MSFT San Diego User Group SIG Asp.Net
… no matter where you are, you can always find one. I travel quite a bit through Southern California. Tonight, I ended up in San Diego after my meetings were done but kind of in the middle of the traffic window. So, bing up a .Net user group meeting by going to INETA and there’s one sitting 1/4 of the way between me and home.
I’m glad I stopped in as Woody Pewitt, Microsoft Evangelist, gave a great talk for the San Diego .Net User Group SIG Asp.Net at the San Diego Microsoft office. He gave a preview for the Visual Studio 2010 upcoming release – Vegas anyone?
5 takeaways that excited me . . .:
1) ZOOM ZOOM – Arrow over, Ctrl [+] MouseWheel, and you can zoom in or out on the IDE workspace – real smoothly.
2) Ctrl [+] Alt [+] K over a method shows everything that calls it in your code.
3) Ctrl[+]something[+]spacebar and you can change your intellisense reader to a new version which allows you to use a search box within your intellisense. The original and the new listbox/searchable reader mode can be toggled.
4) Azure is built on .Net 4.0 which will sport a new CLR. You can run .Net 3.5 and 4.0 concurrently, but not interchangeably on the same code. I think he said that the VM will determine and control your CLR with that choice being abstracted away from the developer anyway. I think… He indicated that the new 4.0 .Net framework is similar to the jump from 1.1 to 2.0. Definitely not an add-on, but a rebuild.
5) Silverlight update: Silverlight Streaming is dead. Nope, nothing there to replace it. As Kip Kniskern, wrote on LiveSide.net, http://bit.ly/3Rx7yO, “Silverlight Streaming, a Windows Live beta service for hosting Silverlight audio and video content, is being discontinued.” Okay, back to S3. But Silverlight is advancing forward quickly. With full support in 5.0+, Silverlight and DNN may provide small business with a great solution for managing their outside messaging and executing the inside stuff, better, faster and quicker.
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