PDC 2003

PDC 2003 was a blast. Microsoft for the first time publicly announced several products: Whidbey (the next version of Visual Studio .NET) and Longhorn (and http://www.longhornblogs.com/) (the next version of Windows). Within the Longhorn product there were four areas of interest: Avalon (a new UI interface), Indigo (a service oriented system for sending and processing messages), WinFS ( a new file system built on top of NTFS) and Yukon (the next version of SQL Server.

New C# Features.