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Last year saw the introduction of a bunch of cool new bits to play with, visual studio 2008, the MVC CTP for ASP.NET and the parallel extension CTP are the things that I'm most interested in.

I love the new features in the 3.5 .NET framework offered by visual studio, all the cool language enhancements really make c# sweet. I'm also impressed with LINQ, I've been doing some work generating some complex queries with it, the SQL it produced really blew my mind. Combine the parallel extensions with the LINQ stuff above and you start to see how cool the whole model is, some pretty big brains have got this stuff right.

The MVC framework for ASP.NET is another interesting technology, I've had a look at other ASP.NET MVC frameworks in the past but none has really done it for me, mostly because it didn't feel integrated enough. I also love how they have incorporated all the new language features into the ASP.NET MVC framework, it's very cool.

I'm looking forward to the next few months to see how some of the CTP projects evolve, I've already got plans to use parts of the MVC framework on some of my projects, the parallel stuff is interesting but I'm not sure that I can make good use of it on anything at the moment.

Monday, January 14, 2008 3:01:08 AM UTC      Comments [0]