PDC Day 2

Once again, I’m posting my thoughts on day 2 a bit later than most.  My thoughts around the business ramifications of the keynote announcements went out in Matt Roush’s Great Lakes IT Report this morning.  You can read them archived here.

From the keynote, I’m actually debating putting Windows 7 on my primary laptop.  bootable VHDs, multiple monitor support, even on VHDs. I’ve got needs, and Windows 7 looks like it will address some of them.

From the standpoint of the development enhancements, the point of the keynote is that new developer tools and libraries will be optimized for the kinds of applications discussed on the first day: distributed applications that will enable you to create applications that can use the web when connected, and work disconnected when necessary.

You may be thinking that you can do that now. You’re right, you can.  But, the new capabilities will make it possible for you to right applications when you don’t even know if it’s connected or not. The synchronization happens at layers below your code, in the library.

Well, I’m glossing over lots of things, but I haven’t had much soak time on these topics.

However, one of the cool things about the PDC format is that I spent a fair amount of the afternoon with some folks on the Azure Tools team and learned quite a bit about how this is going to work.  I can’t wait to start playing with all of this more.