Contents tagged with TechEd - PDC
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Jon's News Wrapup - June 25, 2008 Edition
Here's the grab bag of tools, development toolkits, etc.
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TechEd 2008 Keynote Summary
Here are the highlights from the TechEd 2008 Keynote (as seen from afar by watching the TechEd 2008 Keynote and reading posts and press):
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LINQ looks good, but DLINQ scares me
One of Microsoft's announcements at the PDC this week has been LINQ (Language INtegrated Query). Here's the elevator speech version: "LINQ enables developers to query objects, databases and XML using a unified programming model because LINQ makes data transforms and queries first class NET citizens."
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[Tech-Ed] One of the best values at Tech-Ed (even if you're not an attendee)...
The hidden gem at Tech-Ed is the Microsoft booths in the Exhibit Hall .
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[Tech-Ed] DEV320 Visual C# Best Practices: What's Wrong With this Code?
Good presentation - disguised a best practices talk as a quiz to keep it interesting. Much tougher to spot the problems then to nod along with a bullet points about writing good code.
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[Tech-Ed] WIN321 Running IIS Web Farms: Tips and Tricks
I attended WIN321 Running IIS Web Farms: Tips and Tricks Monday. The slides are online here [updated], but here are some high points:
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[Tech-Ed] BOF RSS Without the Blog
(don't worry, I'm not going to be able to attend that much of Tech-Ed so I'm not going to be blogging every single session)
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[Tech-Ed] BOF - Code Generation
Scott Hanselman lead a BOF on Code Generation. I agree with Andres - there was a lot of discussion on business rules definition, which was interesting but I think took away from more common uses of codegen.