At the end of October, Microsoft held the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles. With the largest number of attendees of any previous PDC, we presented details regarding many upcoming developer-oriented technologies, including "Whidbey" (the codename for the next version of Visual Studio), "Yukon" (the codename for the next version of SQL Server), as well as the much anticipated "Longhorn" (the codename for the next version of Windows). Fortunately, we had our camera crew down there as well, and were able to film a special episode of the .NET Show during the event.

In this episode of the .NET Show we focus on how "Longhorn" was presented, and received, at the PDC. In our first segment we talk with key players in the Longhorn project, Brad Abrams, Chris Anderson, Quentin Clark, and Pablo Fernicola about the main messages that they are hoping developers at the PDC understand about Longhorn. We then switch the tables and talk with Richard Hale Shaw, Simon Stewart, and Robb McLarty, a diverse set of attendees of the PDC and hear straight from them what they think about Longhorn, and how it might affect their development efforts moving forward.