Yesterday we had a NNUG (Norwegian .NET Developer Group) meeting in Trondheim. Mads Nissen and Olle Paulsson from Objectware started the meeting and they presented their thoughts on and experience from SOA (Service Oriented Architecture). This is a quite bold topic, but I thought they delivered very well! They had a firm and clear vision what SOA is all about. Great session guys!
After the break Pål Fossmo and I talked about what’s new in VS2008 (Visual Studio 2008). Pål started to talk about Code Metrics. There were some neat tricks to detect if your source code is unmanageable. The code metric tool in VS2008 can measure class coupling (dependencies between classes), depth of inheritance and cyclomatic complexity. Alt this is indicators of how manageable your source code is. I never used this tool in VS, but I will start right away. Thank you Pål!
I talked about SL 2 (Silverlight 2). This was a follow up the talk Øyvind Viken had last year about Silverlight 1. It was a short speech where I focused on what’s new in version 2. The most important thing about SL 2 is that it contains a CLR (Common Language Runtime). Yeah, it’s right you can now developer SL 2 applications in your favorite .NET development language. You can at least choose between C#, VB.NET, IronPython and IronRuby.
Content from my presentation: