A big thanks to all the participated in this monstrous tutorial at Dev Connections. Whew, I can fully admit it was a lot of work to put all the information together in one place, but I hope that you got a lot out of it. For those that didn't attend, the goal of the tutorial was to provide an overview of the current state of the various technologies and tools for Microsoft developers, with an emphasis on the reasons for moving forward with each technology stack, and hopefully some enlightenment on when you might choose each technology. I'll be keeping this one day session current for future conferences, and for on-site sessions with clients. If you are interested in such a thing, contact me at IDesign: www.idesign.net . Here are the resources I promised from the tutorial. Development Tools In this section I reviewed the stack of development tools and explained how to choose between them. Express Editions http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/ Visual Studio http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/ http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/future Visual Studio Team System http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/teamsystem Expression Products http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression Language Enhancements In this section I talked about moving from .NET 1.1 to 2.0, and discussed the key features of 2.0 that folks should be leveraging. Then, I focused on the language enhancements forthcoming with C# 3.0 and VB 9.0. C# Developer Center http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp VB Developer Center http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic Demos: VB8.zip (211.26 KB) CSharp2.zip (326.47 KB) CSharp3.zip (40.65 KB) Data Access In this section I focused on data access technologies, designing the data access tier, and key features of ADO.NET 2.0, vNext and LINQ to give you some idea how to prepare for the next set of innovations. ADO.NET 2.0 http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/ref/adonet ADO.NET vNext http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/ref/adonetnext LINQ http://msdn.microsoft.com/data/ref/linq Demos: When you install ADO.NET vNext and LINQ there are numerous overview documents, tutorials, and samples that will really help you get up to speed here. These are the demos that I showed in the tutorial. Windows Development In this section I reviewed Windows Forms 2.0 innovations, primarily ClickOnce, and then talked about how to prepare for WPF and who should use it today. Windows Forms Home http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsforms WPF Home http://wpf.netfx3.com/ Demos: Find my ClickOnce samples in this
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