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.

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]

References

External links

• Professional Developers Conference