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Jon BoxArchitect EvangelistMicrosoft

FY08 CR DPE Next Web Road-show

John MullinaxPlatform Strategy AdvisorMicrosoft

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Agenda8:30 am – 9:00 am: Breakfast9:00 am – 9:15 am: Introduction by Microsoft9:15 am – 12:00 noon: Featured talk by Pluralsight

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WPF App Mobile App

Web App

Cloud Data Storage

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Silverlight 2 Beta 2Framework

s• .NET Framework•WCF Integration•LINQ (XML, Obj)•ADO.NET Data Services•Control Framework •Standard Controls

Languages•VB.NET•C#• Iron Python• Iron Ruby

Dev Tools•Expression Blend 2.5•VS 2008 Extensions•Silverlight

Debugging

Resources:• Silverlight 2 Beta 2 Installation

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=120319• Blend 2.5 June Preview Installation

http://www.microsoft.com/expression/try-it/default.aspx?filter=prerelease• Learn Silverlight: http://www.silverlight.net

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Services in the Cloud – SSDS BetaSQL Server Data Services

Microsoft® SQL Server® Data Services (SSDS) is aWeb facing data storage and processing utility

Scales without Limits

• Storage and processing scales without restrictions

• Businesses pay only for the resources consumed

Application Agility

• Simple, flexible data

model

• REST and SOAP protocols support

Business Ready SLA

• Built using robust Microsoft SQL Server technology

• SLA for business continuity

• Highly available, reliable and secure

Resources•Learning and registration for beta: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/dataservices•SSDS team blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/ssds

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VS 2008 & .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta

Visual Studio 2008• Improved WPF Designers•SQL Server 2008 support•ADO.NET Entity Designer• TFS usability enhancements and SQL 2008 hosting support•Web development enhancements (AJAX controls, site deployment, data and tools)

.NET Framework 3.5

•WPF performance enhancement•Optimized client .NET runtime•WCF service performance enhancement when hosted in IIS•ADO.NET Entity Framework•ADO.NET Data Services•WCF support for ADO.NET entity based DataContracts.• Improved REST service support

Resources:• SP1 beta download location:

http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=8835254 • SP1 overview (Scot Guthrie’s blog):

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-framework-3-5-service-pack-1-beta.aspx

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Distributed in-memory cache –Velocity CTP

Velocity• Distributed in-memory cache• A cluster of cache nodes• Fault tolerant caching of .NET objects• ASP.NET session synchronization• Named caches and searchable regions• Applications use cache-aside pattern• Uses high perf TCP/IP communications

Resources:• CTP download location:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=B24C3708-EEFF-4055-A867-19B5851E7CD2&displaylang=en

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Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 in AugustFeatures

• Full CSS 2.1 support

• HTML 5 support• Web activities• Web slices• Script performance• Cross-domain object• User experience through zooming• IE7 compatibility mode

ResourcesIE Team Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/ieIE Developer Center: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/ie

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Windows Server 2008 Success Stories

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