Spent my first day at DevWeek 2005 today, and I have to admit my brain seems fit to burst this evening. John Robbins was the keynote speaker this morning, giving a general talk on the new features in VS.NET 2005. I have to admit that if I was one of the developers behind ReSharper (the development tool for VS.NET 2003) I'd be seriously worried. All the refactoring tools in VS.NET 2005 seem to be heavily influenced by, if not directly copied from ReSharper (or at a push, Eclipse).
I spent the rest of the day being lectured by (and asking far too many akward questions of) Jeffrey Richter. His first two sessions were connected with the new features in C# 2.0 of which I'll blog about more later.
What was more worrying was what was mentioned almost in passing during his Exceptions lecture (which was in itself fascinating); .NET Remoting is dead - or at least not promoted any more by Microsoft. I'll have to get Ingo Rammer's take on this tomorrow as he's one of the speakers here. It's a shame if this is correct, as the last major project we completed at IS Solutions would not have been possible (or at least would have been even more painful than it was already) if .NET remoting wasn't as well designed as it is.