I took some raw notes from the PDC keynote today, during Scott Gu’s presentation that I thought I would share. Enjoy:

• Reviewed some of the Windows 7 highlights
• .NET 3.5 SP 1 improvements
  • Graphical improvements
  • Start up performance of .NET code
  • WPF improvements, including graphics and performance
  • .NET end user experience in click once and installation
  • Will be installed as part of Windows 7

• WPF
  • New WPF controls are shipping this week
    • Ribbon
    • A new DataGrid control
    • Calendar
    • DatePicker
  • Visual State Manager is also available for WPF
  • Showed Jump Lists
    • Adding contextualized tasks to your task bar
  • Multi Touch demos and notes
    • Demonstrated using multi touch to scroll through photos
    • Pixel shading effects to create ripples in images or any part of an app
    • Demonstrated sorting out photos, resizing them, etc similar to the iPod Touch

• .NET 4
  • CLR 2 and CLR 4 can be loaded in the same address space
    • backwards support!!!
  • Improved managed and native code interop support
  • Managed Extensibility Framework

• Visual Studio 2010
  • First public CTP was released at the PDC
  • Improved WPF design time experience in VS 2010
  • VS 2010 is built on WPF
  • Multi monitor support
  • Improved refactoring support
  • Code visualizations
  • Better test driven workflow
  • Improved plug in extensibility (very sweet stuff)
    • Scott Gu created a visualization in the IDE and showed how to embed bug tracking information from VSTS.
  • Improved REST support
  • jQuery integrated (also an add-in for VS 2008)
  • ASP.NET MVC enhancements
  • Velocity – distributed caching API (CTP is out this week at PDC)
  • web.config file versions for test, staging, deployment, etc.
  • Great ASP.NET list from Mike Ormond

• Silverlight 2
  • Closing in on 100,000,000 installed machines
  • Samples
    • NBC Olympics site
      • 55 million unique visitors
      • Average person watched 27 minutes of video
    • K2 front end developed in SIlverlight
    • NetFlix turned on video support in Silverlight 2
  • Silverlight Toolkit (Free)
    • Find it at codeplex
    • Additional controls and features
    • TreeView, Charting, Expander, etc.
  • Fully interactive Silverlight 2 designer in Visual Studio 2010
    • WYSIWIG
    • Data Binding
    • Finally!!!
  • Silverlight will run inside or outside the browser!!!

• Tesco WPF based grocery app demo (an interesting application of the new tools)
  • This is a demo app, so its more just an example of how Tesco used some of these features for their app.
  • Targets grocery shoppers
  • Sorts recipes, instructions, videos, caloric counts, add all items to your shopping cart
  • Find a birthday cake and add to the cart
  • Rotate, zoom and multi touch built in
  • Integrated web cam scanned the bar code of the Coke can, searched for it, and found some to add to the basket