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Ooh – this I gotta see! I still have a lot to learn about WSE2 and hearing every possible different person’s perspective even on the intro stuff is always helping me grok this all more and more. Even though I’m speaking at Windows Anywhere, I get to go to VSLive sessions as well. There will be so much to choose from. Lots of new content.

http://www.AcehAid.org

Not only is it full articles on Web Services and WSE 2.0, but it means that the April issue is next!! 🙂

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In preparation for ASPConnections, I am revising my What’s New in the Whidbey Base Class Libraries talk for the 3rd time. I first wrote it against the PDC bits and presented it last February. Then I revised it with the May 2004 bits to present at DevTeach in June. For ASPConnections in November, I used the October CTP (which I put on my demo box just days before the conference). Now I am updating it again using the November CTP. I am also trimming it down and shifting some of the focus. Most importantly for this version of the talk (as for what I did in November) is to focus on what is of use and of interest to developers writing ASP.NET Applications. I think these bits are really close to what we will see in Beta 2. If it is out before this conference, I will definitely update the demo box before the show.

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That Casey is too much!

And you’ve gotta love this response.

In addition to my In Depth Tablet Web Applications presentation at Windows Anywhere in (2/6-10 in San Francisco) I just found out that I get to be on a panel with a bunch of Tablet developers and vendors (who are also developers).

Influencing Tablet PC Solutions–Tablet PC ISV, Wednesday, February 9, 2:00 pm to 3:00pm

Here are the other members of the panel session, all of whom have done some major tablet pc development and have real products on the market. I’ll be the dabbler (or is that doodler) on the panel, that is for sure!

Joerg Lenz, SOFTPRO
Sean Campbell, 3Leaf 
Steve Hoffman, ActiveInk Software 
Josh Einstein, Einstein Technologies 
Teresa Shu, xThink 
Brad Baldwin, Agilix

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Loren Heiny pointed this out. For $25 you can get into the exhibit hall at this 6 conference show in San Francisco (feb 6-10). I’ll be there to speak at the Windows Anywhere conference  – In Depth: Tablet PC Web Development.

Here is the list of exhibitors

If you are in the northeast – you can get into the expo hall at the Sys-Con Web Services Edge East conference (Feb 15-17) along with  the keynotes and workshops for free.

http://www.AcehAid.org

Poor Dave. Already a “grumpy old git” at such a young age.

It seems that students are not only not being taught math properly, but they are being given high marks for very poor achievement. I really thought this was going to be something about the “no child left behind” plan and elevating grades to keep funding coming (yes, sadly, I can envision that it has come to this) but this is about the U.K. education system. Dave’s depressed about this. Rightly so.

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I have to find me a Mac to play on because I have heard that the Real products for Mac are awesome. I won’t even let Real anywhere near my computers (all Windows machines).

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ahh that again

On the one hand you have Rocky Lhotka’s perfectly reasonable “NO”, on the other hand ADO.NET  not only encourages you to use and “abuse” webservices by enable the passing of DataSets from one end to the other, but with ADO.NET 2.0 we can pass DataTables too! And we will. Many many many of us will. Many more of us than the tiny percentage of .NET developers who do any interop. At the same time, ADO.NET 2.0 fixes the icchy dataset problem with remoting by making datasets now transmit as BINARY data, like the rest of the remoted objects. (I never had this problem because I have not coded ONE remoted application – ever. “My name is Julie and I’m a web service abuser“.)

Then of course is the whole new twist on this problem: teaching people how to use WSE with .NET clients and services. I do it all the time. I use it this way (because it is an easy way to implement security in the web services that I shouldn’t be using anyway) and these are the samples I use when I teach other people how to use WSE. And I’m not alone.

And to confuse us just a little more, here’s the latest  on .NET Remoting in .NET 2.0. Just remember: “no, nyet, niente, shake head vigorously.”

So here are the messages:

1. Using web services in an end to end .net application is bad
2. Use remoting for end to end .net applications
3. Don’t put all your eggs into .NET remoting because, if though it’s not dead, in the future, you should be doing everything via services.
4. Here’s how to do remoting in our closest future technology.

Maybe this isn’t the message that is supposed to be coming down to people like me, but that’s what it is sounds like by the time it does reach me. Am I consfused? Is Paris a city?