This is one event that continues to get better by the year. We started with this initiative back in 2004 and had less than 300 students and approx 100 professionals attending this event. This Saturday it was time to set a new bench-mark with more close to 150 professionals and a whopping 1000+ students attending DevCon 2007 at COEP, Pune campus.
We started of with Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) which was carried off by Dhaval very nicely. I must appreciate Dhaval's enthusiasm to come all the way from Mumbai for this event.
Next we had a "WCF deep dive" session conducted by Raj Choudhuri. This guy never fails to surprise me with his wits, his extreme understanding of the technology and his ability to do a genuine technical sessions with a short notice. One thing that is always a take away from Raj's session is an understanding of the "Why" factor for a particular technology. Most of us learn / adopt a technology just because it is new or the vendor has marketed it pretty well. More often than not, we fail to figure out "why" in the first place was this technology created and "what" issues of yesterday does it solve. And belive me there cannot be a better person than Raj to put the facts down. You rock dude!
Finally on the professional track we had the concluding session on "WF deep dive" which I did :). It was pretty interesting to do this session because WF is a superb example of evolution! And when you really come to think of it, I cannot think of anything else as the next best way to simplify development of large and enterprise application, but windows workflow foundation. The four pillars of next gen microsoft platform (WCF, WF, WPF, CardSpace) carry a lot of promise for sure!
Unfortunately since we were falling short on time, I couldn't demo some bits of my session. Therefore I am uploading the code for the WF session at this site for anyone who is interested to go ahead and take a look at it and use it. The code sample contains code to demo Host-Workflow-Host Communication, Tracking and Persistence. In case of any queries please feel free to get in touch with me via comments.
Cheers!
WorkFlow.zip (226.06 kb)