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Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Training Kit - Nov. Preview

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:32:08 GMT

November Preview of the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Training Kit (Direct link to download)

Creating Streamlined, Simplified, yet Scalable WCF Connectivity

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:48:45 GMT

"One of the most awesome things about WCF is that the concepts scale extremely well. If you understand the ABCs of WCF, then you can do anything from creating a simple Hello World to a complex sales processing service. It's all based on having an address, a binding, and a contract. All the other concepts like behaviors, validators, and service factories are simply supplemental to the core of the system. When you understand the basics, you have the general essence of all of WCF."

Understanding WCF Services in Silverlight 2

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:07:59 GMT

This article covers in detail how to interact with WCF services in Silverlight 2 without reverting to magic as well as how to utilize the async pattern, setup external-website service access, utilize WCF configuration, create strongly-typed WCF clients, access JSON services, use thread wait to ease the need for async chains, and also how NetFXHarmonics DevServer can aide your WCF and general web development.

What Gives? Microsofts Code Generation Tool

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:31:12 GMT

In a world of Microsoft and third party applications, out comes t4. t4 is a code generation tool that can compete with CodeSmith, but its FREE and built right into Visual Studio. It has been years since the first edition with very little publication of the actual application. t4 is a free code generation engine from Microsoft that underpins the Domain Specific Languages and Software Factory toolkits.

IDE Features In Visual Studio 2010

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:11:56 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 has some cool features for the developers to allow rapid application development and basically allow the developers to be more productive.

Update on Silverlight 2 - and a glimpse of Silverlight 3

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:16:21 GMT

ScottGu unveils the plans for Silverlight 3, shipping next year

Functional .NET 4.0 - Tuples and Zip

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:46:02 GMT

F# vs .NET 4.0

Testing is hard but debugging just sucks A$$

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:31:02 GMT

"At the users group I asked the question to the group 'who creates automated tests as part of their daily development cycle?'. After I asked this question I followed it up with, and if you don't WHY, WHY, WHY, WHY...... Below are some of the answers I received (btw, not the first time I have heard these reasons)."

ScottG:Styling a Silverlight Twitter Application with Expression Blend

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:31:02 GMT

"One of the things that makes Silverlight so powerful is the ease with which developers and designers can collaborate together on projects. Developers can use Visual Studio to open and edit Silverlight 2 projects and get a powerful code-focused .NET development environment, and designers can use Expression Blend 2 SP1 to open and edit the exact same project and use a creative tool to sculpt and create optimal user experience designs."

How to Use the Facebook Developer Toolkit 2.0

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:46:05 GMT

The Facebook Developer Toolkit project has just released version 2.0 of their ASP.NET API into the wild, so let's go over the basics. In this article, we focus on creating an absolutely bare bones FBML application that leverages the API. Enjoy!

MVC HtmlHelper for Gravatar

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:01:04 GMT

Ryan plugs his Gravatar library into MVC in order to create a HTML view helper for building gravatar images.

Breaking changes to the String class in .NET 4.0

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:31:13 GMT

This change will affect the behavior of the String.StartsWith, String.EndsWith, String.IndexOf and String.LastIndexOf methods by changing them to perform an ordinal (byte-for-byte) comparison by default instead of a culture-sensitive comparison using CultureInfo.CurrentCulture. In addition, the default overloads of String.ToUpper, String.ToLower, Char.ToUpper and Char.ToLower will be changed to use CultureInfo.InvariantCulture instead of CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.

.NET 4.0, Evolving .NET Development

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:51:31 GMT

Peter provides a detailed overview of some of the .NET 4.0 features as they pertain to C# development.

SubSonic 3.0 Preview 2

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:16:04 GMT

Rob Conery: Over the last week I've made massive improvements and upgrades to SubSonic 3.0 and the templates that it comes with. I haven't been this obsessive and inspired since I created SubSonic in the first place, and I have to tell you I am more than stoked to see this pull together.

Best Practices for Integrated Full Text Search (iFTS) in SQL 2008

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:50:22 GMT

"This blog [post] is a result of lessons learned while working with the new Integrated Full Text Search in SQL Server 2008. It is not intended to be an in-depth tutorial on how to implement it. Instead, it will concentrate on best practices."

RadControls for Silverlight Official Release

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:46:03 GMT

Telerik announced the official edition of their RadControls for Silverlight

Explorations into "M"

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:15:03 GMT

Having freshly converted both the Visual Studio 2010 and Oslo SDK VPC images that we received at PDC 2008 last month to VMWare images, I figure it's time to dive into M. At PDC, the Addison-Wesley folks were giving away copies of "The 'Oslo' Modeling Language" book, which is apparently official canon of the "M" language for Oslo, so I flip to page 1 and start reading

jQuery Intellisense Updates from Microsoft

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:46:21 GMT

With Microsoft's recent releases of the jQuery Intellisense file plus the hotfix released this week using jQuery in Visual Studio has become a lot easier and more convenient. Here is a little more detail on what you need and how it works.

Vista DWM Hacking - Capture and Stream D3D/WPF Windows Real-Time

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:16:09 GMT

This prototype project uses undocumented Vista DWM calls to get reference to a Direct3D surface the Vista DWM uses to paint windows. The D3D surface is then able to be rendered in a WPF application like a "VisualBrush". Because this is done in the GPU, it is very efficient. The sample application will also let you stream a high quality, high fps capture of your video to Silverlight or Windows Media Player.

Suspicious DNK Accounts

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:31:29 GMT

Conclusion There is an incentive for publishers that use DNK to setup phony accounts that will help get stories from certain domains on the front page. So guess what happens ... it would appear that a certain number of people are doing this.

First In-Depth Look At Microsoft's Oslo And The "M" Modeling Language

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:42:29 GMT

Microsoft's PDC is taking place this week and more details were shared with the attendees about project Oslo, an effort announced last year to drastically improve the use of models across the application lifecycle.

ScottGu:Nov 6th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, jQuery, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:46:02 GMT

Great collection of links. Again.

Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - ASP.NET and jQuery

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:55:04 GMT

It looks like many of you have already noticed that there's an official Visual Studio autocomplete file for jQuery posted up at the jQuery site

Grouping Controllers with ASP.NET MVC

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:01:02 GMT

question that often comes up is how do you group controllers when building a large application with ASP.NET MVC. Often, the question is phrased as whether or not ASP.NET MVC supports "Areas", a feature of Monorail. According to the Monorail documentation, MonoRail supports the concept of areas, which are logical groups of controllers. All controllers belong to an area. The default area is an empty (unnamed) one

New Features in C# 4.0 Paper, plus Feedback and Samples

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:31:15 GMT

Mads Torgersen, a C# PM and member of the C# design team, has worked with other members of the C# team to create a document that outlines the new features in C# 4.0. Along with Anders' PDC talk, this is probably the best way to get an overview of what the C# team has planned for the next release of the language. I also want to make sure you know about the C# 4.0 samples. These short projects are designed to demonstrate how to use the new language features in C# 4.0. Finally, I provide a link to the Visual Studio 2010 CTP forums based feedback area, where you can comment on the new features Microsoft has planned for the C# language and the VS IDE. These forums provide a place where you can provide the PM's who are driving the new features in VS 2010 with your valued feedback.