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Friday, January 30, 2004 4:23 PM

PDC: the highlights DVD

Got my copy of the highlights DVD from PDC today.  I had no idea this DVD even existed until Simon mentioned it in an earlier post i made about the conference DVD   This DVD contains the slides AND video from the 27 top presentations at
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Thursday, January 22, 2004 9:13 PM

I'm very slow sometimes

So I take it back (well some of it).  In my last post I takled about the PDC Conference DVD and mentioned that there was no video on it.  Well as it turns out, there is indeed video of the demonstrations.  I must have watched a 1/2 dozen
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Friday, January 16, 2004 4:07 PM

PDC Conference DVD

Well I got my PDC Conference DVD after nearly a 3 month wait (4-6 weeks was the estimate).  I may be a little naive but I thought this was something to look forward to.  Boy was I wrong.  What a total waste of $200!  Granted it wasn't
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Tuesday, December 09, 2003 5:10 PM

ObjectSpaces Sample Code from PDC now available

Thanks Andrew for posting the links to Luca's sample code from his PDC presentation.  This is good stuff!  
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Wednesday, November 26, 2003 11:42 AM

PDC Slides online

They have all of the presentations from the PDC online now at http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC2003/.  They even have audio of the presentation so its pretty much like being there. (although they dont have the code samples in the slide decks). good
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Monday, October 27, 2003 4:55 PM

Avalon Intro Session

Avalon is truly and amazing thing.  The demos they just showed us included dragging elements around in a window and rotating them while running.. this included an embedded movie (which was added to the app with one XAML tag and a few lines of “code-behind”
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Monday, October 27, 2003 3:38 PM

I got "The Goods"

I just got back from the material desk and obtained my copy of the PDC bits.  The DVD binder is a black spongy material with “the goods” written on the cover. Besides the bits they gave us a book “Introducing Longhorn for Developers” and a poster of the
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Monday, October 27, 2003 2:38 PM

PDC Day 1

Well I guess the PDC isn't going to disappoint.  I am not sure I am a good enough writer to describe what I just saw demoed and how cool it really was.  I had really good seats for the keynote which was nice.  I was 15 rows back on the isle.  It was
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