The second day of PDC was all about Windows 7. Microsoft Windows Vice President Steven Sinofsky showed the new OS's main features on stage and after it, the OS was shown on PCs throughout the Los Angeles convention center.
I'll give a nice overview about MEF, the Managed Extensibility Framework going on on codeplex. The Managed Extensibility Framework is a .NET library that enables greater reuse of applications and components. Using MEF, .NET applications can make the shift from being statically compiled to dynamically composed. If you are building extensible applications, extensible frameworks and application extensions, then MEF is for you.
One think I've never heard about was Spec#. And why? Well... It's one more Microsoft Research project from the Redmond guys of the programming Languages and methods group, so it isn't very popular over the web yet.
I've been hearing a lot about "Oslo" on PDC, and I knew there was something coming out. Microsoft released Oslo after it was announced ne year ago and since then a lot of interested people were focused on this, and it sure is an awesome technology.
On the ASP.NET roadmap session we were shown technologies that today make the .NET experience more rich, but aren’t part of the current version ASP.NET.
Windows Azure was announced in today's keynote.
The pre-session I chose to attend on Sunday was "creating Rich Internet Applications with Silverlight", presented by Jeff Prosise, the man behind Wintellect.com
I finally arrived at Los Angeles after 18 hours of flight, totalling 22 hours of travel.