Over this past week at PDC I was lucky enough to see some fantastic sessions and spend time with members of the F# and greater Visual Studio language teams.  Naturally, these experiences have left me both floored and swimming in new ideas.  This edition of Discoveries This Week includes both the very best of what I saw at PDC 2009 and ...

Say goodbye to WinForms, WPF, and maybe even AJAX.  Today Scott “The Gu” Guthrie took the stage and blew everyone away with the extensive desktop-app replacing features of Silverlight 4.   This occurred directly after the exciting announcement of free Microsoft branded PDC touchscreen Windows 7 laptops for attendees.  This ...