My PDC 2008 Agenda

23 Oct 2008

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This Saturday I'll be headed off to sunny Los Angeles for Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference 2008. This is the first time I've gone and I'm really looking forward to it. I'm staying at Hotel Figeuroa, only a couple blocks from the Los Angeles Convention Center, and I've posted my tentative session agenda (more for my own reference than anything else) below. If anyone else would like to meet up for drinks after the sessions, drop me an email.

Pre-Conference / Sunday Oct 26 2008

• 10:00 AM - 5:45 PM: Creating Rich Internet Applications with Silverlight

Day One / Monday Oct 27 2008

• 8:30 AM - 11:00 AM: Keynote
• 11:00 AM - 12:45 AM: A Lap Around Cloud Services (Part 1)
• 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM: Microsoft Expression Blend: Tips & Tricks
• 1:45 PM - 3:30 PM: ASP.Net 4.0 Roadmap
• 3:30 PM - 5:15 PM: A Lap Around Cloud Services (Part 2) or ASP.NET MVC: A New Framework for Building Web Applications
• 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM: Developing and Deploying Your First Cloud Service or Microsoft .NET Framework: Overview and Applications for Babies or Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0: A First Look

Day Two / Tuesday Oct 28 2008

• 3:30 AM - 12:45 PM: Keynote
• 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM: Windows 7: Welcome to the Windows 7 Desktop
• 1:45 PM - 3:30 PM: Essential Cloud Storage Services
• 3:30 PM - 5:15 PM: Microsoft Visual Studio: Easing ASP.NET Web Deployment
• 5:15 PM - 6:30 PM: Entity Framework Futures or ASP.NET and JQuery or Architecting Services for the Cloud

Day Three / Wednesday Oct 29 2008

• 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM: Keynote
• 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: WCF 4.0: Building WCF Services with WF in Microsoft .NET 4.0
• 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM: Microsoft XNA Game Studio: An Overview
• 1:15 PM - 3:00 PM: "Oslo": Customizing and Extending the Visual Design Experience
• 3:00 PM - 4:45 PM: A Day in the Life of a Cloud Service Developer or Oomph: A Microformat Toolkit or "Oslo": Repository and Models
• 4:45 PM - 6:00 PM: A Lap around "Oslo"

Day Four / Thursday Oct 30 2008

• 8:30 AM - 10:15 AM: WCF: Developing RESTful Services
• 10:15 AM - 12:00 PM: Services Symposium: Enterprise Grade Cloud Applications
• 12:00 PM - 1:45 PM: Cloud Computing: Programming in the Cloud
• 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM: ASP.NET AJAX Futures or Workflow Services: Orchestrating Services and Business Processes Using Cloud-Based Workflow

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