MSDN Event in Atlanta 9/21/2006
This entry was posted on 9/24/2006 7:49 AM and is filed under MSDN Events.
I attended the MSDN Event in Atlanta on 9/21/2006 at Phipps Plaza in Atlanta. Glen Gordon from Microsoft presented on three separate Developer topics. 1) The System.Net namespace in VS2005 2) Windows Communication Framework 3) Atlas/Ajax platform.
The System .Net Namespace presentation demonstrated these features:
1) Responding to changes in network configuration (i.e. when a network adapter goes offline or comes online).
2) Pinging a host.
3) Uploading/Downloading a file using FTP
4) Sending email - VS 2005 now does not use CDO - previous versions did.
The WCF presentation demonstrated a new abstraction layer using binding and contracts. Don't think of this as just web services redone. WCF uses this new architecture to communicate over named pipes, tcp, http and is extensible enough to plug in other transports. Glen also demo'd a simple WCF service - from the VS perspective it is a lot like adding a web reference to consume a web service through a proxy client.
The Atlas/Ajax presentations showed how Ajax can improve the user browser experience because it eliminates postbacks when obtaining additional data from the server. We also saw the different types of Atlas applications (server centric and user centric). We also saw how to implement Ajax via installing the Atlas libraries.
Overall, it was a very informative event.
