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Web Deploment Pain Killers
New features for web deployment in VS2010. ASP.NET now has three versions of web.config: Web.Debug.Config, Web.Testing.Config, Web.Release.Config. MsBuild Web Publishing Pipeline (WPP). Team Build integration with workflows. One click publishing with differential sync. Site Server Snapshots and migration for duplicating environments.
SQL Deployment now exists when publishing a web site. In the...
Richard Campbell just winked at me. Swoon
Free what?
Waiting in line for a free netbook.
Keynote Day 2 Part 4 (SharePoint 2010)
speaker: Kurt DelBene, Senior Vice President, Microsoft
Rich integration with Visual Studio 2010. When developing solutions for SharePoint in Visual Studio you can FINALLY debug by pressing F5. When debugging starts, the solution is compiled, uploaded to the SharePoint server, and executed in a debugging session in Visual Studio (meaning step through and breakpoints are supported). Sharepoint is...
Keynote Day 2 Part 3 (Silverlight)
speaker: Scott Guthrie
Sketchflow - A quick way to sketch out application flow in Expression Blend 3. Builds full UI’s in a “sketchy style” that looks a lot like hand drawings.
Silverlight 4 - Now enables webcams and microphones on Silverlight enabled machines. Includes pixel shader effects for changing live video on the fly. Smooth streaming feature allows for down sampling of...
Keynote Day 2 Part 2 (Internet Explorer)
speaker : Stephen Sinofsky
Building Internet Explorer 9 includes a huge improvements in web standards and HTML5 (actually putting a focus on the acid3 test). Also includes JavaScript performance increases. Currently gets a 33/100 on the Acid3 test.
IE9 now renders text with Direct2D as opposed to GDI, this makes JavaScript effects less choppy and letters/graphics look smoother.
Keynote Day 2 Part 1 (Developing Windows 7)
speaker : Stephen Sinofsky
Focusing on developing software for Windows 7. During the development of Windows 7, numerous telemetry factors were recorded for instant feedback during the beta releases. Using these metrics helped MS to deliver a better operating system.
Microsoft partnered with ASUS to build a custom laptop to learn more about the building of hardware. Doing this helped them...
Keynote Day 2
Waiting in the main hall for ScottGu to give the second keynote. Watch it live at http://microsoftpdc.com/.
Enrich your Applications with Data from Microsoft ...
speaker: Zach Owens, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft.
Microsoft Codename “Dallas” is a market place for datasets. Contains a standardized API for accessing data built on top of the Azure Platform. Two sections of Dallas : commercial data companies, trusted data sources (like governments).
Oh Snap
I’m stalking Carl Franklin from dot net rocks right now
Become a Web Debugging Virtuoso with Fiddler
Speaker: Eric Lawrence Program Manager for Internet Explorer.
Fiddler operates as a local proxy application that intercepts all HTTP and HTTPS traffic. Fiddler is extensible in 3 ways:
Inspectors. Displays http traffic in a convenient way to display the content.
IFiddlerExtension. An extension that gets loaded directly into the runtime, you break it your bought it,
Script Engine. Used for...
Dynamic Binding in C# 4.0
speaker: Mads Torgersen, C# Program Manager at Microsoft.
Common Language Runtime was developed for static languages to interop together. Dynamic Language Runtime sits on top of CLR for dynamic languages to interop.
Dynamic Object : Implements its own bindings. Knows it self programatically. Leaves the responsibility of calling methods and properties to the object itself as opposed to the...
Keynote Part 12 (Availability)
Available Now: Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Azure, SQL Azure. Beta Now: Windows Server App Fabric, Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4, SQL Server 2008 R2 Beta in 2010: System Center Cloud.
Keynote Part 11 (AppFabric)
Extends IIS with a platform for building services for failover, caching, workflow, monitoring, access control. Going to be a part of Windows Server, beta is available today.
Cameron Skinner Product Unit Manager Visual Studio Team displays a demo of AppFabric with Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0. Oh snap, just showed of the multi monitor support in Visual Studio 2010 and everyone went NUTS!
...
Keynote Part 10 (Project Sydney)
Available next year. A service used to sync data from the cloud, back to the enterprise level.
Keynote Part 9 (Kelly Blue Book).
Andy Lapin, Enterprise Architect, Kelly Blue Book shows off his Silverlight Application on kbb.com. All traffic is sent to one data center while second data center works as a failover. Second data center cost too much so they’re using Azure now to elasticity… boooooring.
One thing that is cool is using SQL Azure Data Sync to keep data centers in sync with Azure cloud.
Keynote Part 8 (Cloud)
Started with just about the lamest video I’ve ever seen with a guy dressed as a cloud doing the stupidest things… no one laughed. Bob Muglia, President, Server & Tools Business defines the definition of Cloud Computing. A pool of servers that provide software as a service.
Auto Pilot: Service that manages cloud clusters for Microsoft Bing. Automatically brings servers online...
Keynote Part 7 (Government Data)
Vivek Kundra, Chief Information Architect of the US Govenment explains the initiatives of the new administration to open data to the public to increase innovation. Visiting the Be A Martian section of the Nasa website you can access demartialized data from the Mars Rover for use in your own applications.
Keynote Part 6 (Pinpoint and Dallas)
Pinpoint currently is integrated into the Azure Portal. Allows developers to market services to customers worldwide. Seems a lot like itunes for web services.
Dallas is an open market place for data. Dave Cambell explains Microsoft codename “Dallas”. Dallas displays a list of data sets (public and commercial) that you can subscribe to. This data can then be used in your application....
Keynote Part 5 (Wordpress)
Matt Mullenweg founder of Automattic (Wordpress). Displaying his demo of PHP / MySQL / Apache running on Windows Azure.
Marvin Cron from Cheezeburger Network guest speaking about high traffic blog sites. 8 million hits a day to the Cheezeburger Network sites. Launcing new website today a part of the Cheezeburger Network called oddlyspecific.com totally running on Windows Azure using Azure SQL as...
Keynote Part 4 (Azure)
Ending the Windows Azure CTP and moving over to a payed service. New features in Windows Azure:
Visual Studio contains azure templates.
Rest based service management services.
Different levels and sizes of Azure VMs.
Added support for fast cgi allowing for multiple languages.
Multiple locations of data centers for quickest possible connections. China, Dublin, New York, LA, etc.
New...
Keynote Part 3 (Social Networking)
Founder of Seesmic talking about using Silverlight for his social networking application. Seemed like one giant publicity rant.