Join us at MIX, March 15-17th 2010!
RegisterJoin us at MIX10 as we continue exploring the art and science of creating great user experiences. Designers and developers will learn about Microsoft’s broad web platform and tools that help bring together the clients, servers and cloud services needed for creating great rich web applications. Here’s a sampling of the sessions that will be presented at MIX this year:
The HaaHa Show: Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Security with Haack and Hanselman
Join Phil Haack and Scott Hanselman for this dynamic and unusual security session. The HaaHa brothers take turns implementing features on an ASP.NET MVC website. Scott writes a feature, and Phil exploits it and hacks into the system. We analyze and discuss the exploits live on stage and then close them one by one. Learn about XSS, CSRF, JSON Hijacking and more. Is *your* site safe from the Haack?
Designing and Delivering Scalable and Resilient Web Services
The distributed in-memory caching capabilities of Windows Server AppFabric will change how you think about scaling your Microsoft .NET-connected applications. Come learn how the distributed nature of the AppFabric cache allows large amounts of data to be stored in-memory for extremely fast access, how AppFabric's integration with Microsoft ASP.NET makes it easy to add low-latency data caching across the web farm, and discover the unique high availability features of AppFabric which will bring new degrees of scale and resilience to your data tier and your web applications. This is a must attend session for application architects and developers responsible for complex multi-server web …
Building a Next-Generation Web Application with Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 2 and jQuery
ASP.NET MVC is a great foundation for building AJAX-driven web applications. Come hear a talk about building Agile Zen, a lean project management application. Learn how easy it is to make ASP.NET MVC and jQuery play nice together, as well as talk about why building on ASP.NET MVC is a great choice, both from a business and technical standpoint.
Securing Microsoft Silverlight Applications
Come hear how to protect Silverlight applications from common threats including securing your application from intruders, eavesdroppers and users as well as protecting your code, your data and your servers from attacks. Also, hear about the key security vectors that must be considered when using Silverlight such as securing applications that often live outside firewalls.
Microsoft Silverlight 4 Overview: What's in Store for Silverlight 4?
Are you looking for ways to build seamless, rich web experiences and easy-to-deploy line-of-business applications? If so, come see an overview of the new features and updates included in the upcoming release of Silverlight 4. We explore enhancements to features like out-of-browser and elevated trust and tour advances in areas such as rich text, input and networking.
Building Web Applications with Windows Azure Storage
Windows Azure provides a highly available and massively scalable cloud storage service. In this session, learn how to create and access the different types of Windows Azure storage including blobs, tables, and queues. Also, learn about the new type of storage we are introducing, Windows Azure XDrive, which lets you use existing NTFS file system APIs to access durable storage.
Stepping Outside the Browser with Microsoft Silverlight 4
You can do a lot with a Silverlight 3 out-of-browser application - so what more do you need? Maybe file system access, the ability to host HTML content, the ability to customize the application chrome, greater control over the out-of-browser window, notifications, access to local components and the ability to playback rights protected media? If so, then this is the session for you to come find out about the new Silverlight 4 out-of -browser features and see some of the amazing things you can do with those features.
