One more community gathering MS DevDays 2010 by Microsoft and Tech Spark Malta, has been held on 26th of March, at the hotel “Hilton”.
MS Developer Days 2010 is an event for all developers, architects and other IT specialists that would like to learn more about the Microsoft development platform. During the day a holistic overview of the technologies, products and approaches will be provided.
The theme for this year is “Energize Your Brain & Get Ready For Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate“, where the visitors have been able to see what’s new in a variety of enhancements for most popular programming languages and softwares in IT world.
Topics included products such as .NET Framework, Silverlight, Windows Azure platform and services, IE8, Windows 7, Visual Studio, and Expression Tools, data access and web development. For the project managers and team leaders we will also dive deep into Application Lifecycle Management and Team Foundation Server.
The event will also feature short breakout sessions where attendees can focus more on the language and smart client enhancements or more on the User Experience for delivering the next generation of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs).
Event Agenda:
| 09:00 | 09:30 | Registration | |
| 09:30 | 09:40 | Opening Keynote | |
| 09:40 | 10:25 | A lap around VS 2010 | |
| 10:30 | 11:15 | What’s new in Visual C++ | |
| 11:15 | 11:45 | Coffee | |
| 11:50 | 12:35 | Team Development Enchantments in Visual Studio 2010 (KDB) | |
| 12:40 | 13:25 | Microsoft Cloud Services | |
| 13:25 | 14:25 | Coffee and snacks | |
| Break Out Sessions | |||
| Smart Client & Languages | User eXperience (UX) | ||
| 14:30 | 15:10 | An introduction to the ADO.NET Entity Framework and Data Services | Introducing new features in WPF 4 |
| 15:15 | 15:55 | Taking advantage of Multi-core | Web Developer Reloaded! |
| 16:00 | 16:40 | VS2010: What’s new for Coders! | Silverlight 3: What’s in it for developers |
| 16:45 | 17:00 | Wrap up | |
Speakers at this event: Jonathan Cassar, Daniel D’Agostino, Keith Aquilina, and others.
