Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 - Web Tools Overview

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 - Web Tools Overview

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 - Web Tools Overview

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 09:22 AM PDT

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 has officially shipped! If you haven't already, download a copy from here . What New with Visual Studio If you are new to Visual Studio 2010 please check out all our previous blogs to get a understanding of all the changes we made for Beta 1 including this intro blog on beta 1: http://blogs.msdn.com/webdevtools/archive/2009/05/20/visual-studio-10-and-asp-net-4-0-beta1.aspx What's New with Beta 2 With this release the Web Tools team has introduced a number of great improvements. A number of these improvements are listed below. New Template Using the default ASP.NET web site template, projects now come with a pre-configured site. This template configures your site to use master and content pages. In addition, it has styles...(read more)

Mozilla and Microsoft work together on WPF\ClickOnce plugins

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 12:01 PM PDT

  Recently some friends mentioned that they saw Firefox had block-listed some Microsoft WPF\ClickOnce add-ons. As Mike Shaver (VP Engineering for the Mozilla) noted in his blog post , this action is the result of Mozilla and Microsoft working together to protect customers in relation to Security Update MS09-054 . I think it is very important for Microsoft and Mozilla to collaborate so actively to help protect customers… in this case we all agreed it made sense to add the Microsoft add-in to the block-list. We also heard clearly that many customers, especially enterprise customers are relying on this add-on for their daily work. As such Mozilla and Microsoft are working together to give these customers the best possible experience. Like...(read more)

Uninstall Silverlight SDK RTM before installing VS 2010 Beta 2

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 12:25 PM PDT

If you have the Silverlight 3 SDK RTM version (not the GDR) installed on your box you will need to first uninstall it before running Visual Studio 2010 beta 2 setup. This is irrespective of the SDK language version or platform. The SDK GDR does not install on top of the RTM version of the SDK. This problem should be remedied by RTM. If you proceed with install in this state you will get an error at the end of install stating that the SDK failed to install. This error does not affect your setup of...(read more)

Five Minutes with Me

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 05:30 AM PDT

URL : http://www.cloudcasts.net/ViewWebcast.aspx?webc... While in Bulgaria, I was asked to sit down with Tibu Tiberiu "Tibi" Covaci for five minutes for a short list of questions. He's released the short podcast and go take a look here if...( read more )...(read more)

The Microsoft Ajax Library and Visual Studio Beta 2

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 09:21 AM PDT

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 was released this week and one of the first things that I hope you notice is that it no longer contains the latest version of ASP.NET AJAX. What happened? Where did AJAX go? Just like Sting and The Police , just like Phil Collins and Genesis , just like Greg Page and the Wiggles , AJAX has gone out of band! We are starting a solo career. A Name Change First things first. In previous releases, our Ajax framework was named ASP.NET AJAX . We now have changed the name of the framework to the Microsoft Ajax Library . There are two reasons behind this name change. First, the members of the Ajax team got tired of explaining to everyone that our Ajax framework is not tied to the server-side ASP.NET framework. You can use the...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 – a first look at the UI and Web Development

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 06:15 AM PDT

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is out and has a slick new UI. Also, this Beta has most of the features that would ship with the final version compared to the earlier Beta. Note that while new features might be added, there are chances that some of the features demonstrated here may also not be a part of the final release. But, for now, lets examine the current Beta 2. The first thing you would notice and probably like, is the UI enhancements. Herebelow, is the launch screen. Also, the start page has been modified to accommodate more useful things. The good thing is that you can completely customize the Start Page since it is a XAML based UI. You can find the start page itself as a Project at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE...(read more)

Silverlight Quick Tip: How to get localized resources from RESX file in code behind

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 10:06 PM PDT

It looks like I'm using too much resources and localizing too much applications lately :) This time I'll show how to use localized resources from the RESX files. Here I already explained how to create the RESX files for Silverlight (by the way the article...( read more )...(read more)

Pubblicati i webcast su BE.IT

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 01:37 AM PDT

Giusto stamattina ho visto che sono stati pubblicati sul sito di be.it i 12 webcast su Silverlight 3.0 che ho prodotto. Si tratta di una serie che rientra nel quadro del percorso formativo su Silverlight iniziato ormai un paio di anni fa con la versione...( read more )...(read more)

Application Library Caching support for the Silverlight Toolkit

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 12:50 AM PDT

Here are the application library cache files needed to reduce the size of your Silverlight 3 application's size when using the Silverlight Toolkit....( read more )...(read more)

Searching and Navigating Code in VS 2010 (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series)

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 12:50 AM PDT

This is the ninth in a series of blog posts I'm doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release.  In today's blog post I'm going to cover some of the new code searching and navigation features that are now built-into VS 2010. Searching and Navigating code Developers need to be able to easily navigate, search and understand the code-base they are working on.  In usability studies we've done, we typically find that developers spend more time reading, reviewing and searching existing code than actually writing new code.  The VS 2010 code editor adds some nice new features that allow you to more productively search and navigate a code-base, and enable you to more easily understand how code is being used within a solution.  Searching...(read more)

How to ensure placeholder folders are created during VS 2010 Web Deployment

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 12:47 AM PDT

During many web deployment scenarios developers want to be able create place holder folders where eventually their log files or runtime generated files like XMLs, Images etc will be stored… With VS 2010 Web Deployment there will be a small work around required for you to be able to deploy place holder folders…  Before I go about explaining the work around let me call out that if you do not know about VS 2010 Web Deployment features it might be worth while to check out the blog series about VS 2010 Web Deployment at Overview Post for VS 2010 Web Deployment … Anyways, as VS 2010 Web Deployment is completely based on MSBuild based Web Publishing Pipeline (WPP) lot of deployment depends upon the MSBuild constructs…  One of the key features...(read more)

The Minutes On 9 - Channel 9 Video Interviews with the ASP.NET 4 Team

Posted: 21 Oct 2009 12:30 AM PDT

Who loves you? Not only is Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 now available for everyone to download (not just subscribers) but I've got 11 short video interviews with the ASP.NET 4 team up on Channel 9. I was up in Redmond just last week and made sure to stop by the offices of as many ASP.NET developers and program managers as I could. I chatted with a few faces you may recognize and a few you may not. All of them are working hard to make ASP.NET 4 cool. I'm still working on my video techniques, and I used two different HD cameras to film these videos. Your feedback (negative AND positive) is always appreciated. This series of videos is called Hanselminutes on 9 and you can get to all of these (and many more) using the Channel 9 Tag " hanselminuteson9...(read more)

Data Enhancements in .NET 4 / Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 11:40 PM PDT

On Wednesday we are releasing .NET 4 / Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 to the public and  it brings many cool enhancements to the ASP.NET data controls and Entity Framework. I'm going to drill into a few features of these data related features and you can read more about all the changes to ASP.NET 4 at: http://www.asp.net/learn/whitepapers/aspnet40/ . This contains a very detailed list of all the changes we have made in ASP.NET. Here are a couple of my favorite "data" related features: 1) The Entity Framework now supports the ability to the ability to pluralize entity sets and singularize entities. This means when I refer the table the table will be called "Products" but the actual class that I work on in my application is a "Product". This feels...(read more)

VS10 Beta 2 From an ASP.NET MVC Perspective

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 09:30 PM PDT

You probably don't need me to tell you that Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 has been released as it's been blogged to death all over the place. Definitely check out the many blog posts out there if you want more details on what's included. This post will focus more on what Visual Studio 2010 means to ASP.NET MVC and vice versa. In the box baby! Well one of the first things you'll notice is that ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2 is included in VS10 Beta 2. When you select the File | New menu option, you'll be greeted with an ASP.NET MVC 2 project template option under the Web node. Note that when you create your ASP.NET MVC 2 project with Visual Studio 2010, you can choose whether you wish to target ASP.NET 3.5 or ASP.NET 4. If you choose to target ASP.NET 4...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for October 20, 2009 -- #712

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 08:00 PM PDT

In this Issue: Mark Miller , Kirupa , Sergey Barskiy , Timmy Kokke , Laurent Bugnion , Jeff Prosise , Ronnie Saurenmann , Expression Blog , The Silverlight Blog , and Victor Gaudioso . Shoutouts: Check out .NET Rocks Show 489 because Shawn Wildermuth...( read more )...(read more)

Announcing Convexion - A New PowerPoint-to-Silverlight Add-in

Posted: 20 Oct 2009 07:21 PM PDT

Electric Rain is excited to announce a new product called Convexion, a PowerPoint to Silverlight converter that's aimed at both presenters and Silverlight designers and developers. This first-of-its-kind tool works as an add-in to PowerPoint and offers...( read more )...(read more)
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