Rob van der Meijden

First session of TechEd ‘Studio 2005 Team System Managing the Software Lifecycle’ by  Michael Leworthy and Eric Lee was not what I expected. They showed all the tools of VS2005 TS in a nutshell (seen them before) but nothing about the process of managing the lifecycle.

Great session from Scott Woodgate on what technologies could be used in different scenarios to connect systems. During this session he had one Visual Studio solution with a lot of projects (MSMQ, BizTalk, SSIS, Sql service broker and HIS ) to demonstrate the variety of how to connect systems. On one demonstration I did got very emotionally, he showed a piece Cobol code, that was a long time ago …. sniff …. He deployed this code on the mainframe (where it should be) and started a wizard in HIS pointed out the cobol code, selected the interface fields and HIS created a webservice proxy for the cobol code, very nice … more

Next a good session named ‘Implementing  Indigo  Endpoints   Addresses  Bindings and Contracts’ by Steve Swartz and Christian Weyer. Telling and demonstrating the ABC concepts and that the A and B can only be done by setting config files.

The last session ‘VS 2005 Team Foundation Server (TFS) Extensibility’ by Richard Hundhausen. Good session, but it seems that TS can be customized (who: end users, pm) and/or extended (who: Internal IT). That’s great, but I was not interested in the customizing part (50min) so the extended part was to short (25min).