TechED Developers Announcements

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 _s_eamlessly 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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