So, after the last few sessions of the day I was getting pretty worn. I wasn’t feeling well and had seriously thought about canning the rest of the day and going back to the hotel. But, when I walked past my next session and looked in I saw a name on the slide that caught my eye: Don Box. Yep, this presentation was given by Don Box and Dharma Shukla. I hadn’t been keeping track of the speakers, just what was being presented.
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.
The session was “Developing Event Driven State Machine Workflows”, and dealt with the use of WWF to implement state machine workflow.
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.
My next session was also a full demo session that displayed the upcoming tools in VS.Net 2005 for XML and XSLT development. Again, the material covered was quite useful, but the speaker just was not that engaging. I forced myself to stay to the end of the session to at least see the XSLT debugging capabilities. It was like watching the full nightly news just to hear how you can save “money at the pumps”; meaning it was painful, but informative.