oktober 2008 - Posts

• PDC08: PowerShell: Creating Manageable Web Services

  First session today was this PowerShell session with title as above. This was more like a lap around PowerShell commands and environment, and to be fare that it also stated in the abstact of the session, but I choose session based on the title only. I Read More... Posted den 30 oktober 2008 17:48 by ericqu | 0 Comments Filed under: PDC2008

• PDC08: Keynote (day 3)

  Todays keynote is shorter and is delivered by Rick Rashid on Microsoft Research. 1990 Microsoft was a small company with only 5 000 employees, but still choosed to begin a basic research department which was unusual for such a small company in that time. Read More... Posted den 29 oktober 2008 22:33 by ericqu | 1 Comments Filed under: PDC2008

• PDC08: Keynote (day 2, part 2)

  Silverlight Silverlight 2.0 has today been downloaded about 100 miljon times and the upgrade process has just started. It will be possible to run Ssilverlight out of the browser and not only in the browser as today. There will be a Silverlight toolkit Read More... Posted den 29 oktober 2008 00:53 by ericqu | 1 Comments Filed under: Office, Silverlight, .NET 4.0, Cloud computing

• PDC08: Keynote (day 2, part 1)

  Yesterdays keynote focused on Windows Azure, the new operating system for the cloud, the backend infrastructure. Windows 7 Today the focus was about making the combination of PC's, phones and the web more valuable together than the simple sum of the three. Read More... Posted den 28 oktober 2008 23:39 by ericqu | 1 Comments

• PDC08: The Future of C#

  This is probably one of the must attend sessions at this PDC with Anders Hejlsberg himself, and as always he has a very relaxing and laybacked presentation style that works very well. Anders started with summerizing three trends in programming languages: Read More... Posted den 28 oktober 2008 00:50 by ericqu | 2 Comments Filed under: PDC2008, .NET 4.0

• PDC08: "Dublin" and .NET Services: Extending On-Premises Applications to The Cloud

  Finally BizTalk Services is not containing BizTalk in its official name anymore, but that is now called Microsoft .NET Services. "Dublin" is the code-name for Windows Application Server Extensions and contians part that was originally in the Read More... Posted den 27 oktober 2008 23:17 by ericqu | 1 Comments Filed under: Security Token Service, PDC2008, Cloud computing

• PDC08: Keynote

  Ray Ozzie begins the keynote with explaining why Software + Service is going to happend, by trying to answer if "this cloud thing" is different from the architectures used today in the enterprises. This of course is the case both in terms of Read More... Posted den 27 oktober 2008 19:09 by ericqu | 0 Comments Filed under: PDC2008, Cloud computing

• PDC08: Creating Rich Internet Applications with Silverlight

  Notes from the PDC pre-conference session, by Jeff Prosise. Silverlight contains an optimized subset of the full .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR). This means that if you have existing .NET libraries that only uses the subset the source code is compatible, Read More... Posted den 27 oktober 2008 01:57 by ericqu | 0 Comments Filed under: PDC2008, Silverlight