Half way there...
End of the second day and just got back from the UK Party, the only real big social event at this party lite TechEd.
After yesterday's SQL focus today I have wandered a bit, some Test Driven Dvelopment (TDD), some C# 3.0 futures as well as some other bits.
Unlike other conferences I have been to, I think it is hard to pick a core theme for this TechEd, if I were pushed it would be workflow in all its various guises. A few speakers have mentioned how they see workflow foundation as being the Visual Basic 1.0 equivalent for workflow and I think I agree, it is going to be nasty for a while but in a few months/years we are going to wonder why we ever wrote out own state machines.
I say in a few months because there is going to be pain, the deployment and management issues are going to be interesting, there is just too much text file editing in this first set of RTM products for this to go smoothly, but hey that's that we live for on the bleeding edge. I am sure we will see some best practice dropping out when more companies have used the product in the real world.
Richard