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PDC Day 4 the last day

The last day is always quiet. Many have left. Went to a session this morning. Then went to the hands on lab, they were great this year, Blair and I did a Sparkle lab. That was very very cool. Too bad I couldn't capture a video of it. My windows application Read More...

PDC Day 2 - Part II

I attended a great session on C#. Talking about Lambda Expressions, Extension Methods, Object Initializers, Anonymous Types, and Query Expressions. Here are a couple things explained, the others would be way more work then I can handle. We went to Universal Read More...

PDC Day 3 - Part I keynote

Went to the keynote this morning. It was all about servers. Some cool demo's but nothing too exciting. I guess if you get all excited about servers it must have been good. There was an excellent video before the session started though. Microsoft people Read More...

PDC Day 2 - Part I

This morning at the keynote we were shown some new products that Microsoft is coming out with and a new designer for Visual Studio. The products are touted by Microsoft as their Expression Family of Products they include: Acrylic Graphics Designer This Read More...

Are you Canadian?

If you are at PDC and you are Canadian there are two informal get togethers going on. Excuse: Breakfast Date: Thursday Sept. 15th Time: 7:45 am - 8:30 am Location: Under the Canadian Flag in the dinning area Excuse: Beer Date: Thursday Sept. 15th Time: Read More...

C# Query Syntax

Barry Gervin has a post with some LINQ links that is very useful. Just to show you how easy it is. Here is the Query Don Box wrote during the key note today. I haven't seen it yet but I am told it's even easier to read in the VB syntax. This is only the Read More...

PDC Day 1 - Part II

This afternoon I attended three session and they were all good. I already mentioned the VSTS session in my last post. After that I went to a session on SQL Server 2005: Building Distributed, Asynchronous Database Applications with the Service Broker . Read More...

PDC 2005 Day 1 - Part 1

So the first keynote was very long. It was good though. They told us we could buy an i-mate JASJAR at mobile planet for $149. But when the session got out they were sold out. Apparently they had 1000 for nearly 10,000 people. I went to mobile Planet the Read More...

Bill Gates Key Note

It's day 1 of PDC. Well not counting the precon. I Caught the first bus from my hotel to the conference. Mostly because I'm still on Toronto time. I got my name tag changed this morning. I of course filled out the form wrong and was walking around as Read More...

It's nice to be Rob Windsor

Rob Windsor steps off the plane checks into his hotel and heads down to The 64-Bit Question, a .NET Rocks ! Quiz Show . They ask a multiple choice (with three choices) question about Garbage Collection and the contestant on stage gets it wrong so they Read More...
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