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Considering the full list of PDC videos published here what are, in your opinion, the best session to download and see, considering their relevance to your work, technology and so on? Pleas, one session per answer (exception only for the sessions split in two parts) and please vote it so to move the best ones to the top. I would have to say that my favorite session was the "future of C#" video, very nice to be able to see what is coming in the future for C# and the .NET framework. Scott Hanselmans Microsoft .NET Framework: Overview and Applications for Babies http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008

I noticed the following today: Mono at the PDC 2008 ? My talk will cover new technologies that we have created as part of Mono. Some of them are reusable on .NET (we try to make our code cross platform) and some other are features that specific to Mono's implementation of the CLI. Posted by Miguel de Icaza on 01 Oct 2008 Does anybody know what type of new technologies he is refering too? Sounds like a great talk [ UPDATE ] Here is the video of Miguel's talk Mono's SIMD Support: Making Mono safe for Gaming Static Compilation in Mono Unity on Linux, First Screenshots miguel.de.icaza These are

(I have made this a community wiki) As a programmer that mostly works with .NET, the feature direction of the Microsoft development platforms have a great effect on my feature work. The recent PDC gives an insight into where Microsoft is going with it’s development platforms. So what from the PDC do you consider will have the most effect on you as a programmer? When do you expect the above to start to effect “real life” programming? Please provide links to the video of the talk and/ or transcript and/or related Channel 9 video and keep each answer to one area of technology. Please explain way