Developer Days 2009 is an event for all developers, architects and other IT specialists that would like to learn more about the Microsoft development platform. During the day a holistic overview of the technologies, products and approaches will be provided.

Topics will include products such as .NET Framework, Silverlight, Windows Azure platform and services, IE8, Windows Vista, Windows Mobile, Visual Studio, and Expression Tools.
Additionally key functionalities of servers such as Windows Server, Biztalk Server, and SharePoint Server will be covered as well. For the architects concepts such as S+S, SOA, service orientation and SOA are also addressed and explained.

Content will be presented modularly addressing different tiers of application architecture:

• Introduction and description of the overall architectural concepts, Microsoft development platform and approaches; Data Layer of the architecture will cover topics such as ADO.NET, Entity Framework, LINQ, Synch Framework, Azure Services, ADO.NET Data Services, Project Velocity, ...; .NET Framework, WCF, WF, Azure Services, Windows Server Dublin, Identity Management will be discussed under the Business Composition Layer topics;
• User Interface and Composition will cover technologies such as .NET Compact Framework, WPF, ASP.NET, AJAX, AJAX MVC, Windows Azure, and SharePoint Server. Of course we will address also some more architecturally oriented topics such as application modeling and smart client guidance.
• A special part of the event will also focus on client technologies that include IE8, Windows 7, Silverlight, IIS, Live Mesh and tools like Expression.

You can find a more detailed agenda here.