We have added 20% to our family!
Our 4th kid, a cute boy, joined our team yesterday, at 4:30AM (in the middle of Yom Kippur, the Jewish most important day of the year). He and my wife feels very well, and I'm going to be quite busy in the next couple of days preparing the bed, the safety chair and the celebration for our newcomer.
We haven't choose a name yet, and you are more than welcome the send in your suggestions.Unfortunately, "Version 2.0" already caught.
The decision will be made by the family's court, cosisted of Aluma (7), Ofek (5) and Arava (2.5). We, the parents, have no Veto rights whatsoever.
While toying around with Beta 1 of the VS 2005, I found myself get intrigued more about the client side apps new features, rather than the new web features.
Specifically - I really don't find the new Datasource controls of much help. Since no one (I hope) is going to put an SQL DataSource on an ASPX page, and the Object DataSource is simply thin layer of coupling form fields and object properties (a feature which was developed by almost every IT shop using .NET), and since most of the new server controls can be found as third party controls, usually with better features, for more than two years, I really couldn't make myself excited about this.
BUT - the new Visual Studio Tools for Office definitely caught me. The first version of VSTO was, IMHO, wrong step in the right direction. I mean - common, why do I need to implement 26(!) methods in an applet-like fashion just to display a single button in the task pane? But the new version is really good. To have the word designer integrated directly into the VS designer - yes, this is how things should be done! A real masterpiece.
Furthermore - the ClickOnce mechanism is another revelation. Now there is really no real reason to develop a web inter-organization application.
I guess my focus will have to shift from web based to (office | winforms) based application in the near future.
Good thing we still have Java, which has no any other viable alternative to the web...