[PDC'05] .NET "providers" is really interesting

The concept of pluggable providers in .NET is really interesting and something I want to have a deeper look at when I get back home. The last session I was at today was about providers and how you could (quite easily) replace someting like the default membership and roles provider with your own.

Stefan Schackow did a very good presentation about providers, which sort of saved the afternoon. I attended the COM202 session about "A lap around the Windows Communications Foundation" and it wasn't very good at all. The speaker jumped right into all the nitty gritty details you could play with in WCF and I bet 80% of the guys in there listening didn't follow him at all.