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Sessions Times Posted

Plan your PDC experience using the timeline view introduced on Thursday, October 16. This updated view of sessions allows you to navigate sessions based on day, time and location. Additionally:  If you already have identified and selected sessions for your “My Sessions” group, look for those sessions to be highlighted in green.  Select "My Sessions" to view, print or add to your Outlook calendar [more...]
10/22/2008

PDC2008: We don't need no stinkin' badges!

Countdown to PDC2008:  We don't need no stinkin' badges!  Yes you do-- if they’re PDC Badges!  Collecting PDC Badges is the way for anyone attending PDC to capture their experience at the PDC conference.  Just for showing up at registration you’ll receive the “I was there at Microsoft PDC2008 Badge”.  If you go to a [more...]
10/22/2008

Announcing Two Symposia at PDC2008

Each symposium consists of three related sessions on the last day of PDC, and they provide much more detail about two key topics covered throughout PDC.  A Parallel Computing symposium extends the PDC discussion to how multi-core architectures will significantly increase available computing power and the opportunities that will create.  A Cloud Services Architectures symposium will step back from the various cloud services covered throughout PDC and discuss how best to connect local software to key cloud services.  Together, the two PDC symposia will help all developers, architects, and technical managers to better prepare for the challenges and opportunities that will come with increasingly more multi-core processing power coupled with powerful cloud-based services and platforms. [more...]
10/22/2008

Unveiling Windows 7 to the World: Keynote, Sessions and Pre-Beta Bits

Be one of the first to get a look at Windows 7.  Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, will keynote on Tuesday, October 28.  Windows 7 is the next major version of the Windows client operating system.  With Windows 7 at PDC2008 you will see advances across the full range of Windows—including the kernel, networking, hardware and devices, and user-interface.  Learn more about opportunities to build on the platform’s commitment to OS fundamentals, while also enabling you to enhance your existing applications and create new applications that use the new technologies and APIs in Windows 7 [more...]
10/22/2008

Still waiting to get clearance to attend PDC?

Use the Letter to Your Boss to explain how this is not the typical conference that is more boondoggle than substance The PDC is where the best and brightest come together with the technical geniuses of Microsoft.  You'll get your questions answered, get insight to the future of the Microsoft platform and be the first one to get your hands on bits! [more...]
10/22/2008
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The Goods

PDC attendees received the Western Digital “My Passport Essential” drive with a special model number WDME 1600MSFT. These drives are covered under warranty by Western Digital, click here for full details of coverage. If you have a defective product that requires replacement, please contact Western Digital directly. Information on their replacement process can be found here. Click here for world-wide contact information for general Western Digital customer support.

BITS UPDATE 02

Windows Media Center Software Development Kit

Documentation, tools and sample code for developing Windows Media Center applications and services.

Windows Server 2008 R2 ISO

Pre-Beta release of Windows Server 2008 R2 for testing purposes only.

Windows 7 Ultimate ISO

Burn your own Windows 7 Ultimate DVD using these 32bit & 64bit ISO files.

Windows 7 Whitepapers

These collection of whitepapers will help you get started developing on Windows 7.

Microsoft® Windows® Software Development Kit (SDK) for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1: Pre-Beta

The Windows SDK contains documentation, samples, headers, libraries, and tools designed to help you develop Windows applications.

BITS UPDATE 01

.NET Services SDK (LINKS ONLY)

The .NET Services SDK includes APIs, libraries, samples, and documentation for building applications with the three .NET Services: the Access Control Service, the Service Bus and the Workflow Service.

Azure Services Training Kit (LINKS ONLY)

Azure Services Training Kit includes hands-on labs, presentations, and samples to help you understand how to utilize Azure Services.   Please note: The content in this kit requires you to have registered developer accounts for the Azure Services.

Live Framework Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio and the Live Framework SDK (LINKS ONLY)

The Live Framework SDK provides developers with documentation, samples, tools and APIs needed to build rich, connected, data-sharing applications using Live Services.   The Live Framework Tools extend Visual Studio 2008 to enable the creation, building, debugging, running and packaging of Mesh Applications that utilize the Live Framework.

Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio and the Windows Azure SDK (LINKS ONLY)

Windows Azure SDK provides developers APIs, tools, documentation and samples needed to develop applications for internet scale on Windows Azure.    Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio extend Visual Studio to enable the creation, building, debugging, running and packaging of scalable services on Windows Azure.

Visual Studio 2010 & .NET Framework 4.0 CTP

The Visual Studio 2010 & .NET Framework 4.0 CTP Virtual PC Image

WCF and WF 4.0, “Oslo”, & “Dublin” PDC08 Virtual Machine

Applications and supporting materials that demonstrate the innovations in WCF and WF 4.0, “Oslo” modeling platform and the Windows Application Server enhancements codenamed “Dublin”.

NET Micro Framework SDK v3.0

.NET Micro Framework SDK for embedded development, includes device emulator

Microsoft Blueprints

Microsoft Blueprints are collections of process and resources to help you produce a specific type of deliverable such as a library, framework or application; you can think them as task-specific SDKs which will be provided by Microsoft as well as you can build your own.

Highly Productive Computing: Developing for the Windows HPC Server 2008 Platform (WHITEPAPER)

Whitepaper on developer technologies for the Windows HPC Server 2008 platform.

OEM Ready Tools

Software Qualification Tools for the OEM Ready Program.

Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 Express Edition

Microsoft® Robotics Developer Studio 2008 Express Edition is a freely available .NET-based programming environment for building robotics applications. The Express Edition is fully functional version but has a feature set that better targets the non-professional developer and hobbyist.

Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Add-on for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 for developing Silverlight 2 applications

Taking Parallelism Mainstream (WHITEPAPER)

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 leads the first wave of developer tools to simplify the mainstream transition to parallel software development.

Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition with Service Pack 1

An easy-to-use environment for dynamic Web application development.

Microsoft WCF LOB Adapters SDK 2.0

WCF LOB Adapter SDK 2.0 (ASDK V2) is the WCF-service model based framework for writing WCF-based adapters for line-of-business (LOB) systems like SAP. The BizTalk Adapter Pack 2.5, which is built on top of WCF LOB Adapter SDK 2.0, constitutes the SAP adapter to create SAP services which in turn can be consumed by .NET applications.

WCF REST Starter Kit Community Technology Preview

WCF REST Starter Kit provides features and guidance to enable quickly developing RESTful Services using WCF.

SharePoint Developer Introductory Hands on Labs on a Virtual Machine

A set of hands on labs for .NET developer that provide an introduction to SharePoint Development.

WCF and WF 4.0, “Oslo”, & “Dublin” PDC08 Virtual Machine

Applications and supporting materials that demonstrate the innovations in WCF and WF 4.0, “Oslo” modeling platform and the Windows Application Server enhancements codenamed “Dublin”.