by whihathac
26. July 2007 13:01
Well i do believe in planning.. and i have been plannin my career since 2 yrs now.
For my last 6 month planner chk - http://blog.bhavikvora.com/post/I-am-alive%e2%80%a6.aspx
well heres the list -->
1) ASP.NET AJAX (ATLAS) -- carried fwd from last planner 
2) WCF - For my BE Project, ofcourse
3) Powershell - Extermely powerful !
4) Ruby on Rails (maybe IronRuby) - powerful yet simple !
5) Silverlight/WPF - not a priority..
6) PRAXIS 2007 ! -- most important 
7) GRE -- again carried fwd frm last planner, again not a priority !
by whihathac
25. July 2007 13:27
Sorry all..
this is my 2nd shift in last 2 years. But I promise that this time, its for the last time.
i am shifting from Wordpress to BlogEngine.NET
also the previous blog - http://whihathac.wordpress.com wont be updated now !
i'll change http://whihathac.co.nr to point to the new blog itself soon.
Please update ur Favourites/Blogrolls/Feeds :
http://blog.bhavikvora.com
http://blog.bhavikvora.com/syndication.axd
by whihathac
18. July 2007 15:56
As the title says it all.. Miscrosoft is gearing up for biggest releases since Vista. The Visual Studio Family gets an Upgrade - the Visual Studio “Orcas” 2008 is already out on Beta 1. To download the Beta1, check out the following link -http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.aspx
and for express versions - http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/future/default.aspx
Well the major upgrades on this family of VS (as far as i know.. will add in more as i come to know)
- Based on .NET Framework 3.5 (get the Beta1 of the framework here - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e3715e6f-e123-428b-8a0f-028afb9e0322&displaylang=en. Its still possible to make applications targetting .NET 2.0 or 3.0
- The VS now has support for designing of XAML forms (winforms - WPF) targetting development for Windows Vista
no complete support of Silverlight(WPF/E) as of now (is it rite ?)- improved support for HTML and ASPX pages.
- CSS functionality greatly derived from the Expression Web Suite. - so no need of getting a WYSIWUG editor specially for editing the look and feel of the webpages.
- VS web developer has full support for ATLAS (ASP.NET AJAX) web applications.
- Also included is complete intellisense for Javascript (wich had been missin from the 2005 studio family)
- Ability to store/get data from LINQ sources. LINQ is a new query language which is toatally integrated in .NET 3.5 and aims at making the data access process faster implementing it the first-class method way amd executing richer queries. Rich queries that you could previously only write in SQL or in XQuery, you can now write in the language you work with - C# or VB.NET which can work with any datasource - XML, Relational dB or object dB without a change in the way you query these types.
well differnce between .NET 3.0 and 3.5 - as told by ScottGu – “.NET 3.5 will have a number of new framework library features - including LINQ, new ASP.NET features and controls, built-in ASP.NET AJAX support, new WPF enhancements, and other assorted goodies.”
About Windows Server “Longhorn” 2008 - unofficially its has been completed(check here - ).. cheers to MSFT 
but still the Beta3 is available for download from this location - http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/audsel.mspx
And lastly SQL Server “Katmai” 2008 - i dont know much on the features but it has mostly to do with the Object Databases - Querying and Analysis. SQL Server 2008 R3 is Available for download Developer Edition (x86 and x64)- https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/content/content.aspx?ContentID=5395
(see right hand section, u need to register and then will be able to download)
Finally heres a Vista gadget that you can use to keep a track of the no of days remaining for the biggest wave of product launch - http://www.wedsg.com/winclient/vistasidebargadget/download.htm
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