Monday - Keynote

The CCIB got much busier after lunch, delegates with orange badges running everywhere, and the auditorium was packed for the keynote. The Keynote Session Although Christopher Lloyd didn't appear on stage in a De Lorean as happened in TechEd 2007 in Orlando, this keynote was a pretty good one. Nothing about adding-business-value-by-leveraging-customer-statisfaction bs: Jason Zander knew his audience so he did a demo-based presentation, going through some of the new features of Visual Studio 2010, changing, building and running code. To show that VS still provides support for unmanaged C++ he imported a VC6 implementation of Pong into VS2010 then

• sexed-it up with the MFC C++ ribbon classes,
• parallelised a lengthy for loop across 8 cores with parallel_for
• and eventually showed off the multi-touch capabilities of Windows 7 by moving both pong racquets with his fingers simultaneously, under a round of applause.

video of the keynote