9:00 Lap around live services (session was switched with orginal)
After some last minutes changes, we got a presentation where I saw some pretty neat stuff (after all thats why I am here in Barcelona) . Windows Live Mesh services, apperantly Microsoft has it's head in the clouds these days, and Mesh is their connection to you and me as consumers. "Anything Anywhere Anyone, lots of data, lots of different devices"
Mesh looks very cool! To me it looked like groove but it is something else. Check it out at http://www.mesh.com
10:45 Developing data-centric web applications
Pfff a demo of building a web application with MS Dynamic data controls, which was added in .Net 3.5. If you like two-tier application and want great productivity and less dublicate code, absolutaly go for it. But, if you like more layers of indirection (read microsoft default architecture) wait for version two or later, for now the only supported frameworks are Linq to SQL and the Linq to Entities.
13:30 Introduction to ASP.Net MVC
Nice introduction, great demo which gave a good overview of what MVC actually is.
15:15 ASP.NET MVC Practices
Having played with MVC.net for a while there were a lot of things I did not know yet and a some of the slides and demos gave me more insight as how to further my understanding of ASP.Net MVC. One big thing is that the Routing part in ASP.net MVC is not part of ASP.net MVC itself but is a standalone part that wil be released in the next ASP.Net Webforms.
17:00 Building on Quicksand
My expectations of this session were very high but unfortunally I got very disappointed about the subject (Appently I wasn't the only one.)
17:00 Microsoft Visual C# IDE Tips and Tricks
Tips & tricks bij Karen Lui, I got some nice tips to increase my productivity as a developer. Now all I need is a project with VS2008 to put them in practice;-)