Explore the benefits of the latest tools from Microsoft and discover how they can help you develop the most engaging applications with this informative series of webcasts.
The Microsoft Developer Network subscription program offers significant benefits to customers in helping them manage their developer tools licenses, in helping them develop and test solutions, and ensure they have rights to acquire new developer tools from Microsoft as they are released. As development and test environments can be very different and complex, so can the possible licensing scenarios be.
This webcast is intended to provide an overview of MSDN benefits, licensing specifics, and administration guidance for license administrators in customer organizations.
Dates:
10/07/08: 2:30pm—3:30pm 
12/02/08: 2:30pm—3:30pm
01/06/09: 2:30pm—3:30pm
02/03/09: 2:30pm—3:30pm
Designing database schemas and managing change on relational databases is a complex task that often involves the use of custom tools, by users with very deep, domain-specific skills. Often, the inequities in the richness of tooling and integration can cause organizations to struggle in delivering on complex solutions. Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition is built to provide an integrated tool to support database developers and help them integrate their work product and activities into the broader processes of solution development undertaken by their organizations.
This webcast will provide a drill down on the practical use of Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition to build and deploy SQL Server-based relational databases.
Dates:
10/21/08: 1:00pm—2:30pm
Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for delivering the next generation of media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web.
This webcast will demonstrate how you can develop Silverlight-based applications using Visual Studio 2008 and Expression Studio.
Dates:
11/18/08: 1:00pm—2:00pm
Microsoft BizTalk Server is used to connect systems both inside and across organizations. This includes exchanging data and orchestrating business processes which require multiple systems. BizTalk-based applications are .NET-based applications, and are built on .NET and with Visual Studio.
This webcast will focus on integrating BizTalk Server solution development into the application lifecycle using Visual Studio Team System 2008.
Dates:
12/16/08: 1:00pm—2:00pm 
02/03/09: 1:00pm—2:00pm
Visual Studio Team System 2010 has reached an important milestone with the Beta 1 release. It is now available for download for all customers who want to preview the new functionality provided in the tools and the core.NET framework 4.0.
There is a vast amount of new functionality present in the Beta 1 release, so much so that it would be impossible to cover all of the new functionality in a single session. However, we’re going to highlight and demonstrate some of what we think is the most exciting new capabilities for project teams using Visual Studio Team System, including:
- Quality Assurance tooling using Visual Studio Test Essentials
- New Tester functionality with Coded UI tests
- Historical Debugging capabilities
- Architecture Tooling, including UML support and the Architecture Explorer
- Workflow-based build server capabilities
- Hierarchical Work Items
Dates:
06/16/09: 3:00pm—4:30pm
Smart Client applications are applications that can be delivered over standard web protocols, automatically update, provide rich client functionality, and optionally provide rich connected and disconnected behaviors. Many organizations are embracing Smart Client application approaches instead of web client applications, as Smart Client applications generally provide a rich user experience, are usable in many different connectivity environments, and are generally considered easy to develop.
There are many approaches to building .NET-based Smart Client applications, and this webcast will focus on the approaches to building great Smart Client applications using the capabilities found in Visual Studio Team System 2008.
Dates:
01/20/09: 1:00pm—2:00pm
There are many scenarios where moving to Team Foundation Server can provide tremendous value to an organization. In this session, we will provide an overview of the functionality provided by Team Foundation Server, including Source Control integration, Work Item and Defect Tracking, Automated Build Services, Project Management capabilities, Process and Governance, Portal Services, and Reporting.
This webcast will focus on the ways to effectively implement application lifecycle management practices into an organization, to drive better software.
Dates:
03/17/09: 1:00pm—2:00pm
Products and technologies adoption of SharePoint 2007 has grown significantly since its introduction, and is a popular platform for building internal and external web applications, since it provides an application server environment and framework for building solutions that meet the complex needs of a wide variety of organizations. Because of its central role, it becomes imperative to load test implementations of SharePoint to ensure they meet the scale and performance needs of the organization, particularly with customizations.
This webcast will focus on leveraging Visual Studio 2008 Tester Edition to scale SharePoint 2007-based sites/applications.
Dates:
06/16/09: 1:00pm—2:30pm