Today was a pretty light day compared to what I have planned to attend tomorrow. I’m already starting to think about cutting a few of the items out of my schedule tomorrow just for sanity sake.
I thought I’d mention a little of what it’s like to be at PDC as an attendee. First off, there is SO much stuff to listen to and take in that it’s literally hard not to look like a deer caught in the headlights.
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 little more in depth.
Rules revolve around conditions. Conditions are simply providers that return a boolean to indicate if a rule passed or not.
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.
Eric announced the Windows Workflow Foundation. VSTA, Visual Studio Tools for Applications allows you to embed .Net language code hooks into your application to allow for extensibility. Think like VBA in the current office package. They showed a version of AutoCad - AutoDesk, that was using this already.