Microsoft VS 2008

Aug 19th attended microsoft talk at PSDC. It was 1/2 day talk. Topic covers as follow

• .NET platform and its benefits for VB developers ~ Patrick Yong
• Migrate from VB6 to VB.net ~Ian Su
• TIps and Tricks of VB9 - Patrick Yong
• Tips and tricks to migrate from ASP to ASP.net - Walter Wong

All these speakers are from Microsoft. One of interesting topic is refactoring. Meaning a tool is use to checking against classic code ie.VB to see which lines of code need to change. Even have tool tips on the code change explanation. I guess microsoft developer did get job for VS2008 as really simplified developers job. In old days, need to write hundreds of line codes just to generate piece of output. Now all u need to do is click here n there.. viola output is generated. So what do u think sh those classic codes turn in .NET world? Hrm i wonder ....

Here some cool site/tools recommended by speaker

• MSDN Ramp up
• Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic .NET Upgrade Assessment Tool
• MSDN Blogs
• Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Service Configuration Editor