PDC 2008 Experience: Day 2: Keynote 1: Windows 7 Client Development

WPF

• Microsoft is shipping a WPF Ribbon Bar this week.
• Jump list allow you to add categories to the them like subscribe, Tasks, etc.
• Touch support will be available.
• New WPF controls kit being released today. Includes controls like DataGrid, Calendar and others.

.NET 4

• WPF Improvements
• Mutli-touch, Deep Zoom, Visual State Manager, Text
• Fundamentals and interoperability
• In Process side by side support
• Managed/Native code interoperability
• Dynamic Language Support
• Extensible component model
• Improved tooling with Visual Studio 2008

Visual Studio 2010

• Built with WPF
• Test Driven workflow
• Extensibility will be easier
• Silverlight Designer built in

WPF Control Bound to the Visual  Studio Editor comment. New Visualizer.

.NET Client Momentum

• Web development Improvements
• Internet Explorer 8 Improvements
• Web Slices, Visual Search, Accelerators
• Built in developer tool
• Asp.NET Improvements
• Dynamic Language support

Web Development with ASP.NET and VS 2010

ASP.NET 4 improvements

• Web Forms
• MVC
• AJAX
• Distributed Caching

Visual Studio 2010 for web development

• Code focused improvements
• JavaScript / AJAX tooling
• Design View CSS2 support
• Publishing and deployment
• Multiple App.config for different environments

Silverlight Toolkit

• Charting
• TreeView
• DockPanel
• WrapPanel
• ViewBox
• Expander
• AutoComplete
• NumericUpDown
• and more