Well, maybe it wasn't the event of the season but things went fairly well. The presenter (yours truly) managed to get through 3 out of the 5 demos. The final demo still did not work. I can't seem to figure out what is going wrong there. If you are working on this demo, you will know that there is a trigger that is created which fires and calls a CLR stored proc. That trigger doesn't get called when I do the demo. I've done it from scratch 3 times and apparently must be making the same mistake 3 times. ......
I gave a rough demo my friends at ARC of the Design and Development presentation for the launch events. The designers make a lot more sense when you actually get your hands on them. It was cool to see the App tied to the infrastructure, validate deployments and then generate a deployment document. I will say however that most of the folks in our Op's department wouldn't make heads or tails of that document. I realize it's just an stylesheet and can be “summarized”. Has anyone out there ......