VS Live 2.0

Cool Things Seen Today

• New compilation model for ASP.Net 2.0
• Provider pattern gets extensive play in the 2.0 framework (role your own session state,
  anyone?)
• There will soon be a Composite Application Shell Application Block from MS
• Using Yukon Express to buffer data on the client with an update-able subscription
  to the main server
• Query Notification Services – Let your client app know when the underlying data has
  changed.  Wow.
• Strongly typed access to resources within the assembly
• MARS – Multiple Active Record Sets.  Use the same connection for more than one
  operation with a reader at a time.
• Async callbacks for filling out a record set.  No more hourglass to fill the
  data grid in a smart client
• SqlBulkCopy class in the framework.  Think about it

Cool Things Heard Today

• Initializing your app should take no more than 2 calls to a DB
• “Write ExntesionProvider and quit coding like that!“ – Billy Hollis
• There are 2 kinds of users, stupid and malicious
• Wrap data access layers in Channel Facades to make then channel agnostic.  Duh.
• “Designing for Operations“
• Tech Ed sessions will be available via video files.  Channel 9, perhaps?