Ouch last night I went to dinner with Remco, Fons, Andre, Rene and Edwin and we had a 'few' drinks and lot's of laughs (thx), If hadn't been for Wim waking me up this morning I think I would still be as sleep right know. Somehow I did manage to learn a thing or two this day.
9:00 Enterprise Library 4.0 - Now with More Peace, Love and Rock-n-Roll
I was curious as to how the guys from Patterns & Practices had implemented the DI container (unity) in Enterprise library as it turns out you can pulled it out and put in another DI container one like Spring.Net or Castle.Windsor. The Policy injection block that ship with 4.0 is also very cool it makes aspect orientated programming a lot easier. Grigori Melnik also talked a little bit on the future of Enterprise Library, the P&P team are thinking about integration packs specially tuned for WCF sharepoint etc. which is an other way of looking at generic multi purpose components. For now their still ideas, the P&P team loves to know what the community thinks about the future of Enterprise Library and where it should be heading
10:45 The Visual studio 10 Editor: Extensions
Cool, Cool, Cool although the speaker wasn't that interesting his demos were. He showed us how one can make his own very nifty extensions in VS2010 editor. He also explained how this is possible, the editor had been build up from the ground in managed code. With the new Microsoft Extension Framework (MEF), it makes extending visual studio much easier. 'Installing' a plugin has been reduced to XCOPY deployment, just like other popular IDE. When I get in the office I be sure to get Dennis his PDC HD to get my hands on the VST2010 CTP.
13:30 Universal sign-in: how to sign in any user, in any kind of application, in any scenario, using "Zermatt" and claimsbased identity.
In short I like it! But it isn't finished yet. Hopefully you won't be needing Active directory in the future as you sole user repository. The demos were marvelous in their simplicity also this was the only duo presentation I saw they had it well balanced out.
15:15 Data-driven (REST) approach to distributed, concurrent software in the enterprise
Having played with the MS Robotics framework in the past I got an early introduction into the concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR) and the Decentralized Software Services (DSS). What I did not know back then is that the CCR & DSS would have taken such a high. Big companies do not necessarily use the MS Robotics framework, but they sure have started using the CCR. It is small but highly effective framework for making applications working asynchronously, but without the hassle of doing all the threading yourself.
Summary
It's all over already, how fast it has come and gone. All the knowledge I gathered will be put too good use and I still have to watch all the video on all the sessions which I could not attend. I liked to thank my colleagues Wim and William as well as all the other people for sharing their company, knowledge and laughs!
Till next time meine freunde!