My goal was to make it to a 9:00 session, but thanks to a late bus and it taking forever to check in my bags at the conference I ended up missing it. I did make it to the next session where I saw Doug Perdy and Don Box talk about building distributed applications today with an eye on future interop. Basically they went through the various technologies available today and what their upgrade path would be to Indigo and then even showed some actual interop code. Basically you should use ASMX unless you need WS-Security then use WSE 3. (The only WSE that is wire compatible) They showed remoting being exposed through Indigo, which was pretty cool. Also talked about enterprise services and MSMQ. (Indigo team has taken over MSMQ)
I then went to Ingo Rammer’s session and it was truly one of the best sessions at the conference. Ingo walked through real-world demo’s of poorly performing connected systems, showed how to troubleshoot the problem using a variety of tracing and profiling tools, then showed the resolution. This was definitly the best hands-on kind of talk and included stuff I could really take away and use right away.
Finally I caught a repeat of the Visual C# Tips and Tricks sessions which was basically some demo’s of new features in Visual Studio 2005. It was mostly stuff I knew, but I learned a couple new things. (Like Find References which lists all references instead of the old “random reference” feature in 2003)
Right now I am sitting in the airport waiting for my flight back, so this probably wont be posted until I get back to Cinci.
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