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Luca Bolognese started his talk with the statement that writing code is fun. The crowd responded with a loud cheer :-) Most of the time programming is like: we tell the machine how things must be done instead of what must be done. Luca made an analogy with when we want a cappuccino and tell the waiter...
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John Mcintyre started by showing a picture of the Live Framework and the part of it where his talk is about. The connected experience is about user expectations of integrated experiences that span devices, applications and browser-rich clients. It also has to face the enginering reality of that even...
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Joshua Goodman split this session up in three parts: 1. Working better together 2. Faster 3. Fewer bugs Working Better Together He began with a little history first. .NET 1.0 was first released in 2002. .NET 1.1 worked side by side with .NET 1.0. .NET 2.0 also works side by side...
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Steven Lees started his talk with taking a picture with his mobile phone of the attendees of his session and let it be synchronised to his laptop on stage and the live desktop. FeedSync should be comprehensive, simple and open. It comes down to you want Access Anywhere and Share Anything. The role...
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Ed Glas and Steve Carroll showed us the performance lifecycle and it looked a lot like the development lifecycle. They wanted to emphasize that in every step of the development cycle performance is a to be taken into account. During a short demo with a One Last WalkThrough Before Launch Test scenario...
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Patric McElroy started his presentation with summing up some Services challenges: Trust Reach Interaction (internet, latency, connections) Administration Resource governance (bad queries) The focus will be on Data Model, Occasional connected and Business Intelligence. Data will be stored using Windows...
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Just before we went to the Los Angeles Convention Center I had some time to enjoy some coffee at the hotel lobby. I heard a loud dripping sound and soon it was clear. The roof was soacking wet. Maybe this was also the cause of that the internet didn’t function this morning also? Naaahhh, don’t think...
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Raymond Endres began his presentation with the remark that we as developers would like to share data and applications. You can devide applications in two groups: Reach applications (through the web) and Rich Applications. In the middle there are hybrid applications called Mesh Enabled application. To...
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Deployment is difficult today. It is easy to forget something to get deployed. Here comes VS10 at the rescue! The base of everything is the WebPackage which is basically a zip file with what your website needs. A new thing are profiles for deployment. You can have different deployments for development...
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After lunch when we were walking to our next sessions we stumbled upon Don Box and Chris Andersen. Yiiihaaa! Celebrity spotted! Who’s that guy on the left? Back to reality. Ori began his presentation with the Zen of Mesh: Data (lots of data) Devices (lots of devices) Applications...
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Americans are such helpfull people. Everywhere you look there are nice young people pointing you in the right direction. When you are waiting in line to get your breakfast and you finally got it, they show you where there is available seating. And they are very happy about it too. Love them!! On our...
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Key Note session I don’t know what it is with Americans. At some point they are very independant but on another side not. When we arrived at the KeyNote hall, thanks to the helpfull personel, we were confronted with enormous screens. Two screens left and right of the center stage which also has...
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Microsoft released the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio October 2008 CTP, available at the Microsoft Download Center . The Windows Azure Software Development Kit October 2008 CTP is available also at Microsoft's Download Center . Although they have just released the Visual Studio 2010...
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The sunday of PDC is traditionally focussed around a few session that delve a little bit deeper into the subject than you would normally have on an normal PDC session. I attended (a little bit late I must admit but luckily Rob did text me) a session on Design for performance. Rob did sit thru the whole...
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At the PDC, Windows Azure was announced as the Microsoft platform for hosting services in the cloud. Similar to Amazon's cloud services , Windows Azure will provide a mechanism for hosting solutions in the cloud. In other words, hosted in Microsoft data centers. Very interesting. Looks like a SOA...