我们忙着欢度春节的时候，VSLive 2005也如火如荼的开始了。
一些新的消息也从VSLive 2005上公布出来，比如有关VS2005新的CTP版本，Avalon以及Indigo的CTP也很快会到来。
消息源自CRN"Microsoft To Release Whidbey CTP, Avalon And Indigo For Windows XP Soon ":
"Microsoft this week will reaffirm its promise to have Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 finished by the end of the quarter and its intent to have "Avalon" and "Indigo" subsystems available for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 in the near future. At the VSLive show in San Francisco, Microsoft will issue another Community Technology Preview of Beta 2. The CTP will offer "more team system components" as well as performance improvements to the IDE, Microsoft said.
Even as sources say Beta 2 won't likely be in developers' hands until April, Microsoft insisted beta 2 code will ship in the first quarter. In the interim, another CTP with team system features will be released to placate developers restless for Visual Studio 2005. Microsoft product manager John Montgomery acknowledged that only one of the team system components made it into Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 last year.
Additionally, Microsoft will tout at VSLive the planned release of its Avalon presentation layer for Smart Client development and Indigo software stack for Web services development on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 "very soon," Montgomery said last week. Microsoft's Avalon and Indigo are key developer technologies for its next-generation Longhorn Windows platform. The software giant announced plans last year to make them available for the current generation of Windows when it announced that the third key developer technology planned for Longhorn, WinFS, would be delayed. A CTP of Avalon was released in November, Microsoft said. The second one is coming out in March 2005. In addition to its focus on Visual Studio 2005 for release this year, Microsoft will tout other developer technologies at the show such as Visual Tools for Office and Avalon that will enable development of Smart Clients using Visual Studio's Windows and Web forms and the ability to connect Smart Clients to other systems using Microsoft's Indigo Web services technology.
Microsoft will also push developers to write more secure code using its Information Bridge Framework(IBF) for Office and Visual Studio 2005, both of which enable programmers to write managed code. While it attempts to entertain the masses of .Net developers this week with those updates, Microsoft's ecosystem of ISV partners--in hold mode until Whidbey ships--will debut some planned products for Microsoft's existing Visual Studio 2003 platform and future Visual Studio 2005 release."
Oracle 10g Release 2以及DB2也相继将.NET CLR内置到了数据库中，这也正式表明.NET的应用越来越广泛了。但这也显示出Oracle以及IBM对于SQL Server 2005的压力越来越大了。
在FTPOnline的站点上已经陆续公布了此次VSLive的各个消息以及Video，当然还有Slide,上面公布的是在线Slide，当然如果你安装了PowerPoint 2003的话，你就可以完整将这些幻灯片保存为本地的PPT文件，我已经这么做了，：），你也可以直接在如下地址下载到这些PPT文件：
New Smart Client Features and ClickOnce Deployment in Visual Studio 2005
Web Application Development with ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005
Web Services Development with the .NET Framework 2.0
Managing the Software Lifecycle with Visual Studio 2005 Team System
Visual Studio 2005 Team System- Enterprise Development and Testing Tools
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