Microsoft PDC 2009 related contents
At the Professional Developers Conference 2009, Microsoft announced public beta of Office Professional Plus 2010 productivity suite. In all the fanfare, Stephen Chapman of Microsoft Kitchen managed to grab a Microsoft roadmap pointing next Windows operating system's arrival. Microsoft launched Windows 7 on October 22 and now the plans of Windows 8 roadmap were spotted on the Interwebs. The successor to Windows 7 is tentatively codenamed as Windows 8 and is expected to be next "Major Release" in 2012. On the contrary, Windows 7 is being treated as "Release Updates" - to what? Maybe...
A lot has been talked about recently regarding Internet Explorer 9. At the PDC, Steven Sinofski talked about IE9’s new development lines and there are some interesting features and improvements being taken care of. For starters, the standards! IE9 will support CSS 3.0 and HTML 5, which was already expected. Performance-wise, Microsoft is making a huge investment. Performance disadvantages of IE8 are widely known and the team wants to change this in the 9th iteration of Internet Explorer. Javascript rendering engine and DOM processing are getting huge improvements. Steven...
A lot has happened in PDC 2009. Although I couldn’t make it this year, I’ve been watching it very closely from the keynotes, session contents, technologies, attendees, the space, chill out zone and merchandising. XAML-wise, there were some glorious days.
Some cool WPF 3 and 4 apps were shown in day 2 of this year’s PDC, like Saesmic, a Tweeter and Facebook desktop client for MAC and Windows, Pivot, from Microsoft labs, Fishbowl, another facebook desktop client, and I’ve been inspecting every one of them. Aside from the release of Silverlight 4 Beta, IE 9 video demo, Office 2010 Beta,...
Microsoft also announced yesterday the Office 2010 Beta (Professional Plus) availability.
You can check out all about the Office 2010 productivity apps at http://www.microsoft.com/2010/en and download the beta from the top right link. You need to register to get the software but it will all be worthwhile. Included apps are Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel, OneNote, Access, Publisher, InfoPath, SharePoint Workspace and Communicator.
Here's what you need to know:
This is pre-release software, so please read the following to get an idea of the risks and key things you need to know before you try the Office Professional Plus 2010 Beta.
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Yesterday at PDC 2009, Microsoft unveiled the Beta version of Silverlight 4. This latest version has a lot of new features and everyone’s talking about it. Amongst the new features there’s: New Features for Application Developers Comprehensive printing support enabling hardcopy reports and documents as well as a virtual print view, independent of screen content. A full set of forms controls with over 60 customizable, styleable components. New controls include RichTextbox with hyperlinks, images and editing and Masked textbox for complex field validation. Enhanced controls include DataGrid with...
One of the first novelties straight from PDC 2009 is the release of ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta for Visual Studio 2008.