Webcast Experience: WS-ReliableMessaging in WCF

During my webcast on "Why we need Reliablility in SOAP: Web Services", there were a couple of hiccups which hindered a better listener experiences.

1. I cannot see the animation on the slides I am presenting, even though I am assured by the presenter that the floor is seeing it. Therefore, I am guessing what the audience is actually seeing in my click-animation and gauging my content from there. It was neither easy nor pleasant.
2. There was a disconnect incident in my demos that also marred the listener's experience. I had to re-login again. Not Good.

Isnt it ironic? My network connection showed lack of reliability when I am talking about Reliability as a topic. i-wink. Now the least I can do is to answer a couple of questions that popped up after the session:

Q: Is RM available for all the bindings in _WCF_ ? 
A: Yes, it is available for MOST of the standard bindings in WCF. In some bindings such as the netTcpBinding I showed, it is On-by-Default. In bindings such as wsDualHttpBinding where you need correlation of different channels and such, it is Always-On. It doesnt make sense to stick <reliableSession /> in a netMsmqBinding, for example.

Q: Is this the same WS-RM spec that is authored by IBM, Microsoft and TIBCO ? 
A: Yes. In my slide, I mentioned - I.B.M and TIBCO. I.B.M is actually the acronym I used for IBM, BEA and Microsoft. i-wink

Q: Can I get the demo you showed? 
A: No, I am sorry. In any case, my demos will not work with the lastest WinFX B2 bits today. I will need time to port them over. I recommend you go bug Shy when you see him and ask him for his WS-RM demo which consists of a WPF stack in there and a "awesomely" cool Rubik's Cube demo and is 100x better than mine.

All in all, it is quite a different experience than doing an on-stage presentation, especially when you spent an hour talking to yourself and you cannot see the audience faces and cannot manipulate your content and presentation based on their moods.

But then again, no one can see that I am wearing my Mickey-Mouse boxers while I am presenting, so I guess that is a good trade-off.