Building Connected Systems - Day 4

Ok, my mind is oatmeal now :) but i'm going to blog about today anyway!

Keith did the Workflow WWF (WF) lecture and lab today. In WF:

• the Activity is the main unit of execution, reuse and composition


• right now, integration between WF and WCF is not a great developer experience right now (this will improve as the WF and WCF teams have merged to the Connected Systems Division)

After the WF lecture, Keith left us in the very capabable hands of Mr. Fritz Onion who led us through ASP.NET 2.0 stuff for the rest of the day (UI, Data and web parts). After 3 days of solid learning, Fritz was kind to the class and didn't beat on us too much! :)

At the end of the day, Don Smith from the Microsoft Patterns & Practices Team (PAG) came in to talk about the good work they're doing and did demo of the WCF Service Factory. I'm really looking forward to the new build of this tool which supports the RC1 of the .NET 3.0 framework! Don was a blast to listen to and I know the class was glad he came out to talk to us!

One more day! :)
jk