This was a last minute thing that came up, but yesterday morning I presented a 1-hour session on Team System to this virtual conference. I understand that they had 4500+ attendees signed-up. I know that my session had 100 people in it, which is great for a conference that was devoid of any specific tools (most topics were on management, theory, and best practice).
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People ask why we arrived at the PDC on Friday, several days ahead of the first day. Well, it was so we could present Team System at the pre-conference, as well as go sailing all day Saturday. Here is a video (scroll down) that Lorin Thwaits and Scott Cate created to show at the PDC, and show-off Ajax and myKB.
I seem to remember suggesting this to a few of the Google guys at their room party at PDC 2003. Well, it took them two years to do it, but it looks promising.
Read the CNET article here, Google's FAQ here, or try it!
My friend Scott Swigart got a chance to sit down with several Microsoft employees and chat about the planned features and changes. This is great, considering Visual Basic 8.0 isn't even out yet. One of the most anticipated features is Language INtegrated Query (LINQ).
Check out Scott's article on Dr. Dobb's.
Just down the road from the convention center is where you can find the coolest event going. PDC Underground! It's where we will have some food and drinks and hear from the best speakers in town for the PDC, all in one evening!
When: Tuesday September 13th 6:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: The Westin Bonaventure Hotel in the Catalina Ballroom
Food and drinks then at 6:30pm 2 hours of non stop geeky fun with all new GROK Talks and they will be LIVE! Presented by Regional Directors from around the world.
Check with your local .NET user group or contact us to get your "PDC Underground" button that will get you in the door or find someone at PDC with one and ask how they got it. Get a few extra to give to your cool hard core friends.
Register at www.pdcunderground.com
Just down the road from the convention center is where you can find the coolest event going. PDC Underground! It's where we will have some food and drinks and hear from the best speakers in town for the PDC, all in one evening!
When: Tuesday September 13th 6:00pm to 9:00pm
Location: The Westin Bonaventure Hotel in the Catalina Ballroom
Food and drinks then at 6:30pm 2 hours of non stop geeky fun with all new GROK Talks and they will be LIVE! Presented by Regional Directors from around the world.
Check with your local .NET user group or contact us to get your "PDC Underground" button that will get you in the door or find someone at PDC with one and ask how they got it. Get a few extra to give to your cool hard core friends.
Register at www.pdcunderground.com
Oracle announced publicly today that it will buy Siebel Software for 5.85 million. Here's a news article.
Literraly, LA suffered a major blackout a few minutes ago. All pre-conference presentations and meetings were halted and people were just milling about. Power came back on the the convention center a few minutes ago.
I've done a lot of things from the SQLCLR thus far, except for consuming an ASP.NET Web Service. This morning, I ran into some difficulties. Here are some key points to remember:
- Remove any app.config from your SQLCLR project so that VS 2005 can properly deploy
- Refer to this posting if you get the "Cannot load dynamically generated serialization assembly ..." error message
- Refer to this posting on how to automate the fix above from within Visual Studio 2005
Many thanks to Vineet Rao (Microsoft) for these tips.
If you haven't played with the new Code Snippets features in Visual Studio 2005, you're missing out! It makes it easy to keep an entire library of useful code snippets within Visual Studio 2005, and at the ready to help with any programming assignment. Integrated Intellisense invokes them automatically.
In anticipation of this feature, my fellow RD J. Michael Palermo IV has created www.gotcodesnippets.net which will become the uber repository of such snippets. It will launch officially at PDC.
Why demo your cool application to a few friends, when you can show it off to thousands of your peers at the PDC? This year's PDC will be the first-ever Show Off event, which is an evening event held at the PDC where you can show off your application, tip, tool, technique, animation, or anything cool that can help or inspire other developers.
Read more about it at Channel 9 or Michael Swanson's blog post.
Plan now to attend this four day workshop covering Microsoft’s Business Process, Integration and Workflow to get up to speed on new and updated solutions for Business Process Automation, Integration Services and Workflow, including BizTalk Server 2006.
Click here for more information.
A friend of mine from Iceland emailed recently. His tagline listed a fun Website that he runs.
Here are a couple of my favorites:
- When debugging, novices insert corrective code; experts remove defective code. - R. Pattis
- Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life. - Michael Sinz
- I'd rather write programs to write programs than write programs. - D. Sites
- It's hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn't a book on software design. - Bruce Tognazzini
- From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request. - P. Williams
Oh, and they have an RSS Feed too!
Focused primarily on the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) developer communities, the beta experience contains the latest news, free resources, training, and a free newsletter. Note: You won't find United States in the dropdown list, so try United Kingdom.
Besides the main launch event in San Francisco, on November 7, there are a few others in the West. Please feel free to register using code: LaunchTour2005.
Tuesday, December 6
Colorado Convention Center
700 14th Street
Denver, CO. 80202
303-228-8000
Tuesday, December 6
Anaheim Convention Center
800 W. Katella Ave.
Anaheim, CA. 90802
714-765-8950
Here are some of the points from Soma's blog entry this morning ...
- We're 77 days out from launch
- In September, there will be a Release Candidate (RC1) of Visual Studio 2005
- This RC will be available to MSDN subscribers, early adopters, and beta customers
- Beta 3 of Team Foundation Server (TFS) will be released at the same time as the RC1
- TFS Beta 3 will including a "Go Live" license with technical support for Premier customers
- TFS Beta 3 will carry us through the launch of Visual Studio 2005
- TFS RTM will be in the first quarter of 2006
Please re-read that bottom bullet!
When
09/08/2005 (8:30 AM - 5:00 PM)
Where
Microsoft Boise, CW Moore Bldg, Basement Conference Room A, 250 S. 5th Street, Boise, ID 83702
Click here for directions
Registration
Registration is free; however, seating is limited. Click here to register and use code # 304061
Agenda and Session Details
Microsoft is entering into the software lifecycle tools market with the release of the new Visual Studio Team System product. Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) expands significantly on Microsoft's demonstrated successes in delivering highly productive tools, by offering businesses tightly integrated and extensible lifecycle tools to increase the predictability of their software development process. VSTS offers developers, architects, testers and project managers a seamless way to communicate and increase the effectiveness of software development and the successes of projects.
We have put together a free, day-long comprehensive technical training to help our customers understand the power and value of Visual Studio Team System. This session will cover the core features of the product and the details around Developer, Architect and the Test editions.
Some agenda topics:
- Designers – Class Designer, Logical Datacenter Designer, Application Designer
- Code Analysis, Methodologies and Source Control Management
- Unit Testing, Web Testing and Load Testing
- Build Server, Reporting, Work Item Management, Integration
Breakfast and Lunch will be provided. See you there!
For more information:
Contact Jason Mauer (jmauer@microsoft.com)
Thank you for attending the Get Ready for SQL Server 2005 event in Minneapolis. I hope you liked my presentation of the new developer-related features. As promised, here are links to the slides and demos from today's presentation.
It was a simple enough question that Ethan, my .NET remoting student, asked me yesterday. I did some research, and couldn't find anything official from Microsoft, just their human readable schema on MSDN. Then I found radsoftware's page, which offers a product providing Intellisense to your VS.NET 1.X config file editor. About half way down the page is a ZIP file containing an XSD schema that they built. It looks pretty thorough, but I sent off an email just to make sure.
Just "of the week"? I'm hurt. 
My interview with Simple Talk is online now.
Thanks to Mike Gunderloy for creating this cool INF file. Even though it's been around for a couple of years, I just found out about it!
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