Am I at the PDC? ... Virtually I am!

Kirk Allen Evans has provided an excellent dump of features from Scott Guthrie's ASP.NET Whidbey session:

    http://weblogs.asp.net/kaevans/posts/33914.aspx

I know that it's an impressive list but, one of my personal favourites is this:

    VS.NET no longer mangles HTML

When I first got my alpha bits... I remember spending hours and hours trying to trick the IDE into altering an attribute or tag - but NO... it doesn't.

On top of that feature list, the first articles are already being posted, in this blog entry:

    http://weblogs.asp.net/pwilson/posts/33936.aspx

Paul Wilson talks about a Generics article by Rob Chartier and shows some snippets comparing the VB and C# syntax for Generics.  He also announces his own article on MasterPages (probably my most favoured feature)

Lastly, Rob is keeping a list of Whidbey stuff here:  http://www.mscorlib.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=263

Even accounting for the hype that can be generated by a football stadium full of Developers that have been overfed Mountain Dew, this is pretty impressive stuff.  If you overlay those features with what was mentioned in Bill Gates' keynote, you can't help but feel that MS must have the jump over other providers when it comes to building and deploying the next generation of apps.  This stuff is going to be very well received!