I thought it might be useful if I give some recommendations on the sessions I found the most useful at this years PDC. I tended to avoid most of the sessions on Windows Azure as I figured that I would know most of the content already - my theory is that it is better to attend a sessions where as close to 100% of it will be new to you. This works quite well as you come away from the conference with a much broader view that if you just went to the sessions related to your day-to-day work.

For me, the real highlight of the sessions was Pablo Castro and Niranjan Nilakantan's session on Azure Table Storage (ES07 Windows Azure: Modeling Data for Efficient Access at Scale - (WMV-HQ| WMV| Zune| MP4). This was a very well structured and presented session on one of the key areas of the Microsoft Cloud platform.

Pablo Castro's session on the work in progress on the disconnected version of the Astoria (ADO.Net Data Services) client - (WMV-HQ| WMV| Zune| MP4)

Chris Anderson and Don Box gave a very good, code based, keynote session around different types of web service and how you can use REST to talk to most of them. I would recommend this for a developers introduction to the new world - WMV-HQ | MP4

Anders Hejlsberg's session on the Future of C# (WMV-HQ | WMV | Zune) a must even if you aren't a C# developer as this session is more than just language changes.

Jim Hugunin session on the Dynamic Language Runtime (WMV-HQ | WMV | Zune | MP4)- kind of follows on from Anders' session - you don't need to have watched Anders' session, but there are some "in jokes" that you won't get if you haven't.

Douglas Purdy and Vijaye Raji's Lap around Oslo - a good overview of the technology, but for most people I spoke to it created more questions about Oslo's applicability than it answered (WMV-HQ| WMV| Zune| MP4)

I found Pat Stemen's session on writing power efficient applications on Windows 7 was a really thought provoking talk. It showed how the we have modified Windows 7 to help you can write applications that have a power consumption - extending battery life, reducing electricity bills as well as presumably saving the planet. This is going to become such a big subject in the next few years that everyone should be aware of this. (WMV-HQ | WMV | Zune)

I'll post up any good sessions that I download, but I am looking forward to the Live Framework/Services/Mesh, Velocity and the Team System sessions I missed.

Neil.