More OneNote 12 "goodness"
Mike Wood
writes "Check out the new "shared notebook" features of OneNote 12. Very nice. Now if I can get more co-workers and clients using this tool.
Also, tables, embedded documents, drag/drop notes and more!
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Some new OneNote features for Office 12 release
Mike Wood
writes "While Chris indicates that no radically new UI will be shipping with the next OneNote, he does talk about some really cool features revolving around indexing and searching in OneNote. The most radical feature will be the ability to instantly search video/audio content for words and find exactly where..."
Breakout Session: Workflow + Messaging + Services
Mike Wood
writes "To boil the entire session down you only have to know this: since WWF applications are nothing but a series of activities within a workflow and WCF is just sending and receiving messages you can incorporate them together very easily... All the information about the addressing and bindings can be set as properties on these activities.
A couple of neat things they showed beyond a demo of...
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Breakout Session: Event Driven State Machine Workflows
Mike Wood
writes "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.
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. Here are the highlights:
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Breakout Session: Using Advanced Tools Features with XML and XSLT
Mike Wood
writes "First off, you have to understand that XML is being treated more as a language in this release. The XML editor has been updated greatly and has a lot of good features now. It was written completely in Managed code itself.
I'll just give you some bullet points:
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Using Team System for code analysis and profiling...
Mike Wood
writes "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. He pretty much gave an all demo session, which was good. He played out a scenario where ..."
Thursday General Session
Mike Wood
writes "Thursday's general session was put on by Bob Muglia from Microsoft. He presented the future for the Windows Server Platform over the next three years.
First, coming this year will be a Windows 2003 R2 Release. This update to Windows 2003 will contain a set of new features such as:
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Best Practices using WCF (Don't expect much here...)
Mike Wood
writes "Today was filled with sessions that failed to capture my attention or provide a wealth of information. I think I just choose the wrong ones to go to.
First up was ...
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Breakout Session: Rules Driven Development
Mike Wood
writes "My last session of the day was the "Rules Driven Workflow in WWF". The presentation was given by Jurgen Willis.
Check out their website for more information on WWF.
First off he went over some the basics in case people missed the Intro to WWF session. He then got a...
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Today's General Session
Mike Wood
writes "The general session today was given by Eric Rudder and Steven Sinofsky. I've already blogged about the Expressions announcement, so I'll just hit some of the other highlights...
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Breakout Session: Introduction to the WWF
Mike Wood
writes "One thing to note is that MS will be "dog fooding" this technology and will be incorporating it into all of it's products that need workflow (and that includes Biztalk). While some Beta bits were given out in the software packet here at PDC, don't expect this stuff to go live for quite some time.
The basic idea is that you have a workflow made up of "activities". There are a ...
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Breakout Session: WCF Integrated COM+ and MSMQ
Mike Wood
writes "This breakout session dealt with how you can stage the migration of your existing applications using COM+ and MSMQ to WCF. I won't get into great detail with this one, thought it was a very good session.
Andy Milligan from Microsoft presented along with another man I didn't catch the name for.
He presented a scenario where ...
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Breakout Session: A Lap around Indigo
Mike Wood
writes "This was my first breakout session for the day after the keynote. The first few minutes were nothing really new if you had read anything on Indigo before. It served as an introduction to the concepts behind Indigo so that people would have a basis for the further sessions.
Some items of note from this session (and pardon if these are a bit random)...
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Side Session: Tablet PC in Vista
Mike Wood
writes " had planned on going to a breakout session on managed code snap-ins for MMC, but I got an email inviting me to an informal side session on the Tablet PC instead (from someone who read my LS800 review no less). This was a pretty neat session and I really enjoyed it, but it ran a bit long and into my next session which wasn't so nice....They are giving away a tablet each day of PDC and it has something to do with ...
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PDC Day One Keynote Notes the Old Fashioned Way...
Mike Wood
writes "...They asked that no laptops be used during the keynotes, so I had to scramble for some paper I was carrying and even ended up using the back of my name badge for notes.
Here are some things from Bill's talk and the demo that Chris gave:
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BOF: Using Enterprise Library in Real Life
Mike Wood
writes "I attended the BOF (Birds of a Feather) session on Entlib tonight. I had plans to go to another BOF session that was before the Entlib one, but I got there late because I was eating and once I got in it just didn't capture my attention.
The EntLib discussion was pretty decent. There was a developer from Avanade that help write the EntLib 1.0 stuff as the moderator ...Some key things I thought were interesting
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Initial Swag Examinations
Mike Wood
writes "...In digging through my swag bag I found a couple of things of interest:
"Code Master Challenge" - Code an application for Windows Vista and will a prize. Looks like this competition starts up in early 2006. (Note: the url wasn't up at the time of this post)
A fold out that talked about two things I wasn't familiar with:
Windows Feedback Platform : This is..."
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