LOS ANGELES, US: Lyndia N T, a developer at a Government organization, may be new to Microsoft but she is finding it interesting here as she sashays around many tracks at PDC 2009, which she is attending for the first time.

Not very far away, in another theatre at Los Angeles Convention Centre, South Hall is Ganesh Gopalan, a software engineer and R&D specialist, who has been coming to this annual fiesta for the last four to five years.

Both agree that the conference does turn out to be useful for developers, distilling out relevant and fresh stuff.

Though Gopalan observes the conference to be a little toned down this year, he is looking forward to sessions on Azure and Visual Studio 10.

Shrugging away the summit as another overarching marketing pitch, he tells, "That happens only in the key notes, rest of the days and sessions are brimming with interesting and worthwhile talks for developers."

This year's PDC 2009 (Professional Developer Conference) by Microsoft is hence teeming with many such enthusiastic developers from all over.

And lined up for the three days till November 19, 2009 are many camps, workshops, demos, downloads, labs and deep dives.

Cloud computing, Windows Azure platform, Visual Studio 2010, Windows 7, ASP.NET 4 and ASP.NET MVC, SQL Database and many other Microsoft Frameworks top the three day pecking order.

Sessions include bridging the gap from on-premises to the cloud, Windows error reporting, Concurrency fuzzing, building applications with Windows Azure, Sharepoint 2010 programmability, Windows Touch Deep Dive, behaviour-driven development Vs test-driven development, parallel programming, Petabytes and ambient data, exception management, Silverlight development tools, PLINQ, claims-based identity etc.

The conference also covers roadmaps and demos on many platforms.