Visual Studio 2008
Last week I attended MIX:UK 07 - the Microsoft showcase of all their upcoming web based technologies. Unfortunately I was only able to attend the 2nd day as I had client meetings on the first but that which I did attend was good. I started the day sitting through a talk by Scott Guthrie which was the best of the day. He talked up all the new features of VS 2008 and its looking really shiny. I was going to blog all the features, but I have just read a Code Project article basically summing it all up anyway so I'll just linky that and the original slides.....
Code Project Article
Scott Guthrie's Slides
I then went to a couple of talks about Silverlight which were a little disappointing to be honest. Finally there was a showcase of projects making use of some of these and other MS technologies, such as the MS "web 2" style services - seems MS are jumping on every .net 2.0 service going. Such as:
Contoso Bike Club - check out the video and mapping combo
Contoso University
In the demos talk they gave out free wooden recorders strangely, but we also swagged a free tshirt, 1gb pen dirves curtousy of Conchango and FREE copies of Vista Ultimate and Expression Studio, so all round a worth while experience