OWIN is an open hosting specification for .NET web applications. It enables you to create web applications which are portable across hosting environments and allows application components to be composed as a pipeline of middleware. This session will give a brief overview of the rationale for OWIN and how it works, and introduces the Gate library, which allows you to easily construct web application pipelines and host them in a variety of scenarios.

Server-side JavaScript? On Windows Azure? Has hell frozen over? Come learn about how Azure is quickly turning into an open and lightweight cloud platform that supports a variety of runtimes: .NET, Java, PHP, and even Node.js!

This presentation describes how a developer can leverage YUI for building Windows 8 applications. YUI is a free, open source JavaScript and CSS library for building richly interactive web applications. The talk provides a detailed look at how native applications on Windows 8 can be built using a combination of YUI and the native APIs. The talk provides an introduction to Windows 8, WinJS, and explains how YUI can help make applications faster with clean, modular code.

This presentation provides a tour of new features, demos and a bunch of questions and answers for Windows Azure, the Microsoft cloud computing platform.

Learn about the new real-time web framework for ASP.NET. ASP.NET SignalR is a new open source library for ASP.NET developers that makes it incredibly simple to add real-time web functionality to your applications. What is “real-time web” functionality? It’s the ability to have your server-side code push content to the connected clients as it happens, in real-time.