Thursday, February 11, 2010

Silverlight Cream for February 11, 2010 -- #796

Silverlight Cream for February 11, 2010 -- #796

Silverlight Cream for February 11, 2010 -- #796

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 09:38 AM PST

In this Issue: Jonathan van de Veen , Michael Ceranski , nokola ( 2 , 3 ), Tim Heuer , Gavin Wignall ( 2 ), and Jeff Prosise . Shoutout: Tim Heuer has a Quick FAQ on Visual Studio 2010 RC release (February 2010) and Silverlight development From SilverlightCream...( read more )...(read more)

VS2010: The "ValidateXaml" task failed unexpectedly

Posted: 11 Feb 2010 06:18 AM PST

As you're moving all of your Silverlight solutions into Visual Studio 2010, you might encounter an error on compile like so: System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly 'file:///C:\dev\Silverlight\xxx\yyy.dll' or one of its dependencies...( read more )...(read more)

Dungeons and Dragons

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 10:54 PM PST

I have Zune Pass – and I love it.  I just found a song that made me smile.  With the Zune Pass, I can select an artist and have it download an entire playlist of music from the Zune Marketplace that is related to that artist.  The features...( read more )...(read more)

Transforming an Ugly Duckling to a Graceful Swan with Expression Blend and Silverlight - Part I

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 11:58 PM PST

Introduction As I promised earlier on Silverlight Show, this screencast series will show how to create the showcase application shown on www.response.hu (you may want to read the interview to get some background information on the project). The screencast...( read more )...(read more)

Installing ASP.NET MVC 2 RC 2 on Visual Studio 2010 RC

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 11:34 PM PST

As many of you have probably heard, the release candidate for Visual Studio 2010 was recently released containing immense performance improvements and tons of bug fixes. Another thing that release contains is the release candidate for ASP.NET MVC 2. However, that release is not the latest release of ASP.NET MVC 2 as we recently released a second release candidate for ASP.NET MVC 2 in response to customer feedback. I apologize for the confusion this may have caused, but we really felt it was important to have another release candidate for ASP.NET MVC to help verify that we were responding to feedback in the correct manner. If you wish to have Visual Studio 2010 RC and ASP.NET MVC 2 RC 2 installed at the same time, it's not a problem. If you installed...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 clean application level web.config

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 11:19 PM PST

This post introduces you to a small improvement that has been made in Visual Studio 2010 & .NET 4 to reduce the size of the ASP.NET application level web.config 3.0 and 3.5 web.config As ASP.NET technology evolved, the application level Web.config had new things added to it. Since the earlier frameworks were using the same set of machine level configuration files, incremental feature that was added subsequent to the 2.0 release resulted in additional config settings included in the file. .NET 4 web.config With .NET 4, the web.config is tremendously reduced in size to improve the simplicity  of ASP.NET The config settings have been moved down to the machine config file. This includes registers all of the ASP.NET tag sections, handlers...(read more)

LIDNUG Online Chat with Me on Thursday Feb 11th

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 10:57 PM PST

Today we opened up the VS 2010 RC for everyone to download.  You can download it here .  Jason Zander (who runs the Visual Studio team) has a good blog post that summarizes a lot of common questions about it here . As I mentioned in my blog post about the RC on Monday, please send me email ( scottgu@microsoft.com ) about any bugs or issues you encounter – that way I can make sure to connect you with someone who can follow up and investigate them quickly. Online Chat with Me Thursday February 11th at 10am PST I'm doing a virtual webcast chat Thursday February 11th from 10am to 11:30am (PST timezone).  The chat is open to everyone and sponsored by the LIDNUG user group.  The format of the chat is open - and you can ask anything...(read more)

Silverlight TV 7: When and Where to Use MEF

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 08:30 PM PST

The latest episode of Silverlight TV is now available on Channel 9 ! In episode 7 Glenn Block, Program Manager working on MEF and self professed "MEF Maniac," makes his first visit to Silverlight TV. Glenn and John set aside the code for this episode...( read more )...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate Is Now Available For Download

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 02:49 PM PST

We are very excited to announce the release of Visual Studio 2010's Release Candidate. The official announcement can be found on Soma's blog. You can download the RC from this location and it includes a go-live license for people who want to deploy in their production environment. This release incorporates many Customer Connect bug fixes and includes significant performance improvements.  Just like Beta2 you can log Customer Connect bugs for this release. Here you can find a list along with descriptions of what is new in Visual Studio 2010. We are excited to see your feedback and answer your questions.

 

Thank you,

 

Kelly Evans

Visual C++ Team

Helpful Silverlight Snippets

Posted: 10 Feb 2010 01:56 PM PST

Here are a few of the Visual Studio C# code snippets that we use on the Silverlight team when building controls and apps. Download a zip (7 KB) of them all and extract them into your Snippets folder, which is in your Documents folder: Documents\Visual...( read more )...(read more)
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