DAY 1 -
8:18am (MC) - Morgan and I are at the Devscovery conference (http://www.devscovery.com/) in Redmond this week. The keynote is about to begin in 30 minutes and I plan on trying to blog about the cool stuff we see at the conference.
8:51am (MC) - The coffee is strong....... http://twinkle.s3.amazonaws.com/s_1219160970971794.jpg
9:07am (ME) - Listening to Scott Hanselman .. .hilarious speaker.. (Ninja's can't catch you if you are on fire) - Talking about new stuff in .NET 3.5 SP1 - .. ASP.NET MVC coming in October... very kewl.
9:17am (MC) - Linq to sql looks really cool. Allows you to quickly create some pretty powerfull biz data objects. Makes it easy to have compile time checking on your queries. Scott is pretty funny...
9:56am (MC) - cntrl + . is a nice short cut for the "add using statement" menu. ADO.Net data services (Astoria) look like a great way to expose a db via web services, really wish we had known about this 3 months ago :D.
10:07 (ME) - talking about using MVC in ASP.NET so using MVC on the server side. Interesting.. codeplex.com uses a combination of MVC and Webforms.
10:18am (MC) - All about asp.net MVC here: http://www.asp.net/mvc/default.aspx?wwwaspnetrdirset=1 . I'm not personally a huge fan of asp.net mvc yet but the web routes are really cool. I would be interested to see if they will web routes in sharepoint.
10:25am (MC) - ASP.Net Dynamic Data looks really really cool. Its kind of a sharepointy meta data framework that is more strongly typed to your data source or entities. Supports different field templates to match your column/property datatype just like sharepoint. Where does/should the biz logic live in Dynamic Data projects?
11:36am (MC) - We are now at a talk on design patterns. IExtensibleDataObject looks like something that would be good to research. Allows you to sort of add backward compatabilty to your data objects. XML Dictionary encoders in WCF look like they will be really usefull in reducing message sizes when sending xml.
12:57 pm (ME) - Finishing up lunch and getting ready for the Building LOB systems with WPF from one of the guys from Infragistics.. could be really interesting.
1:30 pm (ME) - Presenter explained he is talking about the Infragistics control set only, and not generic WPF. It cleared out the room.. LOL
End of Day 1 (ME) - Great first day.. the Keynote was great.. and had some good information about new features in SP1.. The LOB databinding presentation was OK.. good to see Infragistics new Docking and other controls..
Advanced Databinding presentation was a dud.. the presenter really didn't know his stuff and wasn't smooth at all. I could have learned everything he said in a 10 min read from MSDN.
The Grand Prix of Programming at the end of the day was INTERESTING.. Will blog more about it tomorrow..
posted @ Tuesday, August 19, 2008 8:22 AM