Making progress

I've managed to make some progress on my demo. Web Services are very cool - and they're so easy to use within an ASP.NET application. I toyed with the idea of connecting to an online web service for my demo, but I've got no idea what sort of connectivity will be available from the conference room so I'm keeping it simple

I've created a very simple web service that takes a zip code and returns the current weather conditions. Actually it's just doing a lookup into an XML document which I've created to contain weather information, but it does the job. I've put together a web application that calls the web service to show current weather conditions.

My plan for the demo is to show how easy it is to put together a voice application to consume the same web service - this will really highlight how easy it is to leverage existing investments in Microsoft server infrastructure and .NET based applications and services. I've got a working version of the application together - now I just need to see how long it actually takes to create and work out which bits I will actually have time to demonstrate - hopefully designing the application around zip codes means that I can use the ZipCode speech application control which will cut down the amount I need to do significantly