Our designer is having a field-day with this "at the Movies" theme for our upcoming review of Visual Studio 2008 being held Feb 7th from 8:30am-12:00pm @ the Paramount in Toronto. Grab a copy of this movie poster before it gets "whacked" by the lawyers.
Hope to see you there. Check out all the details after this link.
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On February 27 in Toronto, MS Canada is hosting the official launch of the above mentioned products. The event will be all day long and in addition to a keynote from COO Kevin Turner, there will be some great breakout tracks running in parallel for IT Professionals, Developers, IT Managers, and Architects.
The event will be held at the Direct Energy Centre downtown. Of course ObjectSharp will have a booth there with some great offers for both our Training and Professional Services along with some awesome prize raffles so please stop by.
Also make sure to stop by the expert's area where several MVP's and speakers will be able to answer your individual questions including many of the MVP's from ObjectSharp.
You can also register for this event here along with all of the other cities and their events happening across Canada.
And don't forget, we're also doing a 1/2 day briefing for developers & architects on VS 2008 at the Paramount in Toronto on February 7th. You can view the details here.
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Last night I gave a presentation to the
Toronto SharePoint Users Group on using Visual Studio 2008 to build SharePoint Workflows. I also covered a little bit on LINQ to SharePoint and WCF/WF integration at the end. Attached are my slides. Enjoy.
In case you didn't catch this S. Somasegar announced today during his TechEd Developers Keynote in Barcelona that Visual Studio 2008 will ship by the end of this month (November!). Yeah! Most people were counting on this before the end of the year which mean December or early January so this comes as a nice surprise.
We're talking about some cool technology:
- Visual Studio 2008 (all editions)
- Team Foundation Server 2008
- .NET Framework 3.5
- Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Now of course the best feature in Visual Studio 2008 is multi-targeting. This features allows you to continue to develop .NET 2.0 or 3.0 applications without migrating to 3.5. There are lots of great features if Visual Studio 2008 - even if you don't move to .NET 3.5:
And if you are a Team System User
- SharePoint 2007/WSS 3.0 or MOSS support
- Simplified Installation
- Better Offline Support
- A bunch of other stuff including Power Tool Rollups.
And don't worry - you can install VS 2008 side by side with VS 2005.
This coming Thursday, Microsoft is hosting the annual Toronto Architect Forum at their offices in Mississauga. The target audience is architects that are *not* in the financial service industry. Here's the agenda:
| 8:00 - 8:30 am |
Breakfast and Registration |
| 8:30 - 9:00 am |
Welcome by Mark Relph |
| 9:00 - 9:30 am |
Architectural Agility as Business Value, Dave Remmer |
| 9:30 - 10:30 am |
Office Business Applications, Mike Walker |
| 10:30 - 10:45 am |
Break |
| 10:45 - 12:00 pm |
Visual Studio 2008 “All Up”, Adam Gallant |
| 12:00 - 1:00 pm |
Networking lunch |
| 1:00 - 2:15 pm |
Architectural Implications of LINQ, Barry Gervin |
| 2:15 - 2:30 pm |
Break |
| 2:30 - 3:00 pm |
Project Experiences using AJAX, Amalan Ponnampalam |
| 3:00 - 4:15 pm |
How to be an Effective Architect, Mohammad Akif |
| 4:15 - 4:30 pm |
Wrap-up and Prize Draw |
As you can, I've secured the ever so popular "right after lunch" time slot. I don't know if there are detailed abstracts online for each session, but here is mine:
LINQ: Architectural Implications
Support for Language Integrated Query in the .NET 3.5 Framework promises to simplify and unify querying operations across object collections, relational data, DataSets and XML. The opportunity to simplify or even eliminate the notion of a data access layer is one many architects are considering. During this session we will quickly introduce the capabilities of LINQ, LINQ to SQL and the upcoming Entity Framework, and then discuss how this may affect the design of our data access logic moving forward.
Registration is still open - here.
Update - the event is for Architects not in the financial services industry (my mistake).
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Back in the days of fxCop, (before we had to pay for code analysis in Team Developer) if you didn't like an error/warning, you could have your request to ignore said message in an external central file.
With the advent of Visual Studio Team Editions for Developers 2005, suppressions were stored as attributes in front of blocks of code. Look on the bright side we were told - now you could see your suppressions inline with your code, versioned alongside, etc. But we lost some things with this as well. Now if you were doing major code sweeps adding suppressions, you would be touching lots of files, creating some unnecessary code churn.
Another scenario may involve a given developer doing a sweep for localization, or security, compliance, etc. In fxCop, different developers could have different settings & suppression files.
Well, Visual Studio 2008 to the rescue. Code Analysis will now give us back this capability.
One of the little pet projects I'm working on is to take a code analysis pass, and cross reference that with a change set. The goal is to generate a report of obvious warnings related to the code I'm churning. We can't be perfect here as sometimes code analysis will return an error to a line of code you didn't change, but it is indirectly caused by that. The only way to truly get a clean report would be to do a code analysis before & after the checkin - that might be too much. But this would definitely be a great report for a build - to compare code analysis passes on previous builds.
Scott Guthrie announced today that the source code for the .NET Framework will be released with Visual Studio 2008. That's just awesome. Check out the post for the debugging scenario here, it's beautiful to just step right into .NET code. Of course you could have fired up reflector in the past, but this is much more streamlined and bonafide.
This is pretty genuine transparency and will give customers lots to be happy about.