The Future of C# | pdc2008

Please Note: This session will be repeated on October 29th at 3:00PM. In this talk Microsoft Technical fellow and C# Chief Architect Anders Hejlsberg outlines the future of C#. He describes the many forces that influence and shape the future of programming languages and explain how they fit into C#.

Anders Hejlsberg
Anders Hejlsberg is a Technical Fellow in the Developer Division. He is an influential creator of development tools and programming languages. He is the chief designer of the C# programming language and a key participant in the development of the Microsoft .NET framework. Since its initial release in 2000, the C# programming language has been widely adopted and is now standardized by ECMA and ISO. Before his work on C# and the .NET framework, Hejlsberg was an architect for Visual J++ development and the Windows Foundation classes. Before joining Microsoft in 1996, Hejlsberg was one of the first employees of Borland International Inc. As principal engineer, he was the original author of Turbo Pascal, a revolutionary integrated development environment, and chief architect of its successor, Delphi. Hejlsberg co-authored "The C# Programming Language", published by Addison Wesley, and has received numerous software patents. In 2001, he was the recipient of the prestigious Dr. Dobbs Excellence in Programming Award. He studied engineering at the Technical University of Denmark.

Tags: Advanced, Breakout Session, Languages

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lcorneliussen
Lars Corneliussen

Great! Can't imagine beeing there is any better Smiley

thebithead

Is there a way to download the Video. My broadband connection is not fast enough to stream the video.

John Melville-- MD
Equality Through Technology

In reply to thebithead

#Oct 28th, 2008 @ 4:32 PM

My "broadband" isn't up to snuff either. (Nothing sucks more than paying $100 a month for max 30k/second, but when you live 30 miles north of the arctic circle I guess you learn to deal with it.)

Anyway, mucking arround in the view source reveals this URL:

http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/pdc08/WMV-HQ/TL16.wmv

and my download manager seems to take it. Ask me in 6 hours if it worked.

wil2300
Super #

You can download if you use Firefox and the Video DownloadHelper [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3006]

Start playing the video and the little VDH icon will be animated, just click on it and do a "Save As.." [works for tons of other embedded video sources as well]

clewis1999

I tried to listen to this presentation a number of times and every time the stream hangs up. Its frustrating. Can you up load the presentation on Azure?

waltal
Walt Lounsbery

To download the video:

1. Hover the pointer over "Downloads" (in the bar below the description and the "Resources" link)

2. You will see the video link appear below "Downloads"

3. Right click on the video link and choose "Save Target As..." to download the video.

Notice that the Resources includes the link to the PowerPoint slides.

Chad Moran

Impressive.

If I could've been there I would have applauded. I'm very excited to see the direction Microsoft is taking their core and language features.

Fantastic job!

Portella
Portella

Anders, I want to have your babies ^^ if it was possible.

In serious note, the presentation was very good, i got the same felling when you did the channel9 cast on LINQ. It seems to me that when ever you make your appereance we have some new and fantastic tools to play with.

Thank you

Please continue the good work and send my regards to the team.

Daniel Portella

Ian Marteens

Wow! Right now, I would kill for the "compiler as server" functionality...