I couple of years back I wrote a .NET tool the just download the whole set of PDC videos for offline viewing. So when the PDC 2008 videos became available I thought I would update the tool. But then I thought that this gives me a chance to kind of mess around with some newer technologies and so wrote a PDC video downloader and viewer using WPF, VS 2008 and SQL CE 3.5.
The whole source and executable are available for download below. I also added the session and speaker information that is available online at the PDC site, so it is a true Offline PDC viewing experience. I have also added a few extras like try and find out the blog of the speakers (this is based on an automated live search and so I expect that there are quite a bit of wrong links. If you can update the database and send it back to me, I would update the application).
Note that the application currently only downloads WMV-HD, so make sure you have enough free space on your HDD and bandwidth to download (from what I found searching online the videos will be 50+ GBs).
I don't have too much of error handling code, so expect crashes when things go wrong. If you find a bug, let me know, I will fix it when I get time.
Required Software
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5
Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1
Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5
Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 Service Pack 1
Note: The database currently does not contain the KeyNotes or Pre-Conference sessions in some cases. If you find a gap or missing session, let me know via comments.
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