Attended the Thursday Nov 2nd User group meeting in dallas. First one since I have moved ot the dallas area. Was held at the Intuit Headquarters in Plano, Texas. Scott gave a very entertaining pressentation with Tips and Tricks for VS.net through several different areas.
One in particuliar was if you select on a text in design view it will take you to that area in code view with the same text highlighted. the comment that it was hard to implement and no one knows about it brought alot of laughs.
The second hour was on the Linq project which brought alot of jaw dropping in observation. as I have been waiting on this for several years I only hope it doesn't get dropped again. I believe it is in there for good this time as it has language support to back it up which in the long run is the answer to a truely functional orm imo.
I did get to talk to Scott briefly in q&a. 1st about thanking that IIS7 has very little limitations in Vista. so you can actually develop and test with vista and deploy to the server. Second I asked about designer support in the orcas CTP's, Scott explained that with Orcas a new check in policy is in place. before merging to main the code must past a series of tests that willl put check-in to main at beta level or higher. most of the designer checkins are expected around the mid jan to feb time frame. beta is exptected in first quarter 2007 as in all things in development this is probably a moving target, but I was happy to hear this higher level of checkin to main given the condition of 2005 at rc2 and we won't even talk about 2k3. douglas