The PDC has come and gone, and good time was had by all. The atmosphere was super-charged, there was a lot of excitement about all that's coming, and a lot of cool technology was available. For those of you interested in a crash course in Windows Presentation Foundation, Tim Sneath posted A Guided...

Will catch a flight pretty early in the morning... Zzzz.... Lots of great people to meet, lots of good technology to show off... I hope I'll even find the time to catch some of Michael 's thoughts in the BOFs he submitted. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights...

Yes, the content of the PDC will be great and varied and wonderful... One topic in particular that I've been working in lately is performance (as the title of this post might suggest). Ah, performance - that elusive, enchanting mistress (I think of performance as a 'she', perhaps influenced by the...