Building Solutions

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 Read More...

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. Read More...

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 Read More...

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 Read More...

[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 Read More...

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 Read More...