PDC 2009

It's PDC again! Yesterday, I watched the opening-keynote. They spoke about the cloud and the new Visual Studio and how they can interact. A database store, codename Dallas, was shown which tries to unite data from all over the world - surely nice to play around with.

About half the time, when talking about the cloud, they showed this list:

1970s: Mainframe

1980s: Client-Server

1990s: Web

2000s: SOA

2010+: Cloud

We're just working on to get to the 90s, great...

One new feature of VS2010 is intelliTrace, which is a history of the program running via the debugger. I hope we switch to VS2010 soon, because that sounds interesting.

Last year, a lot of sessions were recorded and put online. I hope they'll do it this year alike. Nevertheless, don't forget to watch the second keynote today (17:30 CET) at the website with Scott Guthrie.

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The second keynote was great! Silverlight 4 beta available now! With trusted mode!! File system access!!! *download*

Moving to blogger

I decided to move this blog outside of the MCC-wiki. The content isn't MCC-specific (actually, I deleted the 'hot'-company-stuff) at all and I want to write something about my private projects too.

So, here it comes: after working a bit with WPF (approx 4 months) and trying ASP.NET (approx 1 month), I started a ASP.NET Silverlight project with the brand new Virtual Earth Silverlight Control. You can add UIElements to the map and give them coordinates so that they will move with the panning of the map. This means a way of possibilities:

'todo: upload Picture