September 2005 - Posts

PDC Day 4 - Miles and miles
16 September 05 10:09 AM | AllenD | 0 Comments   

The last day of the conference... It's always so strange on the last day of a conference. Everyone from Microsoft is much more relaxed. Things are already being packed up (like the product pavilion. I listened in on a few of the panels this morning and Read More...

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PDC Day 3 - Experts, experts, everywhere
15 September 05 11:24 PM | AllenD | 0 Comments   

C# Futures was packed... So I ended up in an overflow room. Listening to Anders Hejlsberg talk about delegates, anonymous methods, lambda expressions, generics, etc. was very cool. It's really interesting all the things that needed to be done to the C# Read More...

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PDC Day 3 - Domain Specific Languages - the future of Modeling
15 September 05 11:13 AM | AllenD | 0 Comments   

Bob Muglia's General Session - Windows Server... I just got out of Bob Muglia's keynote and it was great to see so many cool things happening in the Windows Server product. In particular I was impressed with IIS7 and it's capabilities. They designed an Read More...

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PDC Day 2 - When the police ask you to get out of the vehicle, please get out of the vehicle
15 September 05 09:47 AM | AllenD | 0 Comments   

I'm writing this on Thursday morning (day 3), but I wanted to post what happened yesterday... Day 2... After my last post, I visited the Tools and Languages Track Lounge and answered a bunch of customer questions on everything from Web projects, to VS Read More...

Meet the team time change
14 September 05 10:38 AM | AllenD | 0 Comments   

If you saw my earlier posts on meeting the team, I've just updated them. The time to meet the MSBuild and VS Extensibility teams is at 2:00 pm. If you're around, please stop by and say hello. Read More...

Visual Studio and Windows Workflow Designer rocks! - PDC Day 2
14 September 05 10:26 AM | AllenD | 0 Comments   

At the morning keynote I saw a great integration with Visual Studio in the Windows Workflow Designer. I'm sitting in the PDC general session this morning and during Eric Rudder's keynote he invited the Windows Workflow Foundation team to demonstrate their Read More...

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PDC Day 1 - Got the shirts
13 September 05 10:18 PM | AllenD | 0 Comments   

Well, PDC Day 1 comes to a close... This afternoon I attended Phil and Craig's talk on extending Visual Studio with Add-ins and Packages. It was a well attended session and there were some good questions at the end. One of the question was if it was possible Read More...

PDC Day 1 - Power Outages and Uploads
13 September 05 03:05 PM | AllenD | 0 Comments   

Well, yesterday was very eventful. Just after my previous post, we broke for lunch and just as we were starting to present our after-lunch information the power went out in Los Angeles . Not just in the Convention Center, but all over the city. According Read More...

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PDC Schedule
12 September 05 11:21 AM | AllenD | 0 Comments   

Here's my schedule as of Monday morning: Item Location Day Start Finish Speaker Sessions PRE14 - Visual Studio Extensibility 501 ABC September 12 10:00 AM 5:45 PM Staffing Commitments (HOL) Tools and Languages:VSIP (HOL) Tools and Languages:VSIP September Read More...

PDC Day 0 - Precon
12 September 05 11:07 AM | AllenD | 0 Comments   

Hello. I'm sitting in 501ABC for the PDC05 Preconference Session on Visual Studio Extensibility. If you are coming to the PDC, please drop by and say hello! I, along with Phil Taylor, Doug Hodges, Craig Skibo, am presenting information today. We have Read More...

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