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PDC demos available

Nick Kramer — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 05:22:01 GMT

Nick Kramer writes "For those of you who are at the PDC, we finally got my demos posted to commnet (under PRS313): "

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Office 12 Makeover takes on 'feature creep'

Thomas Lee — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 03:44:54 GMT

Thomas Lee writes "CNET has a story about Office 12's radical makeover. Last week at PDC, MS took the wraps off the new Office 12 UI, showing it both in private and public sessions. Many of the innovations in O12 are stunning. I am already in love with PowerPoint 12. But as ... "

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New paper on XLinq

YAG — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 03:14:55 GMT

YAG writes "Erik Meijer and Brian Beckman have written a paper titled "XLinq: XML Programming Refactored (The Return of the Monoids)" for the XML2005 conference. I found it very readable and a really good explanation of the XLinq API. Check it out! As an aside - Erik won the ... "

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Office 12 at PDC

Penelope Coventry — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 03:07:39 GMT

Penelope Coventry writes "Well I was one of the many people who attended PDC this year. The slide downloads are now available. I am not going to summarise the newly announced features as there have been many blogs on that already. Heather Solomon has a a great summary of Office 12 resources. Instead I intend to give my own stance on what I glean on..."

View the session list for the Office and SharePoint track.
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C# 3.0

Paul Mooney — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 02:57:49 GMT

Paul Mooney writes "Future Versions C# 3.0 introduces several language extensions that build on C# 2.0 to support the creation and use of higher order, functional style class libraries. The extensions enable construction of compositional APIs that have equal expressive power of query languages in domains such as relational databases and XML. C# 3.0 Language Specification Read about the proposed changes to the C# language. C# 3.0 Language Enhancements Hands-on Labs Experiment with the proposed ... "

View the session list for the Tools and Languages track.
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My PDC Presentation - slides and demos

Namita Gupta — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 02:15:03 GMT

Namita Gupta writes "As promised i'm posting my slides as well as demos from my talk PRS324 - Using Data in WPF applications. You can access my presentation at PRS324 My 1st demo built up to show ... "

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Spell checking in Windows Presentation Foundation

Marcelo — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 02:14:25 GMT

Marcelo writes "One of the features that impressed PDC attendees was the built-in spell checker in Windows Presentation Foundation. Activating it is just as simple as setting the ..."

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Is it Select/From or From/Select?

Paul Vick — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 02:13:42 GMT

Paul Vick writes "Over in the LINQ MSDN forums, the question came up: which is better, Select/From (as VB does it) or From/Select (as C# does it)? To quote from the thread, here’s the C# side of it, straight from Anders: "

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Fun stuff over at Channel 9

Robert Scoble — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 02:07:17 GMT

Robert Scoble writes "Channel 9 news: Jamie uploaded another one of his GooglePark's. Made me laugh. Watch out Jamie, or we'll send the sales guys after you! :-) Wanna sneak peek at the new Hotmail? Here's a video where you get a look and meet the team. In another video you meet Scott Isaacs, one of the guys who invented DHTML (and wrote the AJAX framework that ... "

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Everyone is talking about workflow

Paul Andrew — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 01:54:04 GMT

Paul Andrew writes "Paul Ballard at TheServerSide.net has just published a filmed interview that Scott Woodgate and I recorded the day before the Windows Workflow Foundation announcement. You can see the glass elevators behind us on the outside of the hotel where we filmed the interview. Check out blogs from ... "

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Some new OneNote features for Office 12 release

Mike Wood — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 01:52:32 GMT

Mike Wood writes "While Chris indicates that no radically new UI will be shipping with the next OneNote, he does talk about some really cool features revolving around indexing and searching in OneNote. The most radical feature will be the ability to instantly search video/audio content for words and find exactly where..."

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3 minutes on the future of VB...

Paul Vick — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 01:51:53 GMT

Paul Vick writes "While at the PDC, I also did a short video interview with F5 DevCentral. Check it out, even though the front image is kind of scary, in my opinion… "

View the session list for the Tools and Languages track.
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Back home again, what did PDC bring me?

Marcel de Vries — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 01:50:54 GMT

Marcel de Vries writes "... But if you take a look at what Microsoft is doing with his LINQ project and the new stuff that is brought to us with ATLAS in regard to AJAX style programming on the web, I must say I am impressed. They take a lot of effort to make things easy for us and make us more productive on the windows platform. If I must recap the PDC in a few terms of technology that I need to investigate more, I would say: "

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On JSON

Steve Maine — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 01:49:28 GMT

Steve Maine writes "JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a data exchange format that’s becoming increasingly popular among the AJAX crowd. Several AJAX frameworks (e.g. Ajax.NET and Microsoft’s ‘Atlas’ project) are embracing JSON on the wire because it’s very simple to produce and consume from a JavaScript-based browser environment. JSON and objects Linguistically, JSON is nothing more than JavaScript’s standard object initialization syntax. JScript has long has the ability to initialize objects using a lightweight syntax similar to the following: "

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Even more LINQ news items -- Peter Coffee and Slashdot

Scott Wiltamuth — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 01:43:48 GMT

Scott Wiltamuth writes "Here are a few more recent ones:"

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Talking about Scripting News and Start.com manifests

Scott Isaacs — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 01:43:22 GMT

Scott Isaacs writes "I saw this post on Dave Winer's site. I want to reassure the community that nothing was ever amiss in MSN regarding the manifest approach and RSS. The Start.com team (Dare is not on that team) and myself have been upfront and stated Start.com will work with the community on establishing the appropriate extensions, etc (I posted about it in my previous entry). Any concerns can be quickly addressed by sending an e-mail to the Start.com team. They are one of the most accessible teams at Microsoft (See Sanaz, Steve, and their team blog) and I am sure would ..."

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SharePoint V3 Video

trobbins — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 01:32:34 GMT

trobbins writes "Looks like the Channel 9 folks have a pretty good video on some of the new features of SharePoint V3.... "

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Declaring Gadgets for Start.com using "RSS"

Scott Isaacs — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 01:27:32 GMT

Scott Isaacs writes "...First, let's look at the Gadget manifest format. For defining manifests, we basically reused the RSS schema. This format decision was driven by the fact we already have a parser in Start.com's application model for RSS, there is broad familiarity with the RSS format, and I personally did not want to invent yet another schema :-). While we reused the RSS schema, we do recognize that these are not typical RSS feeds as they are not intended ..."

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The North Face Demo & Whitepaper

Robert Wlodarczyk — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 01:25:01 GMT

Robert Wlodarczyk writes "Karsten and Darren (of Fluid) posted a whitepaper on how the "The North Face" In-Store Explorer. Definitely a great read. If you wanted to see the video again, here it is... "

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Hotmail "Kahuna"

Scott Isaacs — Sun, 25 Sep 2005 01:23:00 GMT

Scott Isaacs writes "At the PDC, Walter Hsueh gave a great talk at the on how the next Hotmail is rebuilding itself using the Atlas framework libraries. Hotmail, Start.com, Spaces, MSN.com, etc. are being built on the same "Atlas" foundation. A few places to learn more: "

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