VSone 2009 11.FEB to 12.FEB

A brief summary from Munich's VSone - MOSS Conference from my side.

What I missed @VSone 2009 was the real life MOSS experience from other companies and definitely the sessions should have been longer, about 2 hours. One hour is simply not enough. Perhaps next year will be better.

Also the audience was a bit too stiff, but hey - it's winter ... blame it on the weather.

Thank you all for the event and sessions.

I attended the following sessions - see below the briefings:

Planung und Aufbau von hochverfügbaren SharePoint-Infrastrukturen with Björn Schneider

Most used MOSS infrastructure for the "life" farm with about 1000 users (where more than 50% are just browse users) is:
- 2 web front servers
- 1 application server
- 1 index/search server
- 2 MSSQL servers

  

Best Practices in der Webpart-Entwicklung with René Hézser

• A set of tools were presented along with the classic VS and SharePoint designer.

• WSP Builder http://codeplex.com/wspbuilder

• Reflector http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector

• ReSharper http://jetbrains.com/resharper

• SharePoint SDKs:

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms441339.aspx

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms550992.aspx

• SharePoint Solution installer: http://www.codeplex.com/sharepointinstaller

  
    

Software. Services. Internet with Carsten Humm

Was introduced the cloud computing solution form Microsoft - Windows Azure http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx - it's still CTP and you can try it for free - and it's still slow. Allows any .NET application to run in the space of cloud computing - of course in the boundaries set by the cloud computing OS - Windows Azure.

The only good thing so far comparing with the AppEngine form Google is that the programming language can be any of the .NET family and not only Python like for Google cloud computing implementation (AppEngine http://code.google.com/intl/de/appengine/)

Spaß mit Delegates, Anonymous Types, Lambda Expressions, LINQ und erwiteren C# Features with Christian Liensberger

To point demos - nice presentation out of Visual Studio, but too short.

  

The „fuzzy tail“- wie entwickelt man ein Suchkonzept and Enterprise Search in grossen dezentralen Umgebungen with Christoph Müller

It means that the most popular search results could be displayed with even using the search and the focus for searching should then move to the less popular items. This means that the search usage should be monitored and understood so that the "best bets" can be easily maintained.

Also using the search results shouldn't be restrict to a link and a few words, using more sources of information more user oriented search results can be displayed. For example if somebody is searching for "split nuts" and there is no indexed resource holding that information in any of the document library, but there is something in the MOSS profile (job description) of the some person(s), than those person(s) should be displayed as hit results since they know something about "split nuts" - for example production or manufacture engineers.
PS. Cool presentation using Apple’s Keynote with a MacBook and its remote. ;)

   

MVC in der Praxis with Rouven Haban

Short intro into the MVC (model-view-controller) paradigm implemented by MS for ASP.NET http://www.asp.net/mvc/

Still in beta, it has a great support from the IDE side (VS2008) but there are a lot of thing which are not ripe yet, like the model component and the relationships between the model

 

ADO.NET Enhancements for SQL Server 2005/2008 with Klaus Aschenbrenner

• Asynchronous data access (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms379553(VS.80).aspx)

• Multiple Active Results Sets (MARS) (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345109.aspx)

• Batch Updates (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aadf8fk2.aspx)

• Filestream data from/to MSSQL 2008 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc716724.aspx)

• Table-valued parameters  - stored procedure parameters as tables(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb675163.aspx), the only limitation is that a column in a table it can't be another table.