PDC 2009
98 Entries
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17 minutes, 1 secondPete at PDC09: WPF 3d Awesomeness with Tor and RobbyWhile at PDC09, I met up with Tor Langlo and Robby Ingebretsen who had just built a really cool closet configuration application using WPF and 3D. Think about going to a high-end home store, where the consultant sits down with you and helps configure a walk-in or other type of closet for your… -
57 minutes, 2 secondsE2E: Erik Meijer and Patrick Dussud - Inside Garbage CollectionPatrick Dussud is a Technical Fellow at Microsoft who is the author of .NET's garbage collector (GC) - the automatic memory management infrastructure that makes up most of what is managed in managed code execution. How does GC, work, generally? Why is it important? The GC inside of the… -
16 minutes, 1 secondHanselminutes on 9 - Guided Tour inside the Windows Azure Cloud with Patrick YantzScott at PDC09 in Los Angeles this week and got a great opportunity to get a guided tour of a piece of the Windows Azure Cloud from Patrick Yantz, a Cloud Architect with Data Center Services. You may think it's a Cloud Container, but it's not! Join me on this very technical 15 minute deep dive… -
MindBlasterIn this article, Brian Peek describes his PDC 2009 project, an XNA game named MindBlaster which uses a Nintendo Wii Remote in conjunction with MindSet brain-wave sensing headset from Neurosky. IntroductionBack in July of 2009 I learned of Neurosky's MindSet device via Engadget.com. The… -
53 minutes, 5 secondsMark Russinovich: Inside Windows 7 ReduxWindows 7 is here, available to all for purchase and ships today with new PCs! To celebrate this momentous occasion for Windows and Microsoft, Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich joins me in a discussion that extends the great conversation we had last year on Windows 7 internals. In his… -
59 minutes, 44 secondsExpert to Expert: Erik Meijer and Butler Lampson - Abstraction, Security and EmbodimentThis is a very special episode of Expert to Expert. We were very fortunate to get some time with renowned computer scientist and Microsoft Technical Fellow Butler Lampson. Butler's impact on general purpose computing is profound. Personal computing as it exists today is in part the result… -
1 hour, 4 minutes, 14 secondsE2E: Erik Meijer and Burton Smith - Concurrency, Parallelism and ProgrammingThe great Burton Smith, Microsoft Technical Fellow and an international leader in high-performance computer architecture and programming languages for parallel computing joins functional programming purist and language design guru Erik Meijer to discuss several major themes… -
12 minutes, 30 secondsVisual Studio 2010 Code Visualization ToolsVisual Studio 2010 is a fairly important release of the developer tool of choice for writing Windows applications. One of the important advancements in the new update is how it enables developers and architects to better visualize the assets and dependencies through UML (Unified Modeling… -
17 minutes, 48 secondsPDC09: John Durant on newly announced SharePoint featuresJohn Durant just returned from the Microsoft SharePoint Conference where a number of new SharePoint features were announced. In this episode he shares some of those features with us and describes how they can help developers in a variety of ways.John will be doing a couple sessions at PDC09… -
21 minutes, 21 secondsIntegrating Microsoft Silverlight with Microsoft Sharepoint 2010The upcoming release of Sharepoint 2010 will provide features and capabilities which will allow it to directly support Silverlight development and controls. At PDC09, Paul Stubbs held a session where he showed off many of these features, and walked the audience through the process of how to…
