Pierre-Emmanuel Dautreppe

I'm just back from the Tech Days 2009 that took place in Antwerpen, Belgium.
You will find here my notes about the sessions of the second day :
- Session 1 : The Daily Scrum (by Joel Semeniuk and Stephen Forte)
- Session 2 : ASP.NET MVC for Smart People (By Scott Galloway)
- Session 3 : Fastest to Market : RAD Web Applications with ASP.NET Dynamic Data and Entity Framework (By Ingo Rammer)
- Session 4 : ASP.NET 4.0 what is coming? How do I prepare my app? (By Scott Galloway)
- Session 5 : ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 (By Jurgen Postelmans)
- Session 6 : Azure - A lap around cloud-hosted Services (By Ingo Rammer)

Many things to remind !
Just a great day ! [Plus]

Back from the first day of the TechDays 2009 in Antwerpen - Belgium. You will find some notes about the different sessions I have assisted to :
- Keynote (by Hans Verbeeck, Gil Cleeren, Peter Himschoot, Katrien de Graeve and Gregory Renard) speaking of Silverlight, WPF, Surface and Cloud Computing
- Session 1 : The future of C#: a first look at C# 4.0 (by Bart De Smet)
- Session 2 : Silverlight 2 CoreCLR : Bringing the power of .NET to the net (by Andrew Pardoe)
- Session 3 : Code Contracts, Pex, CHESS, 3 tools for 1 talk (by Jonathan "Peli" de Halleux)
- Session 4 : Lean Principles, Agile Techniques, and Team System (by Joel Semeniuk)
- Session 5 : .NET Services: Infrastructure building blocks in the cloud (by Christian Weyer) [Plus]

Back from the launch day of the techdays 2009 that took place in Antwerpen, Belgium. You will find my notes about the sessions I have assisted to :
- Session 1 : Architectures: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (by Miha Kralj)
- Session 2 : Identity & Cloud Services (by Vittorio Bertocci)
- Session 3 : Software + Services: The convergence of SaaS, SOA and Web 2.0 (by Beat Schwegler)
- Session 4 : Lap around Oslo (by Shy Cohen)
- Session 5 : How IT will change in the next decade (by Miha Kralj) [Plus]

I will describe here an interesting scenario : what can you do when you have a VSTO project but that you want to open the file from command line (from another process) but anyway being able to access the classical VSTO method and members like Globals.ThisWorkbook, ...

Here we will see :
- how to open a VSTO document from command line (ie how to open an excel document from command line) and getting interop object
- an explanation about why you cannot convert this interop object to a VSTO object
- how you can get use of .NET remoting to access to the VSTO objects inside of your document
- and finally how you can achieve the same result using WCF [Plus]

A bug exist in the method CompilerType.Equals that may produce a NullReferenceException in some cases. You will find some more explanations about this bug. [Plus]