PDC2008: A Day in the Life #2

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Aaron — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:54:50 GMT

A few ideas I posted a while back for better presentations at technical conferences. I was at Tech Ed this year and amazed by the number of presentations that could be improved by a few simple steps.

http://www.wiredprairie.us/blog/index.php/archives/275

One idea I had...

I’ve seen far too many “readers” and too many that spend 2 or 3 minutes on walking through the agenda for a 1 hour presentation.

I’d like to propose that in conference scenarios the presentation agenda and session title are put up on the screen prior to the session starting. Then, just jump right into the content when the session starts.

(Most of us know what the presentation is going to be about - you might as well educate people so that they have a chance to get to another session if they've made a mistake rather than waiting 5 minutes into a session ...)

Modeling

TomF — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:36:46 GMT

NModel & Spec# sure look like the next "big thing" in the building software business. Any insights would be cool.

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Nigel Page — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:26:04 GMT

I'd like to hear what plans there are to address the ever widening gap between development within SQL Server and development outside SQL Server. There've been great advances in language and constructs outside SQL Server, whilst SQL remains very much an 80's language. The gap is widening and causing increasing issues for developers as they have to translate between the two worlds. OR mapping layers are an attempt to plaster over the cracks, but the real problem is the lack of comparable evolution of SQL. What is happenning to address this problem?

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Oran — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:53:32 GMT

One more thought, and it may not fit your criteria "Does the topic make more sense at another event?"

If Microsoft has _anything_ in the pipeline to compete with iPhone development, I think you need to start getting developer mindshare _now_ rather than waiting for Mix.

Even if this ends up being part of the larger Mesh story, I think it's also worth emphasizing it independently as an end-to-end mobile story that could stand on its own.

The motivation for bringing this up is because despite being a hardcore .NET dev, I'm seriously considering the iPhone dark side. The only thing holding me back is the hope of a better mobile story from Microsoft in the near future, and no the current Windows Mobile doesn't even come close. Silverlight plus a Mesh app deployment model might do the trick.

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Haichih Hwa — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:21:13 GMT

I would like to see following in this year's PDC:

Windows 7 of course!

Upcoming Office v13 and SharePoint

Next version of Visual Studio (VB.Net & C#)

Windows Mobile 7

Thanks,

Haichih

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Roger Jennings — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:02:18 GMT

I propose a session on Entity Framework v2 that describes the extent to which and how POCO, persistence ignorance, and n-tier architecture will be supported in the next version.

--rj

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Eric Hill — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:25:50 GMT

Being able to access the GPU, create pixel shaders, etc., in WPF is all neat whiz-bang stuff, but WPF will not be practical for me until my users have a way to paste WPF graphics into Office applications. So I hope the WPF Futures talk will include a solution to this problem.

Generalizing that theme, it would be nice to have a WPF talk (or part thereof) that addresses what's still not done in WPF that would make somebody still need to use GDI/GDI+. Maybe with the WriteableBitmap improvements, along with being able to paste graphics into Office apps, there's nothing left, but it would be nice to hear that. Having two APIs (GDI/+ and WPF) with disjoint feature sets is difficult for developers.

Thanks,

Eric

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Michael Swanson — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:42:50 GMT

Thanks, everyone, for the feedback! Please keep it coming. We're definitely listening. :)

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Nick — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:26:50 GMT

Personally, I would love to see a presentation on the work being done to support multi-core development in C++, and/or what the future support for this will be in VS. I'm also interested in what OS services will continue to be available in Windows 7, and how the services model will be structured, especially wrt the componentization of the OS. Those are my primary areas of interest.

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Peruri — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:05:45 GMT

SharePoint vNext

SilverLight vNext

WCF vNext

Ajax/ASP.NET vNext