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It has been an eventful week, here in Barcelona. I have seen a lot of new things, and learned a lot over the last few days. Too bad it's over? Well, yes and no. Yes, because there is so much more to learn. No, because I will be flying back tomorrow and be with my wife and daughter again. It has also...
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A very interesting session in which the presenters went beyond the Hype that Ajax has recently become. In a number of demos, they quickly showed what (not) to do when implementing ASP.Net Ajax in your web application. An example: If you have already seen ASP.Net Ajax, or Atlas as it was once called,...
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Very interesting session on the new Report Builder application for Report Services. The tool is aimed at business users that need to design their own reports. It works an a model of the database, kind of like Business Objects. And with SP2 CTP2 for SQL Server 2005 Reporting services (available soon)...
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This session proved that it's impossible for all sessions to be interesting. Now don't get me wrong here. There were a lot of delegates at this session, and for a lot of them it is probably interesting. But I was expecting something completely different. As the title suggested, I was expecting to here...
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Not all sessions I go to have to be about new stuff, now do they. So this session was interesting because they showed some items in .Net (and SQL 2005) that not everybody knows about. I have tried to remember a few I found interesting. You won't see many details, I just can't write that fast ;-) Alt...
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This session had an enormous WOW factor. I was really impressed with the way Ronnie Saurenmann from Microsoft Schweiz GmbH used WPF to build an airport monitoring system. The basis was a completely digitized map from a GIS system which was translated into vectors. Buttons in the shape of images floated...
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Greetings from a warm and sunny Barcelona. Although that warm and sunny is completely useless as I'm inside a conference center :-( Ever had that feeling that there's just too much information coming at you? It is dawning on me now. Mind you, I love all the information I'm getting. I feel like a humongous...
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What promised to be a session where proven practices for implementing services would be presented, turned out to be more of a session about the impact of migrating from ASMX webservices to WCF webservices. Migrating ASMX to WCF is not that difficult. It is possible to keep the ASMX service operational...
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Just enough time to blog this great new tool comming in some version of Ocra's (So that you know the timeprojectory :-) ) A session from Steve Lasker Its a couple of classes on the server and on the client that you can derive you're own class from. The baseclass implements a lot of code to do basic synchronisation...
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This session provided me with some more background on Workflow Foundation or WF. WF is a combination of a workflow engine and a rules engine. The WF engine uses the rules engine to store conditions and such. The rules engine itself can run separate from the workflow engine. That provides you with the...
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This session, by Shy Cohen was about managing services created with WCF. WCF offers a lot of options out-of-the-box to monitor what is happening with the services you created and deployed. WCF is highly configurable and that includes how to setup monitoring and tracing. WCF comes with a tool to manage...
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A very interesting session about the garbage collector and how to make it work more efficient. Let's first recapture some stuff that will be coming the next version of the CLR. At this moment, you only have the option to call GC.Collect to force the garbage collector to do it's work. In the next version...
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This session offered some more insight into the WPF part of .Net Framework 3.0. It did not have many demos but it did offer a good impression of what WPF can and cannot do. First of all, the session clearly showed that XAML can be hosted in Windows Forms applications as well as browser applications....
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I thought it would be difficult to summarize the first day. But I have seen a pattern emerging today while I was attending the sessions on .Net Framework 3.0. The focus on .Net Framework 3.0 seems to have been on making our work as developers easier and yet more powerful. If you were to take a look at...
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The shape if things to come. That's a brief description of what Anders Hejlsberg just showed is in this first session today. Anders Hejlsberg is the chief designer of the C# language and gave a great presentation on the new features that await us in C# 3.0. The design goals for C# 3.0 where: Integrate...