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's Professional Developers Conference (PDC) was a series of conferences for
software developer Software development is the process of designing and Implementation, implementing a software solution to Computer user satisfaction, satisfy a User (computing), user. The process is more encompassing than Computer programming, programming, wri ...
s; the conference was held infrequently to coincide with beta releases of the
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operating system, and showcased topics of interest to those developing hardware and software for the new version of Windows. In 2011, PDC was merged with Microsoft's
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conference MIX to form the Build Conference.


Events

* July 1992 -
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** Known as Win32 Professional Developers Conference ** First demonstration of the Win32 API and first mention of "Chicago", which would eventually become
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** Estimated attendance of over 5,000 developers ** Windows NT 3.1 Preliminary Release for Developers (build 297) was sent to all conference attendees * December 1993 -
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** Windows "Chicago" ** Win32 and
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version 2 ** Estimated attendance of over 8,000 **
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public demonstration, including the Object File System * March 1996 -
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** Microsoft demonstrated the power of new tools, renamed ActiveX ** Microsoft and other industry leaders presented VBScript, an implementation of OLE Scripting; ActiveX Controls, for embedding OLE Controls into HTML documents; ActiveX Conferencing, which enables sharing data as well as applications over TCP/IP; the Internet Control Pack, allowing developers to make their applications Internet aware; and numerous other ActiveX technologies. * November, 1996 -
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November 3–7, 1996 * September 1997 - San Diego Convention Center in
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** First demonstrations of Windows NT 5.0, release of Beta 1 to developers ** Estimated attendance of 6,200 * October 11–15, 1998 - Colorado Convention Center,
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** Windows NT 5.0, the release of Beta 2 to developers. **
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technology announced, including COM+


2000-2009

* July 11–14, 2000 -
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** .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET announced, initial beta release given to attendees ** C# programming language announced and demonstrated ** ASP+, the successor to
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was announced; this was renamed ASP.NET later in the year **Announcement of the end of the
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line, culminating with a planned 2002 release of a new operating system, "Whistler" ** Internet Explorer 5.5 was released **Estimated attendance of 6,000 developers * October 22–26, 2001 -
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**Release candidates of the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET were announced during
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' keynote. **
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was officially released. **Introduction of Tablet PC, including a software development kit. **.NET My Services (codenamed
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) announced. ** .NET Compact Framework introduced. **First discussions of
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version 6. ** Counting Crows performed at the PDC party at the
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. * October 27–30, 2003 -
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**
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revealed - Avalon, Aero, Indigo, WinFS * September 13–16, 2005 -
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**Windows Vista build 5219 handed out to attendees **Internet Explorer 7 demoed **Office 12 demoed with ribbon bar **.NET 2.0 * October 27–30, 2008 -
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. **First demonstration of
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as well as Office 14 for the Web . **Introduction of
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, Microsoft's data center hosting platform. **Outlook to .NET 4.0, Visual Studio 2010 and a new .NET Application Server (codenamed "Dublin"). **Release of
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SDK and first demonstration of SecondLight, a next generation Surface prototype. * November 17–20, 2009 -
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**Vision of ''Three Screens and a Cloud'' **Emergence of
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with billed, commercial service to begin in February 2010. **Many back-end announcements: ***Microsoft AppFabric, based on the earlier .NET Application Server and the caching technology (formerly codenamed "Velocity"). ***Microsoft SQL Server Modeling Services (SSModS) released (formerly codenamed "Oslo") ***BizTalk Server 2009 R2 announced with new features like an improved mapper for early 2010 release **Many front-end announcements: ***Release of first public betas for Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Silverlight 4 ***Early revelations about Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 and its objective of better Acid3 performance and
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/ CSS3 compliance. **A special "PDC 2009" Acer 1420p Multi-touch Tablet PC was given out to all attendees (the BIOS referencing MSFT in the 'about' information.) * October 28–29, 2010 -
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** Announced new Platform Features for Cloud Computing ** VmRoles announced to port existing on-premises Applications to the Cloud ** Microsoft "Dallas" renamed to Windows Azure Marketplace DataMarket ** Windows Azure Marketplace Applications announced ** An unlocked Windows Phone 7 smartphone was given out to all attendees ** Microsoft limited the number of attendees to 1,000 ** Many public viewing events all over the globe (e.g. Tokyo, London, Cologne, Vienna)


Other Microsoft developer conferences

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Microsoft Build Microsoft Build (often stylised as ) is an annual Business conference, conference event held by Microsoft, aimed at Software engineering, software engineers and web developers using Windows, Microsoft Azure and other Microsoft technologies. Fi ...
(merged from MIX and PDC) *
Microsoft Ignite Microsoft Ignite is an annual conference for developers, IT professionals and partners, hosted by Microsoft. The first conference, then known as TechEd, happened in 1993 in Orlando, Florida, United States. After the TechEd conference held in Ba ...
(formerly Microsoft TechEd) *Dev Connections *PASS * SQLBits *VSLive!


See also

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Windows Hardware Engineering Conference The Windows Hardware Engineering Community (WinHEC) is a series of technical conferences and workshops, where Microsoft elaborates on its hardware plans for Windows devices. The WinHEC from 1992 to 2008, which stood for Windows Hardware Engineeri ...
(WinHEC)


References


External links


Professional Developers ConferenceVideo Archive Of KeynotesBuild Windows
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