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PDC05 Day 2
Wednesday, the second day of PDC, started with a general session hosted by Eric Rudder and Steven Sinofsky, where they presented lots of new Office 12 stuff including a new suite of UI development tools (Sparkle) and a workflow programming system that integrates into Visual Studio. The"Future Directions for Data-Driven Applications" session included some more details about LINQ. I think there are many situations where LINQ seems like a perfect solution, such as apps that require basic object persistence and querying functionality. Out of the box, it's probably not suitable for large scale systems where performance is a key factor, but as I explain below, the way it translates into SQL can be completely customized, so it might be made to fit even these situations. The next session was a case study presented by Walter Hsueh from the Hotmail front door dev. team titled"Case Study: How Hotmail Used Atlas an ASPNET to Build a Great User Experience" He showed how they used preliminary technologies from Atlas and asynchronous web service calls in the new Hotmail beta (Kahuna) to achieve their goals of faster perceived performance. From the demo of the latest build, it looks like they've made a lot of progress even since the beta build my account is on, and the automated BVT tests of the UI that hook into Atlas were really impressive. At the end Walter invited everyone in the room to sign up for the beta, and judging fromthe huge lines of people who took that opportunity, the Kahuna demo impressed. After the talk, I listened in on a great conversation between Scott Isaacs, David Nichols and some really enthusiastic and knowledgeable attendees, including a couple guys from Yahoo and Google. It sounds like all the web application players run into the same obstacles with Javascript and browsers, and they all have their favorite bag of tricks to get around them. This is something that Atlas, which isolates the developer from browser inconsistencies (it runs on IE, Firefox and Safariand is committed to cross-browser support) will alleviate for everyone. Scott is way too smart; I wish I knew enough about Javascript to understand half of what he was saying. Anders Hejlsberg's talk about thefuture of C#had a huge attendance -- well over 1000 people. What a brilliant guy! It's kind of weird seeing the person who created the language I spend so many of my waking hours writing. He showed how LINQ query expressions derive from C# 3.0 features like extension methods, anonymous types, etc. These language additions are pretty revolutionary, and I think they're going to bring many of the traditional strengths of scripting languages and even functional programming into a strongly typed language -- giving the developer the best of both worlds. LINQ, which seems like magic at first, actually fits in perfectly consistently using these language additions, and its behavior can be completely tailored to the needs of a particular system by implementing extension methods and a few other steps. Finally, I saw the"Developing Rich Web Applications with Atlas" talk. I can't believe how much work they've already done on Atlas, and it's shaping up to be amazing. In the demo we saw how to create a fully"AJAX" application without writing a single line of Javascript by using Atlas ASP.Net web controls. Of course, you can still reference all your web methods in client-side Javascript if you prefer.
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Animated Time To Thank Wallpaper - (ver. 2.0)
Beautiful expressions for Thanksgiving written in a frame with artistic designs and the video of a field dancing with joy in the background. Install to truly get into the spirit of the Thanksgiving season.
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First Osteoporosis Study in Hip Fracture Patients Finds Once-Yearly Reclast(R) Prevents Additional Fractures and Improves Survival
Major study of more than 2,100 patients with hip fracture shows significant 35% reduction in subsequent osteoporotic fractures with Reclast Results published in The New England Journal of Medicine show significant 28% reduction in overall mortality seen... BiopharmaceuticalsNovartis, Reclast, zoledronic acid, osteoporosis, hip fracture
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