Saturday had two great tutorials. Danny Thorpe, with .net 2.0 was very informative. Yukon (MS SQL Server) is the driving force behind 2.0's changes. This is good news because it means that 2.0 is being designed with specific goals, concerning a real world applicatin, in mind. Performance is one of the top goals, which is a much needed improvement since the current .net application performance is so bad ( see language metrics).
The second tutorial was John Kaster's Diamondback overview. This is the next version of Delphi (Win32 & .net) and C#, combined in a single IDE. This will rocket Delphi and Borland well beyond Microsoft for the best development tool. Delphi 8 and C# Builder were good tools, but they were not revolutionary nor were they as pollished as they could have been. We only saw a beta, so it is subject to some changes, but as one of the attendies put it "If half of the features make it into the final release it will be amazing."
The Diamondback tutorial was less of a tutorial and more of a product demo, but there was a lot of information. 215 slides plus demos and other notes.
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