One of my goals for PDC this year has been to better understand the Microsoft data story about how to work with clients better (Silverlight, JavaScript, Forms, etc.). RIA services has been on my radar for quite some time. I was hoping to get some good conversations about this, but never expected to get almost an hour with Nikhil, the inventor of RIA services.
One of the fun parts of being an MVP is that occasionally we get asked to help at Microsoft events and answer questions around topics that are just fun to talk about regardless (and usually includes a free lunch). Today, I was sitting at the ASP.NET Dynamic Data table. We probably had about 10 people come and go. turns out, the most interesting topic was Commerce server. One of the guys at the table talked about a LINQ provider they developed that lets you make commerce server look just like any other LINQ data source.
Here are some pictures from my table.
(including, by twitter handles @Zannabanana and @EmilyF)
