I know I said I would blog about the conference. It was a wirlwind of learning, networking (and REAL Working.. I had to spend a signifigant amount of time working on a project while I was there :-( ) but I am going to blog about the sessions and what I learned regarding the next version of SharePoint (Lots.. I am SOOOOO STOKED about the capabilites that MOSS brings to the Table (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server)

While you are awaiting the rest of the information fromt eh conference, why don't you start off with the keynote by Bill Gates Enjoy !!

Whew... left Tulsa at 7:00 this morning and now I am sitting in my hotel in Bellevue Washington. I am excited to get to the conference (Registration starts at 6:00)

We flew past Mt Rainier when we were coming in and it was a pretty spectacular sight. Lat couple of times I have come up this way, it was too overcast to see very far. The weather is absolutely gorgeous and I am looking forward to the rest of the week. I'll get the pictures that I have taken so far posted shortly.

I'll be posting at least one blog entry daily covering the highlights of the conference. Check back and see how it's going !!

Sorry for the deluge of posts today, I have been collecting up these tidbits and finally had a bit of time to post them.

In a past life, i was the Technical Lead for Security for a large corporation. I still think like a secuirty guy (or a hacker, depends on which side of the fence you are on :-) ) and I always try to help people take the security considerations for thier architecture into account.

Microsoft has released some great guidance around threat modeling and has some patterns and prescriptive guidance in mitigating common threat scenario's.

Check out the downloads section, there's a threat modeling tool that the ACE team has released, there's also some great articles on writing secure code, code access security and securing your web or windows application. I know that the more you try to make your application secure, the mor ...

I have had quite a few folks tell that they are frustrated with the web service support in Microsoft Office. Well, I feel your pain but you do hav eto consider the complexity of binding to web services (they can really have ANY structure, it's not like a dataset, datatable, etc..)

I have been telling folks that if they are wanting thier users to pull data from web services into Office Documents, they will stil have to write some code (in the old days, you'd write a macro in VB to do this)

Enter Visual Studio Tools for Office. now you can create Office Documents that are a part of your overall application stack. Here's a GREAT reference application built using Excel to create an Invoicing Application

http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/vsto/default.aspx?pull=/library ...