Visual Studio Live! New York 2012 schedule

Thursday 17th May 2012

• What's new in WCF 4

  by Ido Flatow

  Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is one of the leading technologies for building distributed applications. WCF 4 introduces many enhancements and new features such as simplified configuration, discovery, routing services, better integration with IIS, and improved support for building RESTful services. In this session we will examine these improvements of WCF 4 and how they affect the way we create and consume WCF services.

  At 11:00am to 12:15pm, Thursday 17th May

• What's New in WCF 4.5

  by Ido Flatow

  Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is one of the leading technologies for building distributed applications. WCF 4.5 which ships with the new .NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 11 introduces many new features that both simplifies the way we create services and enables us improve the way our services work.

  In this session we will see many of the new features offered by WCF 4.5 - configuration intellisense, cleaner configuration for IIS, UDP and WebSockets supports, and many more.

  At 1:30pm to 2:45pm, Thursday 17th May

• Monitoring and Troubleshooting WCF Services

  by Ido Flatow

  The Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) framework is being used in almost all .NET development platforms: Windows clients, web browsers, Windows Phone, Server side applications, and Windows Azure; but everyone using WCF asks the same question - how do I know if my service is working properly?

  In this session we will see how to monitor your services, and how to tune it for better performance and scalability.

  At 3:00pm to 4:15pm, Thursday 17th May