pdc2008

Ribbon UI for Visual Studio 2010 or beyond?

One of the PDC2008 presentations showed off the new VS2010 UI (not the same as the current beta) that was built with WPF. Some of the new code effects looked fairly nice (comment xml parsed and styled within the code editor). It got me wondering if Microsoft would ever change the VS UI to the Ribbon; like Office, the change could possi...

What are the best PDC 2008 videos that I need to look at?

Considering the full list of PDC videos published here what are, in your opinion, the best session to download and see, considering their relevance to your work, technology and so on? Pleas, one session per answer (exception only for the sessions split in two parts) and please vote it so to move the best ones to the top. ...

Newbie F# help: hitting error " F#, introduction to, PDC video.

I was trying to code along with the PDC2008 Into to F# video. I get an error in the last line of the code snippet shown below (that the presenter did not get) "Error 1 This value is not a function and cannot be applied". I am running Fsharp-1.9.6.2 on Visual Studio 2008 shell. The startprice symbol in the last line isunderlined red w...

Tech-Ed instead of Microsoft PDC?

For the last 8 years or so I've been making a point to attend PDC. This past year I did not feel that I got nearly as much out of the conference then I have in years past. I think mainly this was because I'm still trying to learn the new technologies introduced during the last PDC, and I felt I spent most of my time searching for good co...