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Microsoft TechDays
I thought I would give some pointers as to how it went at Microsoft TechDays in Denmark from the 21st to the 23rd of May 2003. Part of the reason is so I can remember when some time has passed 
A colleague and I hit the train on 5 AM on Wednesday, and was at Odense Congress Center (where the TechDays where going to be held) at 08.30. As usual when Microsoft throws events/conferences like this nothing is missing! In the morning there are bread and coffee and during the afternoon coffee and cake is coming in at a steady pace.
The first two days was focused on Visual Studio .NET and Windows Server 2003, the last one on Office System 2003.
On Wednesday I attended the following sessions:
- Keynote by Morten Strung Nielsen on The .NET Vision
- .NET Developer WorkBench by Richard Lloyd Money
- Automated builds using Visual Studio .NET and Visual Source Safe
- IIS 6 Security
- Getting started with WS-Security and WS-Routing
On Thursday I attended the following sessions:
- Keynote by Tony Goodhew Product Manager on improvements to The .NET Framework, C# and VB
- Build your own Weblog with RSS Feed using ASP.NET by Tony Goodhew
- Interse: Intelligent integration of Information by Mogens Nielsen
- Code Access Security in ASP.NET by Michel Baladi
- Proces and Security model in IIS 6 by Michel Baladi
On Friday I attended the following sessions:
- Keynote by Lone Lyth, Erik Dibbern Roser and Torben Marcussen on The new Office System 2003
- Visual Studio .NET Tools for Office by Erik Dibbern Roser
- Advanced XML in Word 2003 by Erik Svensen
- Smart Tags and Smart Documents in Office 2003 by Erik Svensen
- Development of solutions using InfoPath by Ole Kjeldsen
In the evening on Wednesday there was some entertainmnet in a Cafe area in the Congress Center where one could compete using RC jeeps and XBox’s.
On Thursday evening Microsoft had arranged for the participants to go to the movies. One picked between three movies: Matrix Reloaded, The Recruit or X Men 2; I saw The Recruit.
My colleague and I took the train home to Aalborg at 17.30 and I was home at nine O’clock. And after the three intense days I really needed to relax.
All in all I was very happy with TechDays, we had a great trip
If only I could convince someone to pay for a trip to TechEd 2003 in Barcelona….
Remote Desktop
I just fumbled a bit around with Remote Desktop in Windows XP, and man is that cool!!! The fact that you can log on to remote computer and control is nice, but not that innovative, I mean that’s what *NIX people do all the time – including me, which is exactly how I update these pages – the really amazing part is the added features. You can tell the Remote Desktop Connection program to automatically transport all played sounds on the remote computer to your local machine, or you can leave it on the remote computer. Plus, you can choose to map you local drive on the remote machine so you have access to all your files, and ability to copy back and forth.
This little program is great, and I just wish I had taken the small amount of time to try it out long before now…
And by the way, you can download and install the Remote Desktop Client for Windows 2000 so that you can control your computers from Win 2000 also.
Windows Server 2003 and VS.NET 2003 launch
Just read this article on java.sun.com about the new language features in Java 1.5 codename Tiger. It is quite amazing how after .NET/C# came the Java guys have been busy to implement stuff that was cool in C# in Java. Finally though Sun has understood that boxing is actually pretty darn nice!
Communion
Tomorrow my sister is having her communion (konfirmation in danish), so we’ll go to church at 10, and afterwards have a “party” with the whole family.
It’s gonna be nice, and hopefully she’ll get some good presents
I’m considering installing Windows Server 2003 on my spare machine. It would be nice to use the new server software for real; plus I could have a closer look on Web Services and their support in Windows Server 2003.
The new battery I got for my laptop is great! It has a very high capacity, so now I’m not so dependent on being near a power source when I’m working on my laptop, at least not as much as I were before.
I’m going to attend TechDays which Microsoft Danmark is hosting in Odense in the end of March. I’m going there with a collegue of mine from work, and I think it’ll be very exciting! The web site says that there are over 60 different sessions to chose from, so there’ll definitely be a chance to learn something.
After some small glitches the new Intel P4 3.0 GHz with 800 MHz FSB has been released. Damn, I would like to get my sweaty hands on one of those!