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JavaScript is becoming the basis for a new breed of smart client applications, sometimes called single page applications (SPAs). This is an exciting area for developers, requiring a new understanding of "Web technologies" as they become used for smart client development. Many tools, languages, and frameworks exist to help streamline development, including TypeScript, Angular, Knockout, jQuery, and more. This track includes:

Languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, DART, and CoffeeScript
Frameworks such as Angular, Knockout, and jQuery
Related services such as Web API
Node.js for server-side JavaScript programming

LWM03 Workshop: Data-Centric Single Page Applications with Knockout, Durandal, Breeze, and Web API Monday March 10 9:00am - 6:00pm

Brian Noyes, CTO and Co-founder, Solliance

This workshop will take you end-to-end, showing you how to put together a rich data driven HTML client interface using Knockout and Durandal to separate the UI data manipulation, loading and saving from the presentation markup, using Breeze to do the heavy lifting on making the service calls for you, tracking changes on the entities, sending changes to the server side in batches, and more. more

LT11 12 Things Every Developer Really Needs to Know about JavaScript Tuesday March 11 10:45am - 12:00pm

Rachel Appel, Senior Developer Evangelist, Microsoft

You will learn JavaScript tricks and tips. more

LT29 Writing Next Generation JavaScript with TypeScript Tuesday March 11 4:15pm - 5:30pm

Rachel Appel, Senior Developer Evangelist, Microsoft

Learn all about TypeScript, how to use certain features that will make JavaScript application-scale and how to leverage TypeScript in Visual Studio 2012. more

LW18 Angular for .NET Developers Wednesday March 12 1:15pm - 2:30pm

Jesse Liberty, Master Consultant, Falafel Software

Coming from the XAML world? Angular is a natural fit for transitioning to web development. more

LW25 Build Your First Angular Web Application Wednesday March 12 2:45pm - 4:00pm

Matthew DiFranco, Software Architect, Paychex

Learning AngularJS can be confusing at first, but this session will help you understand the basics of AngularJS. more

LW32 Connecting the Dots: Using HTML5, jQuery, and Web API Together Wednesday March 12 4:30pm - 5:45pm

David Giard, Technical Evangelist, Microsoft

David will demonstrate how to use Web API to create RESTful web services; to call those services from client-side code with jQuery; and tie it together with HTML5. more

LTH04 Knocking it Out of the Park with Knockout.JS Thursday March 13 8:00am - 9:15am

Miguel Castro MRD, President, Melvicorp LLC

Learn everything you need to know about Knockout.JS more

LTH11 Structuring Your Single Page Application with Durandal Thursday March 13 9:30am - 10:45am

Brian Noyes, CTO and Co-founder, Solliance

Learn how to use Durandal to get views and view models loaded up and tied together, how to navigate between child views in your SPA with deep linking through the URLs, and how to manage dependencies between the various types in your client side JavaScript. more

LTH18 Create an API for your Application with ServiceStack Thursday March 13 11:00am - 12:15pm

Jesse Liberty, Master Consultant, Falafel Software

In this session Jesse will demonstrate how to create a complete API to a data-bound application in under one hour using ServiceStack. more

LTH19 Creating Map Centric Web Applications with HTML5 and JavaScript Thursday March 13 11:00am - 12:15pm

Ben Ramseth, Instructor Technical Lead, Esri

In this session the presenter will explore the steps to building a map centric web application. more

LTH25 Busy Developers Guide to Node.js Thursday March 13 1:30pm - 2:45pm

Ted Neward, Director, Developer Relations, Smartsheet.com

Join Ted as he reviews everything you need to know about Node.js more

LTH32 Busy Developer's Guide to Everything not JavaScript Thursday March 13 3:00pm - 4:15pm

Ted Neward, Director, Developer Relations, Smartsheet.com

In this session, we'll look at some of the leading candidates (CoffeeScript, Dart, Fantom, and more)and discuss whether the gain is worth the pain. more

LWF03 Workshop: Busy Developer's Guide to AngularJS Friday March 14 8:00am - 5:00pm

Ted Neward, Director, Developer Relations, Smartsheet.com

In this workshop, we're going to roll up our figurative sleeves and get down and dirty with AngularJS. more