Ok, so Tech.Ed is now over and it's back to work... :(

So what did I see and what did I learn?

Well, I thought I'd start by throwing a list of the sessions I visited up because it's going to take me a few days to go through my notes and actually do something productive.

Wednesday

  • DEV231 A lap around Visual Studio 2008
  • DAT302 Database Schema Versioning: How to Use Microsoft Visual Studio Team System for Database Professionals and Team Foundation Server to Version and Deploy Your Databases
  • CON206 Custom Activities with Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation: A Developer's Primer
  • ARC304 Architecting Next Generation Business Applications
  • WEB317 Enhancing ASP.Net AJAX applications with Silverlight

Thursday

  • DEV308 A Lap around Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation
  • DEV301CT XBox Development with XNA Games Studio Express
  • DEV242 Overview of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 for Devices and .NET Compact Framework 3.5
  • UNC301CT Introduction to the .NET Micro Framework
  • ARC311 Windows Client .NET: Introducing the “Acropolis” Client Application Framework
  • DEV320 Microsoft Visual C# Under the Covers: An In-Depth Look at C# 3.0

Friday

  • ARC312 Make your Customer's Day: User First Design
  • DEV314 Building Microsoft Windows Presentation Foundation Applications in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft Expression Blend
  • UNC200 Mobility Smackdown
  • DEV316 Build Server Virtualization Presentation

Not surprisingly, I got the most out of the DEV track. My favourite session by far was the C#3 Under the Covers session presented by Joel Pobar. Seeing Silverlight doing something other than stream video in WEB317 was a also good change. Finally, being a bit of a gadget geek, I couldn't go past the .Net CF 3.5 and .Net Micro Framework sessions. I'm downloading the Micro SDK as I type and thinking about getting my hands on one of these... :)

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