Visual Studio 2008, we build a WPF-based application from scratch.


What's New in Windows Presentation Foundation 3.5
Friday, March 7 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Delfino 4005
Speaker(s): Rob Relyea
Audience(s): Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Learn about the great new features in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) 3.5. See examples that include Add-ins, data binding support for LINQ and ADO.NET, interactive 3D, streamlined application deployment, high-performance animation, and much more.


Working with Data and Web Services in Microsoft Silverlight 2
Friday, March 7 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, Delfino 4001A
Speaker(s): Eugene Osovetsky
Audience(s): Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Learn how easy it is to utilize POX, REST, RSS, ATOM, JSON, and SOAP in your Microsoft Silverlight mashup applications. Also learn how to easily access and display data with Silverlight using LINQ and databinding.


Creating Rich, Dynamic User Interfaces with Silverlight 2 Controls
Thursday, March 6 5:45 PM - 7:00 PM, Delfino 4105
Speaker(s): Karen Corby
Audience(s): Technical
Session Type: Breakout
See how to use the Microsoft Silverlight 2 control model to efficiently design and develop custom controls, style existing controls, create control templates, and package your controls for re-use to develop Rich Internet Applications. Also hear about the capabilities for localization and accessibility.


Creating a RESTful API with Windows Communication Foundation
Wednesday, March 5 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM, Lando 4204
Speaker(s): Viphak Lay, Haider Sabri, Paul Walker
Audience(s): Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Learn how MySpace used Windows Communication Foundation and .NET 3.5 to rapidly scale up a massive RESTful API infrastructure that process millions of requests a day.


Windows Presentation Foundation Using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
Thursday, March 6 2:30 PM - 3:45 PM, Delfino 4005
Speaker(s): Mark Wilson-Thomas
Audience(s): Technical
Session Type: Breakout
This session introduces many of the core features in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 for the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) programming model, such as XAML, layout, controls, resources, styling, and data binding. Using Visual Studio 2008, we build a WPF-based application from scratch.


Adding Instant Messaging to Any Site
Wednesday, March 5 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM, Delfino 4003
Speaker(s): Keiji Kanazawa, Nikhil Kothari
Audience(s): Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Learn how your web site visitors can engage with Windows Live Messenger users by taking advantage of the Windows Live Messenger control and library. This session covers how to code with the Messenger Library in JavaScript or C# (using Script#), and we also show how you can drive Microsoft Silverlight UI with the Messenger Library.


Developing Cutting Edge Web Applications With Internet Explorer 8
Friday, March 7 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM, Delfino 4105
Speaker(s): Marc Silbey
Audience(s): Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Come learn about the new and updated development tools in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 that help to build and debug HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Also hear about the new AJAX features that help enable powerful and dynamic web applications.


Everything You Need to Know about Diagnostics and Debugging on Microsoft Internet Information Services 7
Thursday, March 6 4:15 PM - 5:30 PM, Delfino 4001A
Speaker(s): Mai-lan Tomsen Bukovec
Audience(s): Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Learn how to rapidly debug and fix the popular application frameworks (ASP.NET, classic ASP and PHP) on Microsoft Internet Information Services 7. This session covers the basics of health monitoring and some tips and tricks that developers need to know to resolve their issues faster.


RESTful Data Services with the ADO.NET Data Services Framework
Wednesday, March 5 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM, Lando 4204
Speaker(s): Pablo Castro
Audience(s): Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Learn how to use ADO.NET Data Services Framework to easily create and consume REST data services on the web. This session will cover the main concepts of the ADO.NET Data Services Framework (aka Project "Astoria"), show how to use it, and discuss how to use it with Microsoft's broader vision of a common interface for Windows Live and 3rd party services.


Serving Applications with Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live
Friday, March 7 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM, San Polo 3501A
Speaker(s): Remy Pairault
Audience(s): Technical
Session Type: Breakout
Learn how to use Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live to deploy and serve Microsoft Silverlight content and applications quickly and easily at scale.


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