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MSDN Events Presents > The MSDN
Northeast Roadshow: "Driving Toward a New Horizon" Tour
It’s a new year and road and code
warriors Chris Bowen and Jim O’Neil just can’t wait to return to the highways
of the northeast to talk about major technology releases and what’s important
for developers.
From writing applications that leverage
Windows Azure, Microsoft’s cloud operating system that went live on January 1st,
to new ways of working with services and data like WCF Data Services and SQL
Azure, to a look at what’s just around the bend with Visual Studio 2010 and
.NET Framework 4, let Chris and Jim be your GPS of technology travel.
The Northeast MSDN Roadshow is a
free series of deep technology sessions for developers and architects.
Register today and join Chris and Jim for these relaxed events to gain
practical insights.
So, rev up those developer engines and
get ready to roll toward new sights and destinations!
If
you register and attend this event, you will be placed in a raffle to win a
chance to bring home one (1) free copy of Windows 7 – you could be the
lucky winner! Register today!
The Agenda: Cloudy (but Clear) Skies,
Driving Data, and Visual (Studio) Sights
Session 1 - Windows Azure:
What? Why? And a Peek under the Hood
What is Cloud Computing and where can it
take you? In this session, we’ll first focus on showing the potential
benefits of creating applications for the cloud with Windows Azure.
Then, we’ll pop open the hood to show you around the main parts of the
engine, including web roles, worker roles, and queues. You’ll see how
Windows Azure plugs in for interoperability with other on-premises and cloud
applications via the App Fabric. You’ll also learn how Windows Azure
can be used to host technologies other than .NET – such as Java and PHP – and
get a glimpse into what’s coming next with project “Sydney” and the
integration of Windows Workflow into the cloud.
Session 2 - Data: At Your
Service
Services are more than just executable
bits of business logic; data too can be provided as a service, and the
Microsoft stack offers a number of ways to host your data on and
off-premises. Windows Azure provides highly scalable table and blob
storage, and SQL Azure brings the relational model to the cloud, but there’s
other options as well including exposing your domain data via WCF Data Services
and leveraging vetted data service providers such as the Associated Press and
the Data.gov via Microsoft “Dallas”. Think of this session as a pit
stop to help you examine the data and modeling options best suited to tune
your applications.
Session 3 - Visual Studio 2010:
That’s a 10-4, Good Buddy
There’s a buzz in the air as Visual
Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 are arriving soon, and they’re bringing
plenty of cargo that developers will enjoy, from new features to improved
productivity. We’ll hop on and take a tour, giving you the lay of the
land in terms of what will help you as a developer. The sights will
include parallel application development, new editor features and debugging
capabilities (including a new historical debugger), improvements for web and
Windows development, new .NET language features, and much more.
*Be
sure to learn more about the TechNet event happening on the same day at the
same location from 8:30am–12:00pm. If you are interested in attending, please
register separately for that event here: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032439503&Culture=en-US
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