Here's an interesting reply from Tom Hollander (from the P&P team) in response to a post on the apparent futures of Shadowfax and the App Blocks by a Tech-Ed blogger. Its good to know that MS is pushing hard to streamline the blocks and make them into a library and that ShadowFax will also be contributing towards the collection.
I still havent got round to conducting the TechEd knowledge sharing session at my office. Tom's points will help in the preparation/collection of information. I'm trying to organise a set of key takeaways from each of the tracks in the form of Principles and Tools (ie) What are the key things to think about /watch out for, what tools are/will be provided to help in that area. This would be a good summary sheet for my colleagues.
By the way has anyone tried the Aggregation / Async blocks in a modified form to work with Remoting instead of WS? I'm going to be working on a generic framework to access a set of remote components for some functionality we currently require and I was looking at the Request Aggregator, Transformation Manager and the Thread Pool for Service Agents and thinking that they could be made to work with Remoting too. If anyone has tried this, I'd value a heads-up. If not, I'll post my progress here.