This is a week old post, as I was continuosly struggling to find time to update my blog. December .NET User group meeting was well attended as the topics were “Hot”. It was timely I thought that the Group starts concentrating on Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and beyond.

Since Visual Studio 2005 with SQL Server 2005 is already a buzzword among developors and enthusiats, I thought the two presentations by Manzi and Wella were serving the purpose of getting everyone interested in the new fetaures and stuff.
The Project which we are expecting (it’s still under negotiations) is expected to push our skills and also our development platform (.NET 1.1) to an ultimate maximum. One key concern is the inevitable use interactions with the system, which will end up in so many server calls. As this would also have an effect on the Overall Usability of the System (with constant refreshing of the Browser), we were having high hopes to migrate our existing code to VS 2005 and Try and Accommodate ATLAS
features to take advantage of the Asynchronous model. (Call it AJAX if you like).

Honestly, I was diappointed to learn that ATLAS is not available in the coming VS 2005. So I can really hope and wish that Microsoft Puts it out pretty quickly for us to go ahead with our plans.