Last week I was at teched emea in Barcelona. This was the second time there and it was better than last year maybe because I followed more technical sessions.

Here are some reflections:

- WindowsForms is dead. There was 300 sessions at TechEd and only 1 was dedicated to WindowsForms and that session was canceled. So think about it if you are starting a new Windows Application: WPF rulez!

- Cloud Services. Announced at PDCsome weeks ago they are the big new for next years. Our application can be hosted online somewhere in the “clouds”. The big obstacle that I see is the Data. Here in Italy the customers are very jealous about their data and not everybody will agree in keep the data outside in the clouds.

- Parallel Programming. A lot of sessions on this theme. In near future we can’t develope application without think about it. The multi core processors are everywhere and our application must use all of theme with right balance of resources.

- The relation database is more hidden than ever. Pat Helland and David Chappelhad talk of destructured data and the Sql Data Servicesworks with gerarchic data. We can build our entities using properties that have a Name, a Type and a Value but the source are heterogeneous and we can’t guarantee that they are the only properties maybe there are others that we need to manage.