Microsoft provided its PDC attendees with a 160 GB drive full of bits and resources. The Windows 7 M3 pre-beta build 6801 and Windows Server 2008 R2 M3 pre-beta are on the drives. What else is on those PDC drives?

Here’re few goodies:

• Live Framework Software Development Kit
• Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4.0 test builds
• Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 Express Edition
• Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio and the Windows Azure SDK

Full list

Speaking of .Net 4.0, the next version of Microsoft’s .Net Framework, there are a number of new features and enhancements that Microsoft is showing off inthe first Community Technology Preview (CTP) test build of .Net 4.0. Among them:

• Silverlight features: Deep Zoom support, Visual State Manager, new text rendering enhancements and more Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) support
• The ability to load Common Language Runtime 2 and 4 in the same address space
• Managed and native code interoperability improvements
• Dynamic Language Runtime libraries built into the core library framework
• Support for the Microsoft Managed Extensions Framework

Source:→ ZDNET