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Looking forward to watching this online.  Should be a great show!

Thanks to all for putting this on and making it available to those of us who can't be there in person.

Another great episode.  Thanks Charles, Jim, and Diego.

Sweet!  This sounds great!  Downloading.

@bernd, @jps   +1.  The big missing piece is a modern, fully native UI framework (primarily, though not necessarily entirely, for native languages) that can target desktop applications.  The managed code world has had options like XAML/WPF for some time, but native users are stuck with Win32/MFC still, after all these years.  I was really disappointed to see no change there at Build.  Maybe it is coming eventually, but we are feeling left out in the cold yet again.  CLI is more of a workaround than a solution.  I think all the new stuff for Metro apps is great, but it has very little bearing on my current or future needs.

+1 to the idea of a template metaprogramming series.  That would be fun.  STL could probably do that readily.  Or you could get some guest lectures from Andrei and blow everybody's mind.

Thanks for the shows.

I need to highlight something here, because Herb may have just verified the most key piece of information yet.  In response to the question about UI choices for C++ desktop (not Metro) apps, the response was (all the obvious previous choices), plus XAML!  So Herb is confirming that we can in fact use XAML to develop C++ UI for non-Metro applications (or did he just not hear the whole question)?  For me this is a critical piece of the puzzle.  All the stuff for Metro is fine and good, but what I really need is a modern option for C++ desktop UIs.  I suspected that the WinRT stuff would eventually be applied for desktop apps too (after the initial push for Metro support), but this is the first time I have heard an answer more definitive than "we'll think about it".  (We are still talking about C+++/CX here, not C++/CLI/managed, right?) 

If everything that has been provided for creating Metro apps also becomes available to target desktop apps (and maybe WP and XBOX too), then this will be huge.  Fingers crossed that (at least the desktop apps) will run on Vista/Win7 too.

YAY!  I've been wanting this since I saw it on the video of the science fair, but it was only available internally. 

Joanna and Vikas, excellent session -- very well done.

Yes, much better now.  Thanks.

The code download link is not working, and is in fact redirecting to a malware site.  Please fix.

55 minutes ago,felix9 wrote

Mmm... what we really need is a lecture about COM, especially the next version

+1 for that.  Who is the COM.next equivalent of Don Box?

I am definitely concerned about this COM.next business.  Returning to all of COM's warts -- DLL hell, bloated registry, programming ugliness -- would be a massive step in the wrong direction.  That's one thing I expect to see in the post-BUILD info dump is what exactly this COM next is and how it is not going to repeat all of the mistakes of the past.