Takeaways from the Conference – 2009 / 2010 Direction

Clay, Steve and I are putting this summary together.

Key Takeaways:

• We believe that we are heading in the right direction with the Silverlight application and the way that we are doing it.


• Other than a service pack that must be loaded, there are no major changes the SQL Server that we would need to worry about.


• Microsoft is Pushing Windows 7 , Windows Server 2008 R2 and IE 8. We can add response headers to our servers to force IE 8 to render in the IE 7 compatibility mode.


• We should push out IE 7 ASAP


• Microsoft is really pushing System Center


• Future enhancements planned for Visual Studio 2010 will enable easier deployment of web applications and synchronization of servers in your farm


• We need to spend more time with expression blend, which is the designer part of Silverlight.

2009 / 2010 Toolset

We don’t find any compelling changes on the horizon for our development practices or tools for 2009 and 2010.

• SQL Server 2008


• Visual Studio 2008 SP 1


• Silverlight 3.0


• Infragistics Silverlight Line of Business Controls


• Infragistics ASP .Net 8.X or 9.X


• SharePoint 2007 SDK with Visual Studio 2008


• Continue to use AJAX

2011 and Beyond

• ASP .Net 4.0


• Visual Studio 2010


• Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, IIS 7 – Provided that Joe’s group has that in their plan

In conclusion, we believe that we already have the majority of our toolset implemented for 2009 and 2010. Our technical standards document is a little behind, but we do plan to document this tool set ASAP.