The Future of Visual Studio
Microsoft’s Development Team brings best of breed solutions and never-before-shown content on new directions in development
KEYNOTE
Visual Studio: The Next Generation Development Platform
Sam Guckenheimer, Lead Product Planner for Orcas, Microsoft
What will drive the next generation development platform? How are we going to use development tools, lifecycle applications and integrated platforms to ensure further productivity, quality and security? This keynote will focus on best of breed solutions which are meetings today’s development challenges and provide an overview and direction of the next release of Microsoft premier development tools and platform. Learn how Visual Studio now and tomorrow will expand your opportunities, drive further productivity and quality and allow you to tackle new challenges.
Visual Basic 2005 Application Development Tips and Tricks
Jay Schmelzer, Microsoft
How do you take you software development project from plan to delivery? This session provides an advanced look at the benefits and features of VB 2005 development such as namespaces, ADO.NET 2.0 enhancements, datasets and many others. Further details on the future of VB will be discussed, with an overview of current planned features and scenarios for the next version of VB codenamed “Orcas.”
Visual Studio 2005 Team System:
Advanced Testing Techniques to Improve the Quality of Your Applications
Sonal Pardeshi, Microsoft
Visual Studio 2005 Team System provides integrated quality and security features through best of breed testing tools. This session will overview the Unit Testing Framework, Test Case Management, Advanced Load Testing tools that Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers provides, and how they seamlessly integrate into Team Suite. Further discussion will be had on extending the testing features to include 3rd party and custom testing tools.
C++: IDE Features for VS 2005
Tarek Madkour, Microsoft
Learn the new and advanced features for Visual C++ development including significant improvements to IntelliSense support, elimination of prebuilt NCB files, dynamic parsing, macro-based parsing, template specialization support, C++/CLI language support, and much more.
Jason McConnell, Microsoft
The LINQ (Language Integrated Query) project facilitates a common scheme for accessing data across different sources, such as XML documents, relational databases and in-memory data structures. This session will provide you with a basic understanding of the design goals, the VB and C# language enhancements planned to support LINQ and a demonstration of our work to date. Come and see how you can use consistent query syntax in your language to access and work with all types of data.
