Tech Ed: Developers, I’m there!

Yesterday evening I arrived with my pal Patrick in the beautiful city of Barcelona for Microsoft Tech Ed: Developers. The complete U2U team will be present and we will have a boot as well. Make sure to drop by to say hi, and maybe get one of the beloved U2U goodies (say that Jan sent you).

On Thursday I’ll have a session together with Patrick about web parts:
DEV353 Building Web Parts the Smart Way (Thu Nov 9 17:30 - 18:45)
In this session, Web developers will get a wide but deep overview of Web Part development. You will first see how WSS v2 style Web Parts can be upgraded and deployed to a WSS v3 environment. Next, you'll learn about the Smart Part and the Son of the Smart Part providing an alternative but very productive way of creating Web Parts. You will see more than the usual Smart Part demos with a lot of tips and tricks to benefit the most from the Smart Part. ASP.NET 2.0 introduces its own Web Part infrastructure and you will get a quick overview of the essential steps of building ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts. Guess what? WSS v3 utilizes the same Web Part infrastructure so all of your work can be re-used in WSS v3. But there are some pitfalls that will be discussed and you will see some demonstrations of scenarios where you are forced to choose for building Web Parts the WSS v2 style. Next, you will learn about what the combination WSS Features and Web Parts can do for you and the session concludes with the announcement and demonstration of the latest version of the Smart Part, appropriately called by Mike Fitzmaurice as the 'Return of the Smart Part'.

I’m sure it will be lots of fun to be on stage again with Profke! Make sure to check out his other sessions as well (and of course the rest of the Office 2007 content). This morning we already met Joris (aka Jopx), there seem to be a lot of Belgian developers so the Belgian/French country drink will be exciting too I guess!

See you at Tech Ed: Developers in Barcelona, Spain!