Microsoft Teched-2010

Recently attended Microsoft TechEd  in Bangalore and 

I have a mixed opinion. 

Event organization: 

Though it was held at one of the famous "Lalit Ashok"  but still i felt even organization company 

was not able to properly manage such a huge event but it's OK i don't blame them , because 

whenever we also have organized any event Be it a marriage in family or Bday or any other company event, 

we also make some mistakes. 

But what I disliked most was making us have lunch in full son...it the summer ,
Forget about a AC hall ( even though it's Lalit Ashok) , there was no shelter also. 

Visual Studio 2010 DEMOs:

a) IDE:

The presentation began with Launch of Visual Studio 2010.

Where they demonstrated two features of IDE, which I found

other products have since last 5 years. 

1. Zoom in/Out in source code (Notepad ++  already had it, since year) 

2. Docking out the documents from IDE ( Common this is a very common feature)

b)IntelliTrace:

but later on when they came up with the Demo of IntelliTrace.

I said "Ohh boy, that's awesome". 

IntelliTrace can help developer debug & fix, Non reproducible bugs reported 

by QEs.

c)Team Foundation Server : Basically it's version control + build server. It can help managers,team lead and architect enforce rule for check in. 

•  Architectect can enforce architectural rule for example SetProperty Functions should not be called from
  this DLL/this project etc. 
• Don't allow check-in if doesn't compile or breaks architectural rule.
• Scenario execution : QEs/Dev can record scenarios and build server will automatically run all these scenario test once the build is over. 
• We can also set a rule if any scenario test fails don't allow check-in.

But What I dislike most is Microsoft is continuing to put on it's efforts on .NET  and forgetting their C++ users.  IntelliTrace doesn't work at all for C++  on other hand Team Foundation Server's
Scenario execution part doesn't work with unmanaged code.