June 2008 - Posts
I am just back from a week on the BizTalk Stand at TechED IT in Orlando, it was great to have the opportunity to chat to so many great people and to meet other BizTalkers.
I was privileged to meet some great people to name but a few
Mark Beckner author of the classic Apress BizTalk 2006 EDI book.
Todd VanNurden co editor of the legendary BizTalk Hotrod
Clint Huffman Microsoft PFE
Winston Woo
Ofer Ashkenazi , BizTalk Product Manager
Tim Wieman , BizTalk Ranger Team ( cool team name )
and great thanks to Michael Iem (Ziem Group Inc) who made the week go like clockwork.
Ewan Fairweather and Petr Kratochvil announced the BizTalk Performance Guide , it is an essential read for any BizTalk project.
Despite daily thunderstorms and flying back on Friday the 13th , it was amazing fun , especially the Simpsons Ride @ universal :)
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As promised you can get silverlight 2.0 beta 2 here and the june preview of blend and zoom here.
The SDK is available here or with the Visual Studio 2008 tools here.
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I like the concept of SideShow and I think one of its flaws is not enough devices NOW , they are slowly coming on stream but not quickly enough for me. So along with all of the other items arriving this week I was pleased to see this a windows mobile version of side show and I have spent the day controlling my PC from my phone :)
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I will say it now and I will say it again , Live Writer rocks. A new tech preview with some cool user features and even more developer features are available here.
User Features include:
Video and Image enhancements : Soapbox support , Better Image support (cropping , tilting , effects )
Editing: Word count , smart quotes , auto linking
UI:
tabs for view switching
Bugs:
many UI WSIWYG faults fixed ( scripts and objects :) )
Dev:
Insert code before and after post
Header and footer support
Samples:
there are half a dozen
the emoticon plug-in seems to be a bit wobbly but all in all :)
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I am not at TechED Dev in Orlando ( I am going to IT Pro next week , see me at the BizTalk ATE stand ), but there are some important announcements to cover off.
Microsoft Project Codename “Velocity” CTP
“Velocity” allows high availability to data by integrating Large clusters of machines seamlessly into a single cache, making it easier to develop scalable, high-performance applications.
Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 v1.2
A new version of Sharepoint extensions to allow developers to use Visual Studio 2008 for Sharepoint dev.
Silverlight 2 beta 2
Available later in the week with a Go Live license, also Expression Blend 2.5 June 2008 Preview and Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 2 for Visual Studio 2008 should be available at the same time.
More on “Oslo”
“Oslo” will be based on a foundational repository built on SQL Server 2008 for managing application metadata
It will include visual modelling and composition tools and a new, declarative modelling language to enable interoperability of models between tools and domain-specific modelling notations.
woo hoo Oslo
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