Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development: Beginners Guide

Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development: Beginners Guide

Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development: Beginners Guide

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 01:18 PM PDT

The new book "Microsoft Silverlight 4 Business Application Development: Beginners Guide" by Cameron Albert and Frank LaVigne is now available: This is the overview taken from the publisher site: An introduction to building enterprise-ready...( read more )...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 is Now Available

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 09:48 AM PDT

I am very happy to announce that Visual Studio 2010 is now officially available! The formal announcement can be found on Soma's blog and you can download VS 2010 from here.

Visual Studio 2010 is a great release for C++ developers. Top reasons you should look at VS2010:

1.       Performance and productivity on large C++ source bases

First off, we completely revamped IntelliSense to make it more accurate and more robust on a large and complex C++ code. An IntelliSense parse of a core header file now only takes seconds instead of minutes. We also added new features that make it easier for you to work with larger sources. My favorites are: "Navigate To" which allows you to quickly navigate to any file or symbol definition from anywhere in your source code, and "C++ Squiggles" which highlights errors in your source code without having to wait for a rebuild. Moreover, with the move to MSBuild as the build engine for C++, you get more flexibility and extensibility in configuring and diagnosing your build process.

2.       Windows 7 support in MFC

MFC has been extended to add support for key Windows innovations. For example, we make it easier for you to add a Windows ribbon and design its interface using the integrated Ribbon designer. We also added support for key Windows features such as multi-touch, restart manager, high DPI and Shell preview and thumbnails. It's also a lot easier now to add support for your documents in Windows search as well as integrate with the Windows 7 taskbar.  Oh, and if you're a VC6 fan, you'll love that we brought back the MFC Class Wizard (now with integrated search!).

3.       Concurrency

VS2010 provides new libraries and tools that make it easier for C++ developers to write applications that leverage the power of multi-processors. The new Parallel Patterns Library exposes a higher level of abstraction to dealing with concurrency than raw Operating System threads. It also adds new thread-safe containers (similar to STL) that can be used in a multi-threaded application. We have also improved the debugger and profiler to make it easier for you to diagnose concurrency problems.

4.       C++ language conformance

We implemented some key language and library features from the proposed C++0x standard that make it easier for you to write better and more modern C++ code. Some of my favorites are the 'auto' and 'decltype' keywords for automatic type inference as well as the support for lambda expressions (which works really well together with the parallel patterns library).

And the list goes on! If you wish to know more about the new features in VS2010 for C++ developers, check out Sumit Kumar's latest MSDN magazine article here.

These improvements could not have been done without the overwhelming support of our customers. Thank you all for the feedback you have and continue to provide via Connect, the Forums, and this blog.

Craig Symonds

Visual C++ Group Program Manager

New Channel 9 Video: Cory Plotts on Snoop for WPF

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 11:09 AM PDT

Folks in the WPF world have long relied on Snoop to figure out what the heck is going on in their applications. Originally written by Pete Blois from the MS Expression team, Snoop provides information about all the elements, and even a slick 3D blown...( read more )...(read more)

Download the Visual Studio 2010 Trial Today

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 08:35 AM PDT

Visual Studio 2010 is here! Get multiple monitor support; new support for SharePoint development, including numerous templates; enhanced multi-targeting support allowing developers to target multiple versions of the .NET Framework; and experience how Visual Studio 2010 simplifies building standards-based Web applications with improved AJAX frameworks, core IntelliSense support for JavaScript, and jQuery.

SharePoint Server 2010 (Part 7 of 8): Developing with SharePoint 2010 Sandboxed Solutions (Level 100)

Posted: 13 Apr 2010 08:35 AM PDT

In this webcast, we explain what sandboxed solutions are, and we demonstrate how to create sandboxed solutions with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and how to deploy and monitor these solutions on SharePoint farms.

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Released

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 11:39 PM PDT

The final release of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 is now available. Download and Install Today MSDN subscribers, as well as WebsiteSpark / BizSpark / DreamSpark members, can now download the final releases of Visual Studio 2010 and TFS 2010 through the MSDN subscribers download center.  If you are not an MSDN Subscriber, you can download free 90-day trial editions of Visual Studio 2010 .  Or you can can download the free Visual Studio express editions of Visual Web Developer 2010, Visual Basic 2010, Visual C# 2010 and Visual C++.  These express editions are available completely for free (and never time out).  If you are looking for an easy way to setup a new machine for web-development you can automate installing ASP.NET...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Released

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 11:39 PM PDT

The final release of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 is now available. Download and Install Today MSDN subscribers, as well as WebsiteSpark / BizSpark / DreamSpark members, can now download the final releases of Visual Studio 2010 and TFS 2010 through the...( read more )...(read more)

Using the Facebook Developer Toolkit With Windows Phone 7

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 05:18 PM PDT

A couple of people have noticed that the Facebook Developer Toolkit doesn't work on the current release of Windows Phone 7. The primary reason is that it has a dependency on System.Windows.Browser - a library which isn't in the WP7 runtime (Silverlight...( read more )...(read more)

Workaround to Data Source Window not populating RIA Services Domain Context Objects

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 05:59 PM PDT

Recently, we found a bug that hidden in the WCF RIA Services RC release setup authoring, which causes the Data Source Window cannot populate RIA Services Domain Context objects, and the Live IntelliSense doesn't work. This only happens when the VS2010 Read More......(read more)

Silverlight Cream for April 12, 2010 -- #837

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 04:46 PM PDT

In this Issue: Michael Washington , Joe McBride , Kirupa , Maurice de Beijer , Brad Abrams , Phil Middlemiss , and CorrinaB . Shoutout: Charlie Kindel has a post up about the incompatibility between VS2010RTM and what we currently have for WP7: Visual...( read more )...(read more)

The secret anti-spam checkbox in BlogEngine.net?

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 05:41 PM PDT

I've been under a bit of a spam deluge recently here on my blog.  I have to hand it to those spammers, their comments are getting more human-like everyday, with their text relating directly to the post in question. Before today I've tried some options in BlogEngine.net to get rid of spam like enabling the AkismetFilter settings.  Much to my disappointment it didn't seem to have any effect on the amount of spam I was getting – it just kept piling up!  I drew to the conclusion that I was just going to have to put up with it, deleting comments manually.  Then this weekend after I upgraded to the shiny new BlogEngine.NET 1.6 I was playing around with the comment admin panel and strolled into the Configuration tab. At first glance...(read more)

ASP.NET 4 - Breaking Changes and Stuff to be Aware of

Posted: 11 Apr 2010 09:07 PM PDT

If you're getting started with ASP.NET 4, there's a few things you might run into that could throw you for a loop if you didn't expect them. Remember that while ASP.NET is a very compatible release, it is also a side-by side release so this was a good time to make breaking changes for the better. Note that just installing ASP.NET 4 won't break your applications. You can happily run all your ASP.NET applications side by side each in their own AppPool. These first two "gotchas" below are if you're moving an existing application over to .NET 4. The third gotcha is an install ordering thing. Request Validation is more strict by default. Request validation is more strict by default in ASP.NET 4 .  Pretty much anyone...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 Parody

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 03:57 PM PDT

Last week my acting career got off the ground (and likely burned and crashed just as quickly). You can check out my Visual Studio meets "The Pink Panther"-like a totally tongue in cheek video right here. be gentle :-) Tim Heuer even has some behind the...( read more )...(read more)

My First 6 months Working for The Man

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 03:38 PM PDT

It's hard to believe, but today marks six months of working for Microsoft. It was a long process - one that lasted almost two years from the first contact to the start date, but it was worth it. I started on Monday October 12, 2009. On that first day...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight 4 + RIA Services - Ready for Business: Ajax Endpoint

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 09:13 AM PDT

Continuing in our series , I wanted to touch on how a RIA Services can be exposed  your service in JSON .  This is very handy for Ajax clients.   The great thing is that enabling the JSON endpoint is that it requires NO changes whatsoever...( read more )...(read more)

My First 6 months Working for The Man

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 03:38 PM PDT

It's hard to believe, but today marks six months of working for Microsoft. It was a long process - one that lasted almost two years from the first contact to the start date, but it was worth it. I started on Monday October 12, 2009. On that first day...( read more )...(read more)

Tweet your Questions on Channel 9 Live: DevConnections VS2010 Launch

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 09:16 AM PDT

Today at 11am (PST), Charles Torre will be interviewing Kate Gregory and Richard Campbell for C9 Live at DevConnections Las Vegas to dig into improvements in the native stack in Visual Studio 2010. All native developers are encouraged to tune in and tweet questions for Kate and Richard.

 

Watch Channel 9 Live go to http://live.ch9.ms on April 12th at 11 AM PST (Silverlight required…)

Be a part of the conversation tweet questions and comments with @ch9live anywhere in the message and we'll see it. So, go to http://twitter.com , create an account (really easy step) and then tweet questions by prefixing @ch9live: to the question text, then click the Tweet button…

 

Thank you,

 

Kelly Evans

Visual C++ Team

Visual Web Developer 2010 Express has Arrived!

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 02:44 PM PDT

Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 Express is a free and robust development environment for building, testing and deploying Web applications across the Microsoft Web Platform including ASP.Net, Internet Information Services and SQL Server. Unleash your creativity with powerful design surfaces for building standards-based Web applications and services. With Visual Web Developer 2010 Express, you can work with Web Standards, JavaScript and ASP.NET. Work within a personalized environment, targeting established and emerging web technologies, including rich internet applications based on AJAX or Silverlight, cloud and web services. Integrated debugging tools let you find and fix bugs quickly and easily to help ensure high quality solutions. Visual...(read more)

New Psscor2 commands – ClrStack showing source and line numbers

Posted: 12 Apr 2010 01:24 PM PDT

Continuing on from my previous post about DumpAllExceptions , here is another new update that comes with psscor2.  When you run !clrstack, you will now see the source and line information for the functions that are displayed.  This can be really helpful when trying to track down where a problem is and what path through your code this execution has taken. You don't have to do anything to make this output display, it will automatically at the end of the line. The output will look something like: 02b9ef98 687db33a MyFile.DoWork(System.Web.HttpContext) c:\MyFile.cs:3710 .csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: small; color: black; font-family: consolas, "Courier New", courier, monospace; background-color: #ffffff; /*white-space...(read more)
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