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Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2005

PDC 2005 - C# Futures with Anders Hejlsberg - Double Overflow

Today is the second presentation of the Anders Hejlsberg discussion on C# 3.0. This is a presentation I wanted to attend twice just to take it all in. It's in a smaller room today, but is also being broadcast into two overflow rooms. The coordinators
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PDC 2005 - XBOX 360 In Da House!

In room 501AB, Media Center "Designing for the 10 Foot User Experience". Media Center Extender demo on a "pre-pre-beta" XBOX 360. After a couple of technical snafus, the box was up and running and streaming HD from the MCE box.
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PDC2005 - Day 1 - Keynote - LINQ Announcement

Jim Allichin announced the Language Integrated Query (LINQ) Framework this morning. Anders Hejlsberg and Don Box performed a great demo of this technology. LINQ basically provides the the ability to query any array or collection of objects in managed
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PDC2005 - Day 1 - Afternoon Sessions

This posting will be a "living document". I will update with relevant notes during the day today and tonight. I may flush out individual bullet points in greater detail. This afternoon I attended sessions on: High Performance Computing with the Windows
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PDC 2005 - Day 1 - BillG Keynote

[edited for missed formatting errors and adding PDC2005 category - oops!] NOTE: You can watch the BillG PDC 2005 keynote online . [Sept 14 6:19pm PDT - Original Post Sept 13] Bill Gates launched the keynote for PDC 2005. Highlights include: Joked about
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WinFS Beta 1 is available on MSDN

The release of WinFS Beta 1 this evening was a surprising piece of news. Check out the Channel 9 video and subsequent forum links. It appears that the WinFS team will have Beta 1 bits available for distribution at PDC 2005. I am in the process of downloading
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PDC Session Scheduling Tool

While I was on the road last week, the announcement for the PDC Session Scheduling Tool went out. I hope you took the time to fill this out. I have staffed one or two D.C. area product launch events where the room simply was not big enough to hold everyone
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