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The PDC ended over a week ago with me coming back home this Wednesday after a short vacation. On this blog post, I’ll try to summarize my main thoughts and conclusions from this year’s conference and also give a quick reminder regarding the upcoming SDP. Cloud Computing in Full Thrust In my opinion, the main issue in this year’s PDC was Microsoft’s full thrust motion towards cloud computing with Windows Azure . Ray Ozzie’s vision of “ Three Screens in a Cloud ” and Bob Muglia’s approach to “ Cloud...
Well, the PDC has adjourned yesterday, and what a conference it was. Windows Azure launch, SilverLight 4 announcement and the Windows Server AppFabric application server are just some of the main issues which kept me occupied me the most. If you haven’t been to the PDC (and even if you have), be sure to check-out the Sela Developer Practice (SDP) homepage. Come join our Sela experts as we delve into the many issues which were presented at the PDC. Seventeen of us were here at the PDC, and in my opinion...
In this PDC session, Nicholas Allen, Program Manager at Microsoft Corporation, reviewed various extensibility points in Windows Serer AppFabric workflow hosting . Hosting Workflows AppFabric ships with three out-of-the-box extensible workflow hosts: Workflow Driven Application – A host for workflows which are used as an execution engine and which do not require WCF interaction to drive them. Workflow Service – A host for workflows which require WCF message interactions with the outside world. Scaled...
In this PDC session, DJ Park, C# IDE Program Manager, reviewed a lot of tips and tricks available in Visual-Studio 2010. Announcing CodeRush Xpress CodeRush Xpress is coming soon for Visual-Studio 2010, and will be free and downloadable. This release is scheduled soon after the release of Visual-Studio 2010. My Highlighted Features Below are the features which impressed me the most. Watch the session Video to see all of the available reviewed features. Multi-Monitor Support Visual-Studio 2010 now...
In this PDC session, Mark Fussel, Program Manager at Microsoft, spoke of creating Workflow Services in .NET 4.0, and hosting and deploying them on Windows Server AppFabric. AppFabric AppFabric provides a set of features for hosting, managing and deploying workflow services: A set of runtime databases for persisting and monitoring the running instances. Persistence services. Hosting of the runtime. Auto-start applications – start the service when the machine starts. Pushing diagnostics information...
In this PDC session, Ed Pinto, Program Manager at Microsoft, reviewed the many new additions to WCF 4.0. REST and WF services were not covered in this session, as they are covered in other sessions. WCF Configuration Default Endpoints – The WCF team took feedback in and decided to prefer “Convention over Configuration”. This means that if an endpoint is not explicitly configured for your service, a default endpoint will be created whose configuration is set by convention. Default Bindings – It is...
In this PDC session, Clemens Vasters, Principal Technical Lead at Microsoft, showed how can an existing “regular” distributed enterprise application be migrated to the cloud. DinnerNow.NET The session revolved around the migrating the DinnerNow.NET sample application into the cloud. DinnerNow.net is a popular Microsoft sample illustrating IIS7, ASP.NET Ajax, LINQ, WCF, WF, WPF, PowerShell and .NET CF. This demo is interesting since it is an existing application code base which was not designed for...
Well, the second day of the PDC is now over with only one more day to go. I can really start to feel the end… So what have we had today? Silverlight 4 announcement , several technical sessions, a free laptop and at the end – Geek Fest. Geek Fest was basically a party Microsoft arranged instead of the traditional big PDC party which was probably canceled due to budget limitations. This festival was comprised mostly of a lot of games spread across the conference hall, massage tables, good music and...
In this PDC session, Muralidhar Krishnaprasad, Principal Software Architect at Microsoft, presented the caching functionality of Windows Server AppFabric, which replaces the project formerly known as “Velocity”. What is AppFabric Caching? AppFabric caching is an explicit, distributed in-memory cache for all kinds of application data. In a typical 3-tier application, one has three tiers: User/Presentation, Application/Web and Data. As the load on the application grows, things start to work slower...
Today at the PDC , I attended two sessions on WF 4.0 - “ Spice Up Your Applications with Windows Workflow Foundation 4 ” and “ Windows Workflow Foundation 4 from the Inside Out ”. I didn’t blog live about these sessions as their main punch was delivered via code examples and usage of WF designer which in my opinion are hard to capture with words. If you are new to WF than I recommend watching the videos once they get published as these sessions start from a very basic level without requiring prior...
As was announced during the PDC keynote , all PDC attendees received a free PDC Convertible Tablet Laptop with an accompanying license for Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. Of course, in order to get the laptop you had to stand in a long line, but fortunately the representatives at distribution desk worked very efficiently and the line moved pretty quickly. This laptop is an Acer Inspire 1420P which is an 11.6” Multi-Touch machine, and it looks like a very nice one. I hope I’ll have some time to try it...
This PDC session was a little different from regular PDC sessions as this was not composed of a speaker and a presentation, but is composed of a panel of experts instead. This panels was composed by: Butler Lampson , Erik Meijer , Don Box , Jeffrey Snover , Herb Sutter and Burton Smith . I wasn’t present during the entire session, but here are my highlighted quotes from the part I was present in (unfortunately the quotes are brought without the name of the speaker who is quoted and I apologize for...
The third Keynote of the day was given by Kurt DelBrane, Senior Vice President in Microsoft, and was focused on Office and SharePoint 2010. Announcing Office and Sharepoint 2010 Public Beta It was announced that as of today, the entire office 2010 suite is available as a public beta: Microsoft Office 2010 Microsoft Sharepoint Server 2010 Microsoft Project 2010 Microsoft Visio 2010 Duet Enterprise for Microsoft SharePoint and SAP It was also announced that Microsoft is going to ship a tool...
The second keynote given today focused on the Silverlight platform. As it turns out, 45% of users have Silverlight installed on them, and Microsoft has risen the bar with the new Silverlight 4! Announcing Silverlight 4 Silverlight 4 was just announced at the beginning of the session, and the entire keynote was devoted to reviewing and demoing the new features it provides. Media Webcam and Microphone – Silverlight 4 allows connecting to a microphone and webcam and performing a variety of pixel...
The second day of the PDC just started, and the first session is the keynote by the president of Windows and Windows Live division in Microsoft, Steven Sinofsky, which was focused on Windows 7. Developing Windows 7 Steven started with a review on what Microsoft has learned during the development process of Windows 7 including maintaining a strong connection with the community, improvements performed in collecting telemetry data from users of the beta and RC releases of Windows 7 and a lot...
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