New Stuff Coming for ASP.NET and Silverlight
Interesting that you can peer into Microsoft's technology future just by scanning the planned PDC 2008 sessions. For example, here's Simon Calvert's ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap:
"See how you can taking control of your control IDs, display images using the new DynamicImage control, learn about better ViewState managment in GridView and ListView, and get more control over the CSS markup of ASP.NET server controls. See how Dynamic Data makes building you data-driven apps easy. If you're interested in AJAX, we'll show you further advancements in client rendering and binding."
Stefan Schackow from the ASP.NET team has a topic called Cache Extensibility
"Learn how the next version of ASP.NET extends caching with an API that enables developers to plug-in custom cache implementations."
For Visual Web Developer fans, Jeff King promises to show future deployment techniques:
"Get a first look at the next version of Visual Studio for web developers. See how the new deployment tools enable frictionless transfers of web projects from machine to machine. Learn about the new code generation aides and the next generation of JavaScript editing and navigation tools. Finally, see how the updated WYSIWYG design view enables standards-based development."
Amit Chopra and David D'Souza plan to demo Silverlight 2 for mobile devices:
"Extend your existing Silverlight 2 applications to work on Windows Mobile and how to build rich mobile Silverlight apps that access device peripherals such as camera; GPS or WiFi or the radio stack for location; as well as mobile web services"