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Southworks @ PDC

Published by Tim Osborn on November 19, 2009 under Events, Projects

The week is off to a great start in Los Angeles. (First of all, it’s not raining.) Several of us are here for the event, but many more have been hard at work for months on projects related to PDC announcements and sessions:

Keynote Demos

See Jonathan’s blog for details about the Tailspin Travel demo, including links to the source code. Tailspin shows some great new features coming in VS 2010, .NET Framework 4 and the new AppFabric.

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Windows Azure Platform Labs

Attendees can come by the Big Room in the South Hall and work through any of several hands-on labs for the Azure Platform. For those not here, good news: as of today, you can download the labs as part of the November drop of the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit. The November release includes new and updated labs in addition to information about Microsoft Codename “Dallas”. The content is also available today as the Windows Azure Training Course on Channel 9.

Identity Labs

You will similarly find in the Big Room several hands-on labs that will help you to learn how to take advantage of Microsoft’s latest identity and access control technology. Download the PDC 2009 release of the Identity Developer Training Kit or take the Identity Developer Training Course, available on Channel 9 (for all things Identity, and a good description of the thought behind the training course, see Vittorio’s excellent blog.)

Claims-based Identity and Access Control Guide

At the patterns & practices and Identity booths you can find a limited amount of printed preview copies of this new guide. It’s also available on CodePlex and you can watch Eugenio’s blog for continued developments.

IIS Smooth Streaming

Today Vishal Sood presented a session on IIS Smooth Streaming and Live Media Viewing Experiences. You can watch Sunday Night Football each week online, streamed in HD, courtesy of IIS SS. During each game, NBC editors use the Silverlight Rough Cut Editor we developed to create and publish highlight videos as the game progress. Make sure to check it out this coming Sunday!