The Road to PDC - .NET Framework 4.0 and “Dublin”

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We’re within a month of this year’s Professional Developer’s Conference, and like a lot of folks, I’ve bought my ticket and booked my hotel. We’ll unveil a lot of new technology there, but I’d like to provide an early look today at a couple things. You may have already seen some of the news this week about Visual Studio 2010. Today, we’re providing a deeper look into some of the new functionality developers can expect with the next version of the .NET Framework, now officially dubbed “.NET Framework 4.0”. We’re also announcing some important technology enhancements to the app server functionality within future versions of Windows Server, codenamed “Dublin”.

Each of these pieces is interesting by itself, but together we think they significantly simplify the effort required to build, deploy and manage composite applications. As developers are broadly adopting the use of web services to build applications (using a spectrum of both advanced WS-* services as well as lighter weight RESTful services), they are reusing services that can live disparately across their enterprises, or on the web. The best part of composite applications is that they can improve productivity and efficiency on the dev side and give more power to end users for accessing and managing data that’s most critical to the business. As a result of the growing popularity of composite apps, developers require new levels of sophistication for building distributed, long-running, and workflow-centric applications.

This is where today’s news comes in. Updates to the next versions of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) are focused on reducing complexity for developers by providing better support for Web 2.0 technologies like REST, POX and ATOM, and increasing performance and scalability in the process. In fact, early tests show these improvements to WCF and WF are, at a minimum, enabling 10X the perf and scalability—and to think we’re still fine tuning here! Second, “Dublin” makes it easier to deploy, manage and scale these next-generation applications. For a more detailed look at improvements and enhancements in the .NET FW 4.0 components WCF and WF 4.0 as well as “Dublin”, check out this site for additional product details and a Microsoft sponsored Web cast.

We’ve had the opportunity to present an overview of these updates to some of our community members over the last couple weeks, in fact, we already have a variety of partners, including AmberPoint, Eclipsys, Frends Technology, Global 360, RedPrairie, SOA Software Inc., Epicor Software Corporation and Telerik working to take advantage of WF, WCF and “Dublin” in future technologies. Equally important, an internal ISV, Microsoft Dynamics, is also leveraging “Dublin” for future versions.

The fun doesn’t stop here. Next week, you’ll hear more from us on how “Oslo” fits into the picture…

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  • Anonymous
    October 01, 2008
    PingBack from http://www.easycoded.com/the-road-to-pdc-net-framework-40-and-%e2%80%9cdublin%e2%80%9d/

  • Anonymous
    October 01, 2008
    From this blog post, check out the whitepaper and the webcast as well.

  • Anonymous
    October 01, 2008
    Significant enhancements to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)

  • Anonymous
    October 01, 2008
    Steve Martin just announced what to expect in .NET Framework 4.0 http://blogs.msdn.com/stevemar/archive/2008/10/01/the-road-to-pdc-net-framework-4-0-and-dublin.aspx

  • Anonymous
    October 01, 2008
    More on what's coming in .NET 4.0

  • Anonymous
    October 01, 2008
    More on what's coming in .NET 4.0

  • Anonymous
    October 01, 2008
    Τι θα λέγατε για ενα sneak peek σχετικά με το .NET Framework 4.0? Στο blog του Steven Martin μπορείτε

  • Anonymous
    October 01, 2008
    How about a sneak peek  into the .NET Framework 4.0? At Steven Martin's blog you can see about 

  • Anonymous
    October 01, 2008
    Im bliżej PDC tym ciekawsze informacje pojawiają się dostępne publicznie. Steve Martin na swoim blogu

  • Anonymous
    October 01, 2008
    Steve Martin today posted a preview of some of the announcements that will be made during PDC later this

  • Anonymous
    October 01, 2008
    You may have already seen some of the news this week about Visual Studio 2010.  Today, we’re providing

  • Anonymous
    October 01, 2008
    Steve Martin , a director of product management for CSD, has a blog post containing more information

  • Anonymous
    October 01, 2008
    This announcement came sooner then I expected, I'd assumed PDC was going to be the first time Dublin

  • Anonymous
    October 01, 2008
    В предверии PDC постепенно появляются все новые и новые анонсы. Повяилась информация о технологиях Осло

  • Anonymous
    October 01, 2008
    В предверии PDC постепенно появляются все новые и новые анонсы. Повяи

  • Anonymous
    October 01, 2008
    Great advancements with .Net 4 (especially around WF and WCF) coming and applying them directly to the

  • Anonymous
    October 02, 2008
    Steve Martin has released more details on the .NET Framework 4.0 . For me, the information on Windows

  • Anonymous
    October 03, 2008
    Even if you are not going to PDC this year, keep an eye out for .NET Framework 4.0 and “Dublin” . I've

  • Anonymous
    October 03, 2008
    Lately I've been working with the product teams on building new things that will be revealed at PDC 2008

  • Anonymous
    October 06, 2008
    I wonder there is so much going on at MSFT these days. Microsoft PDC is going to happen this month, Visual

  • Anonymous
    October 06, 2008
    I wonder there is so much going on at MSFT these days. Microsoft PDC is going to happen this month, Visual

  • Anonymous
    October 08, 2008
    Dublin? Check out Steve Martin's blog for details. Follow the links for what is coming to Windows Server

  • Anonymous
    October 08, 2008
    Dublin? Check out Steve Martin's blog for details. Follow the links for what is coming to Windows Server

  • Anonymous
    October 09, 2008
    PDC is rapidly approaching and there is a lot of exciting technology that is being created by CSD which

  • Anonymous
    November 12, 2008
    I had the pleasure of being in Barcelona this week for the TechEd Developer conference. Highlights –

  • Anonymous
    December 01, 2008
    Steve Martin, Senior Director of Product Management in Microsoft's Connected Systems Division (CSD), made an pre-announcement yesterday on some technologies a bunch of us outside folks have been looking at the last year or so in development in CSD. They