posted on Wednesday, March 02, 2005 9:02 PM
by
davidboschmans
Team System coverage on the ASP.NET 2.0 On Tour
Today I attended the ASP.NET 2.0 On Tour event in Brussels. Great was my surprise to run into Prashant Sridharan, Group Product Manager for Visual Studio Team System, and see him giving an high-level introduction to (almost) all Team System features. Prashant presence in Belgium was quite exceptional and due to the fact that David Platt & Dave Webster, who would divide all ASP.NET 2.0 content, flight from Copenhagen to Brussels was cancelled on Tuesday night. However, thanks Tom for providing the attendees with this great alternative.
Prashant gave the following (new?) information:
- Both teams are well on schedule and Visual Studio 2005 & SQL Server 2005 will ship together late summer 2005.
- The TechEd attendees will probably receive a new updated build.
- The Visual Studio 2005 team is working on including functional testing into Visual Studio Orcas (Longhorn timeframe).
- Current MSDN subscribers will get the choice to upgrade their subscription to Team System. Team Foundation Server will initially not be part of this subscription. More details to be announced in April.
- A couple of months after the Visual Studio 2005 release, an SDK will be made available containing some powertoys for Visual Studio 2005.
- A number of companies are building systems to use Team Foundation Server from non-Microsoft platforms. Looking forward to an announcement on the combined use of media files and TFS which will be made next week.
In the afternoon David Platt and Dave Webster, started with the planned sessions:
Migration from ASP.NET 1.X to ASP.NET 2.0: this session showed how easy it is to migrate ASP.NET 1.X applications and provided us with some useful tips on the new ASP.NET execution model.
ASP.NET 2.0 Web Development in Visual Studio 2005 Part 1: in this session focus was on the new productivity features of ASP.NET 2.0 and a number of new features like project-less development, the design surface, code separation, dynamic compilation and finally databinding with the GridView and DetailsView Controls.
ASP.NET 2.0 Web Development in Visual Studio 2005 Part 2: this session went on from where Part 1 left and covered the personal productivity features of ASP.NET 2.0 like master pages, site navigation, etc.
Membership and Personalization: despite the fact I had to leave before this session, I was told that Gunther & Bart were well prepared to deliver a great session on the membership and personalization API's.
I'm convinced this was an interesting day full of ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 functionality for all the attendees and looking at the number of people who showed up a big success.
This is it for now. I'll be back on-line after a couple of days off in Venice, Italy. 