Second day keynote …. In the beginning, there was a video of attendees. The most exciting part was Donny Mack and Asli talking about Indigo being the stuff in your watches to make them glow. They were shown in their shades and holding their little dog! Quite groovy guys!

 

Notes on Eric Rudder Keynote:

 

What Microsoft hears from you:

  • Don’t make me rewrite everything!
  • Moving code from development to production is too hard
  • Give me more code samples … in my favorite language
  • Help me make my code secure
  • How can I support the tablet PC
  • Do I need to do different code for each device
  • I need to interoperate with other vendors’ technology 

We are listening!

 

You need to:

  • Move to managed code now to maximize Longhorn capabilities
  • Application takes advantage of Longhorn features 

Web Services

  • Foundation for the Programmable Internet
  • Based on open standards
  • Not bound by a single platform …. More more more 

We know people want to build secure, reliable and transacted Web services.

 

A new .NET language called Pizza!  ---- some R&D thing in MSFT.

 

All attendees have a copy of Visual Studio Whidbey in their bags.

 

Language Innovations

  • Generics, Iterators
  • Partial types, Operator overloading
  • C++ templates with CLR types 

IDE Productivity

  • Code refactoring and expansions
  • XML documentation 

Improved Debugging

  • Edit and contine
  • Data tips, data visualizer 

What MSFT hears: “There is still too much code to write!”

 

Web Services Enhancements: write less code! 27K for sample

 

Indigo: 3 lines of code for secure XML WS example

 

Validating user credentials are easier.

 

Ari Bixhorn demo was rather cool!

 

Whidbey on the Web

  • Open any Web from any place
  • Improved page design
    • Master page designer for visual inheritance
    • HTML source preservation
    • XHTML markup generation
  • Validation features
    • Real-time validation against browser targets
    • Intellisense for inline code, CSS, web.config
    • Accessibility checker 

Scott Guthrie did a demo of an ASP.NET insurance application. It was rather exciting! He was able to apply personalization to the site with one line of code. Then, as an end user, he was able to drag and drop controls around the screen for total custom presentation and then when he excited the personalization, all the settings were saved. Awesome!

 

Windows Mobile Devices

  • Platform productivity investments
    • Managed code APIs for messaging 

Every member of PDC will get the Tablet PC SDK Update

 

Some guy came out dressed as Batman and had his belt full of new gadgets. It was rather funny.

 

Rick LaPlante General Manager – Developer division for “Whitehorse”

 

Set of design tools – design for operations

Building SOA and deploying them.

 

Eric Rudder mentioned INETA and said that this was one of the ways to join the community!! Outstanding mention for us!

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