I finally made it to the PDC at about 11:47am…too late to hear the keynotes, but early enough to be first in line to get the Longhorn bits. I shared a bus ride from the hotel with Peter Drayton (blog?), who’s a PM on the CLR team – specifically, he works on  ROTOR. We chatted a little bit about Eiffel and some Australian researchers who had taken the ROTOR sources and implemented support for design-by-contract all the way through the stack (from the assembly metadata tables all the way through the JIT up to the reflection layer. There’s a lot of interesting things happening in academia around .NET, and some of these will inevitably end up in MS products.

Time for the “Intro to Avalon” session!