We had an absolute bumper session at saArchitect last night, talking about Windows Communication Foundation (Indigo), as well as other interesting offline discussions.
The venue at SysPro was excellent as always and we thank the sponsors for the excellent venue, food, drink and management of facilities overall ... much appreciated! Comments such as "Thanks. Informative. Good Venue. Presenters knowledge awesome. Well structured. Cool." show that most people had fun and that these sessions much continue. We had consensus that the sessions are indeed of value, that both the start time and new format (info+demo) is good and should be maintained. We had 25 community members attending, plus the sponsors and presenters. The session scored a 8/10 and the presenters a 8.4/10, which indicates that everyone was happy with the session. Even though we ran over time considerably due to the initial traffic and interesting offline discussions, we only had one person raising a concern regarding time on the evaluation form.
We mentioned a special thanks to Craig in the session and I herewith want to thank him again. Craig has helped us immensely over the past months, allowing us to become as passionate as we are in Indigo and evangelising it further in the community. There is a lot of excitement and expectation around Windows Communication Foundation and we are hoping to offer some hands-on explorations of the technology in due course.
The key questions we noted down on Indigo (sorry WCF) during the session and offline discussions include:
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What abut interoperability of Indigo with non-Microsoft environments?
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What about long running transactions?
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What about transactions across the enterprise?
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What about transactions scopes including asynchronous servce interaction?
Watch our blogs ... we will try and answer the above as soon as possible. We know that Craig "does not believe in taking off the brakes of a car and driving off", however, there seems to be a need for asynchronous communication and the dreaded transaction scope.
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your patience when sessions are extended due to the conversations, which w believe are crucial, for your enthusiasm, your support in the community and for allowing all of us to get the most out of the monthly session. It was good to see such a good turnout again and we are looking forward to the future sessions, such as Connected Services Framework (CSF), Office 12, WWF, Deployment, Integration and much, much more. "saArchitect Gauteng "rocks"!
The illustration shows what the community wants us to talk about, whereby there was also requests for deployment, integration and case study discussions.
