Tuesday, June 07, 2005
Paul Flessner's keynote
Getting connected is the main topic.
Gave some historical dates of different eras of communication, such as the first wired message, first telephone call, etc.
1994 - The Internet as we know it was released to the public by the government (of course, everyone knows that Al Gore created the Internet - HA!)
2004 - ~ 500 million people on the internet. Figure is projected to double by 2005 to ~ 1 billion.
Connected systems - making it easier
Visual Studio 2005
SQL Server 2005
BizTalk server 2006
Dev Ready - Database development
Integrated with Visual Studio and .NET
- Integrated development and debugging experience
- Execution location and programming language choice
SQL Server Service Broker
- Asynchronous queuing for highly available applications
- Reliable messaging to scale out
CacheSync
- High performance ASP.NET 2.0 apps
XML Data type
- Native XML Support in the DB
The Center of your connected Architecture
- Highest developer productivity for integration
- web services orchestration, Business process and Rules
- Scalable and available
New in BizTalk Server 2006
- Simplified setup
- One click application development
Team Development with Visual Studio
Infrastructure Architect -> Solution Architect -> Developer -> Tester -> Project Manager
Design for operations
increased reliability
Quality early & others
Predictability
50 -75% code reduction for most scenarios
Web Development
- Development experience designed for Web developers
- Dramatic code reduction; common scenarios built-in
- significant performance improvements; CacheSync, 64-bit
Smart client Development
- Ease of the web, power of windows
- ClickOnce: easy to install and update
- Online, offline & mobile devices
Visual Studio 2005 Demo
Some new changes coming with SQL 2005 include:
Database mirroring
Smart online repair