ZirconRick Reports on the Guathon Conference
ZirconRick Reports on the Guathon Conference
Scott Guthrie (Corporate Vice President in the Microsoft Developer Division) came to Birmingham and talked to about 200 developers. For six hours Scott talked about Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4, MVC 2, WebForms 4.0 and Silverlight 4.0. Look it was even filmed!
Spotting new technologies and obtaining immediate experience and knowledge of newly developed technologies, means that the Zircon development team can bring the latest and most pertinent technologies into client projects.
Silverlight Phone Application
One of the main areas that I was particularly impressed with, was the ability to create mobile phone applications using Silverlight. Scott did an on-stage demo, building a Silverlight application for a Windows mobile phone and the productivity gain looked impressive.
The convergence of programming models between WPF and Silverlight is sure to continue in the future as there is significant cross-pollination between the two programming teams within Microsoft. The converging of programming models ensures that the Zircon development team will be able to pick either technology to facilitate powerful and well-rounded solutions.
Parallel Stacks
Another aspect of .NET 4.0 that I was particularly taken with, is the ability to simplify the process of adding parallelism and concurrency to applications. In addition, Visual Studio 2010 now has the ability to view “Parallel Tasks” or “Parallel Stacks” which should help to make all of your computers cores work at maximum efficiency.
The focus for ASP.NET 4.0 is to improve the end-to-end development scenarios, and to provide a productivity boost for all development within VS2010. Combined with the new release of MVC2 Microsoft are trying to cover all bases of web application development. Steady progress is being made to give options where development is concerned. Be it an Enterprise solution or small website Visual Studio and the recent software releases gives the developer powerful tools to complete complex tasks reliably with high productivity gains.
