Monday, October 19, 2009

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and updated Silverlight Toolkit available

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and updated Silverlight Toolkit available

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and updated Silverlight Toolkit available

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 01:52 PM PDT

Lot of news this week! Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 is now available for download here. The new Silverlight Toolkit October 2009 Release is also available on Codeplex featuring Visual Studio 2010 support and various improvements on existing...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight (and WPF) Data Visualization classes unsealed [Silverlight Toolkit October 2009 release now available!]

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 10:22 AM PDT

We've just published the October 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit as part of today's .NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010's Beta 2 release ! One of the big things we've done with this release of the Toolkit is to add rich support for Visual Studio 2010...( read more )...(read more)

ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 are here!

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 12:56 PM PDT

The ASP.NET and Web tools for Visual Studio teams have been cranking away on this release all year long and we're excited to launch Beta 2 today!  MSDN subscribers can download it today …it will be available for everyone on Wednesday.  There are a ton of new features in this release, this MSDN page gives a good overview.  Here are some highlights for Web developers: Numerous improvements to Web Forms including more control over viewstate, meta tag control, new browser support, routing support for clean URLs , more control over HTML with FormView and ListView controls, filtering support in data source controls, better Web standards support and accessibility New Dynamic Data features including a RAD experience for quickly building...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 09:32 AM PDT

Lots of big stuff happening this week. Today Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is available to MSDN Subscribers and it'll be available for everyone on Wednesday. I'm running Beta 2 on all my machines now and really digging it. It's much faster than Beta 1 and I'm doing all my work in it now. It's come a long way and I'm really impressed at the polish. .NET 4 This is a big deal. This isn't ".NET 3.6" - there are a lot of improvements of .NET 4, and it's not just "pile on a bunch of features so you get overwhelmed." I've been working with and talking to many of the teams involved and even though it's a cheesy thing to say, this is a really customer-focused release. Shouldn't every release...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and Silverlight updates

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 12:39 PM PDT

Today (19 Oct 2009) the Visual Studio team released the second beta for Visual Studio 2010 to the public. This is a significant milestone for the team and a huge improvement over the previous beta in my opinion as a user. As a developer, you can find...( read more )...(read more)

Building A Product For Real

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 12:34 PM PDT

As some of you know; I've been showing a number of Silverlight features in terms of Project Turing.   It was never my intention to finish that project; rather to use it as a mooring point to ensure that the mini-tutorials were realistic about building...( read more )...(read more)

Find Out More About the MSDN Redesign

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 12:30 PM PDT

Check out Microsoft Group Manager, Chris Dahl's forum post about the recent MSDN redesign.

Announcing WebsiteSpark for Web Pros and Web PI 2.0 RTM

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 12:20 PM PDT

Announcing WebsiteSpark, our new Program for Web Professionals and the RTM of the Web PI 2.0 and the Windows Web Application Gallery.

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Posted: 19 Oct 2009 12:10 PM PDT

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Silverlight Toolkit October 2009 Release

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 11:03 AM PDT

The October 2009 release of the Silverlight Toolkit is out, and includes easy drag and drop components and an awesome Visual Studio 2010 experience for the toolkit controls....( read more )...(read more)

Time To Update My Favorites

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 11:00 AM PDT

Periodically I take a shot at listing my favorites: some folks find useful items they hadn't looked at and it forces me to take a long hard look at whether it is time to try something new. Today: Favorite Utilities Upcoming: Favorite Mac Utilities Favorite...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Live Streaming service update

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 10:14 AM PDT

Yesterday, the Silverlight Live Streaming team (SLS) posted an update on their blog regarding the future of the Silverlight Streaming by Windows Live service. SLS was a beta service to users to have a place to host and deliver their Silverlight-based...( read more )...(read more)

.NET Hang Case study: The danger of locking on strings

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 06:51 AM PDT

I had an interesting case today where an asp.net app was stuck in a true deadlock.  In other words two threads were both waiting for resources that the other thread owned. The scenario in these cases usually goes something like this: FunctionA (locks on ResourceA) and calls FunctionB where it needs ResourceB FunctionB (locks on ResourceB) and calls FunctionA where it needs ResourceA And is typically pretty easy to spot, understand and fix… However, in this particular case things were a bit different. We had gotten memory dumps of the process and after loading them up in windbg, loding sos.dll, and running ~* e !clrstack to see what the threads were working on, we found that a lot of the threads were sitting in System.Threading.Monitor.Enter...(read more)

TechEd 2009, Berlin

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 07:58 AM PDT

It's a pleasure for me to attend TechEd 2009 in Berlin this year (9-13 November)! This will be my first time at TechEd and I hope I meet with some great speakers and attendees there. I'll be at the Meet the Experts Silverlight booth on Tuesday 10 Nov...( read more )...(read more)

MSDN Subscribers: .NET 4 Beta 2 is Here

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 09:30 AM PDT

.NET Framework 4 and Visual Studio 2010 mark the next generation of developer tools from Microsoft. Be sure to download Beta 2 and let us know what you think.

Silverlight Streaming is Going Away :(

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 05:22 AM PDT

I was disappointed to get word that the Silverlight Streaming Service is going away, as explained in this announcement . SLS provided an easy, scalable way of delivering Silverlight applications and media. The idea was that Microsoft would handle the...( read more )...(read more)

Expression Blend 3 SketchFlow : New era in Prototyping – Part 2

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 04:28 AM PDT

Thanks for your wonderful response and emails for my Part 1 on Blend 3 SketchFlow. In last part basically I tried my best to put need of SketchFlow in front of you and things around that along with the initial steps to begin your SketchFlow work like...( read more )...(read more)

How to render the same template on the server and client with minimal redundancy

Posted: 19 Oct 2009 01:50 AM PDT

Last week, I wrote a post about how the new Microsoft Ajax Library Preview 6 made it a lot easier to write unobtrusive and imperative data-driven applications . Because for the previous preview, I had written a cool little class browser using a declarative style, I thought it would be nice to rewrite this in a completely imperative way. The mistake I made though was to call it unobtrusive. Never mind that 'unobtrusive' is a perfectly well-defined word that actually existed way before JavaScript. 'Unobtrusive JavaScript' has a very specific meaning that people feel strongly about. To be worthy of that label, an application must basically conform to (at least) those two requirements: Markup and behavior are strictly separated. That means no DOM...(read more)

Announcing ImageWind.net - Now in Public Beta

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 09:28 PM PDT

I'm very happy to say that tonight I'm making public my current side project, ImageWind.Net . ImageWind.Net is written in Silverlight 3, and is a real-time visualizer of the images being posted to Twitter via TwitPic . The stream of images is like a never...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for October 18, 2009 -- #710

Posted: 18 Oct 2009 03:15 PM PDT

In this Issue: Jeff Handley , Jeremy Likness , Gavin Wignall ( 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ), Mark Miller , Nigel Sampson , and Microsoft Expression Product Site . Shoutout While not a complete solution, Koen Zwikstra had done an OOB solution for Silverlight a while...( read more )...(read more)
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