Shy Cohen's WebLog

Get it while it's hot. Note: This CTP is not compatible with Vista Beta2…it is compatible with the Vista June EDW (build 5456) and is installed by default on that EDW.

The way back was mostly uneventful. Since I did not sleep at all the night before, I was sleepy and dozed through most of the flight time. On the second flight (Newark to Seattle) I was sitting in the front row in coach, with more legroom than first...

Today at 9am Don and I repeated the Service Factory chalk talk. Since this was fairly early in the morning, and also after the attendee party, we didn’t expect too many folks to show up. We were pleasantly surprised to have about 20 people show up, including...

Today I had no speaking “duties” ( L ), which meant that I had more time to talk with folks ( J ). I started the day discussing modeling and tooling techniques and mechanisms for architecting services (an approach not too different from the Service Factory...

The morning started with a discussion on Reliable Messaging with one of the attendees. Over the last year I’ve spoken to literally hundreds of folks (customers, partners, conference attendees, etc.) and it’s interesting to see the same questions come...

This morning I gave my talk. I was working on the demos and slides until late last night, completely ignoring the first rule of presentations: get a good night’s rest before your presentation. With ruby red eyes I managed to drag myself out of bed in...

The first "real" day of the conference was great! This morning started out pretty nicely. I am staying on the 15ht floor at the Boston Park Plaza , which is a “hotel within a hotel” with its own concierge and lounge, so breakfast was just a few...

Well, opening on Sunday was an interesting idea. I’m not sure I’m thrilled by it. Since I had a lot of time this morning until the conference started, I decided to walk from my hotel to the convention center, and stop at a restaurant in China Town...

As you probably heard by now, WinFX is now .NET Framework 3.0. If you didn’t, check out the announcement on Soma’s blog . The new website for .NET Framework 3.0 is http://wcf.netfx3.com/ . The sub-domain for WCF is http://wcf.netfx3.com/ . Check...

Boston . The Cradle of Liberty . Home of TechEd 2006. The city that’s far, far away from Redmond J Someone had a brilliant idea to start TechEd on Sunday afternoon, which given travel time and time-zone differences meant that I needed to travel...

Here's the list of my TechEd talks. CON312 (WinFX) Windows Communication Foundation: Building Reliable and Transacted Distributed Services Day/Time: Tuesday, June 13 10:15 AM - 11:30 AM Room: 109 AB Speaker(s): Shy Cohen What do you...