posted on Monday, July 11, 2005 4:25 PM
by
davidboschmans
TechEd 2005 Europe - Day 5
The last day of TechEd started early with Jurgen Postelmans' session on Developing SQL Server 2005 OLAP Applications with ADO MD.NET. After introducing the Analysis Services API's and XMLA Jurgen showed some of the ADO MD .NET features.
Session 2 of the day was delivered by Ashwin Karuhatty and Brian Randall. Both covered VSTS Enterprise-Class Source Control system in depth. Korby blogged the session live to the web. Check out Korby's summary.
During the Q & A afterwards Brian mentioned that he's writing a book on TFS. It should be available three months after the VSTS launch and will be based on the GA version. Looking forward to it!
An interesting take-away for those of you developing custom policies for TFS: custom policies have to be deployed on the client! So if you want to benefit from this extensibility feature you should use one of the Visual Studio Team System clients.
The third session of the day was hosted by two excellent speakers: Kimberly L. Tripp and Rafal Lukawiecki. Together they covered SQL Server 2005 Security for Database Developers. The session was as expected: great entertainment, in-depth SQL Server knowledge and advanced Cryptography and Security techniques.
After a quick lunch I went for the panel discussion on Software Factories. Steve Cook, Eric Lee, Ted Neward, Maarten Mullender, Gareth Jones and Imran Ali did a nice job explaining why this strategic initiative will make it faster, easier and cheaper to build software.
The last session of TechEd 2005 had a fairly complex title: "Retry, Abort, Cancel? Appropriate Handling of Transaction Failures in Connected Systems Application Code" and was delivered by Clemens Vasters. As I've seen Clemens at previous TechEd's, DevDays etc. he delivered what we could expect. Nothing really new but Clemens is a good speaker and very knowledgeable on distributed transactions and connected systems.