Keynote #2 – Ozzie, Sinofsky, Guthrie, Treadwell
PDC 2008, Day #2, Keynote #2, 2 hrs Ray Ozzie, Steven Sinofsky, Scott Guthrie, David Treadwell Wow. In contrast to yesterday’s keynote, where Windows Azure was launched, today’s keynote was the kind...
View ArticleKeynote #3 – Box, Anderson
PDC 2008, Day #2, Keynote #3, 1.5 hrs Don Box, Chris Anderson Don and Chris’ presentation was notable in that they did not use a single Powerpoint slide. The entire presentation consisted of Don and...
View ArticleSession – Live Services: What I Learned Building My First Mesh Application
PDC 2008, Day #2, Session #1, 45 mins Don Gillett In my next session, Don Gillett explained how he wrote one of the first Live Mesh applications. Jot is a little note-taking application that allows...
View ArticleSession – Developing Applications Using Data Services
PDC 2008, Day #2, Session #2, 1 hr 15 mins Mike Flasko Ok, I’m finally starting to understand the very basics of Astoria (now branded ADO.NET Data Services), as well as how it relates to the Entity...
View ArticleSession – Microsoft Silverlight Futures: Building Business Focused Applications
PDC 2008, Day #2, Session #3, 1 hr 15 mins Jamie Cool In the Silverlight Futures session, Jamie Cool focused on building business applications using Silverlight. (From now on, when we say...
View ArticleSession – Deep Dive: Building an Optimized, Graphics-Intensive Application in...
PDC 2008, Day #2, Session #4, 1 hr 15 mins Seema Ramchandani The final session of the day was all about optimizing graphics-based Silverlight applications. The talk was a little bit different from...
View ArticleKeynote #4 – Rashid
PDC 2008, Day #3, Keynote #4, 1.5 hrs Rick Rashid Rick Rashid, Senior Vice President of Microsoft Research, delivered the final PDC 2008 keynote. Rick described how Microsoft Research is organized and...
View ArticleSession – Live Services: Live Framework Programming Model Architecture and...
PDC 2008, Day #3, Session #1, 1 hr 15 mins Ori Amiga My next session dug a bit deeper into the Live Framework and some of the architecture related to building a Live Mesh application. Ori Amiga was...
View ArticleSession – Silverlight Controls Roadmap
PDC 2008, Day #3, Session #2, 45 mins Shawn Burke Product Unit Manager WPF/Silverlight Controls Team, Microsoft Shawn Burke gave a short talk on the new controls being released this week in the...
View ArticleSession – Windows Azure Tables: Programming Cloud Table Storage
PDC 2008, Day #3, Session #3, 1 hr 15 mins Pablo Castro, Niranjan Nilakantan Pablo and Niranjan did a session that went into some more detail on how the Azure Table objects can be used store data in...
View ArticleSession – Offline-Enabled Data Services
PDC 2008, Day #3, Session #4, 1 hr 15 mins Pablo Castro I attended a second session with Pablo Castro (the previous one was the session on Azure Tables). This session focused on a future capability in...
View ArticleSession – Building Mesh-Enabled Web Applications Using the Live Framework
PDC 2008, Day #3, Session #5, 1 hr 15 mins Arash Ghanaie-Sichanie Throughout the conference, I bounced back and forth between Azure and Live Mesh sessions. I was trying to make sense of the difference...
View ArticleSession – Services Symposium: Expanding Applications to the Cloud
PDC 2008, Day #4, Session #1, 1 hr 30 mins Gianpaolo Carraro As the last day of PDC starts, I’m down to four sessions to go. I’ll continue doing a quick blog post on each session, where I share my...
View ArticleSession – Services Symposium: Enterprise Grade Cloud Applications
PDC 2008, Day #4, Session #2, 1 hr 30 mins Eugenio Pace My second session on Thursday was a continuation of the cloud services symposium from the first session. There was a third part to the...
View ArticleSession – Windows 7: Unlocking the GPU with Direct3D
PDC 2008, Day #4, Session #3, 1 hr 15 mins Allison Klein I jumped off the Azure track (starting to be a bit repetitive) and next went to a session focused on Direct3D. Despite the title, this session...
View ArticleSession – WPF: Extensible BitmapEffects, Pixel Shaders, and WPF Graphics Futures
PDC 2008, Day #4, Session #4, 1 hr 15 mins David Teitlebaum Program Manager WPF Team My final session at PDC 2008 was a talk about the improvements in WPF graphics that are available in .NET Framework...
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