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So it's the last few hours of PDC for this year. Which means that pretty much all of the information that can be shoved into my brain has been. It also means that it's a pretty decent moment to be summarizing what I've learned. Obviously (from its presence in the initial keynote and the number of sessions) cloud computing was the big news. This ...

I just got out of the WPF Roadmap talk. I found the future for WPF less interesting that the present, although that could very well because the speed of innovation coming from that group has been very high over the past couple of years. In fact, the 'roadmap' is as much about the present as it is about the future. Mention was made of the fact ...

I'm sure that you know that Silverlight was released a couple of weeks ago. ScottGu made an interesting comment indicating that Silverlight (that would be 1.0 or 1.1) was installed on 1 in 4 computers that are connected to the Internet. And that over the next month, those computers would be updated to 2.0. Also that they had already upgrade 100 ...

The premise behind this session is the idea of separation of UI designers and developers. The UI people don't know how to code business rules. But the UI people need to be able to 'try out' the user interface and easily make changes. This is the designer/developer separation that is in the Web space, only in this case, it's for Windows Forms ...

I have to give credit to Nikhil Kothari. He just ran a session the way that I like to see sessions run. As I read the title and abstract for the session, I was expecting not much in the way of new information. I actually attended the session mostly because it was the only one in this time slot that might be of interest. Nikhil started out with ...

I'm sitting through the first part of the Building RIA using Silverlight 2 session. The starting point is some of the new, but quite fundamental elements of Silverlight 2 First off, the schedule of releases at the moment are: Beta 1 = today, with a non-commercial go-live license Beta 2 = Q208, including a commercial go-live license Silverlight ...

Silverlight 2 beta includes Multi-language support - VB, C#, Iron Ruby, Iron Python WPF UI, including data binding Networking stack - REST, SOAP, WS-*, sockets. And cross-domain stuff is supported Integrated Data Support - LINQ, and the ability to cache data across browser sessions High performance Small download, fast install - 4.3 MB ...

Silverlight is a major part of the Olympics 2008 Site 2200 hours of live streaming coverage over 22 days. This, plus the 1100 hours of content on the 5 NBC broadcast networds, will be made available as Video On Demand. Also, through Silverlight, you will be able to see live streamed coverage of all 34 sports. As part of the live coverage, you ...

Silverlight 2 Beta 1 is available for download after the keynote Changes include enhancements for media. Sorry, but this section includes terms that don't mean that much to me. High Def? I thought he was a rapper. ;) But let me make some notes Adaptive Streaming - The Silverlight client can adaptively determine the bandwidth between the client ...

First off, let me comment on the dearth of posts for the last few months. As always, it has to do with my workload. I have been working heads down on a major project for client for about six months. On top of that, my evenings are spent co-authoring the Training Kit for the WCF exam. The result is that I don't have a lot of time left for ...