Wow, what a day. Some highlights:
- Kurt DelBene gave another keynote address following Bill Gates - very good presentation with some great demos.
- This morning's keynotes had funny videos during the breaks called "Mr Office Developer Guy" (to the tune of Real Men of Genius). Hopefully those will make it out to youtube/soapbox soon.
- I attended "Designer / Developer Interaction of Visual Studio and SharePoint Designer." This was a fantastic presentation given by Rob Howard where he showed how to build custom ASP.NET controls, add them to SharePoint Designer, and then consume them within a Data Form Web Part. FANTASTIC!
- I then saw Ted Pattison's talk on SharePoint Deployment. It was a good discussion but most of the talk centered around using STSDEV for packaging your solutions. Rob had also talked about another solution tool WSPBuilder in his session.
- I also got some very cool demos from three vendor booths:
- Cameron from Nintex gave an overview of their very cool workflow tool
- Some folks from HP were nice enough to show me their Sizing and Configuration Tool
- I picked up a book from the OpenXMLdeveloper.org booth and had a quick chat about the joys of generating Word 2003 XML files.
Posted
02-12-2008 1:23 AM
by
Raymond Mitchell