October 30, 2003

t the Professional Developer’s Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles this week, Microsoft’s presentations herald a sea change in application development capabilities. These changes have the potential to cause huge upheavals in the development and IT community. Many of the new capabilities shift responsibility for various aspects of application development from

os Angeles?Microsoft rolled out a superabundance of new technology at the Professional Developer’s Conference (PDC) in Los Angles this week?so much new technology that it’s difficult to determine which of the various new capabilities developers should pay immediate attention to. In the foreground: Whidbey, the 2004 release version of Visual