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TechEd Recap

In this DCTV Episode, Colin Walker talks to Joe Pruitt about his recent trip to TechEd in Orlando. They discuss why F5 was at TechEd and about his talk at the VSIP Partner presentation.

411: Eric Schnepp of Microsoft gives us a rundown on VSTA

Eric Schnepp, Lead PM in the Developer Group with Visual Studio Tools for Applications, stopped by our booth at the PDC and gave us an overview of VSTA, how you can integrate the power of Visual Studio into your applications, and some cool customer examples.
	00:00 : Intro 00:12 : What can you tell us about VSTA and what you are presenting here at the PDC? 01:04 : It that like the plugins with Outlook? 01:25 : What's a cool application integration you've seen with VSTA? 02:13 : What can you say to DevCentral users about how they can make use of your tools? 03:05 : Where can users find out info about VSTA?

411: Michael Rys of Microsoft goes over SQL Server and X-Query

In speaking with Michael Rys, a Program Manager on the SQL Server Engine Team, we learned about X-Query and how it might change the way you look at storing data.

00:00 : Intro 00:03 : What is it you do at Microsoft and what where you talking about today? 00:28 : How did your talk on the innards of X-Query inside SQL Server 200 go? 00:55 : What can you tell our community about the technology you are working on, and things about it that might interest them? 01:46 : So it allows you to query the XML stored data and the Relational data all at once? 03:41 : Where can people find out more about X-Query and the other technology you're working on?

411: Talking Indigo with Microsoft's John Justice

John Justice was kind enough to stop by and chat with us about Microsoft’s new communication framework, Indigo. As a member of the development team working on the project, he was able to discuss what it was, why our community would likely be interested, and when to look for it coming your way.
	00:00 : Intro 00:11 : Who are you and what do you do with Microsoft? 01:24 : How did your talk go today at PDC? 01:35 : Was your talk about a specific subject regarding Indigo, or just a general Indigo discussion? 02:51 : Is there anything that you might want to mention to the F5 Development Community out of your talk?

411: Microsoft's Chris Adams and Eric Deily give the scoop on IIS7

411: The latest on Visual Basic with Paul Vick from Microsoft

Paul Vick, Technical Lead on Visual Basic for Microsoft talks about future enhancements to VB such as querying data and making it easy to use with VB without having to learn SQL and other technologies as well as how VB can work with XML.
	00:00 : Intro 00:15 : What are the new innovations with Visual Basic? 01:00 : Are you extending data access through web services? 01:34 : In the future will it be easier to integrate external data into applications? 02:20 : Where can users find more info about Excel and Visual Basic?

411: Microsoft's Brian Grunkemeyer talks about the advancements in the CLR

Brian Grunkmeyer stopped by the F5 booth to give us the latest details on building more relable applications for Microsoft Vista / "Longhorn" Server.

00:00 : Intro 00:17 : What do you want to tell us about fundamentals of reliability in the CLR? 01:28 : Are there things F5 customers should think about when building applications to make them more reliable? 02:13 : Is the ability to call the Restart Manager in Vista something a developer has to build ir is it already built into the Vista Product? 03:05 : Where can DevCentral users find more information about the CLR in Vista?

411: ZapThink on SOA, the PDC, and the role of the network

F5's Jeff Browning gets the scoop on how Microsoft is addressing SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), important topics companies need to keep in mind, and where you can get more info and resources about SOA.

411: Talking Visual Studio Extensibility with Microsoft’s Phil Taylor

F5's Joe Pruitt talks with Phil Taylor about what VS Extensibility is, how his team enlists users to influence their development efforts, and areas where VS Extensibility applies to F5's API and user implementations.