Keynote

The Power of Students

Kimberly Voltero

Never underestimate the power of students. For decades, some of the most creative and breakthrough ideas have come not from CEOs and power brokers, but from students who didn’t let anything hold them back. Bill Gates and Paul Allen were teenagers when the idea of the personal computer and software industry first occurred to them. At just 19, University of Texas student Michael Dell started building and selling PCs from his dorm room with only a thousand dollars in the bank. For many of us, it is while we are students that we discover our dreams… and hope the skills we gain will provide the power we need to realize those dreams. At Microsoft, we are committed to helping students use Microsoft technologies to realize their professional dreams. www.microsoft.com/S2B.

Developers track

Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET 4 Framework

Bart Wullems

Bart will go through some of the cool new features in Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0. Attend this session to learn about parallel programming, WCF, WPF, WF, Silverlight, ASP.NET AJAX, Dynamic Data, ASP.NET MVC, Application Lifecycle Management, the new Visual Studio IDE and many other enhanced features.

Five things you’ll love about Silverlight

Wouter Devinck

Wouter will not only talk about Silverlight, he will show how to use it too. In this session you learn how to build an application in Silverlight that get and displays pictures from Flickr. Topics that are being discussed along the way include LINQ, C#, XAML, Expression Blend, storyboards, states and templates. As the icing on the cake you get to see a sneak peak of Silverlight 4.

How to manage large scale software projects

Bart De Smet

Everyone knows how to write a Hello World application. Know your language, a few tools, and be done with it. But what if you're about to write an application or library that doesn't fit a one-man show? What if you need man-years of development cycles, man-years of testing and make sure your product arrives in the market in time? Enter the world of large scale software projects. With thousands of contributors to the source base and many years of development, Microsoft's Developer Division (otherwise known as DevDiv) delivers on the Common Language Runtime, compilers for a plethora of languages, the whole .NET Framework library (including frameworks such as ASP.NET, WPF, LINQ, etc) and the breadth of the Visual Studio tool family. In this session, we'll talk about how to manage such large scale projects from a variety of viewpoints: the business owners, the wide range of technical roles such as developers and testers, and last but not least the customer. To keep things technical, you'll learn about source control systems, code review practices, work item tracking databases, test lab infrastructures, code coverage tools, etc. And since we're dogfooding our own products heavily at Microsoft, we'll do all of this using the Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server set of technologies.

A lap around Windows Azure Platform

Sumit Mehrotra

Come hear how the Windows Azure Platform provides a scalable compute and storage environment with Windows Azure, secure connectivity with Windows Azure Platform AppFabric, and a relational database with SQL Azure. Learn about these new services and see several demos that show how to build applications that run in and take advantage of Microsoft’s new cloud platform.

System administrators track

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 better together

Arlindo Alves

Windows Server 2008 R2 has many features that are designed specifically to work with client computers running Windows 7. During this session we will discover solutions like branch caching, Direct Access, Applocker and much more.

Overview of Exchange Server 2010

Scott Schnoll

This session offers an overview of Exchange Server 2010, the cornerstone of Microsoft’s unified communications solution, and demonstrates how this latest release helps achieve new levels of reliability and performance, by delivering features that help simplify administration, protect communications, and delight users. The session will highlight key innovations and enhancements made in Exchange 2010 across three product investment areas: “Flexible and Reliable”, “Anywhere Access”, and “Protection and Compliance”. We will also touch on high-level options around migration from previous releases of Exchange, and illustrate the significant “Software + Services” opportunities delivered with Exchange Online.

Introduction to Hyper-V in WS08R2 with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2

Corey Hynes

This session focuses on the new capabilities of Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and the free Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 . We will also covers the base architecture of Hyper-V and provides guidance on key areas high availability, live migration, deployment and managing your virtual infrastructure using System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2.

SharePoint 2010 – an overview in demos

Steffen Krause

In this session learn about what's new in SharePoint 2010 across the entire release from social computing to business intelligence. If you are looking for a session that will give you the breadth of understanding across SharePoint, this is the session for you. This session is mostly demos.