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This PDC was the best since NT/1993. Right now, I can really feel the excitement again in the Microsoft developer community in ways that has been missing for years. It's not the same old thing. Many of the things in Longhorn were real leaps ahead, innovations, things to get excited about. I'm just about ready to start writing my first Longhorn programs as the Longorn SDK just finished installing. I will be presenting a series of articles on what I find in my journeys. Also, I have re-organized my blog to have separate Longhorn, Yukon and Whidbey categories to better serve the community. Please let me know what you think and other suggestions as to what you would like ot see. I wish I could have seen the whole PDC but even what I saw moved me. I believe that this is the most exciting time to be a Microsoft developer since the early COM days. In the meanwhile, I have collected a bunch of links to people I feel most captured the essential pieces of the PDC for you:
One of the best in-depth analysis of the keynote was provided by Early and Adopter (i.e. Scott and Shawn). I expect them to continue to be on the premier “early adopter“ guys to bring valuable information to the community.
From ScottGu, the introduction of ASP.NET Whidbey web site. I am so happy that we can now talk about ASP.NET 2.0. If you think you have to wait for Longhorn for exciting stuff, or especially productivity enhancements, you are sadly mistaken. ASP.NET 2.0 is argubally the best release ever with many things that will save you code (the figure is often cited at 70%) and time. For businesses, this is what it's all about. The less “infrastructure“ code you have to write, the more business code you can write faster.
Stephen Maines captures the heart of Indigo and Don's message Essentially, the message boils down to this: “object-oriented programming was a good metaphor for building systems that reside in memory, but that metaphor breaks down when you think about trying to build distributed systems that are stable over time. During the 90’s, MS and others tried to “stretch” the interface-based object metaphor and make it a legitimate distributed platform, but nobody’s succeeded. The problem is that OO systems assume too much shared infrastructure and don’t provide a way of answering the question “what happens when that infrastructure changes?” The problem is that distributed systems don’t respect logical boundaries.“ Read the rest. Well worth it.
In the must install utility category, my friend John Lam has developed a utility to acertain what's new in the Whidbey .NET Framework classes. Get this one now!
Steven Maines again on Indigo and Wire Formats Indigo is actually wire-format agnostic, relying on a formatting mechanism similar to that of .NET Remoting's infrastructure to handle reading and writing an infoset to the wire.“
Christian Weyer has excellent notes on Indigo Building Services Part 1
Again, Scott & Shawn brilliantly “It’s rather interesting.In v1.0, ASPX tried so hard to make web development more like windows development.It wanted to give developers an object based, event driven programming model, similar to what VB developers had.But ASPX has been so successful that it has become windows development.In other words, it changed the world.Instead of Developers, Developers, Developers… the mantra of this PDC is Declarative, Declarative, Declarative...”
Speaking of Scott & Shawn (hey they just turn out so much great stuff):
They have a sample chapter of a Whidbey book “The sample chapter focuses on Generics and My.NET. In the final version of the chapter it will be expanded to include all of the new features in the VB.NET language for Whidbey. The plan is to release the book at Beta 1 of Whidbey.“
If you’re interested in ASP.NET Whidbey, there’s ton’s of stuff on Kent Sharkey’s developer center, including 3 articles from us.
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