Visual Studio 2010 Launch - /*Life Runs on Code*/ - Live Video Streaming from VS2010 Launch in Las Vegas, NV

Presented by Bob Muglia, President of the Server and Tools Business (STB)

The code you write is changing the world. It’s everywhere. Virtually every aspect of our daily lives is improved by software around us. However, applications are becoming more complex and with a growing number of platforms and technologies, you need tools that help you keep up. Enter Visual Studio 2010. Coding is faster than ever and working with other developers and testers has never been easier. What’s more, you can use your existing skills to target new platforms. The new prototyping, modeling, and design tools in Visual Studio 2010 help unleash your creativity and bring your vision to life. Join Bob Muglia, President - Server and Tools, as he unveils the greatest release of Visual Studio to date.
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Improving Developer-Tester Collaboration with VS2010

Presented by Doug Seven, Senior Product Manager for Visual Studio Team System, Microsoft

Effective collaboration between developers and testers is paramount and can make the difference between shipping quality applications on time, or slipping because bugs are found late. In this session you will discover the six mechanisms in Visual Studio® 2010 that enable more effective collaboration between developers and testers. These mechanisms include tools to create actionable bugs, debug historical events, and automate functional testing.

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 TFS for Everyone

Presented by Tony Goodhew, Product Planner for Visual Studio 2010

Are you still using Visual SourceSafe? Is your source code in Subversion? Have you hobbled together a set of open source tools that just “get the job done”? Team Foundation Server 2010 is the best next-step from Visual SourceSafe and other version control systems. In this session we will dispel the myths for why you aren’t already using Team Foundation Server, show you how get started – including migrating your existing code from Visual SourceSafe – and introduce you to some of the additional capabilities of Team Foundation Server that will enable you to set up continuous integration builds – with quality gates – and document and track items from your backlog. If you’ve been thinking about trying Team Foundation Server, now is the time to check it out.

Sam Gazitt Product Manager in the Developer Tools Group (DEVDIV); Microsoft Corporation

Many customers are turning to SharePoint as a way of meeting changing business needs and managing IT costs and complexity. Visual Studio 2010 provides new support for SharePoint 2010 development, including tooling for Web Parts, Lists, Workflows, and Events and more, so you can bring great new customized collaboration tools to your company. In this session we will cover connecting SharePoint to external data, enhancing customizations with Silverlight, and leveraging SharePoint data from Office client extensions. You will see how to leverage your existing .NET skills to deliver new functionality on a platform that is readily familiar to end-users.

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Optimizing Productivity, Performance, and Reliability: Intel® Parallel Studio and the Art of Programming for Multicore 

Presented by David R. Mackay, Ph.D., Manager of Technical Consulting Engineering Team, Intel

There has never been a better time to tackle parallelism or find tools to assist in the development process. Intel® Parallel Studio gives Microsoft Visual Studio* C/C++ developers the tools to discover, build, debug, and optimize for multicore. Leveraging 25 years creating effective tools for parallel application development, Intel developed Intel Parallel Studio to seamlessly integrate into Visual Studio and bring parallelism to the full range of Windows* applications.   

Learn more as this seminar explores the full range of features found in Intel Parallel Studio.

Building Rich Line of Business Apps with Silverlight & Visual Studio 2010

Presented by Jason Beres, VP of Product Management, Community, and Evangelism, Infragistics

Have you wondered what benefits Silverlight can bring to your line of business applications?  Do you want to learn how Visual Studio 2010, in conjunction with Silverlight, can not only improve your applications but can help you build them faster?  In this code focused talk, you will learn 10 key tips for building rich line of business applications in Silverlight, and how new features and capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 can help you get there.

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Decision Support Systems - Transforming Your Data Into Information

Presented by Robby Powell Group Product Manager & Keith May, Director of Development, Grapecity

In today’s age of data-overload, decision makers are desperate for meaningful information to help them identify opportunities, analyze problems, spot trends and get up to the minute views on the state of their organization.

In this session, learn how you can effectively integrate Decision Support components into your .Net applications.  Topics discussed: Aggregation, Dashboards, Reporting, and Analysis.

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