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• Open Space UnSessions at PDC

  I forget to mention this in my last post, but this deserves it's own. If you are going to PDC, check out the Open Space sessions , I mean Un Sessions. I know, I know you are thinking it will be a cheap knock off. Surprise, it won't! Doc the man himself will be there facilitating. Doc will be joined by a bunch of organizers including my blue-badge buddies Jason Olson , Jonathan Carter , Josh Holmes. Add to that Alan Stevens , Rob Zelt (INETA) and Morgan Baker (INETA). Oh and based on an IM conversation Jason and I just had, I'll be helping out in an honorary capacity :-) Read more about it at Jason's post here. You can bet I'll be finding ways out of getting my schedule too booked up so I can get my fill. I heart open-space :) Posted Oct 16 2008, 12:02 AM by CodeBetter.Com - Stuff you need to Code Better! Filed under: pdc2008, conference, pdc

• Speaking at PDC and patterns And practices summit.

  I'll be speaking at a bunch of conferences in the next two months, two of which I am extremely excited about. PDC is one of those amazing conferences that I've been hearing about for the past three years since joining Microsoft. I am speechless that the first time I'm attending, I'll be presenting. I am also really excited to tell customers about the new work we are doing on the MEF team to make their lives easier. p&p summit is something that I really wanted to attend last year, but missed because I was in Barcelona. Well not this year! I'll be there and infusing a good dose of MEF into the summit attendees :) If you'll be at either conference, come find me, I'd love to chat! Also come check out the MEF sessions if you want to hear about some really new capabilities where building into the framework. Managed Extensibility Framework: Overview The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a new extensibility model in the .NET framework that provides a simple declarative model for application developers and extenders to build openly extensible applications. Come to this session and you'll learn about our Composition model and the APIs that work with it. You'll learn about composable parts, exports, imports and the composition container that brings them all together. You'll see how using the model you can develop open-ended applications that can easily be extended both internally and by third-parties. Open up your Applications with the Managed Extensibility Framework Today, it is difficult for applications and frameworks to meet an open-ended set of needs. Building in extensibility allows third-party customization, however there are many challenges in doing so. The Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a new extensibility model in the .NET framework that addresses many of these problems. It provides as simple declarative model for application developers and extenders. Come to this session and get an overview on what it is and what it will do for you. Posted Oct 15 2008, 09:45 PM by CodeBetter.Com - Stuff you need to Code Better! Filed under: pdc2008, MEF, conference, pnpsummitt, pdc

• What You’ll Hear at PDC2008

  My favorite conference is almost upon us. If I’ve been quiet for a little while on my blog, it’s because this has been a crazy busy season for me and my team, as we put all the pieces in place for PDC2008. PDC is Microsoft’s flagship conference, both because of the scale and depth of content, but also because it’s unique as a time when we open up as a company and share almost everything that’s been under wraps for the previous year or so. This year is more significant than most – it’s been three years since the last PDC. That’s a lifetime in the software world – at PDC05, we hadn’t yet shipped Windows Vista, WPF, WCF, PowerShell, Visual Studio 2005 or SQL Server 2005. It’s high time we provided a set of deep, Level 400 developer sessions on new innovations like LINQ, C# 3.0, .NET 3.5SP1, Silverlight and so on. But PDC isn’t primarily about shipping technologies. PDC is always a coming out party for the platform of the future. In the past, we’ve announced everything from .NET to “Longhorn” at the PDC (admittedly along with some blue sky projects that never truly saw the light of day, like “Cairo”). This year, we’ll be announcing a raft of new technologies that will impact every developer who focuses on Microsoft platform, whether your focus is Win32 or .NET, whether you specialize in server, mobile, web or desktop development. At PDC2008, you’ll hear two primary themes resonating throughout the conference: Software+Services and Windows 7. Software+Services It’s hardly news that the Internet is transforming the software industry. We’ve seen it evolve from a loosely-coupled set of application-level protocols that spanned academic and military installations to a near-ubiquitous service to which billions of people are connected, with the browser having become by far the most pervasive means of accessing the net. Now we’re on the verge of a new transformation where the traditional lines of delineation are blurred – where Internet services enable the “cloud” to become the place where applications and data are hosted and accessed from rich client or browser applications alike. You’re going to hear us reveal some significant new technologies at the PDC in this space. I’m obviously not going to pre-announce everything that we’re going to reveal, but the following quote from Steve Ballmer’s recent keynote at our partner conference will give you a few clues: So what is the future? The future is about having a platform in the cloud, just as we have an operating system for... Posted Sep 22 2008, 09:14 PM by Tim Sneath Filed under: WPF, Silverlight, ria, windows 7, windows, Visual Studio, Windows Live, training, silverlight 2, live mesh, pdc2008

• Why You Want To Book Your PDC2008 Ticket NOW...

  If you're into any of the technologies that this blog covers, you'll be mad if you miss the Professional Developers Conference this year. It's actually been three years since our last PDC, so we're overdue! I'm really excited about all the things we're going to be covering at the PDC this year: those of you who have attended the conference in the past will know that we only run a PDC when there is major news to share, and we've got some killer content this year. Registration opened yesterday, so now is a good time to get ahead of the crowd. We keep most of the session titles under wraps until the event starts - this is a future-orientated conference, after all. But even from the session abstracts we've posted so far , you'll see sessions that cover the Live Mesh, Internet Explorer 8, Windows 7 (including details on how to program for the multi-touch feature we showed off this week at Walt Mossberg's D conference ), as well as really hardcore deep-dive sessions on topics like the internals of the Silverlight rendering pipeline and our internal usage of Team Foundation Server. But there's one other thing that has me salivating me about the PDC as a WPF developer. Jaime Rodriguez (content owner for the pre-conference ) has secured none other than Charles Petzold to deliver a one-day session on WPF . Charles Petzold! If you've been living on Mars for the last twenty years, Charles is a titan of the Windows programming world, having written several seminal titles, including no less than two books on WPF. Indeed, Jeff Atwood describes him as " the guy who put the h in hWnd ". Charles is a hero of mine - he writes concisely, precisely, knowledgeably and articulately. I remember bringing a stack of copies of his first WPF book to a team meeting; the product architects were as eager to read his verdict on their platform as a Broadway theater director is to see the early papers after opening night. Charles isn't one of those speakers who seems to be permanently on the conference circuit - in fact it's pretty rare that you get the chance to see him "live" at all, even though he delivers some amazing lectures when he does present . This is a unique opportunity that you just don't want to miss if you're building your mastery of WPF. Here's what Charles wrote for the pre-conference abstract: This session will go deep into WPF and explain the infrastructure and services that WPF introduces... Posted May 29 2008, 10:10 PM by Tim Sneath Filed under: WPF, windows 7, windows, ie, training, events, live mesh, pdc2008