» Alex Golesh

Windows Phone 7.5 ("Mango") is Microsoft's newest version of the mobile phone operating systems. This one day instructor-led course introduces the new features added to Windows Phone to enable additional scenarios which were not possible with previous version and much requested by developers. The course focuses on the new features, best practices of implementing them for Windows Phone 7.5, how-to's and "tips and tricks".

» Gil Fink  

HTML is the markup language that every web developer uses to structure and present content in the Internet. HTML5 is the standard that is being shaped and developed currently. It extends and improves the last HTML4 standard and takes it to the next level with multimedia, communication support and more. In this one day tutorial you will get to know what is HTML5 and how you can use it even now in your web applications/sites.

» Erez Harari

The Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) framework is being used in almost all .NET development platforms: Windows clients, web browsers, Windows Phone 7, Server side applications, and Windows Azure - WCF is simply everywhere you look. In this one-day crash course, we will learn about WCF from the outside in – what it is, what you can do with it, how you can use it wisely, and how you can extend it. So if you've never used WCF, or you used some of it, or if you are familiar with it and want to know more about it's internals, this crash course is for you.

» Sasha Goldshtien

In this one-day session you will learn how to measure and improve methodically the performance of .NET applications. We will use CPU and memory profilers to analyze the application's behavior, and other advanced tools for analyzing performance characteristics. Finally, we will examine patterns of performance improvements, including memory leak eliminating, better cache utilization, properly using value types, and other topics.

» Manu Cohen-Yashar

The Windows Azure Platform is an Internet-scale cloud computing and services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers. In this tutorial we will present an overview of the platform's main technologies, including Web, Worker and VM roles; Azure Storage; Azure application lifecycle and deployment; introduction to SQL Azure.

» Erez Harari 

Gaming is the current trend in phones and tablets, with 50% of the applications sold today being games. In this tutorial we will discuss game design and planning, choosing the technology for your next Metro game for Windows 8: using graphics and input APIs, using 3D, enhancing the game with audio and video, and connecting it to Xbox LIVE.

» Gil Fink   » Elad Katz

JavaScript is gaining a lot of attention lately with the rise of HTML5 and with the latest news from Microsoft that it will become a first class citizen in Windows 8. During the last years a very big eco-system with a lot of libraries and tools was built around it. In this deep dive tutorial we will discuss jQuery, Knockout.js and other libraries which help you build RIA applications with JavaScript. We'll also dedicate some time to the future directions of client technologies.

» Manu Cohen-Yashar

The Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) framework is being used in almost all .NET development platforms: Windows clients, web browsers, Windows Phone 7, Server side applications, and Windows Azure; but have you ever wondered how WCF works? How you can extend it to your organization's needs? How to monitor its work? How to tune it for better performance and scalability? In this 1 day course we will deep dive into WCF, understand the concept of hosting and extensibility, and learn how to tune our WCF services and clients.

» Sasha Goldshtein   » Noam Sheffer

C++ is getting the attention of it's life from Microsoft during the last few years. The new C++ standard (C++11) has numerous productivity and convenience features - especially the introduction of lambda functions - and you can use most of it today with Visual Studio 2010 (exemplified by the Concurrency Runtime, which we will mention in brief). We will discuss the new standard as well as two non-standard extensions: C++/CX, the language extensions for WinRT development on Windows 8; and C++ AMP, the language extensions for running C++ code on the GPU in Visual Studio 11.

» Shmulik Segal   » Shai Raiten   » Yuval Mazor   » Assaf Stone   » Dan Morgenstern

In this tutorial day we will learn how to use Visual Studio 2010 testing capabilities to create test plans, test suites, and test cases, how to organize tests in the most effective and logical way, and how to run Coded UI tests, Web tests, and load tests.

» Tomer Shamam

Metro is the new application development model for Windows 8 - and you can write Metro apps in C# using XAML, fully transferring your Silverlight or WPF development skills to Windows 8. In this tutorial we will discuss the Metro-style application concept, the Windows Runtime APIs, the built-in controls and tools, optimizing for touch, application lifecycle, live tiles and push notifications, and hardware access.

» Elad Katz

In this tutorial we will explore building modern Metro applications for Windows 8 using HTML5 and JavaScript. We will discuss native application development with HTML5, WinRT bindings, Metro controls and styles, live tiles and notifications, Windows 8 contracts for search and share, and the future of JavaScript and it's tooling.

» Bnaya Eshet   » Yaniv Rodenski

In this one-day tutorial you will learn how to gain real benefits from parallelizing your applications with .NET 4.0. We'll discuss parallel programming paradigms and concepts, APIs, concurrency profiling, parallel patterns and anti-patterns. Among the topics: implicit and explicit parallelism, synchronization, concurrent collections, partitioning, Reactive Extensions, and the future C# 5.0 async methods syntax.

» Sasha Goldsheien

Debugging managed applications has never been easier with the advent of Visual Studio 2010 and auxiliary Microsoft tools and extensions. In this one-day session, packed with real-world scenarios and demos, you'll learn how to capture and open dump files in Visual Studio, and how to leave the boundaries of Visual Studio and analyze difficult problems with WinDbg and SOS in a production environment. Additional tools will be presented along the way. Among the scenarios covered: memory leaks, deadlocks, and application crashes.

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» Bnaya Eshet   » Yaniv Rodenski

With parallel programming becoming a bigger part of our life, a growing need for advanced patterns emerges. This one day tutorial targets programmers experienced with parallel programming. In the tutorial, we will explore parallel programming patterns and anti-patterns, take a look at the future of .NET parallel programming with Async methods, TPL DataFlow and Reactive Extensions, and learn about cluster-wide parallel applications with Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 SP2.

» Noam Shefer

C++ is still very popular and it's development and debugging tools are undergoing major overalls. Visual Studio 2010 offers profiling and debugging improvements of C++ applications, but there also myriads of debugging extensions and tools that can significantly improve your debugging experience. In this session, you will learn how to capture and analyze dumps of C++ applications, how to extract crash root causes from dumps, and how to detect memory leaks and dissection deadlocks.

» Eitan Bar

In this one day tutorial you will be acquainted with some of the newest technologies and improvements of the new SQL 2012 Server Engine. we will cover: new core features, improved help tools, security and computability issues , new High availability and Disaster recovery solution and more.