PDC 2005 KeyNote Wed
Eric Rudder started out the Keynote, detailing all the new cool tools available for the developer, 'Tools for Inovation'. Visual Studio and SQL Server 2005 will be launched early Nov 2005, and all attendees will be recieving a free copy of SQL Server 2005.
Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF, not the Worldwide Wrestling Federation) was anounced, this has been a long time comming, we shall see if it was worth the wait. The WWF has tight integration in with Visual Studio, so that workflows can be graphically constructed, and also debugging is made simple as well, with the integration into VS. I managed to get a free copy of the WWF Beta 2 developers guide, and the Beta is also available on the msdn website, so I will be playing with this very shortly.
Also Anounced was Microsofts Expression's suite, this includes (codenames), Acrylic, Sparkle and Quartz, essentially a suite of tools aimed directly at the UI designers, both WinForms and Web Apps. As with WWF tight integration with Visual Studio has been a priority so that files can be shared between the developer and the designer with no issues, a demo of the tool set was provided, and it certainly removes much of the work that is currently done when designers hand over images/design to the developers.
Finally VSTA (Visual Studio Tools for Applications) was announced, this is the next version of VBA.
Steven Sinofsky then walked thru some of the changes made to Office, that provide better integration between the Office suite and SharePoint. If you are an office developer, or an Excel junkie then it is worth checking out the Enterprise solutions provided by the new version of Office.
Eric Rudder started out the Keynote, detailing all the new cool tools available for the developer, 'Tools for Inovation'. Visual Studio and SQL Server 2005 will be launched early Nov 2005, and all attendees will be recieving a free copy of SQL Server 2005.
Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF, not the Worldwide Wrestling Federation) was anounced, this has been a long time comming, we shall see if it was worth the wait. The WWF has tight integration in with Visual Studio, so that workflows can be graphically constructed, and also debugging is made simple as well, with the integration into VS. I managed to get a free copy of the WWF Beta 2 developers guide, and the Beta is also available on the msdn website, so I will be playing with this very shortly.
Also Anounced was Microsofts Expression's suite, this includes (codenames), Acrylic, Sparkle and Quartz, essentially a suite of tools aimed directly at the UI designers, both WinForms and Web Apps. As with WWF tight integration with Visual Studio has been a priority so that files can be shared between the developer and the designer with no issues, a demo of the tool set was provided, and it certainly removes much of the work that is currently done when designers hand over images/design to the developers.
Finally VSTA (Visual Studio Tools for Applications) was announced, this is the next version of VBA.
Steven Sinofsky then walked thru some of the changes made to Office, that provide better integration between the Office suite and SharePoint. If you are an office developer, or an Excel junkie then it is worth checking out the Enterprise solutions provided by the new version of Office.
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