If you’re looking for information on the Windows 7 sessions at PDC 2008, you’re at the right place. More details at the Windows PDC 2008 page.

The sessions are

1. Windows 7 Web Services in Native Code by Nikola Dudar – This sessions covers a new networking API in Windows 7 that has support for building SOAP based web services in native code.
2. Extending Battery Life with energy efficient applications in Windows 7 by Pat Stemen – best practices for designing energy efficient applications.
3. Developing Multi-touch Applications by Reed Townsend – This sounds really exciting. This session highlights the new multi-touch gesture APIs.
4. Writing Your Application to Shine on Modern Graphics Hardware by Anantha Kancherla – covers the new enhancements to DirectX.
5. Designing Efficient Background Processes for Windows 7 by Vikram Singh.
6. Unlocking the GPU with Direct3D by Allison Klein – how to use the latest version of Direct3D to unlock the rendering and computing power of the GPU.
7. Building Great Communications Applications on Windows 7 by Larry Osterman.
8. New Shell User Experience APIs by Nicholas Brun
9. Benefiting from Documents and Printing Convergence by Jesse McGatha
10. New APIs to Find, Visualize, and Organize by David Washington.
11. Developing for Microsoft Surface by Brad Carpenter, Robert Levy – talks about the Microsoft Surface API.
12. New Text and Graphics APIs in Windows 7 by Leonardo Blanco.
13. Design Principles for Windows 7 by Samuel Moreau
14. Integrate with the Windows 7 Desktop Taskbar by Rob Jarrett
15. Welcome to the Windows 7 Deskto by Chaitanya Sareen
16. Programming Sync Providers that Work Great with Windows by Jason Roberts, Moe Khosravy
17. Deep Dive – What’s New with Win32’s user32 and comctl32 by Raymond Chen
18. Deploying Your Application with Windows Installer (MSI) and ClickOnce by Tyler Robinson
19. New APIs for Building Context-Aware Applications by Dan Polivy
20. Using Instrumentation and Diagnostics to Develop High Quality Software
21. Best Practices for Developing for Windows Standard User by Cezar Ungureanasu
22. Writing World-Ready Applications

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