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Tech Ed 2004: WSE 2.0 session at 2pm on Wednesday

Posted Wednesday, May 26, 2004 5:58 PM by sspotts
Bummer. Packed house, no room. I guess more people were interested in this than expected. Same thing happened with the PAG ( Prescriptive Architectural Guidance ) session this morning. So I jumped to the SQL Server 2004 Deployment session. Pretty full, Read More...
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Tech Ed 2004: BizTalk 2004 for the Visual Basic and C# Developer

Posted Tuesday, May 25, 2004 7:29 PM by sspotts
Scott Woodgate, Lead Product Manager for BTS 2004, presented this one. Scott Woodgates blog Started with an overview of SOA first, which was a good idea for developers to understand prior to working with BizTalk Server 2004. Went into a "what is BizTalk Read More...
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Tech Ed: Day 2 keynote with Andy Lees

Posted Tuesday, May 25, 2004 6:12 PM by sspotts
Great presentation and demos, especially for the IT pro and knowledge worker. Several announcements Best Practices Analyzer for SQL Server. This will scan your SQL Server to find holes or other problems that go against known best practices, and tell you Read More...
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Tech Ed 2004: General Session: VS 2005 Team System

Posted Tuesday, May 25, 2004 6:12 PM by sspotts
New VS 2005 Team System demos. Portfolio Explorer allows you to create a templates based project porfolio. Templates out of the box include MSF, Xtreme Programming, and more. Treacks work items, reports, and other documents. Borland CaliburRD tool integrates Read More...
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First session - SO for Windows/.NET Developers

Posted Monday, May 24, 2004 4:53 PM by sspotts
Now I'm in Don Box' and Doug Purdy's CTS200 - Connected Systems: Servies Orientation and the Windows/.NET Developer. They started off the session in an interesting way - asking the audience for questions first , and tracking them, rather than waiting Read More...
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TechEd 2004: Steve Ballmer's opening keynote

Posted Monday, May 24, 2004 4:52 PM by sspotts
As usual, Steve had an enthusiastic delivery and shared some great news. 1. General availability of Web Services Enhancements for Microsoft .NET (WSE) . 2. Technology preview: Microsoft Office Information Bridge Framework (IBF) 3. Visual Studio .NET Team Read More...
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Tech Ed 2004!

Posted Sunday, May 23, 2004 1:37 PM by sspotts
Okay, I made it to San Diego in one piece, got registered - through LONG lines, and can't wait for the week to start. This is my first time in San Diego, and I'm impressed with how nice a city it is so far. I'm currently at the INETA User Group leader Read More...
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ASP.NET Roadshow in Philly (Oaks, PA, actually)

Posted Sunday, May 23, 2004 1:33 PM by sspotts
Rob Howard presented to a group of almost 170 from the Philadelphia area, and it was awesome. There was great excitement about ASP.NET 2.0, and Rob did a fantastic job driving that excitement with his demos. SEI hosted for the event, and their beautiful Read More...
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Additional Developer Community Influencer events

Posted Sunday, May 23, 2004 1:28 PM by sspotts
I have to remember to post here more often :). We had an event in April, and another just last week. Both were held at local restaurants, and we changed the format a bit. Rather than having a set presentation, we just let nature take its course and conversed. Read More...
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