Reports available from PDC '09

Reports from the PDC conference became available to everyone. There are a lot of reports, 90 pieces, all of them are presented in HD-quality video plus optionally available video of lower quality. Presentation slides are available for many reports.

Themes of the reports cover a huge mass of technologies, both new and familiar to developers. Here are some of them:

• Silverlight 4, WPF 4, Windows Workflow Foundation 4, Smooth Streaming
• DirectX, DirectX 11
• UML, DSL
• Entity Framework, ADO.NET Data Services
• C # / VB.NET: Futures, Garbage Collector
• ASP.NET: Futures, MVC, AJAX Library and jQuery
• C ++, Visual C ++ 2010

• Software + Services Identity
• REST Services Security
• Windows Identity Foundation

• Windows 7: Touch, Sensors, Ribbon, Error Reporting
• Windows Server: 2008 R2 (I recommend the Mark Rusinovich report ), HPC Server, DryadLINQ
• Windows Server AppFabric
• SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Server 2010
• BizTalk Server
• SQL Server 2008

• Azure: SQL Azure, Java to Azure, PHP and MySQL to Azure

• Expression Blend, SketchFlow
• Feeddler
• Visual studio 2010

• .NET Micro Framework
• Code Contracts, Pex
• Rx Reactive Framework

• Dynamic Languages
• M Language

• Unified communications

• Dallas
• Powershell

• Application Server Technologies: Present and Future
• Perspectives on the future of programming
• The State of Parallel Programming

Material for many, many hours. I think everyone will find a lot of new and interesting things for themselves.