The first part of the keynote for today is over and the second part is focusing on the Enterprise Content Managment of the new Office platform. I just thought I would throw out a few gems from the first part of the keynote:
All the PDC attendees are getting a free copy of SQL Server 2005 shipped to them when it is released. Microsoft “Expression” is a new suite of products being released to help enable designers and developers work more closely.
Well, due to my tablet side session I got to this session pretty late. It was PACKED. I stood for some time until I saw someone leave, then took a seat. This session was much like the Lap around Indigo session in that it was providing a foundation of the basic principles of the Presentation Framework that could be expanded upon by the rest of the sessions. To be honest I didn’t follow much of what was going on in the session.
This was my first breakout session for the day after the keynote. The first few minutes were nothing really new if you had read anything on Indigo before. It served as an introduction to the concepts behind Indigo so that people would have a basis for the further sessions.
Some items of note from this session (and pardon if these are a bit random):
The attributes for DataMember and DataContract do not respect the class or member scoping identifiers.