If you’re like me than you’re probably also catching up all the interesting stuff that was presented at the PDC this year. You also probably agree that it is way to much and it is taking way to long to view all the interesting sessions.
Luckily I got an email from Ideablade.com with a link to a presentation which gives an overview of the most important news in less than an hour.
Click here to go to the PDC 2009 Tour by Ideablade.com.
Also a PDF with links to all the sessions are available. You can get them here.
The tour is from a business application developers perspective and according to the presenter the following technologies should be watched closely:
- Silverlight 4 (New Visual Studio ‘Cider’ for Silverlight development)
- WCF Data Services (for exposing data)
- WCF RIA Services (for building applications)
- Entity Framework
- OData
- Parallelism
- F#
The recommended sessions are:
- CL01 – Silverlight 4 overview
- CL21 – Amazing Bus Apps with RIA Services
- CL19 – Building LOB Apps
- CL20 – Trusted Apps Out of Browser
- CL07 – Mastering RIA Services
- CL06 – Networking and Web Services in Silverlight 4
- FT24 – Extensible RIA with MEF
- CL22 – Building Larget-Scale Apps with Silverlight 4
- FT10 – Evolving EF in .NET 4
- Manycore and the Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (Stephen Toub)
- PLINQ: LINQ, but Faster! (Igor Ostrovsky)
- Rx: Reactive Extensions for .NET (Erik Meijer)
- F# for Parallel and Asynchronous Programming (Luke Hoban)
After the hour during overview I certainly need more time to see more sessions!