PDC09

said Burton Smith, a Microsoft technical fellow and expert on parallel programming languages.

Microsoft’s top developers prefer old-school coding methods

Video of the panel discussion at PDC09. The article captured key highlights the panel was quite good.

I went Don Box and Kim Cameron talks on Microsoft Project CodeName “M” and ‘M’-Based System.Identity Model.

It has been a year since these tools have been released. There have been great updates even since the May CTP drop this year.

• You can compile “M” files in VS 2010 without mucking with the csrpoj file
• Error reporting is integrated in the IDE
• Enhancements to Intellipad and the M Language for building textual DSLs
• Using M Schema, there is a VS IDE option to target the database.
• And more
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"the industry understanding of the cloud has really evolved… the cloud is about more than just infrastructure, it’s also about an application model’

Bob Muglia President, Server and Tools Business at Microsoft.

PDC09 Keynote

Oslo transforms into the underlying application model of the cloud

Thanks for a the great conference Microsoft. Showing that as a large company they can still innovate. Azure, Siliverlight 4, Office 2010, Dallas, AppFabric and much more.

I finally go to shake the hand of Jeffrey Snover, the man behind the vision of PowerShell. We got to chat for a few minutes before he was on the panel Microsoft Perspectives on the Future of Programming. Some great thinkers on the panel, Butler Lampson, Erik Meijer, Don Box, Jeffrey Snover, Herb Sutter, Burton Smith. Covered Parallel programming (we’ll still be figuring it out in the next 5-10 years), textual DSLs, modeling, importance of glue languages and more.  Read more...

Pivot makes it easier to interact with massive amounts of data in ways that are powerful, informative, and fun.

i think silverlight just swallowed wpf from the inside

Bill Wagner

• Download it http://team.silverlight.net/announcement/silverlight-4-beta-is-now-available/
• Silverlight 4 Debuts with Killer Demos at PDC09
• Silverlight 4 Beta – A guide to the new features
• Channel 9 training http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/Silverlight4/
• Shawn Wildermuth
  • Silverlight 4 Beta Announced!
  • Data Binding Changes in Silverlight 4
• Microsoft Silverlight 4 Beta Offline Documentation
• Silverlight 4 Rough Notes: Managed Extensibility Framework

All attendees get a custom Acer Aspire 1420P Convertible Tablet PC

Microsoft’s story feels pretty sound. Desktop, Laptop/Netbook, Mobile and the cloud. 

Direct Links

• App Fabric Download   Windows Azure platform AppFabric provides common building blocks required by .NET applications when extending their functionality to the cloud, and specifically, the Windows Azure platform.
• Microsoft Dallas Use the Dallas Service Explorer to visually construct REST API queries and preview the content in XML, ATOM, RAW (for blob and real-time content), or in Table view and you can use Power Pivot with the data.
• Reactive Extensions for .NET
  • Check out Matt’s multi part series. Including a Twitter client
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Using Open Data Protocol, OData, the next step in the Astoria story. Microsoft is positioning both public and commercial data in a uniform way hosted in the Azure Cloud. Using Microsoft PinPoint to discover, Microsoft Dallas to mash up data and Microsoft Power Pivot to data mine.

Check out NASA’s Pathfinder Innovation Challenge with datasets in the cloud.

When Microsoft introduced Azure, they not only provided a .NET SDK, they also have provided a Java, PHP and Ruby SDK. Plus Eclipse editor tools.

Jean Paoli, co-creator of Xml, presented the story on Microsoft’s interoperability effort. Covering 4 key tenants: Products, Collaboration, Developer Resources and Standards Bodies.

For Microsoft’s big main products they

• Have documented protocols, more than 80K pages
• Work with more than 150 standards organizations
• Sit down every six months for two days and talk with IBM, Red Hat, Apache etc. Having frank open non-marketing conversations about interoperability
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• Follow my twitter feed as well as the hash tag #pdc09

• Watch the two keynotes  Both begin at 11:30 Eastern time

Day 1, November 17th, Ray Ozzie and Bob Muglia

Day 2, November 18th, Scott Guthrie, Kurt DelBene & Special Guest

• Channel 9 will be broadcasting live for three days

I find the PDC09 site a bit frustrating to navigate the sessions I want to attend.

So I whipped up this 25 line PowerShell/WPK GUI. Type in the search box to find matching session titles. Click on a title and the browser navigates to PDC session page.

The Code

Grab the Code

You need PowerShell V2 (if you don’t have Windows 7), WPK and this script.

I am looking forward to attending PDC09. I’ll be checking out the sessions on Oslo and looking forward to the Next "Oslo" CTP to be released in conjunction with PDC.

• The ‘M’-Based System.Identity Model for Accessing Directory Services
• Microsoft Project Code Name “Repository”: Using Metadata to Drive Application Design, Development, and Management
• Microsoft Project Code Name “M”: The Data and Modeling Language
• Building Data-Driven Applications Using Microsoft Project Code Name "Quadrant" and Microsoft Project Code Name "M"

Microsoft PDC09 kicks off next month. I’m registered and my flight is set.

An old friend said, this looks like one of the best PDC’s in years. Sessions on PowerShell, Azure, Oslo, Dublin, Velocity, MEF, VS 2010, WPF 4, WF 4, PLINQ, DLR and more.

I am looking forward to the panel discussion Microsoft Perspectives on the Future of Programming with these technical leaders Butler Lampson, Erik Meijer, Don Box, Jeffrey Snover, Herb Sutter, Burton Smith.

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