[PDC'05] Impressions from yesterday
Yesterday was the best day so far at the PDC. Most impressive things was first what will probably become 'ADO.NET 3.0' or something similar - LinkQ or DLinkQ, which is dynamic language integration (or something like that). Eric blogged about that. Next thing which was really, really cool and got lots of applause from the session attendees was the new integrated workflow foundation, which is basically a powerful workflow engine. The Windows Worflow Foundation is a part of the WinFX subsystem and will let you host workflows in lots of different containers, like IIS, a windows forms app, sharepoint, SQL server or even in a console app! It's also dead simple to use. It's as if you ripped out the basic workflow engine from Biz Talk and created a powerful set of APIs to use against it. It will be used ALOT in the future. The graphical workflow designer in Visual Studio was impressive.
Last night was Universal Studio Theme Park night and it was just great! Me and my friends rushed off to the Jurassic Park and The Mummy rides as fast as we could to get a head of all the other 8000 or so people there. Really cool rides I must say :) If you ever go to Los Angeles, don't miss it. We tried most of the rides in the park, but I think Jurassic and Back to the Future was the best :)
Off to the next general session now.... *running*