Web development is an art form, and IE9 is the perfect canvas for web developers to use to make their magic happen. This session will introduce you to the some unprecedented statistics on how IE9 can speed up your sites and make your customers' experiences more efficient. You'll learn about some tricks available only to the IE9 user, like Site Pinning and Jump Lists. Web standards and interoperability and how IE9 solves these problems for developers will also be discussed in great detail. You'll also learn some of the low-level technical details about IE9's improvements. You'll also be introduced you to what you'll need to know in the coming months regarding Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 10 and the opportunities it'll add to your development experience.

By now you should know that HTML5 is literally the best thing to happen to the web in years. There is a massive array of new tags that provide support for video, audio, embedded fonts, databinding, and in-browser data persistence. When coupled with advancements in JavaScript technology like jQuery and the myriad of jQuery plugins available for free, the ability to create truly dynamic client experiences is limited only by your imagination. Add to that new advancements in real-time communication like SignalR and the idea of achieving MVC or MVVM functionality using libraries like Knockout.js, and you've got a whole new web of opportunities to blow your users' minds. This session will leave you breathless with ideas on how you can improve your existing apps. You might even dream up a few new apps of your own just to try your hands at the stuff you learn, especially once you see how well they all perform in beautiful Internet Explorer 9. We'll even show you how to use jQuery Mobile to mobilize your web applications so that they run seamlessly in any mobile browser.

We'll cover all the new features of the new ASP.NET 4.5 runtime and introduce you to the idea of the One ASP.NET Framework. Forget about the distinctions and debates of "WebForms or MVC," "Razor or ASPX," because the new, combined framework provides everything to you in one big basket. Want some web forms in your MVC? Fine. Want to add a simple MVC view to an existing Web Forms app? No problem. Need to add some client side calls to an API living within your ASP.NET site? We've got you covered. You'll be introduced to how Visual Studio 11 brings the ASP.NET family together into a unified solution, complete with new features like script bundling and minification. You'll also learn about all the new features, from MVC 4.0 to Web API, the new advancements in Entity Framework, and how adaptive rendering can ease the pain of writing web apps for the browser or the mobile device. No more arguing over what direction you'll need to take - ASP.NET is the only answer you need, it's the 1-stop-shop server-side solution.

There’s an Open Source package manager for .NET available now called NuGet. It’s supported and shipping with ASP.NET MVC 3, but it’s not just for ASP.NET. In fact, it’s not just for open source. Join Matthew as we learn all about NuGet, from the basics of consuming packages, to creating and distributing your own packages both internally on your own server and externally on NuGet.org. Then we’ll learn some advanced techniques like preinstalling NuGet packages into your own project templates and how NuGet can be extended and enhanced to write your code for you. We’ll see how using NuGet with your project makes development fun again!

There’s an Open Source package manager for .NET available now called NuGet. It’s supported and shipping with ASP.NET MVC 3, but it’s not just for ASP.NET. In fact, it’s not just for open source. Join Matthew as we learn all about NuGet, from the basics of consuming packages, to creating and distributing your own packages both internally on your own server and externally on NuGet.org. Then we’ll learn some advanced techniques like preinstalling NuGet packages into your own project templates and how NuGet can be extended and enhanced to write your code for you. We’ll see how using NuGet with your project makes development fun again!