My notes from Day 2 at the Microsoft Professional Developers conference in Los Angeles on November 18, 2009.

• 8:30 - Steven Sinofsky takes the stage!
• Kicking it off talking about Windows 7
• Video time – “Why we share your pain”…Funny!
• Explaining how Microsoft uses Windows 7 Telemetry to learn more about how customers use Windows 7
• 4,753 Code changes driven by Windows Error Reporting
• 1,729,890  Send Feedback Reports
• 46, 447,784 Aero Snap & Shake features used in last 6 months
• Video time – Showing some of the usability testing done by Microsoft for Windows 7.
• 8:53 – Michael Angiulo, Planning and Ecosystem Team
• Showing last years Netbook (ASUS eepc)
• Netbook is the fastest growing PC’s
• Explaining that applications can perform better for the use by using Windows 7 specific functions.  Basically….Microsoft asking developers to play nice in Windows 7 so customers don’t think the OS is the problem.  Good luck with that.
• Showing off some cool PC hardware (media acceleration, Gaming PC’s) that take advantage of Windows 7
• Showing off the new super thin Dell laptop (didn’t catch the name) and it has many of the new sensors supported by Windows 7 (heat and light sensors)
• Showing that Google, Firefox and others are already using Windows 7 API’s like Jumplists and Flick.
• 9:08 Laptop for all attendees! 
• 9:09 Steve Sinofsky talking about Internet Explorer 9
• Advances in Standards, Privacy, and Innovations
• IE “should” be the very best browser for Windows
• IE 9 Update: HTML 5, improve JavaScript performance, Hardware Accelerated Graphics and Text
• Showing internal build of IE9 running acid3 Browser test (FAILED 32/100) & CSS Selector Test, graphics rendering using hardware acceleration  (no need for the developer to do anything…Improvements in the browser work by Microsoft will benefit the dev/user)
• 9:22 – Scott Guthrie takes the stage (Red Shirt of course!)
• Silverlight 3 shipped 3 months ago
• Showed Expressions Sketchflow
• Sunday Night Football is using Silverlight with full DVR support
• Will be used in Winter Olympics and Victory Secrets
• Siemens is using it with Healthcare applications
• 45% penetration into the browser marketplace
• Silverlight 4!!
• Focused on: Media, Business Applications, Beyond the Browser
• Media Enhancements
• Access to Webcam and Microphone (Demo built by Archetype)
• Multicast Streaming
• Output Protection
• Offline DRM
• Showing Enhanced Media support (ie. Smooth Streaming) on the iPhone!
• iPhone tab added to Publishing Point within the IIS Admin Tool
• Application Development
• Printing
• Rich Text
• Clipboard Access
• Right Click
• Mouse Wheel
• Implicit Styles
• Drag/Drop
• Bidi & RTL (Right to Left)
• HTML
• Commanding and MVVM
• Additional Controls
• Data & Networking
• Share Assemblies across SL and .NET 4
• Data Binding Improvements
• UDP Multicast Support
• REST Enhancements (with ADO.NET Services)
• WCF Improvements
• WCF RIA Services (Simplifies data transfer between client and server)
• Visual Studio 2010
• WYSIWYG Design surface
• XAML IntelliSense Improvements
• Data Binding, Layout, Styles
• WCF RIA Services Integration (including SharePoint connectivity)
• 9:50 – Scott Hanselman, Principal Program manager takes the stage for a demo
• Using Visual Studio 2010
• Creates Entities and Classes
• Leveraging WCF/RIA Services
• 9:58 – Samad Wahedi, CEO from SnapFlow to do some Demoing  (Demo built with InterKnowlogy and SoftSource)
• Built a Workflow based application that leverages Silverlight
• They tried AJAX and Adobe Flex, but chose Silverlight because of their developer knowledge and the power of the platform
• 10:02 – Scott back on stage and talking about Silverlight our of the browser
• New Silverlight 4 features focused on “Out of Browser” support
• New Windowing API’s
• Notifications Popups
• HTML Support
• Drop Target
• Trusted Application support (Run outside of the Sandbox).  Checkbox enabled by the developer and End User must accept upon install
• Custom Window Chrome
• Local File System
• Cross-Site Network
• Keyboard in Full Screen Mode
• Hardware Device Access
• COM Automation Support
• Windows Only
• Location API
• Silverlight Performance Updates
• Twice as Fast
• 30% faster Startup
• New Profiling Support
• 10 Second installation
• Will support Google Chrome
• 10:07 – Brian Goldfarb, Director Dev Platform & Tools doing a demo of Silverlight application that is “Out of Browser” that shows feeds from Facebook
• Using new Silverlight Facebook API’s which shipped last week.
• Showed device support (Took a picture, plugged it in, and the Silverlight application allowed you to connect to the device)
• Showed Multitouch support
• 10:15 – Scott back on stage
• Schedule
• Beta: NOW!  http://silverlight.net
• Release Candidate: TBA
• Final Release: H1 2010
• 10:18 – Scott’s Off … Kurt DelBene, Senior VP on stage to talk about Office and SharePoint 2010
• Blah, Blah, Blah….Corp Message, seen it, heard it, give us some Dev Updates and Code!!!
• 10:38 – Derek Burney, General Manager of SharePoint going to do some demos (Yes! Finally)
• Showing new projects available within Visual Studio 2010 for Office (SharePoint Solution Projects, WebParts, etc.)
• SharePoint code has integration with Source Control
• SharePoint can now be deployed on Windows Vista and Windows 7 to simplify the development environment while developing for SharePoint
• Don’t need to be a SharePoint administrator to deploy a SharePoint project to it since it will run in a sandbox
• Set Breakpoint and “F9” to debug and deploy the solution to a SharePoint server….Visual Studio 2010 does it all for you now!!!!
• Showing Business Connectivity Services (BCS) in SharePoint 2010 pull data from SQL Azure.  It’s an interesting idea and I’m sure it will turn into a trend within the next year or so as more data gets stored in the cloud.
• 10:56 – Kurt is back on stage
• Announcement Time – Microsoft and SAP Duet Enterprise for Microsoft SharePoint and SAP
• Consume and extend SAP through Microsoft SharePoint 2010
• Allow’s developers to create applications using SAP data through SharePoint 2010.
• Announcement Time – Outlook Social Connector (looks like a Google Wave light competitor….kinda)
• SharePoint
• Windows Live (Spaces)
• LinkedIn
• Where’s Facebook and Twitter?
• It’s an SDK, so other developers to extend into other social networks
• Derek shows a demo of Outlook Social Connector
• 11:03 – Kurt invites us to Mix 2010 in Las Vegas, March 15-17, 2010 at Mandalay Bay http://visitmix.com

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