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Scott Guthrie in Stockholm

Today Scott Guthrie visited Stockholm and Chinateatern to talk about the news in Visual Studio 2010, ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC 2 och Silverlight 4. I could sum this up with just one word: awesome!

As usual I get incredibly excited to get my hands on all of these new cool stuff and I am really longing for the release of  Visual Studio 2010 . Until further notice I have to settle with playing around with the beta 2 at home. I am not going to go through all of the news in the products, because it is available in so many other places, such as  Scott Guthrie's blog. He has among other things written a series of posts where he deals with the news in  Visual Studio 2010 .

Much of what was shown today I have already seen or read about on various blogs, but one thing that I completely missed is the IIS SEO Toolkit. It is simply a tool that is installed as an addition to IIS 7 and analyzes the search engine friendliness of any public web site at any time. Scott has done an absolutely brilliant blog post on the topic, which saves an awful lot of time for me. I have not installed it myself yet but I will soon do so, and probably be a little ashamed too...
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