Codeguru Update eNewsletter 7/24/2007 Quiz Answers

1. Microsoft says "By the end of the year". VS 2005 was released in November, we'll see how 2008 relates.

2. The current version is 3.0. The four key items in 3.0 were WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), WCF (Windows Communication Foundation), WF (Windows WorkFlow), and InfoCard.

3. They are all real products. LINQ differs from the others. It is the data access approach being added to .NET 3.5. The other three items are all dynamic Web technologies. Air relates to Flash from Adobe, JavaFX relates to Sun, and Silverlight is Microsoft's.

4. a. Gatineau - A Microsoft web analytics product
b. Katmai - Microsoft SQL Server 2008
c. Astoria (http://astoria.mslivelabs.com) - a Microsoft product to expose data as a data service
d. Apollo - Adobe Flash on the desktop, without a browser
e. Dolphin - J2SE 7.0 (1.7.0) - Java 2 Platform Standard Edition

5. Windows "7"

6. .NET Micro Framework

7. a. A way to show standard web pages on a mobile device
(http://labs.live.com/deepfish/)

Did you get them all correct? My apologies for the typo in question 4. SQL Server 2008's code name is Katmai, not Hatmai.

Brad!

The other three items are all dynamic Web technologies

I have to dis agree with this. WPF is primarily dedicated to DESKTOP applications (SilverLight is the Web version). WCF is for any type of inter processs communication. WF is for orchestrating activities.

I do not see how any oof them can be considered a Web technology...

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