I’ll be in Los Angeles next week for PDC 2009. My session is called “Future Directions for C# and Visual Basic” and it comes on Tuesday immediately after the first keynote.
I’m planning on spending the first half of the session talking about the biggest trends influencing C# and VB. The second part will be about more future looking features we are playing with these days.
My deck has just two slides, as always. It’s all about watching me typing code on stage, hoping that I make crazy errors …
There are several other interesting language related sessions at PDC. Here is a list of them (please notice that the times might change). Also feel free to drop by the languages booth and chat. My team and I will be there most of the time.
Day
Time
Title
Presenter
Room
Tues 11/17
11:00 - 12:00
Future Directions for C# and Visual Basic
Luca Bolognese
Hall F
Accelerated Windows Application Development with Microsoft Visual C++ 2010
Boris Jabes
408B
12:30 - 13:15
Dynamic Binding in C# 4
Mads Torgersen
Using Dynamic Languages to Build Scriptable Applications
Dino Viehland
403AB
13:30 - 14:30
C++ Forever: Interactive Applications in the Age of Manycore
Rick Molloy
515B
16:30 - 17:30
Manycore and the Microsoft .NET Framework 4: A Match Made in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
Stephen Toub
502A
Code Contracts and Pex: Power Charge Your Assertions and Unit Tests
Mike Barnett, Nikolai Tillmann
408A
Wed 11/18
11:30 - 12:30
Microsoft Perspectives on the Future of Programming
Panel
Petree Hall C
12:00 - 13:00
F# for Architects – Hitting the Sweet Spot
Chris Smith
VS and .NET Pavillion
13:00 - 13:45
Code Like the Wind with Microsoft Visual Basic 2010
Lucian Wischik
Petree Hall D
Future of Garbage Collection
Patrick Dussud
Microsoft Project Code Name “M”: The Data and Modeling Language
Don Box, Jeff Pinkston
Thu
11/19
08:30 - 09:30
PLINQ: LINQ, but Faster!
Ed Essey, Igor Ostrovsky
515A
10:00 - 11:00
A Lap around Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 for the Visual Basic Developer
Lisa Feigenbaum
Axum: A .NET Language for Safe and Scalable Concurrency
Niklas Gustafsson
F# for Parallel and Asynchronous Programming
Luke Hoban
12:45 - 13:30
Microsoft Visual C# IDE Tips and Tricks
DJ Park
Microsoft Visual Basic IDE Tips and Tricks
Dustin Campbell