TechEd 2006 Pre-conference day
TechEd day 0, Pre-Conference day, today four sessions:

WCF, Windows Communication Foundation

Aaron Skonnard talked about the WCF.
My notes:
  • WCF: it's all about messages
  • representation on the wire is not pre-defined
  • definition in contracts:
    • data contracts
    • behavioral contract
  • code sample where the definition of the communication layer was in a configuration file
  • configuration wizard in WCF
  • duplex contract was only mentioned briefly but it did raise my eyebrows so I have to check his weblog on that subject
  • nice detail of the presentation: Aaron was running the presentation from a virtual machine on a Mac-book Pro ;-)

WF, Windows Workflow Foundation

It took Keith Brown about half an hour to get to a point where it became interesting. But despite his presentation skills I picked up the following:
  • the WCF and WF teams are working together on "Silver". Silver combines WCF and WF
  • State management in WF is cool:
    • Long running session- or "idle" session states can be stored a database.
    • After a certain event the session is restored and the session continues.

WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation

Ian Griffiths explained the need of this new extra layer on top of DirectX. Resolutions are changing, dots per inch the dpi value of the screens is rapidly changing it used to be 72 dpi for a CRT monitor it's now possible to have LCD displays with a dpi of 200.
There were some demo's of rotating buttons with changing text. Not really usable but nevertheless very entertaining.
Oh and not to forget XAML. The demo's were written in his XML language. Really powerful stuff.
  

Running projects using SCRUM in Visual Studio 2005 Team System

Roy Osherove talked about agile development. The most striking thing he said was not to use the term "XP-programming". The "X" stands for extreme the "P" for programming. So what's wrong with the "X"? It gives managers the creeps. So instead we talk about SCRUM.
SCRUM is stand-up team meetings in the morning. It's about leaving the developers alone when the specs are frozen. Specs are frozen for blocks of two to four weeks.
One other important thing: the method has to be adjusted to the people who have to work with it.


 
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