While you are working hard on your next project, the Developer Outreach team is also working hard in Barcelona talking about all the great tools and techniques we have for optimizing your code for quad-core processors (and of course we’re taking the occasional break to sample the local cuisine).
Yesterday, Soma Somasegar, Corporate VP for Microsoft’s Developer Division delivered the keynote here at TechEd-Developers. He officially announced the impending release of Visual Studio 2008 (“by the end of the November”) and he let us know that the rest of the Team System products will be coming shortly.
Dan Fernandez, lead Product Manager for Visual Studio delivered a compelling demonstration of how a partner used the VS Industry Partner Program to create a customization shell for World of Warcraft. This was made possible by a couple of changes in VSIP licensing: free redistribution of the shell, and changes in licensing to make it easier to use VS output on non-Windows devices. Dan also discussed Microsoft Popfly, an online tool for easily creating and sharing mashups. Very Cool.
Microsoft Sync is a cool new product that was announced this week. It consists of a framework and tool set to make it much easier to synchronize your data across multiple sources in a couple of key scenarios: first, there are times when you need to capture live data but are disconnected. With Sync you can capture this data and store it locally, then sync it with backend systems when connected again — think of roving sales staff who are only sometimes connected but who need to capture data constantly, for example. The second scenario is around peer-to-peer data sharing. In a demo in the Microsoft booth, they show how a customer contact is stored in SQL Server Express by a desktop app then sync’d to Outlook by a sync service and further synchronized to a hand-held. You can see that there are huge implications for moving your important data around in a timely fashion. For more information, go to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sync
We’re off to a great start here so if you’re in town, come over and say hello. We’d love to chat with you.
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