"Assembly Required"

Yesterday's keynote talked heavily about infrastructure... today was focused Windows 7 and the frameworks /services we use to build applications in the cloud.  They did a cursory review of the new features of Windows 7 with a focus on behavior and user experience.  They also drilled down into some of the new features that appeal to more of a power user... the ability to create and attach to VHD's from within Windows and even boot to them if you would like.  It also showed more capability around configuring multi-monitors... ability to remote desktop into another machine which will then use your multi-monitor setup (that's cool).  They also said that they are focused on creating a quality OS and they will not release Windows 7 until it is ready. 

Check out the E7 Blog and give feedback on Windows 7.

They also made a number of important announcements around WPF and Silverlight:

• Releasing the Ribbon control for WPF in CTP form
• Adding touch events onto WPF elements to support multi-touch
• Released controls include DataGrid, DatePicker, Calendar and Visual State Manager

Visual Studio 2010 will be built on WPF!!!!!

• It will support richer code editing support
• It will utilize the Managed Extensibility Framework to extend Visual Studio... which simplifies the add-in model. 

Silverlight

• Added the following controls to Silverlight 2.0... Chart, Treeview, DockPanel, WrapPanel, Viewbox, Expander, Autocomplete and a couple of others.
• Enabling the ability to run Silverlight both on the desktop and browser