TechEd Developers 2007 in retrospect – Monday
Last week I went to Barcelona for five days, participating at TechEd Developers 2007 (05. - 09. november). In the following posts I'll just show you a short summary of my experience at TechEd Developers 2007. Let's start on Monday.
On Monday the Keynote-Session started after a life grafiti-show with some really breaking news presented by S. Somasegar (Microsofts Corporate Vice President of the developer division):
- Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 will be available to MSDN subscribers by the end of November
- The first CTP of Microsofts Sync Framework is available now
- For those of you using Microsoft Popfly, a new Popfly Explorer will be available
- This year there will already be a CTP of the next Version of Visual Studio, called "Rosario". In 2008 there will be a Beta of it
- If you have .NET 3.0 already installed, an installation of .NET 3.5 will use this existing installation and change the red bit assemblies (some existing .NET 3.0 assemblies) and add some brand new Assemblies (the green bits). That means, after the installation of .NET 3.5 you wont come back to .NET 3.0, but every .NET 3.0 application should run well on .NET 3.5 (if Microsoft has done a good job with the red bits)
- If you haven't .NET 3.0 installed, an installation of .NET 3.5 will install whole .NET 3.0, plus the red and green bits of .NET 3.5