November, 2008

There is a wealth of resources available at http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/ but I couldn’t find a single complete list of PDC sessions available so I created one here.

Update: Mike Swanson has done one better over at http://blogs.msdn.com/mswanson/pages/PDC2008Sessions.aspx by including codes, speaker, powerpoint and code links!

• "Dublin" and .NET Services: Extending On-Premises Applications to the Cloud
• "Dublin": Hosting and Managing… in Windows Application Server
• "Oslo": Building Textual DSLs
• "Oslo": Customizing and Extending the Visual Design Experience
• "Oslo": Repository and Models
• "Oslo": The Language
• .NET Services: Access Control In Microsoft .NET Services
• .NET Services: Access Control Service Drilldown
• .NET Services: Connectivity, Messaging, Events, and Discovery with the Service Bus
• .NET Services: Logging, Diagnosing, and Troubleshooting Applications Running Live in the Cloud
• .NET Services: Messaging Servi…, Protection, and How We Scale
• .NET Services: Orchestrating S…ses Using Cloud-Based Workflow
• A Lap around "Oslo"
• A Lap around SQL Services
• A Lap Around the Azure Services Platform
• A Lap Around Windows Azure
• Agile Development with Microsoft Visual Studio
• An Introduction to Microsoft F#
• Architecture of the .NET Services
• Architecture without Big Design Up Front
• ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap
• ASP.NET AJAX Futures
• ASP.NET and JQuery
• ASP.NET Dynamic Data
• ASP.NET MVC: A New Framework for Building Web Applications
• ASP.NET: Cache Extensibility
• Behind the Scenes: How We Built a Multi-Enterprise Supply Chain Application
• Best practices for signing and verifying code on Windows 7
• Building High Performance JScript Applications
• Case Study: Bridging On-Premises with the Cloud
• Coding4Fun: Windows Presentation Foundation Animation, YouTube, iTunes, Twitter, and Nintendo's Wiimote
• Commerce Server "Mojave": Overview
• Concurrency Runtime Deep Dive: How to Harvest Multicore Computing Resources
• Datacenters and Resilient Services
• Day One - Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson
• Day Two - Chris Anderson and Don Box
• Deep Dive: Building an Optimized, Graphics-Intensive Application in Microsoft Silverlight
• Deep Dive: Dynamic Languages in Microsoft .NET
• Deep Dive: The New Rendering Engine in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8
• Deep Dive: What's New with user32 and comctl32 in Win32
• Designing Your Application to Scale
• Developing and Deploying Your First Windows Azure Service
• Developing Applications for More Than 64 Logical Processors in Windows Server 2008 R2
• Developing Applications Using Data Services
• Developing compatible applications for Windows
• Developing Connected Home Applications and Services for Windows Home Server
• Developing for Microsoft Surface
• Developing Solutions for Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V Using WMI
• Developing with Microsoft .NET and ASP.NET for Server Core
• Driving for software quality through customer feedback
• Dynamics Online: Building Busi…with Commerce and Payment APIs
• Enabling Test Automation Using Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V
• Entity Framework Futures
• Exchange Web Services Managed …tions Development for Exchange
• Exposing Connected Home Services to the Internet via Windows Home Server
• Extending Terminal Services and Hyper-V VDI in Windows 7
• FAST: Building Search-Driven Portals with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Silverlight
• Foundation Server 2010: Cool New Features
• Framework Design Guidelines
• Future Directions for Microsoft Visual Basic
• Hands On Analysis with Windows Performance Toolkit (General)
• How to Develop Supercomputer Applications
• Identity Roadmap for Software + Services
• Identity: "Geneva" Deep Dive
• Identity: "Geneva" Server and Framework Overview
• Identity: Connecting Active Directory to Microsoft Services
• Identity: Live Identity Services Drilldown
• Identity: Windows CardSpace "Geneva" Under the Hood
• IIS 7.0 and Beyond: The Microsoft Web Platform Roadmap
• Improving .NET Application Performance and Scalability
• Improving Code Quality with Code Analysis
• Inside the Olympics: An Architecture and Development Review
• IronRuby: The Right Language for the Right Job
• Live Labs Web Sandbox: Securing Mash-ups, Site Extensibility, and Gadgets
• Live Services: A Lap around the Live Framework and Mesh Services
• Live Services: Building Applications with the Live Framework
• Live Services: Building Mesh-E…tions Using the Live Framework
• Live Services: Deep Dive on Microsoft Virtual Earth
• Live Services: FeedSync and Mesh Synchronization Services
• Live Services: Live Framework Programming Model Architecture and Insights
• Live Services: Making your Application More Social
• Live Services: Mesh Services Architecture and Concepts
• Live Services: Notifications, Awareness, and Communications
• Live Services: Programming Liv…ing Non-Microsoft Technologies
• Live Services: The Future of the Device Mesh
• Live Services: What I Learned Building My First Mesh Application
• Managed and Native Code Interoperability: Best Practices
• Managed Extensibility Framework: Overview
• Microsoft .NET Framework: CLR Futures
• Microsoft .NET Framework: Declarative Programming Using XAML
• Microsoft .NET Framework: Overview and Applications for Babies
• Microsoft Advertising Platform: A Day in the Life of a Click
• Microsoft Advertising Platform: A Lap Around
• Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5
• Microsoft Dynamics AX: Building Business Process into Your Application
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM: Building Line-of-Business Applications
• Microsoft Expression Blend: Tips & Tricks
• Microsoft Office Communications Server and Exchange: Platform Futures
• Microsoft Silverlight 2 for Mobile: Developing for Mobile Devices
• Microsoft Silverlight 2: Control Model
• Microsoft Silverlight Futures: Building Business Focused Applications
• Microsoft Silverlight, WPF and the Microsoft .NET Framework: Sharing Skills and Code
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008: Powering MSDN
• Microsoft Sync Framework Advances
• Microsoft Visual C# IDE: Tips and Tricks
• Microsoft Visual C++: 10 Is the New 6
• Microsoft Visual Studio Team S…er: How We Use It at Microsoft
• Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Database Edition: Overview
• Microsoft Visual Studio Team System: A Lap Around VSTS 2010
• Microsoft Visual Studio Team System: Leveraging Virtualization to Improve Code Quality with Team Lab
• Microsoft Visual Studio Team System: Software Diagnostics and Quality for Services
• Microsoft Visual Studio: Bringing out the Best in Multicore Systems
• Microsoft Visual Studio: Building Applications with MFC
• Microsoft Visual Studio: Custo…ng the Development Environment
• Microsoft Visual Studio: Easing ASP.NET Web Deployment
• Microsoft Visual Studio: Web Development Futures
• Microsoft XNA Game Studio: An Overview
• Mono and .NET
• Natural Interop with Silverlight, Office, and Python in Microsoft Visual C# and Microsoft Visual Basic
• Office Business Applications: Enhanced Deployment
• Office Communications Server 2007 R2: Enabling Unified Communications
• Offline-Enabled Data Services and Desktop Applications
• Oomph: A Microformat Toolkit
• Open XML Format SDK: Developing Open XML Solutions
• Panel: The Future of Programming Languages
• Panel: The Future of Unit Testing
• Parallel Programming for C++ Developers in the Next Version of Microsoft Visual Studio
• Parallel Programming for Managed Developers with the Next Version of Microsoft Visual Studio
• PowerShell: Creating Manageable Web Services
• Project "Velocity": A First Look
• Project "Velocity": Under the Hood
• Research: BAM, AjaxScope, and Doloto
• Research: Concurrency Analysis Platform and Tools for Finding Concurrency Bugs
• Research: Contract Checking and Automated Test Generation with Pex
• Research: Designing the World Wide Telescope
• SharePoint 2007: Advanced Asynchronous Workflow Messaging
• SharePoint Online: Extending Your Service
• Showcase: How HP Built their Magcloud Service on Windows Azure
• Showcase: Industry Leaders Moving to the Cloud
• Showcase: Windows Azure Enables /Nsoftware and Full Armor
• Showcase: Windows Azure Enables Live Meeting
• Silverlight Controls Roadmap
• SQL Server 2008: Beyond Relational
• SQL Server 2008: Business Intelligence and Data Visualization
• SQL Server 2008: Deep Dive into Spatial Data
• SQL Server 2008: Developing Large Scale Web Applications and Services
• SQL Server 2008: New and Future T-SQL Programmability
• SQL Server Compact: Embedding in Desktop and Device Applications
• SQL Server: Database to Data Platform - Road from Server to Devices to the Cloud
• SQL Services : Under the Hood
• SQL Services: Futures
• SQL Services: Tips and Tricks for High-Throughput Data-Driven Applications
• Sync Framework: Enterprise Data in the Cloud and on Devices
• Team Foundation Server 2010: Cool New Features
• The Concurrency and Coordination Runtime and Decentralized Software Services Toolkit
• The Future of C#
• The New COM API for Accessibility and Automation in Windows 7
• Under the Hood: Advances in the .NET Type System
• Under the Hood: Inside the Windows Azure Hosting Environment
• Visual Studio Debugger Tips & Tricks
• WCF 4.0: Building WCF Services with WF in Microsoft .NET 4.0
• WCF: Developing RESTful Services
• WCF: Zen of Performance and Scale
• Web Application Packaging and Deployment
• WF 4.0: A First Look
• WF 4.0: Extending with Custom Activities
• Windows 7 Presentation Virtual…ting ( RDP) Today and Tomorrow
• Windows 7 Scenic Ribbon: The n…ommands in Win32 applications.
• Windows 7: Benefiting from Documents and Printing Convergence
• Windows 7: Best Practices for Developing for Windows Standard User
• Windows 7: Building Great Audio Communications Applications
• Windows 7: Deploying Your Appl… Installer (MSI) and ClickOnce
• Windows 7: Design Principles for Windows 7
• Windows 7: Designing Efficient Background Processes
• Windows 7: Developing Multi-touch Applications
• Windows 7: Empower users to find, visualize and organize their data with Libraries and the Explorer
• Windows 7: Extending Battery L… Energy Efficient Applications
• Windows 7: Integrate with the Windows 7 Desktop
• Windows 7: Introducing Direct2D and DirectWrite
• Windows 7: Optimizing Applicat…ote File Services over the WAN
• Windows 7: Programming Sync Providers That Work Great with Windows
• Windows 7: The Sensor and Loca…ing Context-Aware Applications
• Windows 7: The Sensor and Location Platform: Building Context-Aware Applications
• Windows 7: Unlocking the GPU with Direct3D
• Windows 7: Using Instrumentati… Develop High Quality Software
• Windows 7: Web Services in Native Code
• Windows 7: Welcome to the Windows 7 Desktop
• Windows 7: Writing World-Ready Applications
• Windows 7: Writing Your Application to Shine on Modern Graphics Hardware
• Windows Azure: Architecting & Managing Cloud Services
• Windows Azure: Cloud Service Development Best Practices
• Windows Azure: Essential Cloud Storage Services
• Windows Azure: Modeling Data for Efficient Access at Scale
• Windows Azure: Programming in the Cloud
• Windows Embedded "Quebec": Developing for Devices
• WPF Roadmap
• WPF: Data-centric Applications…e DataGrid and Ribbon Controls
• WPF: Extensible BitmapEffects,…ders, and WPF Graphics Futures