Professional Developers Conference

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Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (or PDC) is a conference for software developers, normally Windows developers.

It covers new and upcoming technology from Microsoft, and so only occurs in the years when there is something new to talk about.

[edit] Events

July, 1992 - San Francisco, California
- Known as Win32 Professional Developers Conference
- First demonstration of the Win32 API and first mention of "Chicago", which would eventually become Windows 95
- Estimated attendance of 1,400 developers^[1]
September, 1997 - San Diego, California^[1]
- First demonstrations of Windows NT 5.0
- Estimated attendance of 6,200
July 11-14, 2000 - Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida^[2]
- .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET announced, initial beta release given to attendees
- C# programming language announced and demonstrated
- ASP+, the successor to Active Server Pages was announced; this was renamed ASP.NET later in the year
- Announcement of the end of the Windows 9x line, culminating with a planned 2001 release of a new operating system, "Whistler"
- Internet Explorer 5.5 was released
- Estimated attendance of 6,000 developers
October 22-26, 2001 - Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California.^[3]
- Release candidates of the .NET Framework and Visual Studio .NET were announced during Bill Gates' keynote.
- Windows XP was officially released.
- Introduction of Tablet PCs, including a software development kit.
- .NET My Services (codenamed Hailstorm) announced.
- .NET Compact Framework introduced.
- First discussions of Internet Information Services version 6.
- The Counting Crows performed at the PDC party at the Staples Center.
October 27-30, 2003 - Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California.
September 13-16, 2005 - Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California.
October 27-30, 2008 - Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California.^[4]