TechEd Day 2... well I arrived right after the keynote given by Steve Ballmer, which I hear was pretty good. He officially announced Web Services Enhancements (WSE) 2.0. To learn more click here. I also heard that the conference “over” sold out. There are 12,000 geeks in this place. WOW! I have never seen so many at one place in my life.

The rest of my day was filled with going to the following sessions:

• Service Orientation and the Windows/.NET Developer
• Prescriptive Guidance-Juggling Web Services, WSE, .NET Remoting, System.EnterpriseServices, and MSMQ
• Applied Web Services in Hewlett Packard's Core eCommerce Solutions
• Best Practices for Dealing With State at Multiple Layers Within Your .NET Applications.

All of these sessions were in the Connected Systems topic group. Unfortunately, most of them were kind of a let down, especially the first one. The last one was the best out of the bunch.

I was impressed how nice the San Diego Convention Center people were and there were always (free) food and drinks (including bottled water) outside of the session rooms at all times. On my way out for the day I stopped by the TechEd store to pick up some shirts.

Free Shirt Count = 2

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