"Astoria", Silverlight & AJAX

Well, yesterday I and a few of my co-workers went to the MSDN Live Event in Fort Collins, CO. The topics covered ranged from Visual Studio 2008 "Astoria", to Silverlight and AJAX.

The Microsoft presenter, "Rob Bagby", showed off some cool new features that make developing faster and easier.

What was presented was the powerful Lambda called LINQ, that allows for a "safe" dynamic sql, with little/some overhead of performance speed. It was really nice to see a sql-like structure with intellisense inside the code.

Also, the use of Expression Blend, Silverlight, and AJAX was used to make a image on a website fade into another image, allowing it to display several wine labels.

This event is a good display of what is to come in the .Net environment.

House Searching with Windows Live

Group Inc, has developed a windows live search for houses in the northern colorado area. http://www.thegroupinc.com/map_search/

It is interesting to see the price and cost of the houses in the local area.