Last day of Tech-Ed 2008! I didn’t have too much time today since I had to catch an early flight to New York. In the morning I went to “Building Differentiated UI Applications Using Composite Windows Presentation Foundation”. This session was led by Glenn Block and Brian Noyes and it covered the best practices and code provided by the patterns & practices group to develop a composite smart client application using WPF.
After this session I decided to end the day with another hands-on-lab. I did the “Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Code Name “Rosario”: Team Development and Team Test”. This is a great lab that lets you walk through the life-cycle and play different roles (developer and QA) through the next version of VSTS. As a developer, you get to configure a build that is generated for QA and then as a QA engineer you get to use Microsoft’s codename “Camano” which is the manual test tool that QA uses to walk through a manual test and also record it, so when a bug is reported a WMV of the reproduction and the steps to reproduce are attached to the work item. After reporting the bug, you switch roles back to the developer to review the reported bug, fix the code in the source control, fix the unit test code to verify the fix and redeploy to QA for verification. This process is pretty smooth, although you can see that “Camano” is not complete yet as some features are still not working (like jumping to a specific step in the movie).
That is it! See you in Tech-Ed 2009 in Los Angeles, California! 
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