9th Edition of Microsoft’s Virtual Techdays

Microsoft Virtual Techdays is back . It is one of the India’s premier online technical event and this time its the 9th Edition and will be held from August 18-20 , 2010 .

The Microsoft’s Virtual Techdays is an Online event and will have about 30 sessions everyday and is completely FREE.

The tracks are categorized by targetting Developers , IT / Infrastructure Professionals , Enterprise Developers etc …

If you are planning to attend the event , you can register here

The sessions are taken by some of the well known MVP’s , Microsoft Employees as well as Community members like Bijoy Singhal,Harish Ranganathan ,Janakiram MSV ,Niraj Bhatt ,Vikram Pendse ,Vinod Kumar ,

Some of the sessions include

  • What’s new in ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1
  • Razor Engine: an introduction
  • Deep dive into WCF 4.0 features
  • Silverlight 4 Deep Dive
  • ASP.NET 4.0 Core runtime enhancements
  • Developing Windows 7 Desktop Widgets
  • IE 9 PP4: A sneak preview and how developers can take advantage of it
  • Building and deploying azure applications using VS 2010
  • Entity Framework and enhancements in EF 4
  • Building Stand alone ASP.NET applications using the SQL Compact
  • Exposing Data using WCF Data services
  • Data-Tier Application in Visual Studio 2010
  • Introduction to SharePoint 2010
    and many more …

You can find the complete list here
The Virtual Techdays site states that one could potentially win 3 Laptops, 16 Mouse and 80 Movie Tickets by participating in the Session Assessment Quizzes. Hope i get one :)

I am also disappointed to see that there is no session on Windows Phone 7 …. :(

You can find more information on the speakers and the complete agenda in the Virtual Techdays Website

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