Marcelo's WebLog : PDC05

Back from the PDC

marcelolr — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 23:08:00 GMT

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 Tour of Windows Presentation Foundation on MSDN, with a link to the September CTP.

My own personal favorites from the PDC, apart from my baby, are the LINQ project, with fun extensions to the .NET languages, the Windows Workflow Foundation stuff, with a killer diagramming tool for workflows in addition to the runtime, and Microsoft Max, with a *very* polished UI - check out the Mantle View.

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Finally, off to the PDC tomorrow

marcelolr — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 07:14:00 GMT

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.

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Performance at the PDC

marcelolr — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 03:14:00 GMT

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 Spanish language?). You can take a peek at what's upcoming by going to the PDC 2005 Sessions page, and searching for 'performance'.

Oh, and just for the love of linking (and because it's pretty darn useful), do yourself a favor and read Intro to Event Tracing for Windows. The resource kit for Windows Server 2003 also has some excellent information on this - this first list of bullets on this page is the content of for a book dedicated to performance that comes with the kit. I'm planning on writing a more extensive review, but right now I'm absorbed in getting all the goodness I can from it.