TechEdAu 2009: Day 2

Highlights:

• MSDeploy!
• Biztalk 2009 projects now essentially .csproj: can build / deploy using MSBuild. Some unit testing.
• The AVICode .Net Management Pack for SCOM 2007. Quite simply awesome.

Somewhere-in-the-middle-lights:

• Windows API code pack: Use XP, Vista, Win7 features easily without interop, just going to cop a whole heap of if(win7) os-sniffing around anything interesting. Didn’t we get really sick of all that browser sniffing stuff?

Lowlights:

• Diagnosing your misbehaving MDX is still too damn hard, even Darren Gosbell’s talk was really good.
• The Claw