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It can be easy to get caught up in all of the fancy graphics, transitions, and video effects that are part of Silverlight, but that doesn’t mean you can’t write serious, business ready, applications that not only take advantage of Silverlight but are also better because of it.

At the upcoming PDC,...

Many people love to speculate on what the next Killer App might be. Juval Lowy will use his ideal killer app as the basis of his upcoming workshop at PDC09 on November 16th. He’d like to think that the EnergyNet (yeah… I called it “energyweb” in my intro) might provide such a cohesive blending...

BI, or "Business Intelligence" allows businesses to make better use of their data, and resources in order to make better decisions related to how to grow and improve their business. For the PDC09 in Los Angeles, Andrew Brust and Don Demsak will be presenting a special day-long...

One of the recent sessions announced for PDC09 is one which will focus on some key advancements in Office 2010 as well as Visual Studio 2010, which will allow developers to take better advantage of the features and capabilities found in Office and SharePoint.

I’ve invited John Durant to join me in...

While technically the PDC this year starts on November 17th, the day before that we will be hosting a set of day-long intensive workshops on several specific topics.

One of these workshops will focus on the Patterns of Parallel Programming in order to help developers understand how the applications...

It was at the 2003 PDC in Los Angeles that Microsoft gave developers a peek at some of the early builds of the version of Windows code-named “Longhorn”. This release represented a lot of big advancements for the operating system, and the developer audience was anxious to learn whatever they could....

Just one short year after introducing .NET Framework, we announced its release along with Visual Studio .NET. In this episode of “PDC Classics” join Robert Hess and Don Box as they reminisce about the events surrounding PDC 2001, and what it means to attendees. We’ll then take a quick look at the...

Orlando Florida, July 2000. This was when Microsoft announced the initial developer availability of the Microsoft® .NET Framework, as well as Microsoft Visual Studio.NET to allow developers to begin developing managed code applications for Windows as well as the web. In this episode of “PDC Classics”,...

At the PDC, we typically have some additional "pre conference" workshops which provide very indepth and hands on access to a few select technologies. Chris Auld, Director of Strategy for Intergen, is preparing a workshop that will be diving deep into the capabilities of Windows Azure. In...

Not all Microsoft technologies and projects come out of large development teams with huge budgets and equally huge objectives. There are in fact a variety of very useful technologies which are fairly low-key and the result of small development efforts.

"Gestalt" is a technology that allows...