So everything must end....PDC 2005 reached it's end. Currently I'm on a plane over Canada, flying back to Home. Thanks for Lufthansa for their FlyNet technology, which made this blog entry possible (no, it's not free :-)). Shame on Dell because my Inspiron...

Maybe some of you who read my blog continously missed the blog entries about thursday and friday sessions. The cause of this I was in a hurry and switched sessions a lot of times because of the collisions. So here up I just write a summary about the technologies...

ServiceHost features was covered. It provides the Endpoint to it's client, it's a CommunicationObject, which organizes the states. It has a rich extensibility model and rich event model. You've the ability to either use configuration for the host or...

Traffic was terrible this morning so we missed the first 10 minutes of the keynote. But we didn't miss anything in fact. There was a demo about the new VS 2005 presented the Application Designer and the Deployment Model Designer, which had extensions...

This platform is the most awaited one at least by me. As it name states, it's a Foundation not a separate product. It's primarily made for developers to built on top of it. You can define SequentialWorkflow or a State Machine. Components are: Base...

Steven is the Vice President of Office team. They announced the availability of Office "12" Beta1. The first 100 people who signs up gets a set of Microsoft Office Steak Knives :-) Office System moves to server (no don't get frustrated :-), there are...

There were a lot of announcements (as I write before we was courious about these): - Windows Workflow Foundation It is filling a huge gap in nowaday's software development. It is as it's name says, another new foundation, which means that it's a base...

Programming with Concurrency (Part 1): Concepts, Patterns, and Best Practices Jan Gray did a well built presentation about the managed world basics of threading, concurrency, locking. He covered the typical pitfalls, and how to get rid of them....

Because the keynote was longer then planned my first scheduled session "Lap around WinFX and Win32 SDKs" is rescheduled to a not yet known time, so no blog about that now :-( Instead the next session began in time: Office 12 User Experience Part...

Keynote - Bill Gates The keynote began at 08:30...and guess what...we were on the highway stucked. We met the worst driver at the PDC I guess...he took wrong direction twice, crashed the back of the bus while turning around...so the attendees on the...

Just 3 hours left until the keynote....I guess that a lot of attendees are online now and waiting for 08:30 :-) We as insiders also think that there will be some announcements which will surprise us too, not just the Customers, Partners. It was...

Today jetlag was almost gone I was able to sleep 6 hours, it rocks :-) After a "comlementary continental breakfast" (it will never happen again) I headed to the convention canger and had a mixture of two precon sessions. I took the first part of...

I visited the Smart Client Perspective precon session, which was held by Rockford Lhotka and Billy Hollis . They gave a very good view and roadmap for the newbies in the .Net 2.0 world. Lot of stuff was covered including (just to name a few): ...

Sunday, September 11 10:00AM - 05:45PM .NET Framework 2.0 — The Smart Client Perspective Monday, September 12 10:00AM - 05:45PM Visual Studio Extensibility 08:00PM - 09:00PM Unifying Object-First and Data-First Software Design Tuesday, September 13 11...

The flight was very long, 11 hours in the air....but if you fly with Lufthansa, you've the chance to stay connected :-) For $29.90 you're online for the whole flight...the only challange is the batteries for the notebook... I've just registered...

It was a busy week, so I was unable to make my session plans for PDC, but it will be a long flight, so I'm sure I'll have some time for this over the Atlantic Ocean. I'll look for the announcements, there must will be some as always :-) As I'm finished...