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		<title>Session – WPF: Extensible BitmapEffects, Pixel Shaders, and WPF Graphics Futures</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PDC 2008, Day #4, Session #4, 1 hr 15 mins David Teitlebaum Program Manager WPF Team My final session at PDC 2008 was a talk about the improvements in WPF graphics that are available in .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.  David also touched briefly some possible future features (i.e. that would appear in .NET Framework 4.0). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stuff.seans.com&amp;blog=4003566&amp;post=398&amp;subd=spsexton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Session – Windows 7: Unlocking the GPU with Direct3D</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PDC 2008, Day #4, Session #3, 1 hr 15 mins Allison Klein I jumped off the Azure track (starting to be a bit repetitive) and next went to a session focused on Direct3D. Despite the title, this session really had nothing to do with Windows 7, other than the fact that it talked a  lot [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stuff.seans.com&amp;blog=4003566&amp;post=394&amp;subd=spsexton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Session – Services Symposium: Enterprise Grade Cloud Applications</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PDC 2008, Day #4, Session #2, 1 hr 30 mins Eugenio Pace My second session on Thursday was a continuation of the cloud services symposium from the first session.  There was a third part to the symposium, which I did not attend. The presenter for this session, Eugenio, was not nearly as good a presenter [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stuff.seans.com&amp;blog=4003566&amp;post=387&amp;subd=spsexton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Session – Services Symposium: Expanding Applications to the Cloud</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PDC 2008, Day #4, Session #1, 1 hr 30 mins Gianpaolo Carraro As the last day of PDC starts, I’m down to four sessions to go.  I’ll continue doing a quick blog post on each session, where I share my notes, as well as some miscellaneous thoughts. The Idea of a Symposium Gianpaolo started out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stuff.seans.com&amp;blog=4003566&amp;post=381&amp;subd=spsexton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Session – Building Mesh-Enabled Web Applications Using the Live Framework</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:33:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PDC 2008, Day #3, Session #5, 1 hr 15 mins Arash Ghanaie-Sichanie Throughout the conference, I bounced back and forth between Azure and Live Mesh sessions.  I was trying to make sense of the difference between them and understand when you might use one vs. the other. I understand that Azure Services is the underlying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stuff.seans.com&amp;blog=4003566&amp;post=376&amp;subd=spsexton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Session – Offline-Enabled Data Services</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PDC 2008, Day #3, Session #4, 1 hr 15 mins Pablo Castro I attended a second session with Pablo Castro (the previous one was the session on Azure Tables).  This session focused on a future capability in ADO.NET Data Services that would allow taking data services “offline” and then occasionally synching them with the online [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stuff.seans.com&amp;blog=4003566&amp;post=367&amp;subd=spsexton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Session – Windows Azure Tables: Programming Cloud Table Storage</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PDC 2008, Day #3, Session #3, 1 hr 15 mins Pablo Castro, Niranjan Nilakantan Pablo and Niranjan did a session that went into some more detail on how the Azure Table objects can be used store data in the cloud. Context This talk dealt with the “Scalable Storage” part of the new Azure Services platform.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stuff.seans.com&amp;blog=4003566&amp;post=362&amp;subd=spsexton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Session – Silverlight Controls Roadmap</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PDC 2008, Day #3, Session #2, 45 mins Shawn Burke Product Unit Manager WPF/Silverlight Controls Team, Microsoft Shawn Burke gave a short talk on the new controls being released this week in the Silverlight Toolkit, on Codeplex. He started by outlining the general strategy for releasing controls toolkits like this one: Focus on controls for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stuff.seans.com&amp;blog=4003566&amp;post=349&amp;subd=spsexton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Session – Live Services: Live Framework Programming Model Architecture and Insights</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:04:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PDC 2008, Day #3, Session #1, 1 hr 15 mins Ori Amiga My next session dug a bit deeper into the Live Framework and some of the architecture related to building a Live Mesh application. Ori Amiga was presenting, filling in for Dharma Shukla (who just became a new Dad). Terminology It’s still a little [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stuff.seans.com&amp;blog=4003566&amp;post=341&amp;subd=spsexton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Session – Deep Dive: Building an Optimized, Graphics-Intensive Application in Microsoft Silverlight</title>
		<link>http://stuff.seans.com/2008/10/30/session-%e2%80%93-deep-dive-building-an-optimized-graphics-intensive-application-in-microsoft-silverlight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PDC 2008, Day #2, Session #4, 1 hr 15 mins Seema Ramchandani The final session of the day was all about optimizing graphics-based Silverlight applications.  The talk was a little bit different from what I expected.  I was imagining it being about how to do custom 2D graphics.  Instead, it was more geared at understanding [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stuff.seans.com&amp;blog=4003566&amp;post=320&amp;subd=spsexton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Session – Microsoft Silverlight Futures: Building Business Focused Applications</title>
		<link>http://stuff.seans.com/2008/10/30/session-%e2%80%93-microsoft-silverlight-futures-building-business-focused-applications/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PDC 2008, Day #2, Session #3, 1 hr 15 mins Jamie Cool In the Silverlight Futures session, Jamie Cool focused on building business applications using Silverlight.  (From now on, when we say “Silverlight”, we really mean “Silverlight 2”). Jamie started by summarizing the whole thick/thin client thing and reiterating where Silverlight fits in. WPF apps [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stuff.seans.com&amp;blog=4003566&amp;post=313&amp;subd=spsexton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Session – Developing Applications Using Data Services</title>
		<link>http://stuff.seans.com/2008/10/29/session-%e2%80%93-developing-applications-using-data-services/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PDC 2008, Day #2, Session #2, 1 hr 15 mins Mike Flasko Ok, I’m finally starting to understand the very basics of Astoria (now branded ADO.NET Data Services), as well as how it relates to the Entity Data Model and SQL Data Services. There have been a lot of new data-related services and features coming [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stuff.seans.com&amp;blog=4003566&amp;post=309&amp;subd=spsexton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Session – Live Services: What I Learned Building My First Mesh Application</title>
		<link>http://stuff.seans.com/2008/10/29/session-%e2%80%93-live-services-what-i-learned-building-my-first-mesh-application/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PDC 2008, Day #2, Session #1, 45 mins Don Gillett In my next session, Don Gillett explained how he wrote one of the first Live Mesh applications.  Jot is a little note-taking application that allows synchronizing simple lists across instances running on a PC, a phone, or as a “Mesh application” running in your web [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stuff.seans.com&amp;blog=4003566&amp;post=305&amp;subd=spsexton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keynote #3 – Box, Anderson</title>
		<link>http://stuff.seans.com/2008/10/29/keynote-3-%e2%80%93-box-anderson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PDC 2008, Day #2, Keynote #3, 1.5 hrs Don Box, Chris Anderson Don and Chris’ presentation was notable in that they did not use a single Powerpoint slide.  The entire presentation consisted of Don and Chris writing code in Visual Studio. This will be a short post because Don and Chris went so fast and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stuff.seans.com&amp;blog=4003566&amp;post=301&amp;subd=spsexton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keynote #2 – Ozzie, Sinofsky, Guthrie, Treadwell</title>
		<link>http://stuff.seans.com/2008/10/29/keynote-2-%e2%80%93-ozzie-sinofsky-guthrie-treadwell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PDC 2008, Day #2, Keynote #2, 2 hrs Ray Ozzie, Steven Sinofsky, Scott Guthrie, David Treadwell Wow.  In contrast to yesterday’s keynote, where Windows Azure was launched, today’s keynote was the kind of edge-of-your-seat collection of product announcements that explain why people shell out $1,000+ to come to PDC.  The keynote was a 2-hr extravaganza [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stuff.seans.com&amp;blog=4003566&amp;post=283&amp;subd=spsexton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Session – Microsoft Silverlight, WPF and the Microsoft .NET Framework: Sharing Skills and Code</title>
		<link>http://stuff.seans.com/2008/10/28/session-%e2%80%93-microsoft-silverlight-wpf-and-the-microsoft-net-framework-sharing-skills-and-code/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PDC 2008, Day #1, Session #4, 1 hr 15 min. Ian Ellison-Taylor This session focused on sharing code between WPF and Silverlight applications.  How easy is it to take an existing WPF application and run it in the cloud by converting it to Silverlight 2?  Conversely, how easy is it to take a Silverlight 2 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stuff.seans.com&amp;blog=4003566&amp;post=273&amp;subd=spsexton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Session – Microsoft Sync Framework Advances</title>
		<link>http://stuff.seans.com/2008/10/28/session-%e2%80%93-microsoft-sync-framework-advances/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PDC 2008, Day #1, Session #3, 1 hr 15 min. Lev Novik My next session talked about the next version of something called the Microsoft Sync Framework.  I’d never heard of the framework, prior to the talk.  And I’m still not exactly sure where it fits into the full family of Microsoft’s cloud-based services and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stuff.seans.com&amp;blog=4003566&amp;post=269&amp;subd=spsexton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Session – Microsoft Blend: Tips &amp; Tricks</title>
		<link>http://stuff.seans.com/2008/10/28/session-%e2%80%93-microsoft-blend-tips-tricks/</link>
		<comments>http://stuff.seans.com/2008/10/28/session-%e2%80%93-microsoft-blend-tips-tricks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PDC 2008, Day #1, Session #2, 45 min. Doug Olson &#38; Peter Blois My next session was run by a couple of the key guys on the Expression Blend team.  (Which is located in Minneapolis, if I remember correctly).  They did a quick intro to Blend and then showed various techniques for using Blend to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stuff.seans.com&amp;blog=4003566&amp;post=266&amp;subd=spsexton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Session – A Lap Around Windows Azure, part 1</title>
		<link>http://stuff.seans.com/2008/10/28/session-%e2%80%93-a-lap-around-windows-azure-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://stuff.seans.com/2008/10/28/session-%e2%80%93-a-lap-around-windows-azure-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PDC 2008, Day #1, Session #1, 1 hr 15 min. Manuvir Das In my first PDC session, Manuvir Das gave us some more information about the Azure platform. He started talking about the platform for traditional desktop clients as being the operating system.  It provides a variety of services that all applications need, to run [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stuff.seans.com&amp;blog=4003566&amp;post=262&amp;subd=spsexton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PDC Keynote &#8211; Windows Azure Arrives</title>
		<link>http://stuff.seans.com/2008/10/28/pdc-keynote-windows-azure-arrives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love the Terminator movies.  That&#8217;s why I need to share this fact&#8212;Skynet has finally arrived, and it&#8217;s called Windows Azure. In short, Windows Azure is Microsoft&#8217;s platform for cloud-based services and applications. It&#8217;s a platform on which you can deploy your own applications, leveraging Microsoft-supplied hosting, service management, data services, and scalability.  It&#8217;s also [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stuff.seans.com&amp;blog=4003566&amp;post=250&amp;subd=spsexton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft PDC Starts</title>
		<link>http://stuff.seans.com/2008/10/27/microsoft-pdc-starts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, yes, everyone seems to be at PDC and those who aren&#8217;t are getting sick of all of the hype. But hey&#8212;PDC only comes along every few years, so we have to take advantage of it when it does! Things are starting to come alive here at the convention center in LA.  I stopped by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=stuff.seans.com&amp;blog=4003566&amp;post=244&amp;subd=spsexton&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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