As you may have heard by now, Devexpress is again a top level sponsor of Microsofts Professional Developers Conference (PDC) again this year. Here's the button, so you know it's fair dinkum.
This is a pretty big deal for us, because it's an opportunity to show off what we have been working on for the past year to one of the largest audiences of .NET developers. But PDC is not just about Microsofts development tools like say a TechEd (which we have also sponsored). Rather PDC is about Professional development for the Microsoft Platform ... in other words it's pretty much a Windows Developer Conference although naturally many attendees are exclusively .NET developers.
So why might Delphi developers be interested in a Microsoft conference?
Well ... with the exception of the handfull who still use Kylix we're pretty much all Windows developers. The future of the Windows Platform is very important to Delphi developers because it's the future of our applications too.
I expect there will be many Delphi developers at PDC this year including those like me who use .NET for web development and corporate applications and Delphi for shrinkwrapped executables. I look forward to meeting up with developers from many component vendors like CodeGear and RemObjects among others that build both .NET and VCL based products, as well as independant Delphi developers.
I'm flying from Australia to be at PDC and this year I have an attendee pass to go to all the keynotes and sessions, although you will also find me around the DevExpress booth during most booth hours. So If you use Delphi hunt me down and we'll talk.