The Problem Solver : TechEd

TechEd day 4

Maurice — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:26:24 GMT

Just another day at the office called TechEd

Today was another good day. Some very interesting sessions to watch and unfortunately some not so good as well.

On the good side I heard Justin Smith give a deep dive presentation about WCF and he did an excellent job explaining the internals. I am not sure I will remember every one of the small differences between communication channels he explained but at the very least I know who to ask . Another excellent session was by Daniel Moth about developing applications for Windows Vista. Vista may not be the most popular version of Windows yet but the fact is that it will continue to grow, whether we like it or not.

Unfortunately there are some sessions that are not quite as good. I just listened to Goksin Bakir but did not like the session at all. First of all he didn't really explain the point of what he was doing and secondly his coding was very sloppy making for a very boring session.

I also ran into Amanda Silver and Jay Schmelzer from the VB team in Redmond today. Its always nice to meet them and exchange ideas. Recently there have been a lot of discussions about the future of Visual Basic and I couldn't resist letting them know my position, as if they didn't know yet.

More tomorrow!

TechEd day 2

Maurice — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:52:33 GMT

So another day at TechEd Barcelona. Not all that much to report though. I had booth duty at the Ask The Experts booth all day so didn't get to see any sessions yet. The booth was pretty quiet with not to many questions, so not much to report there. Now I am waiting for the last session slot of the day. I am going to What is new in WPF 3.5 by Ian Griffiths. I don't think I have heard him before so I am just as interested in the speaker as the topic.

This evening we are getting together for the MVP dinner, which is always good fun

TechEd Day 1

Maurice — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:35:52 GMT

So TechEd Barcelona has started.

Soma Somasegar did the keynote. No big surprises there and no real big announcements either. He did day that Visual Studio 2008 would be RTMed before the end of the month. Not the big news a lot where hopping for, i.e. that it was released today, but still some very welcome news.

I am in the forst session now. Or more accurately my second as I walked out of the first as the speakers accent was rather difficult to follow. Too bad because I am sure it would have been an nteresting session showing WPF collaboration between a developer and a designer. But the accent… So now I am listening to a VSTO session, and the new V3 features.

Speaking of VSTO I will be working the VSTO booth in the Ask The Expert stand later today and all tomorrow. So you all had better come up with some interesting questions

More to follow as it happens.