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Tech Days 2010 - A personal conclusion

This year I attended the first conference: The
Microsoft Tech Days 2010 in Basel.
I was very excited because I did not know what to expect.


Location
The Congress Center in Basel seemed from the outside noble and great, which is then confirmed in the interior. The lobby and the rooms were air conditioned spacious and well (some a bit too cool). Tram means they reached the location from train station in about 10 minutes, so no big world tour.

organization
I've been about a month before the Molden Tech Days overlooked, however, that a student receives a discounted admission. In the demand for support, I was then instructed me again (but this time as a student) to register. But since this was just before the Easter weekend, I was the new boarding pass not be delivered. I received the pass easily suburb.

Eating
were the morning before the start of each session buffets with fine croissant and hot coffee available through the Days drinks, small desserts and snacks - that was the successful part of the story.
The buffets at lunch and dinner could not convince me. This was partly due to the sparse selection, on the other hand, the quality of the meals. Since the main meals
have a greater weight, I am somewhat disappointed with the overall catering services.

Sessions
Last but not least, the evaluation of the sessions. Here I have experienced everything from boring and unprepared (so I felt it at least), and professional presentations, but also humorous and active imagination. The two
Silverlight Sessions on the first day was absolutely entertaining, the Speaker could convey his enthusiasm for this technology and the demos were well chosen. Makes clear, the question then why you need an application in everyday business, such as the access to the webcam and distort the image. But with me it has awakened the desire to look at the issue Silverlight times more detail and to try at home - Programming but also fun and will provide a platform to let the creativity run wild!
The biggest disappointment for me was the lecture "SharePoint 2010 for Developers". This topic interested me most about this conference, especially I hoped to find something that until now not been everywhere on the Internet is - nil. In addition, the Speaker lost too much time at the beginning, "rumzuklicken" on the surface, so little time at the end for code and Visual Studio 2010 was left. LINQ to SharePoint is eg only very briefly flew over in a film and not through code examples presented, although this is billed as one of the important new features in SharePoint 2010. Overall I am disappointed but
of the sessions, as I had hoped more technical details and demos. Maybe I had the wrong expectations and Tech Days are more attuned to the marketing of new products as for the know-how.

Conclusion

• Location: satisfied
• Organization: satisfied
• food: poor
• Sessions: poor
  

It was a diverse experience for the first visit to a conference. Next time I watch myself, however, that the event is primarily the goal expertise building has .