@PDC09 – Day 2 - Keynote

These are some very rough notes from the today’s keynote at PDC 09’ . . . .  

Topic : Windows 7

1. Developing windows 7
2. developing for windows 7
3. looking forward

Developing windows 7 : Learning

• Solving problems + innovation
• “Engineering 7” dialog
• Ecosystem readiness
• Developer pre-beta, beta, RC rhythm
• Telemetry
  • Send feedback button
  • hardware and device diagnostics
  • reliability analysis component (RAC)
  • software quality monitor (SQM)
  • windows error reporting (WER or “Watson”)

Behind the scenes - “funny video”

• push pin chairs
• electric chairs

Telemetry figures (this one was interesting)

• 514 million times the start menu was clicked (last 6 months)

Developing windows 7 : Research

• Surveys, market studies
• Reviews, blogs, commentary
• Segment engagements
• follow me home
• Baseline studies
• prototype testing, usability testing

Feature explanations and their videos on why they were added : \

• UAC – Choose when to be notified
• Windows Management – Tiling, Shake window

Ecosystem Energy – Michael Angiulo

All hardware demos discussing the hardware optimization and enhancements done

Making of a laptop : hardware / software

Announcement - FREE Acer Notebook Laptops with Windows 7 for all attendees !!!!

IE-9 already in progress
- ACID3 (32/100)   IE-8 had (20/100)
- multi system performance (picture)
IE-9 Demo

Windows 7 : Call of Action

• Integrate with windows 7 desktop
• develop for 64 bit
• focus on fundamentals in your code
• build on new API’s in windows 7

(today – channel9 videos on IE-9)

Scott Guthrie enters in and a huge applaud and woooh from the crowd !!!!

Silverlight 3

• Sketch flow

Silverlight on 45% of internet PC’s

Announcement : Silverlight 4

Silverlight 4 Beta Download : http://silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight-4-beta/
Silverlight 4 Training Course : http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/Silverlight4/

Below are the new feature List :

• Media
  • webcam and microphone
  • multicast streaming (IIS smooth streaming)
    • source of silverlight media player is on codeplex
    • publish media on variety of devices (apple iphone)
  • output protection
  • offline DRM
• Business applications
  • Printing
  • Rich Text
  • Clipboard Access
  • Right Click
  • Mouse wheel
• Application development
  • implicit styles
  • drag/drop word files into the rich text editor control
  • bidi & rtl
  • HTML control inside silverlight
  • commanding and MVVM
  • additional controls
  • print preview dialogs
• Data and Networking
  • share assemblies across SL and .Net 4 with just 1 time compilation
  • Data binding improvements
  • UDP multicast support
  • REST enhancements
  • WCF improvements
  • WCF RIA services
• VS 2010
  • full WYSIWYG design surface
  • XAML intellisense improvements
  • data binding, layouts, styles

Demo of Silverlight 4 (RIA and databinding) by Scott Hanselman
Snapflow.com demo

• Beyond the browser (outside browser features)
  • windowing API’s
  • notification popups
  • HTML support
  • Drop Target
  • Running outside sandbox for outside browser application (Trusted applications)
    • Custom window chrome
    • local file system
    • cross-site network
    • keyboard in full screen mode
    • hardware device access
    • COM automation Support (e.g using dynamic keyword in .net 4.0 for office and geolocation API’s)
• Silverlight 4 Performance
  • Twice as fast
  • 30% faster startup
  • new profiling support

Silverlight SDK for facebook published last week

Reference facebook application would be shipped soon (excellent application demo)

Schedule for Silverlight 4

• Beta – Now Available
• RC  -
• Final  - Mid next year

Kurt Delbene – Office and SharePoint 2010

Microsoft Business Productivity Infrastructure

Announcement – SharePoint2010 Beta available now !!!

SharePoint 2010 Public Beta Download : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/ee388573.aspx