VS Live 1.2

The last half of my first day was spent with Fritz Onion talking about ASP.Net 2.0. 
There were a lot of fun things in there to include personalization, themes, and amazing
data binding capabilities.

In my opinion, the killer feature of the day for ASP.Net 2.0 is Form Views (I think
that’s the right name).  The idea is that you can drop this control onto a form
and bind it to a data source, like a data table, and customize templates to show records
from the table in an editable way.  The slick thing here is that I can see saving days of
code writing CRUD forms for administration tools in your apps.  You know the
forms I am talking about.  Add/Delete/Edit a user or a department or something.

I peeked back in on on Aaron’s Indigo discussion at the end of the day and heard the
last 20 minutes on easy path to migration for Indigo.  Bottom line, if you are
using WSE 2.0 in your web services, you are hosed.  If you are using .Net remoting,
you are hosed.  If you are using ASMX web services or ES/COM+, you are golden.

Unfortunately, this does not end the debate of ASMX vs. ES within your enterprise. 
In fact, there was a “healthy” debate about this over dinner.

This was a very informative day.