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Creating 3D Models for WPF
I’ve had an opportunity recently to play around with WPF’s 3D capabilities to try and recreate part of the Tesco product viewer demo at PDC08 . Of course one of the first hurdles is actually having some sort of 3D model to play with (once you get bored Read More...
Some Reflections on PDC 2008 - Must Watch Sessions (Day 4)
No keynote today so straight into the breakout action... TL36 Microsoft .NET Framework: Declarative Programming Using XAML Meant to be a very good session on what you'll be able to do direct from XAML in the future PC49 Microsoft .NET Framework: CLR Futures Read More...
Some Reflections on PDC 2008 - Must Watch Sessions (Day 3)
KYN04 Research in the 21st Century The keynote from Microsoft Research. While it's all kind of interesting, I'd draw your attention to these demos: Skip to 35' : Sensors and green IT. Monitoring the environment to understand, predict and improve energy Read More...
Some Reflections on PDC 2008 - Must Watch Sessions (Day 2)
KYN02 Day Two Keynote - Ray Ozzie, Steven Sinofsky, Scott Guthrie and David Treadwell Better than Day 1's keynote this one covers things more from a UI perspective with Windows 7, Office Web Application in Office 14, Visual Studio and Live Services. KYN03 Read More...
Some Reflections on PDC 2008 - Must Watch Sessions (Day 1)
A few suggestions for sessions you might want to watch. By no means does this mean other sessions on Day 1 are not worth watching! These are just sessions I went to myself and found to be useful or heard good things about from others. KYN01 Day One Keynote Read More...
Some Reflections on PDC 2008 - Windows Azure
The first in a very short series of posts where I try and distil some of the key announcements we made at PDC into something I can make sense of. First up, Windows Azure. Azure consists of both an operating system and a set of services. Windows Azure Read More...
Offline Silverlight Applications
I think Scott Guthrie first mentioned the ability to take Silverlight applications offline in his keynote on Tuesday. It raised a few eyebrows but few details were forthcoming on how exactly this was accomplished. The answer is that you can create Silverlight Read More...
Windows Azure Resources
If you watched the PDC 2008 Keynote on Monday you'll have seen the announcement of Windows Azure, our operating system in the cloud which forms part of our new Azure Services Platform . There are already some useful resource on the Microsoft Download Read More...
PDC 2008 Session Video Downloads
If you want to watch any of the PDC 2008 sessions, you can simple peruse the session list at: http://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/timeline.aspx select the session you want to watch and click the "Watch Session Recording" icon. On the other Read More...
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