Right… this is going to be an immensely dull entry for the majority of people. I heartily recommend you skip over this and on to something slightly less coma inducing. If you actually need some sleep or something, then go to the full entry to get the full SP. But don’t say I didn’t warn you! 
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What’s new in Visual Studio 2005
This was the Technical Keynote, ably presented by Wintellect’s John Robbins. Visual Studio 2005 (aka Whidbey) looks full of lovely features for all those poor hard done by MS developers. Truth be told though, it looks like ‘just another’ IDE, with a lot of the now-standard features plugged in. You get proper intelligent code assist, the wriggly red and yellow lines under suspect bits of code, automatic code imports, easy refactoring… Basically everything that’s been things like IDEA and Eclipse for at least the last couple of releases.
Visual Studio Team System
If you’re working in a large MS based team, then I would expect VS Team System could be quite useful. It’s one of those all-encompassing, end-to-end development ’systems’ which purports to offer more than the sum of its parts. You get the Visual Studio IDE (of course), config management, task management, defect management, requirement management – everything, it seems. It all looks very good, except it seems to be amazingly expensive, and the demo was plagued by a plethora of illegal exception popups. Do you want to send a problem report to Microsoft? “Not ready for primetime” was one comment
Patterns for high-capability Internet Technology systems
This was one of the most useful and interesting sessions of the week. Andy Longshaw (of
blueskyline.com) went through the series of design steps most systems go through before they hit production, but usually they are done without much thought, because that’s what’s always been done. The session covered things like clustering, layering, replication etc., with particular reference to how they each affect the system’s
NFRs – scalability, managability, security, availability, performance and so on.
.NET Development Tools
OK, maybe not the most relavent of sessions for me to attend, but it was interesting nonetheless. John Robbins took the audience through a group of tools he uses on a regular basis in his .NET life, and as a Java-dweller, it was interesting to note the similarities between the .NET and Java worlds – JUnit seems to have spawned a couple of clones, for example.
Modeling and Languages
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Are you being served: do you really need SOA?
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Design and Development of Service-Oriented Applications
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.NET performance tips and tricks
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Distributed applications in an "Indigo" world
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