Tech-Ed Thursday

While every Tech-Ed-er is partying, I'm here blogging. I had to bring my last greetings to a dear friends father this evening. It made me very sad.

My Tech-Ed day today was way better then I initially expected. I saw a great session from Scott Woodgate on Advanced BizTalk Orchestration. Boy, is there a lot of stuff possible, that we just don't know of yet. He showed batching examples, parallel processing examples and other stuff that was way more advanced then I would have imagined possible. Great stuff. I hope the samples he showed and documentation on it will become available publicly soon.

Then there was this panel session with David Chappell, Clemens Vasters, Juwal Lowy and two others on myths in the industry. They did cover some great subjects there, like “VB.NET en C# are essentially the same languages“, “You should always use Web Services everywhere“ and other. And before that session, I did see Clemens Vasters presentation on Proseware, a demo implementation of a Service Oriented application. Great stuff, he gave great guidance on how you can really implement such an application and between the lines mentoined all the pitfalls and problems you will face while doing that. Proseware is officially Microsoft property and Microsoft is now evaluating whether they should publish Proseware as a sample. I hope they will because we need this guidance.

That made three great sessions in a row this afternoon and a lot to think about while driving home. My Tech-Ed has already succeeded and I have another day left.