Snowball - The Blog

To start today's post, I'll begin with what we did last evening. Around 9, we left the convention center, and went looking for a good restaurant. We found one in the harbor, where they served some very good steaks.

Now, steaks are of course not that interesting for you... So what about today?
I started today with a session on WPF 3D, given by Dennis Vroegop. The session was a good introduction on how to start programming in 3D for the Windows Presentation Foundation. The longer, the more, 3D will be finding its way into desktop programs, and using WPF for that is the right choice. Also, more and more tools like 3DStudio Max will have a way of exporting 3D grahics to XAML.

The second session I went to see was on integrating WF with ASP.NET. Since I'm a novice in workflow, this session, given by Paul Andrews taught me quite a lot. He did not cover how to create workflows (which was a good thing), but he went into deep detail on the integration part. Great session in my opinion.

Now, I just finished my first hours on the Ask The Experts booth, and I must say, it's really great. I had quite some interesting questions on Silverlight, varying from what Silverlight really is to deep questions on security in Silverlight.
Since this got us all puzzled, we got in some help, and found out a possible solution. I'm going to do some more research on that tomorrow morning, and I'll devote an article on this next week.

One question that we could not answer was the following: does Silverlight 1.1 also run on Mac PowerPC? We THINK at the momemt there is no support yet, but it might be added in the future...

That about wraps it up for today, apart from the fact that I had the oppurtunity to talk with some very interesting people, including Ian Griffiths.

I'm off to today's last session on the ADO.NET entity framework.

Until tomorrow, Day 3!