MVP Summit: Wrap-up!

Well, I am back in Canberra suffering slightly from jet-lag after my flight back from Seattle (via San Francisco). I won’t bore you with pictures of my tickets, but rest assured that I did fly and didn’t use Darren’s wormhole.

I know a few folks are keen to understand exactly what was said at the summit so here is a detailed agenda:

All the sessions in red really contain NDA material which can’t be public right now. This is one of the advantages of being an MVP in that we get to participate in a two way dialog with the product teams about things that they have got coming up and let them know if they missed some key scenarios for developers, however it is our responsibility to make sure that we don’t leak details about future product ideas that haven’t reached maturity. Having said that, its not like MIcrosoft isn’t sharing product ideas much earlier than previous years.

One of the things that I can tell you is that the web is still going to be an exciting place to be and Microsoft has some pretty cool innovations in this space that are both user focused and developer focused. If you want to get in the right place to take advantage of this stuff you really need to download and keep up to date with the latest CTPs and BETAs of the Orcas release of Visual Studio.

Paul Stovell on Binding Orientated Programming

Paul might be onto something here. I’ve seen first hand how productive Paul can be with WPF and I wonder how much of it is due to the way he approaches the binding of his object models to the UI elements.

Keep up the good work Paul!

Team Build Monitor Gadget

Interesting, this is the second time this week that I have heard about a Windows Sidebar gadget that talks to the Build Store in Team Foundation Server to display the status of builds. I won’t let you know the first because I heard of it first hand and I have noticed that the author hasn’t posted about it on his blog yet.

Both too quite different approaches, Paul embedded with an XBAP which means he can do some fairly meaty things, and the other used 100% pure JavaScript which means that it doesn’t need Team Explorer installed (although it probably still requires a CAL).

Good work Paul!