PDC05 Sessions Online
If you were unable to attend the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 2005 (PDC05) in Los Angeles this year, never fear; 209 breakout sessions, panels, and symposia are now available online. Each session includes a video of the presenter, a navigable index of the content, the PowerPoint presentation itself, and video of any demos. We'll be hosting this content for free, for anyone, for six full months.
And, due to popular blogger and e-mail demand, you can also download each session individually for offline viewing. Just click the Download Presentation link that appears beneath the session information (full session zip files average around 150MB each).
All of the sessions include downloadable PowerPoint presentations, and many of them also include materials (code samples, Visual Studio solutions, papers, etc.).
If the thought of spending 46 full days downloading almost 27GB of content via a 56K dial-up connection doesn’t sound appealing, you can order the 4 dual-layer 8.5GB DVD set here (attendee price: $199, non-attendee price: $499). As a bonus, the DVD set also includes nearly 4GB of Channel 9 video content that was produced for PDC05. All attendees will automatically receive the DVD set, and it is expected to begin shipping in early November.
In case you missed my earlier post, you can right-click on the speaker video, choose Play Speed, then Fast to save yourself some time by watching the presentation at a higher speed. Since there’s over 250 hours of content, this can be a big time-saver.
Enjoy!
Comments
Anonymous
October 24, 2005
Are these sessions available for offline viewing ? I remember in from your earlier post that this is being considered ?Anonymous
October 24, 2005
Sorry about that, I just saw the download link, I'm extremely happy. thanks a ton.Anonymous
October 24, 2005
Awesome doesn't seems to be enough word to describe this. This can happen only from MS :). I think you have help start a new trend in the developer world. BTW, is these available internally on any share (just to avoid long times in downloads)?Anonymous
October 24, 2005
Um, I thought the folks who attended the PDC were getting the DVDs for free.Anonymous
October 24, 2005
They are, thats why it says "All attendees will automatically receive the DVD set"Anonymous
October 25, 2005
I've just viewed a couple of the presentations online and I have to say they are really good. The audio is very clear and the current slide appearing alongside the video is a nice touch. Well done!Anonymous
October 25, 2005
The website doesn't appear to work too well in Firefox. In fact it's completely broken. :(Anonymous
October 25, 2005
This is awesome, but a few questions:
"(attendee price: $199, non-attendee price: $499). All attendees will automatically receive the DVD set"
Is that to be read "attendees paid $199 in their PDC ticket price for the DVD"?
Free download of 27 GB is very cool versus the $499 for non-attendees. Can this be interpreted as support of Bill Gates statement that cd/dvd medium is dead and bandwidth is cheap enough for MS to prefer everyone to download this? Great message to put out if true! It is nice to see MS to support putting an end to needless waste that the cd/dvd are. Now if only we get the promised paperless office finally here...Anonymous
October 25, 2005
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October 25, 2005
Thanks for putting this online. Couldn't make it from Australia this year.
A site performance issue though: the Javascript builds links to a spacer.gif image. This causes a number of pending server hits when a new category is selected (I saw ~70 for the Communication page). This could be done once in a CSS style to avoid the server overhead.Anonymous
October 26, 2005
OK, the "attendee price: $199" part is what caught my eye.Anonymous
October 26, 2005
John: Yes that is hilarious. The server is getting bombarded with 80 TCP connections on every click! They coded the page so it would DOS itself to crawling. No wonder the presentation stream pics and .zips are coming at blazing 2 KB/s. The streaming wmv however comes fine so it looks like the bandwidth is not the problem, but the way the site is implemented. The gigs of .zips do not seem to be load balanced properly either.Anonymous
October 26, 2005
We've been in contact with our vendor and hosting provider about the response issues, and the problem has been escalated. We hope to have a solution soon.
zzz: You're right that the issue isn't bandwidth...we're using a fraction of what is available. Streaming seems to be just fine. It's the HTTP requests that appear to be the source of the problem.Anonymous
October 27, 2005
I agree with snoozing - 3Kb/s is what I've been suffering, which is is slower than dialup.
I've given up - maybe in a week or two I'll try again - is it congestion?Anonymous
October 27, 2005
Thanks for the links!
Hopefully I can download them as trying to watching streaming video from here in Africa is aweful painful.Anonymous
October 27, 2005
Sweet! I'll be waiting for my DVDs. Thank you, and everyone else involved.Anonymous
October 28, 2005
What I don't understand is why the downloads were not placed on the microsoft servers? Why delegate it to a third party?Anonymous
October 28, 2005
The Sitestream URL in Michael's post is now DEAD!!
Hopefully they are working on the problem to get the site back up.
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Service Address:
This service address is not currently active as a website on this server.
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October 28, 2005
zz/snoozing: Our hosting provider made some configuration changes to address the response issues we were seeing. The messages you mention showed up during the transition (I saw them too). Fortunately, it looks like we're in good shape again.Anonymous
October 28, 2005
"...it looks like we're in good shape again."
Nope, as of the date and time of this posting, the status has not changed for the URLs (still not working).Anonymous
October 28, 2005
snoozing: I just tried again, and it's working fine on multiple machines. Can you clear your browser cache and try to reload it? If that doesn't work, please use the Contact Me link on the left, and perhaps we can figure it out.Anonymous
October 31, 2005
Last Friday I tried clearing the cache, using a different computer, etc., but couldn't connect to the site. This morning (Monday), all is working fine, with 2-3MB/sec downloads, and I quickly got the presentations I needed.
With the kinks seemingly worked out now, this is a great service offered by Microsoft.
Thanks Michael, for taking time to respond and for looking into this problem.Anonymous
April 08, 2006
The PDC05 content is up online for free viewing for 6 months to anyone!
Those who attended the PDC...Anonymous
May 03, 2006
As promised, we've published all 52 MIX06 sessions online for your education and enjoyment. We'll be...Anonymous
May 24, 2006
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November 07, 2006
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May 02, 2007
Are the PDC05 sessions still available? I accessed the DAT209 session on WinFS overview last year and was looking for it again but cannot find it.Anonymous
August 23, 2007
All of the session from PDC content is also available online to anyone, for free, for six full monthsAnonymous
September 30, 2007
How cool is this (well, at least for people who know the difference between IUnknown and IDispatch orAnonymous
October 31, 2008
Recordings of the PDC2008 sessions and keynotes are now available online for free , for anyone (no login