Be sure to check out the Chalk Talks in the Web Platform Pavilion at PDC this week. The team is going to have a number of really great sessions in the Big Room at the Web Pavilion (located next to the Surface Lounge).

Here's the full schedule:

Schedule
Title
Description
Speaker
11/17/09 11:00am
What's New in IIS and the Microsoft Web Platform
The Microsoft Web Platform is becoming an increasingly powerful set of technologies for building Web applications and services. In this session, you will learn how to use the new Web Platform Installer to more quickly develop, deploy, and host ASP.NET and PHP Web applications. You will also see how server administrators can use IIS 7.5 in Windows Server 2008 R2 - with built-in support for .NET on Server Core - and new IIS extensions to simplify Web server configuration and management.
11/17/09 12:00pm
Extending Expression Encoder
An informal discussion about the experience of building apps with Expression Encoder’s SDK:  Demos will include enhancing Expression Encoder with Powershell, distributed peer-to-peer encoding and publishing content to the Windows Azure CDN-enabled blob store.
11/17/09 1:00pm
Deep Dive on Bing Maps Silverlight Control
The Bing Maps Platform has grown immensely over the past year from our Bing Maps AJAX Map Control to our Bing Maps Web Services and now our Bing Maps Silverlight Control. Come and join us as we take you on a tour of all the features and dig deep into the code to show you how to build your own Bing Maps applications in Silverlight.
11/18/09 11:00am
Deep Dive into WPF4 Multi-Touch APIs
We’ll look closely at WPF4’s multi-touch platform to build first class multi-touch user experiences. We will discuss the details of manipulation and inertia events, integrating multi-touch experience with existing controls, raw touch events and building on extensible touch devices.
11/18/09 12:00pm
Demystifying SEO with the IIS SEO Toolkit
The IIS SEO Toolkit, is a brand new tool from Microsoft that takes the guesswork out of SEO to build the best quality and easiest to find Web sites on the Internet. We'll show features for gaining site intelligence through built in reporting and error identification for broken/invalid links, duplicate content and tag validation. Best of all, you can customize it so you can plug in your own rules and customizations to make the IIS Search Engine Optimizer the complete answer to your SEO needs.
11/18/09 1:00pm
Super Cool Microsoft Ajax Tricks & Tips
Learn some of the advanced tricks of the new Microsoft Ajax Library. In this talk, you learn how to take advantage of many of the advanced features of Microsoft Ajax such as recursive templates, dynamic templates, and dynamic placeholders
11/18/09 2:00pm
Panel Discussion: Open Source Software + ASP.NET
Join us in this panel discussion on open source and ASP.NET. Hosted by Scott Hanselman, Sara Ford, Bertrand LeRoy, Glenn Block, Clemens Vasters, and Shaun Walker will be there to answer your questions and ask you some too.
Panel
11/19/09 10:00am
Bing Maps APIs
Bing Maps is a cutting edge geographic-based data visualization platform with several interfaces for integrating maps into your own applications and web sites. Come learn about what’s new with the different Bing Maps APIs and gain a full overview of the platform from the penultimate Bing Maps blogger and mapping expert, Microsoft’s Chris Pendleton.
11/19/09 11:00am
Prototyping with SketchFlow
Using and extending Expression Blend and its prototyping vocabulary
11/19/09 12:00pm
Expression Blend for Developers
See a walkthrough of how Expression Blend can be used to design rich user experiences for Silverlight and WPF.