PDC 2008 and Me.

Coming up is the PDC 2008, the Microsoft conference for professional developers, where all the news of the platform like Cloud Computing, Windows 7, etc, etc will be shown. Unfortunately I am not going…, I have not been to the previous ones either…

So why is this post called PDC and Me?, well because although I am not going, I am going to send my representative: An application developed with WPF, LINQ, and Windows LiveMesh that will be shown at one of the conferences and that with a bit of luck will be published in CodePlex as a reference example, something like what Vertigo has done with Family.Show.

It has been an absurd volume of work in the last weeks, days of 20 and 22 hours, but finally it was ready. As soon as the NDA passes I will comment on the application.

Thanks to the people at studiocom who considered us for the work, I hope we exceeded the expectation.

I think it is the first time an application made in Colombia is used in this way. (If I am wrong please, send me a note).

The Architecture of the Application.

• A class library serialized for WCF.
• A Content Publisher. With WPF consuming RSS services
• Many Clients. Developed with WPF
• LiveMesh Service as container and in charge of communications between Clients and Publisher.

In the next few days I will publish about the development experience, the problems we found, the ones we solved, the ones we could not solve, and how we worked from remote locations with the people of studiocom in Atlanta, the client (MS) in Readmond, the Developer (me) in Bogotá and the Designer (TF) anywhere in the world.

Juan Pelaez

Software Architect

Originally Published at : www.juanpelaez.com/blog.

Keywords: PDC2008, PDC 2008, LiveMesh, Live Services, WCF, WPF, Distributed Applications.