TechEd Developers is over. I wasn’t very good at real-time blogging (it’s difficult on a mobile) so I thought I would summarise it in a single post.
Major Announcements
Visual Studio 2008 is being released by the end of the month. Rumours are that it will in-fact be the 15th of this month.
SQL Server 2008 CTP 5 – Should be due out this month, but I would expect one or two weeks.
Sync Framework – Microsoft have released a sync framework for allowing applications to work effectively in an offline fashion.
ASP.net MVC – The ASP.net MVC framework will be out in three weeks (22nd?). More on this in a later post.
Windows Live Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio – Released @ http://dev.live.com/tools/
TechEd Sessions online next week. This is great news for all the attendees (not so great for everyone else as it’s attendee only access). There were some sessions which I wish I had went to but clashed with something more important.
Sessions
I found the sessions quite hit and miss. Some sessions where amazing with Roy Osherove being the best speaker for me but others seemed very high level and marketing focused which I wasn’t really expecting.
The Party
On Wednesday night there was the country party. This was a very enjoyable evening, lots of good food, free beer with great company. However getting up for Thursday sessions was difficult 😉
The Swag
The swag was good, NxtGenUG were there dong one or two game shows. Some of the companies where giving away freebies but managed to grab a few interesting items – mainly the The Security Development Lifecycle book.
Summary
Generally, it was a great week. Red Gate covered a lot of the cost which was amazing and there were 14 of us attending in total so there was great company. Hopefully I will be able to attend next year. One thing, I will take a laptop so I will have less stuff to catch up on when I return. Might be a reason for a new laptop by then….