Windows 7 Beta 1 for MDC Attendees

[darkassain]

Breaking news!!!

Attend an upcoming MSDN Developer Conference and you will receive a Windows 7 Beta 1 DVD.

Register today and you’ll get the best of the PDC in your own backyard and hear all of the exciting announcements around the Azure Services Platform and Windows 7.

1. Experience Windows Azure
   Create applications that seamlessly bridge the gaps between PC, Web, and phone
2. Be among the first to see Windows 7
   See the latest advances in Multi-Touch Application Development
3. Take your .NET skills to the next level
   See sessions on WPF 4.0, Silverlight 2, The Future of C# and VB, ASP.NET 4.0, Live Mesh and more

The Cost? Just $99.
And, did we mention that attendees will get some cool giveaways?
Check out the session line up…
Azure Services Platform Client and Presentation Tools, Languages and Framework A Lap Around Windows Azure and the Azure Services Platform ASP.NET and JQuery The Future of Managed Languages: C#, and Visual Basic Developing and Deploying Your First Azure Service Developing Data-centric Applications Using the WPF DataGrid and Ribbon Controls A Lap Around "Oslo" A Lap Around the Live Framework and Mesh Services Building Business Focused Applications using Silverlight 2 A Lap Around Visual Studio 2010 Developing Applications Using Microsoft SQL Data Services ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap An Introduction to Microsoft F#







Register for a city near you…

Date City 12/9/08 Houston, TX 12/11/08 Orlando, FL 12/16/08 Atlanta, GA 1/13/09 Chicago, IL 1/13/09 Minneapolis, MN 1/16/09 Washington, DC 1/20/09 New York, NY 1/22/09 Boston, MA 1/22/09 Detroit, MI 1/26/09 Dallas, TX 2/19/90 San Francisco, CA Cool Giveaways

The MSDN Developer Conference will not only WOW you with the coolest sessions from the PDC but you will also be in the running to win one of 3 Lego NXT Robotics Kits and the WROX Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio book. Other giveaways include a Gamer Backpack filled with the latest XBox games and a Mobility Backpack full of cool hardware.


Community Courtyard

As good as the sessions are, there's always more to explore and discuss. At MDC, you'll have a chance to step into the Community Courtyard and choose what to talk about, based on your interest and passion for the subject.
Running in tandem with the presentations is an open discussion area where you will choose the subjects and the participants. Whether you want to mingle with the presenters, talk about an MDC session, a related subject or something else you have the opportunity. Borrowing from Open Space Technology and other forms of open, community-driven discussion, using fishbowls and free-for-alls, this area is yours.



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Cloud Services

A Lap Around Windows Azure and the Azure Services Platform
This session provides a tour of cloud computing platform capabilities, an overview of its various components, and explains how these fit together to provide best-of-cloud experiences. It covers the journey of a developer from writing a service to launching that service in the cloud. Learn about the cloud services that enable developers to easily create or extend their applications and services. From consumer-targeted applications and social networking web sites to enterprise class applications and services, these services make it easy for you to give your applications and services the most compelling experiences and features.
Developing and Deploying Your First Azure Service
In this session we will take a tour of the capabilities of the Microsoft cloud platform by building and running a simple service using the platform SDK. The sample service highlights some of the features of the platform including service management, storage, and an integrated developer experience. This is a demo-heavy session.
A Lap Around the Live Framework and Mesh Services
Learn about the Live Framework, our latest offering for developers programming against our Live Services from any device, platform, runtime, or programming language. See new and future services (such as Mesh Services), protocols, APIs, and tools which enable your web, service, or client applications to access, store, and synchronize user data with Live Services, obtain audience analytics data, and more.
Developing Applications Using Microsoft SQL Data Services
In the near future, applications will be developed using a combination of custom application code and online building block services, including data-centric services. In this session we discuss advancements in the Microsoft development platform and online service interfaces to enable seamless interaction with data services both on-premises (e.g., ADO.NET Data Services Framework over on-premises SQL Server) and in the cloud (e.g., SQL Server Data Services). Learn how you can leverage existing know-how related to LINQ (Language Integrated Query), data access APIs, data-binding, and more when building applications using online data.
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Client and Presentation

ASP.NET and JQuery
JQuery is an open source JavaScript library that has a passionate following among Ajax developers. Microsoft is integrating the open source JQuery library into both the ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC frameworks and providing full product support. Learn how you can take advantage of JQuery to build richly interactive client-side Ajax applications when developing either ASP.NET Web Forms or ASP.NET MVC applications. Also see how JQuery works in combination with ASP.NET AJAX to provide the best framework for building Ajax applications.
Developing Data-Centric Applications Using the WPF DataGrid and Ribbon Controls
Business apps live on data. In this demo-focused talk, we'll show how we've made building data-centric business applications in WPF easier with the new DataGrid, Ribbon, and Calendar/DatePicker controls. As we build the application, we'll also give you a sneak peek at how building data-bound apps will be significantly easier in Visual Studio 2010.
Building Business-Focused Applications Using Silverlight 2
What if you could develop your solutions with the ease pioneered by Microsoft Office Access, deploy them like an Internet application, and take advantage of the power of Microsoft .NET? Learn about an exciting new technology that is all about making business applications for RIA (Rich Internet Applications) much easier to build. In this session, hear how we've made n-tier application development as simple as traditional 2-tier, provided application level solutions to developers, and how we're doing all of this with the same .NET platform and tools on both the client and server.
ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap
Take a walk through the 4.0 landscape from ASP.NET and learn how you can get involved in shaping ASP.NET future. This talk focuses on the next release of ASP.NET including web forms and MVC. Do you love web forms? See how you can take control of your control IDs, display images using the new DynamicImage control, learn about better ViewState management in GridView and ListView, and get more control over the CSS markup of ASP.NET server controls. See how Dynamic Data makes building your data-driven apps easy. If you're interested in AJAX, we show you further advancements in client rendering and binding. If you're considering MVC, we look at the feature set and understand how to create applications with this technology.
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Tools, Language and Framework

The Future of Managed Languages: C# and Visual Basic
In this session we will outline the future of C# and Visual Basic. Learn about the new capabilities of the next versions of these languages, including additional LINQ features, syntax simplifications, and a host of other improvements. Also gain insight into possible future features, including meta-programming and scripting.
A Lap Around "Oslo"
"Oslo" is the family of new technologies that enable data-driven development and execution of services and applications. Learn how to capture all aspects of an application schematized in the "Oslo" repository and use "Oslo" directly to drive the execution of deployed applications.
A Lap Around VSTS 2010
In the spirit of an agile sprint, see how to use the next version of Visual Studio Team System to manage user stories and re-factor existing architecture. Learn how to diagnose real production problems, debug in-production virtual labs, capture test data to eliminate the no-repro bugs, and transparently plan, monitor, and adapt software projects.
An Introduction to Microsoft F#
Learn about Microsoft´s new language, F#, a typed functional programming language for the Microsoft .NET Framework. F# combines functional programming with the runtime support, libraries, tools, and object model of .NET. Understand how F# asynchronous workflows help tame the complexity of parallel and asynchronous I/O programming and how to use F# in conjunction with tools such as Parallel Extensions for .NET.
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[djhallucn8]

Damn I missed it, I could have gone to the Orlando convention.

 

[XxKOLOHExX]

What does this mean the public beta release is tomorrow or something? after the keynote or w/e?

 

[darkassain]

most likely if it is before Ballmer's keynote in CES then it will be mailed....

(since it is thought he will personally announce the beta.....)

after his keynote i believe it will be given to in discs in person....


update texas might be have be the first ones to get the beta cd's according to this....

Update: Nope. It’s going to be sooner, not later. The latest word: The public beta of Win 7 client is due to hit Friday, January 9, according to a source familiar with Microsoft’s plans. The public beta of Win 7 Server is due to hit a day earlier, January 8, the source added.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1792