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Original: 1/13/2009 10:13 PM
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

 

MSDN Dev Con

Today I went downtown Chicago for the MSDN Developers Conference. I had a good time and learned some things. I was a little disappointed with the keynote. It was mainly about Cloud Computing and Windows Azure. I guess my main concern would be trusting Microsoft with your App and Data. I suppose it would be good for some situations.

C# 4.0 has some interesting features. I’m not really that super excited about optional parameters and dynamic types. Dynamic typing in C# makes it feel like JavaScript… shudder…

Silverlight 3.0 looks very nice. There are some nice things like built in navigation, authentication and validation. All things very noticeably missing from 2.0.

Finally, I liked the F# presentation (except it was more about why instead of how). I think it definitely has it’s place and I’d like to learn more about it. If it’s anything like Haskell I’ll enjoy it.

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