by Yves | Apr 6, 2006 | Uncategorized
Session A209 – New XML file formats Probably the shortest session of the day… Office 12 or Office 2007 will now use the OpenXML standardized format (yes, I know, it is a Microsoft format, but I hope it will be followed by others to store documents) to...
by Yves | Apr 6, 2006 | Uncategorized
Session D308 – LINQ Probably the most advanced session of the day… The problem we face every day is to transform relational data into hierarchical objects and that is why O/R mapper exists such as Nhibernate for instance. The representation of these two...
by Yves | Apr 6, 2006 | Uncategorized
Session D307 : Atlas / Ajax Probably the most declarative session of the day… Christine Dubois started his presentation with a little formula : AJAX + ASP.NET 2.0 = Atlas. In fact, AJAX is not specific to Microsoft and ASP.NET and is available on almost...
by Yves | Apr 5, 2006 | Uncategorized
Session D304 – WinFX : Presentation Foundation Probably the most terrifying session of the day… Remember the days you wrote your personnal web site in Notepad or, if you were lucky enough, in Ultra-Edit. Was it……15, 20 years ago ? Ok, so...
by Yves | Apr 5, 2006 | Uncategorized
Session D305 – Aero Probably the buggiest session of the day… No luck for the speaker who made this presentation. Accumulating beta versions of software is definitely not a good idea and this talk was a perfect illustration of this. After a few...
by Yves | Apr 5, 2006 | Uncategorized
Session D303 – WinFX : Workflow Foundation Probably the most interesting session of the day… By introducing a new framework such as Windows Workflow Foundation in .NET 2.0, Microsoft is offering a very nice way to design and modelize business and human...