Given I manage content for Tech Ed this year (for the last time), I thought I'd post my picks of the (mostly web) developer sessions for you to peruse. I've picked these sessions for a variety of reasons, but for whatever reason these are the sessions that developers should not miss. Naturally, if you are not a developer there are other sessions that you will want to go to (the SQL Content is pretty good this year for example).
| Session | Title | Speaker |
| ARC307 | Entity Framework, LINQ and n-Tier architectures | Guil Magalhaes, Matt Velloso |
| ARC308 | Architecting scalable web apps using "Velocity" | Jeremy Boyd |
| ARC402 | Architectural Considerations for the MVC framework | John Daniel Trask |
| DAT302 | Overview of SQL Server 2008 - New Features | Jeremy Boyd |
| DEV313 | Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Tips and Tricks | Kirk Jackson |
| DEV314 | Debugging the world, starting with the CLR (or Debugging from the trenches) | Corneliu Tusnea |
| DEV375 | Reactive Programming | Ivan Towlson |
| DEV486 | C# Tips and Tricks | Jeremy Boyd, JD Trask |
| SEC201 | Do these 10 things or you'll get 0wn3d | Steve Riley |
| SEC306 | Privacy, the why, what and how | Steve Riley |
| SOA301 | AJAX-enable your Windows Communication Foundation Services | Rob Bagby |
| SOA313 | Productive Windows Communication Foundation | Jeremy Boyd |
| WEB214 | IE8 Application compatibility - what every developer needs to know to get ready | Matt Heller |
| WEB301 | ASP.Net MVC - Should you care | Scott Hanselman |
| WEB302 | ADO.NET Data Services – The Zen of RESTfulness and the Art of “Astoria” | Scott Hanselman |
| WEB304 | Web Futures - the next 18 months | Panel Discussion |
| WEB309 | Silverlight for Developers | Jonas Folleso |
| WEB315 | Object Oriented AJAX | Scott Cate |
| WEB316 | Introduction to IE8 Developer Tools | Matt Heller |
Like I said, these are somewhat web developer oriented, but given this is where many developers spend lots of their time hopefully this will be useful. Note that there are lots of other fantastic sessions, but these are the developer sessions I think you should catch if you are interested in building your developer knowledge at Tech Ed 2008.
See you there!