The next session was pretty hard to sit through. The concepts were very easy to grasp and were painfully driven home. I had a hard time understanding the speaker, but that was an accent thing and not his fault.
The session was “Developing Event Driven State Machine Workflows”, and dealt with the use of WWF to implement state machine workflow.
If you know what state machines are and how they work then this is nothing really new here, just how to implement them in WWF.
My next session was also a full demo session that displayed the upcoming tools in VS.Net 2005 for XML and XSLT development. Again, the material covered was quite useful, but the speaker just was not that engaging. I forced myself to stay to the end of the session to at least see the XSLT debugging capabilities. It was like watching the full nightly news just to hear how you can save “money at the pumps”; meaning it was painful, but informative.
The second session for the day was a little better. The speaker again was not the best I’ve seen, but at least his delivery wasn’t bad and the content was useful.
“Building More Reliable and Better Performing Web Applications with Visual Studio 2005 Team System”….or more apply named, “How to use Team System testing and code analysis/profiling features”.
This was presented by Gabriel Marius, which while not being the best speaker, did recover quite well when some demo things didn’t go just right.