Well, another year gone by, but it's been an interesting one for .net and GIS developers like myself. The Katmai spatial beta, VS 2k8, silverlight, 3.5, and the ASP.NET MVC framework (c'mon guys a better name please?) all came out this year. Each worthy of their own dedicated blogs, let alone posts, but I must say I am looking forward to development work on SQL 2008 the most (surprise). The spatial functionality alone is amazing, let alone the other sweet stuff the bolted on - the hierarchical data type is interesting indeed. My community work with .netTiers has slowed as I try to figure out how we can bring the new LINQ and 2K8 functionality to the plate. I'm still not exactly sure, and to be honest, development work inside the .netTiers is not very structured, to say the least. Right hand meet left hand, etc.
I really wish I could show some of the amazing stuff I've been doing with SQL server, it's really really awesome and interesting, but a lot of the stuff I've been working on can be directly used at work so of course that takes precedence. Stay tuned though, our spatial data work at Spatial Data Logic is quite cutting edge indeed.