Microsoft virtual techdays

I have attended Virtual Techdays - Online version of techEd. which happened on 9th and 10th Apr 2008. There were sessions on

- Windows 2008
- SQL Server 2008
- .Net 3.5 Visual Studio 2008

I have attended all the session in Visual Studio 2008. I have got overview and whats new about the product. But Only worry is the Visual Studio 2008 cannot be used for BizTalk Application development, Still microsoft has not supplied with a plugin for the same :(. Expecting for the release ...

The Most glamorous part of the event is Mandra Bedi Hosted the whole event. She is awesome and made the event too hot :)

Other than the above products there were discussion about Silver Light, Moon Light and Mashup

I know about Silver light before even attending the session. I like to share about Silver Light, Moon Light and Mashup ...Ofcourse about Visual studio 2008


Microsoft SilverLight

Microsoft SilverLight is a Technology which will provide very rich UI for your website. It is a Plugin for the browser.

We can say it is competing product to Adobe Flash, Adobe Shock wave Etc ... The good thing is the plugin is compatible to all the Web browser running in windows Mac OS X

You can read more on the below link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Silverlight

http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/

Moonlight
A Project from Microsoft to make the silver light to be compatible with linux platform

Read more
http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight

Mashup
Mashup is a web application, which mix information/data from various source and provide you a integrated view or a function.

You can read more on Mashup
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashup_(web_application_hybrid)

There were three types of Mashup
Business
Data
Consumer

Like to experience a consumer mashup login to
www.popfly.com and play with it


Some feature about Visual Studio 2008.(listed only few)

- Can run VS 2005 side by side
- Multi Targeting on VS 2008
Can choose different .Net Frameworks like 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 for the development
- Introduced Javascript intellisense & Debugging
- The Major one is LINQ (Language Integrated Query) which has 100% Backward compatibility.
- Lot of improvements in the view like split view for web application.
- Now Ajax extension comes in the Tool box of VS 2008

Improvements in C#
- Object initialiser
- Collection Initialiser
- Anonyimous Type
- Extension Method
- Lamdas
- Query Expression

There were lot of improvements in the Team Foundation Server. Like improved in the Automatic Build, Integration with share point.
The complete list of feature
http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2007/08/08/final-tfs-2008-feature-list.aspx



virtual techdays Link
Www.virtualtechdays.com