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PDC05: A busy day two

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After staying up
late last night, I got up early to register and watch the
keynote. I took the shuttle bus to the convention center and,
upon walking in, I saw I wasn't the only one with this bright idea.
Lots and lots and lots of people were in the registration lines. Rather
than try to check everyone one, the staff was very intelligently just passing
out bracelets that granted the bearer entry into the keynote and telling folks
to come back later for their badge and bag. I was impressed with the
organization.

 

Bill's keynote was
interesting and included an amusing video starring Bill and the Napoleon
Dynamite guy. I had to cut short because I had to meet a customer about 20
miles away. Stan Lippman,
who was presenting on C++/CLI at the customer site, and I took my
trusty rental car and headed in approximately the right direction. We
wandered aimlessly around the greater LA area for a while before practically
crashing into the customer's building. Luckily we left early, got there in
plenty of time, and the talk and meeting when well.

 

Afterward, we raced
back so I could spend the afternoon meeting with a few more customers. The
reason for all the meeting, by the way, is that we're making a concerted effort
to build VC++ with a sharp focus on how our customers want to use the
product. If a particular VC++ feature isn't important to enabling some
customer-driven scenario, it's unlikely to make it into the Orcas release.
Some high-level observations so far: customers are continuing to rely on C++ for
performance-intensive code but have also folded in C# where productivity is more
important. Those working with very large and/or complex data are very
interesting in 64-bit and the various techniques for concurrent
programming. C++/CLI is definitely the tool of choice to get maximum
mileage out of existing code while migrating toward the code base of the
future. A lot of MFC developers are asking, "what comes next for my GUI?"
WPF is the obvious answer for managed code. For native code, we're kicking
around the idea of enhancing MFC to readily surface some of the new GUI features
in Longhorn. I you have other ideas about where VC++ needs to go, let me
know.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    September 14, 2005
    > before practically crashing into the
    > customer's building.

    Did Windbags step in and avoid the crash just in time ^u^

    > customers are continuing to rely on C++ for
    > performance-intensive code but have also
    > folded in C# where productivity is more
    > important.

    Bingo. Again please inform some of your colleagues that a ton of customers relied on C++ for performance-intensive code but also folded in VB where productivity was far more important. Again please inform your colleagues that the productivity of converting all their existing VB code either to C# or to VB-- is less than zero. Even C++ programmers need a tool that can either migrate existing VB code to .Net or else continued support for the old VB language.
  • Anonymous
    September 15, 2005
    Luckily, I handled the first chance exception and hit the brake. :)

    Your point about VB is well taken, Norman. I know it is a priority for the VB team in VS 2005 to upgrade the zillions of active VB6 code bases out there, but I'm not involved enough with that team to know for sure what they're doing. You should definitely check out the latest and let them know how they're doing!
  • Anonymous
    September 18, 2005
    >For native code, we're kicking around the >idea of enhancing MFC to readily surface some >of the new GUI features in Longhorn.

    The new menu look would be a nice option so we don't waste time trying to mimic it so our apps don't look so out of date compared to the C# apps. If you enhance MFC, I would take back all those mean things I say about managed code and go happily on my way.

    However, that would mean we'd need a new MFC book (definitely Prosise or Blaszczak) from Microsoft press since Programming Windows with MFC (2nd Edition) is now out of print. By the way, why is it out of print but Programming Windows (Fifth Edition) by Petzold is still finding it's way to my local bookstores.

    Anyway, if you are serious about maybe going a step forward with MFC, I could only say that many of us would greatly appreciate it.
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