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Roughly 200 developers gathered in the Ramada Park Hotel in Geneva for DevDays 2004 on January 28 and for the PDC highlights tour on January 29. This two-day conference gave the audience a good view on today's software development paradigms based on topics around the released Visual Studio .NET 2003 technology discussed on day one as well as a bold outlook into the future on day two, where topics around the pillars of Longhorn were discussed, namely the Longhorn vision, Avalon, Indigo, WinFS and an overview of the next generation of Visual Studio .NET codename "Whidbey". The conference featured Swiss and French regional directors as well as international speakers such as David Chappell or Clemens Vasters. The CodZone community party offered some excellent networking opportunities.

Links to more information and slide materials:
DevDays 2004 Switzerland Geneva: http://www.00001001.ch/FutureEvent/527.aspx
Microsoft Longhorn Developer Preview: http://www.00001001.ch/FutureEvent/700.aspx

I did a rerun of my "Microsoft InfoPath for Developers" speech, that I had prepared for DevDays 2003 in Zurich. The feedback was good and I was happy to see that people are starting to use InfoPath forms for XML data manipulation/gathering.

I also received some interesting questions on the localization of InfoPath forms. The forms themselves can be "localized" by simply creating multiple views on the same data that each represent a different language. But what about the localization of custom scripts that are attached to DOM events?

Another plus was the WIFI network that I deployed (again). This time I only had to set up my firewall/nat/dhcp-server and two WLAN access points. The Ramada Park hotel must be built of styrofoam as the signal went right trough the lower floor, accross multiple doors and even to neighboring floors - nearly lossless. Network usage was high as people are slowly starting to bring their computers to events, download slides during presentations and take notes online. That's how I like it :)