Ugh. It's been a busy week trying to go over demos and getting ready for DevCon this year. Not sure why but I ended up with 3 sessions doing each twice, plus two vendor sessions and the vendor booth. It'll be a busy few days. We decided really late to do the vendor thing this year. In fact one of the vendor sessions - Html Help Builder got added just a few days ago and didn't make it into the program. So if you're going to DevCon in Vegas this year, and you're interested in Help Builder make it a stop on your schedule <s>.

I always underestimate how much time goes into these sessions. Although I've done most of the material in these sessions before there's always something new. The Web Browser session in particular has a ton of content that I'm going to be very hard pressed to fit into an hour and fifteen minutes. I ran into a host of IE bugs while putting some of these together and the workarounds took some time to get working. It'll be a fun session for sure.

Also the for the .NET Web Services session I ended up doing a bunch of major modifications to the wwSOAP classes which is always a major time killer - parsing SOAP and WSDL files is not one of my favorite tasks. However, in the process I ended up providing much better object parsing support. wwSOAP can now parse complex objects fairly reliably including embedded collections and arrays in some cases. It's not perfect, but with an object template this process now works including the nasty issue of dealing with XML case sensitivity from VFP objects.

As in previous years West Wind Technologies will have a booth at the show. We love to hear from you - come stop by to ask questions, shoot the breeze or just to talk code...

Oh yeah, it's Vegas. Is anybody actually going to be in the conference rooms?

See 'ya there...