I was in Ottawa all last week so it didn’t really dawn on me until today that PDC ’05 starts tomorrow! I was just starting to read blogs a few months before PDC 03 and I was a full-on, hardcore .NET nerd (not that I’m not one now, but I was a student back then, so I could spend more time on cool shit), so I got sucked into the hype of Longhorn, Avalon, Indigo and Whidbey.
It’s been nearly two years (wow!) since that PDC and I still feel that I know very little about .NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005, not to mention Vista, WPF, and WCF (Yuck). Now, we’re going to hear about C# 3.0, VB 9 and, I’m sure, a whole bunch more no one has talked about outside Redmond. We’ll also see a more realistic vision of Vista, and hopefully WinFS. I wish I was going this year.
I was a little disappointed six months after PDC 03 when reality set in: delays in shipping .NET 2.0, pulling features from Longhorn. I think Microsoft got burned with all that info they divulged last time. I hope they learn from it, and give us less hype and more certainty.
I hope work doesn’t get too busy this week: I just know I’ll be distracted with updates from PDC 🙂