Exciting PDC Session

andreww — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:17:00 GMT

Under the Hood: Advances in the .NET Type System
This is one session you absolutely must not miss. It looks pretty innocuous, but it's actually a very big deal. This talk is an in-depth examination of some of the enhancements we're making in CLR v4.0 (and in the C# and VB language compilers) to support shared-type scenarios. These include scenarios where you have multiple managed assemblies that need to talk to each other through some shared interfaces, as well as native-managed interop scenarios - the classic example of which is managed add-ins to Office applications. We'll look at how these changes help to simplify versioning and deployment of components targeting either COM based and/or fully managed applications. For Office developers, this provides the ability to eliminate the need to redistribute PIAs. The speaker is everyone's favorite VSTO developer, Misha Shneerson. As always, PDC is the place to go for information that you cannot get anywhere else. It's likely Misha will post some sample code on his blog after the event - but if you really want to get the inside scoop, please sign up for PDC!

You can look up the session on the PDC site here. Note that the final schedule for all sessions is not yet available, but should be published early next week. Look out for it here.

[Updated Oct-07]

PDC 2008 Open for Registration

andreww — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:01:00 GMT

It’s been 3 years since the last Professional Developers Conference, so I’m pleased that we’re doing one this year – it’s about time. This year’s PDC is on Mon-Fri Oct 27-30, with a one-day pre-con on Sun Oct-26, at the Los Angeles Convention Center (same as last time).

The main site is here. There will be more than 160 sessions, and we’ve already announced the first 40 or so here. Here are a few teasers:

Office Business Applications: Enhanced Deployment

This session will explore how Visual Studio 10 supports development for OBAs. We will focus on the new enhancements to deployment and security, including ClickOnce multi-project and custom action support, configurable updates, background updating, and delay-loading add-ins.

Under the Hood: Advances in COM Interop

The Visual Studio, CLR, and Office teams have collaborated to create a much simplified story for interoperating between native COM-based hosts and managed code, including Office. In this session we'll explore in depth how you can eliminate the need to redistribute primary interop assemblies with your .NET solution and enable seamless integration between VBA and .NET code.

Developing Applications Using Data Services

In the near future, applications will be developed using a combination of custom application code and online building block services, including data-centric services. In this session we will discuss advancements in the Microsoft development platform and online service interfaces to enable seamless interaction with data services both on-premises (eg. ADO.Net Data Services Framework over on-premises SQL Server) and in the cloud (eg. SQL Server Data Services). You'll learn how you can leverage existing know-how related to LINQ (Language Integrated Query), data access APIs, data-binding, and more when building applications using online data.

What are you waiting for – go sign up!

Andrew Whitechapel : PDC

Exciting PDC Session

PDC 2008 Open for Registration