Here is my first official TechEd update. So far its been a blast and the sessions have been pretty good too <g>. I have been meeting lots of people in the vendor fair including DataGridGirl, folks from Sams/Que and lots of MSFT folks. I need to give a shout to Sara F, who is absolutely the greatest and most fun person ever.
Saw Don Box give a Web Services session on Monday morning. Found out that wordml is >cool<!
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dno2k3ta/html/ODC_Office2003Page.asp
(The wordml schema is apparently in the Development SDK)
No more having to deal with the crap word automation server in order to generate word docs on the server and push to clients.
Went to a good session from Scott Guthrie on ASP.NET performance tips. Got several new pieces of information, specifically related to which perf counters we should be watching when stressing ASP.NET apps and what they should be generating. You can get his slide deck that has lots of the info and code samples from his website www.scottgu.com.
A bunch of us INETA folks went to a local Dallas UG meeting tonight featuring Billy Hollis and Keith Pleas. Billy is apparently supposed to release a bunch of controls tomorrow at one of his TechEd sessions for free that make forms validation in WinForms a snap. He demoed them for us at the meeting.
Tomorrow will be going to see the second Nikhil server controls session. Plus the Developers Party is tomorrow night (yea!).
On another side note, my cell phone is officially dead. A long story involving a party and a pool there.
Also, all of the INETA are all hoping the Chris Pels (http://www.bostondotnet.org/) has a speedy recovery. He comes all the way from Boston and ends up spending the conference in the hospital!