What I Learned at Devscovery

• We love XAML
• We love LINQ
• AJAX.ASP.NET sooo 2 weeks ago
• If you aren't using silverlight, your not cutting edge
• Jeffery Richter knows more than you do about programming
• If your website/presentation/resume doesn't have graphics with reflections
• then its not cool
• Every Thing/Technology should be Asynchronous
  
• Jeff Procise loves microsoft technology more than you do
• People named Jeff are smart
• WCF makes me fall asleep...or I passed out from XML spec overload
• Read ingo rammers blog: http://blogs.thinktecture.com/
• Make a macro for !do
• Outofmemory exception occurs since we can't alloate spave in the large object heap
• !dumpheap is the most important command except if you don't use -stat since you might have just given yourself a 10m coffee break
• !dumpheap -min 1mb...figure out why we get outofmemory
• Memory ressurection is a 'dark corner' of the garbage collector...aka necromancey.
• Garbage collector is magical
• None knows what a async pinned handle is
• !traverseheap dump to xml - read in with clr profiler
• 'don't try to outhink microsoft'
• Studt rotor code
• Never call GC.collect() ....it is self tuning
• Finalization is evil, unless you want performance consultants at your office
• There are a ton of unannounced features in orcas
• Buy .net memory profiler