MS Days 2008 in Bulgaria is in history now and I could say I had a nice two days. There were many lecturers (about 50) and 72 sessions in 6 tracks.
For those who missed my talks or are interested in slides here are summary of the sessions:
LINQ to XML - Data Access Technologies
This session was focused on the new API from XML team for .NET languages. I gave a side by side comparison between traditional DOM vs. LINQ to XML regarding those most common actions:
- Create XML
- Traverse XML
- Transform XML
I covered also VB9 Literals. At the moment I started talking about VB I was thinking people would throw rocks at me (and some really considered that option:) ). But at the moment when repeated some of demos with VB9 code the audience was very impressed and they forgot about those rocks in their pockets. Even there were initial brainstorming whether same things can be implemented in C# with custom code.(Unfortunately this is a compiler feature and we cannot do it very easily).
Another thing I mentioned was LINQ to XSD.
I've decided that people will understand my points better if I write code in front of them instead of just explaining it. This is also more challenging :). I think it went well...
Here are the downloads:
IIS7 for IT Pros
IIS7 is the most interesting feature in Windows Server 2008 and I already had some talks about it. In this talk I covered (from administration perspective) following key topics:
- What is missing in IIS 6.0
- IIS7 module architecture and it's benefits
- New .NET-like configuration files and metadata
- Delegated Administration
- Shared Configuration
- Tracing and Diagnostics
The things I've demonstrated are:
- New tools - new management console as well as APPCMD command-line tool
- Richness of new error pages and generated trace file - it is whole HTML+JS application built with XML & XSLT with incredible amount of information.
- WCAT stress test with view of live requests on the server.
- Analyze server and site load using IIS7 Admin Pack features.
And here is the presentation: MS PowerPoint 2007 format (0.98 MB)
Any feedback is very welcome.