Boot Camp 2007

Boot Camp 2007 30 Oct 2007 09:09

So its been a while.. the last month has been filled with TechEd, a great holiday and plenty of interesting work in between. What has been great is being back in a solid phase of coding and getting full on working with .NET 3.5 and VS2008.

This weekend JD and I are heading down to Christchurch to speak at Boot Camp 2007. JD is giving a talk on C# 3.0 language enhancements and Im covering SQL 2008, ADO.NET Entities and the Composite Web Block. All in all it should be a pretty exciting weekend filled with lots of discussion around the "next wave" in the Microsoft dev space.

Speaking of such things, we have all moved to using Visual Studio 2008 exclusively now, and I have to say its a great step up from 2005. There is nothing amazingly "new or cool" since most of the "new" stuff has been shown under other guises already (3.5, LINQ, WPF designer, Web Designer etc) but having it all togethor and running very smoothly is well worth it :)

One of the other great things in 2008 is the Framework re-targeting mode. This allows you to select which version of the .NET Framework you want to compile the project against (2.0, 3.0, 3.5) which of course gives the backwards compatibility you would want to avoid having to side by side 2005 and 2008. Fantastic :)

See you at Boot Camp this weekend!

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