We are here at Malaysia also getting hot to wait for the official launch of the VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005. Here the official launch will be held on 15th November 2005 at the KL Convention Center. According to some folks at Microsoft Malaysia, they have invited some of the very high Microsoft 'executive' from to come at the launch. While some of the Microsoft partner will be participate in the VS 2005 and SQL Server 2005 showcase, including my company. We have already port our apps into the .NEt 2.0 and SQL Server 2005. There are no problems at all to porting our apps into .NET 2.0. We are thinking about how to make our apps UI look nice during the launch. And the WinFX of course provide the rich user experience, but for the time being...we are not thinking too far. WinFX are too cool for now. I have found sample source code for it at
http://robrelyea.com/events/pdc2005/. For me, VS 2005 more focusing on the developer perspective to allow us build application more easier. Create cool apps will never like before. For cool UI, I think Microsoft giving a chance for component developer company like
http://www.dundas.com/,
http://www.infragistics.com, and
http://www.componentone.com/. Apart from the UI, I'm thinking to put something like Virtual Earth (
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/VEMSC_SDK/HTML/Introduction.asp) at our showcase product. Anyone around there have any idea about what any cool features that should be showcase during the launch?