Four Weeks between Now and PDC 2009
There are four more weeks between now and the start of PDC the week of November 16th. Registration can be done through the main PDC site. The details of the sessions are now almost all completely published and there are six sessions on tap covering WCF and WF in depth.
What's New for Windows Communication Foundation 4 by Ed Pinto
Learn about the investments made in Windows Communication Foundation 4 that add new capabilities for service composition and reduced configuration and deployment complexity. Discover how improvements to configuration, monitoring, and deployment are enhanced by Microsoft project code name "Dublin". See how the Routing Service makes it easier to build sophisticated intermediaries and how support for WS-Discovery adds flexibility to your services infrastructure. Gain insight into the improved authoring experience for REST services applications including new support for caching, multiple formats, and fault handling.
Workflow Services and "Dublin" by Mark Fussell
Learn how to use Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) 4, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4, and "Dublin" to build and manage scalable, reliable, and highly-available applications. Discover the power of WF to build and coordinate WCF services and implement logic on the middle tier. Enable sophisticated messaging patterns with correlation, enhanced transaction support, durable services, and config-based activation. Learn how "Dublin" makes it easier to deploy, manage, and monitor WCF and WF applications.
Spice Up Your Applications with WF 4 by Matt Winkler
Discover how your applications can achieve a new degree of flexibility, transparency, and end-user control with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). Expose tailored, productive authoring experiences for your users to define business and application logic with new capabilities in WF 4, including simplified designer rehosting and enhanced activity and designer programming models to create domain-specific libraries of activities. Understand the options available for hosting WF and extending the runtime to add control and application visibility and see how customers are already workflow-enabling their solutions with WF 4.
Microsoft Application Server Technologies: Present and Future by Anil Nori
Hear how Microsoft is evolving its application server technologies to address the challenges of building, deploying, and managing composite applications in Windows Server and Windows Azure. See how .NET applications built on ASP.NET, WCF, and WF can take advantage of the improved management, hosting, and distributed object caching capabilities provided by the application server. Learn about future directions for these technologies and hear how the changing needs of enterprise applications will be addressed by a layered platform of frameworks, servers, and services.
Application Server Extensibility with Microsoft Project Code Name "Dublin" and Microsoft ASP.NET 4 by Nicholas Allen
ASP.NET 4 and "Dublin" provide new application hosting, tracking, and persistence capabilities. Learn the benefits of different hosting options and how to choose the right option for your scenario. Learn about custom tracking providers and how the built-in tracking system can be extended to meet your custom business data monitoring requirements. Learn about the new subsystem for managing durable application state using Microsoft SQL Server or custom application-specific stores.
Windows Workflow Foundation 4 from the Inside Out by Bob Schmidt
See why Windows Workflow Foundation 4 is a powerful platform for simplifying application coordination logic and state management. Learn about the core runtime abstractions and under-the-hood improvements related to areas such as performance, transactions, and persistence. Get insights and techniques that enhance your investments in Workflow.