I was last week at the Techdays 2009 in Bern. As expected there weren’t a lot of new or interesting things. The most interesting topics were Azure (Cloud computing) and the next VisualStudio 2010.

I visited following sessions:

• ADO.NET Data Services – Creating RESTful Services
• Overview Visual Studio 10 and .NET 4.0
• RAD for Business Application with the new Silverlight 3 and .NET RIA Services
• What brings C# 4.0?
• Deep Dive Entity Framework
• ASP.NET MVC
• Testing practices whit Visual Studio Team System
• Cloud Computing: Introduction to Windows Azure with Christian Weyer
• Visual Studio Team System 2010
• Working with the new Version controlling in TFS

From the Java perspective there was good news: Microsoft decided to implement true UML, implement a MVC-Framework (and make the source open). These are all steps in the right direction, in my perspective.