At the TechEd Developer conference in Barcelona, Spain, Microsoft developer division corporate vice president S. Somasegar stated that Visual Studio 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 are on track for a release by the end of November. The marketing launch for these products along with Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 will be at the end of February.
Also announced where Microsoft Sync Framework and Popfly Explorer which described as:
- Popfly Explorer which is an add-in to Visual Studio. This enables you to easily add a Silverlight gadget that you built using Popfly to your Web page and to easily publish your Web page to Popfly. In essence this makes it very easy for you to make your Web site look that much cooler.
- CTP for the Microsoft Sync Framework that enables you to build on the offline synchronization capability in Visual Studio 2008 and deliver great peer-to-peer and offline synchronization capabilities that let you sync-enable your application. This in turns enables data (irrespective of the protocol or the data type or the data store) to follow your customer no matter where they are and no matter what device they use.
Earlier in the month Scott Guthrie announced that Microsoft is working on a Model-View-Controller Framework for ASP.NET which will ship as a fully supported ASP.NET feature in the first half of next year.
Update:
Scott Guthrie has posted the first of a series of posts on developing a simple e-commerce storefront application using the ASP.NET MVC framework and the Northwind database. Part 2 - URL Routing, Part 3 - Passing Data From Controllers to Views and Part 4 - Handling Form Edit and Post Scenarios are also not online.