Last day of Tech-ED 2003.
So I'm sitting in DAT312 Designing Applications Using SQLXML Managed Classes listening to Asli Bilgin talk about this stuff. So far it's very interesting and I hope when I get back I can leverage some of this in my apps. Andrew Conrad's session (DEV399) later today will cover some more on SQLXML and he has some beta bits for the newest SP for SQLXML.
This morning was also OFC322 Building Office Research Web Services, which answered quite a few questions I had about this particular tech. Chris Kunicki showed ( maybe he runs it ) the OfficeZealot website. This site is very cool.
The show last night was great, didn't watch too many bands though as I was busily trying to win $2500 fake bucks to get a T-Shirt. I didn't get it though, but a good time was had regardless. Hit up the Mall this morning for the last day sales, got a kick ass vest and one of the blue speaker shirts. Now if I can try and snag a Speaker Badge...
I have a ton of pictures to post up when I get a chance but I've opted to drive back to Virginia this weekend then take the 2 hour flight.
All in all it was a good show this year. Lot's of great information floating around and many of my questions got answered in the Ask the Experts area. This is a great resource for people when they come here. Even though I showed up all late and wrong to the Techedbloggers.net meeting there was some good discussion going on there and it's good to see that MS is interested in bloggin' and wants to help out. It's very funny when I hear speakers talk about blogs and how they joke that they hope they don't screw up since someone will probably blog about thier speech.