Versioning at Tech-Ed 2005

I`m going to be doing a session at Tech-Ed in June titled, Versioning services and contracts on the .NET Framework. This is what the abstract looks like:

As Web services continue to become the backbone of our connected systems, developers must plan for the profound ways the messages and their contracts will evolve. Failure to plan for this unavoidable evolution will result in increased maintenance and support costs over the life of the system. Unfortunately, there are a few issues with the .NET Framework 1.x that prevent the implementation of a robust versioning strategy for Web services. After briefly going over these issues, this session will cover the changes in the .NET Framework 2.0 that address these issues. We`ll also briefly discuss the goals and rationale behind a solid versioning strategy for other types of services on the .NET Framework, and approaches developers can implement now in 1.x and in 2.0 to make their versioning transition to Indigo smoother.

Basically, I plan to talk about our versioning guidance for 1.x and 2.0 of the Framework and how that guidance will help your versioning strategy can migrate nicely to Indigo. I`m also going to try to briefly fit in how to version Enterprise Services, System.Messaging, WSE/Policy, and Remoting. If you have a specific issue or topic you`d like to see addressed, please drop a comment.

To get a glipse of all of the sessions in the Connected Systems Track, check out Becky`s post and for more information on Tech-Ed 2005, go here.