This week I am attending the Microsoft TechEd Developers in Barcelona. Amongst the first impressions where those of dissappointment. First of all it is not that big as the ones I used to attend in Amsterdam. Secondly these seems to be no real new stuff. There is no new product hype. We've all been playing around with the beta's and CTP's of most products for a couple of months now, including Visual Studio 2008, the 3.5 .Net framework and Silverlight 1.1.
What strikes me most are the number of sessions on Silverlight that show basic stuff in 1.0. I attended a couple of sessions on how to communicate with the webserver from 1.0 Silverlight applications using Javascript and AJAX. Why should I want to do that? It will be phased out anyway as soon as 1.1 'hits the shelves'. Even more so, they already have native webservice support built in and working on SL1.1? I do not intend to spend my time working on code that'll be useless in a couple of weeks. Come on TechEd, bring the good stuff !!
This is of course all very reasonable, but the bottom line was reached when a speaker explained how to do c# a ternary operator on a lvl3 advanced course. This would've been fine if it didn't take him 10 minutes.
But the wheather is nice and the evenings are cool, so what am I complaining about?
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