Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Visual Studio 2010 SP1

Visual Studio 2010 SP1


Visual Studio 2010 SP1

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 12:14 PM PDT

Last week we shipped Service Pack 1 of Visual Studio 2010 and the Visual Studio Express Tools.  In addition to bug fixes and performance improvements, SP1 includes a number of feature enhancements.  This includes improved local help support , IntelliTrace support for 64-bit applications and SharePoint, built-in Silverlight 4 Tooling support in the box, unit testing support when targeting .NET 3.5, a new performance wizard for Silverlight, IIS Express and SQL CE Tooling support for web projects, HTML5 Intellisense for ASP.NET, and more.  TFS 2010 SP1 was also released last week, together with a new TFS Project Server Integration Pack and Load Test Feature Pack.  Brian Harry has a good blog post about the TFS updates here Read...(read more)

Build great Windows Phone applications the easy way!

Posted: 11 Mar 2011 06:15 PM PST

Introducing AgFx One of the things we've spent a fair amount of time on is working with various application writers, helping them build great Windows Phone 7 applications. Many of the top applications that you'll find on Windows Phone 7 devices today spent some time in a debugger on my desktop, or Jeff's , or another one of the folks around here. In doing this process, we saw a lot of common trouble spots for developers looking to write Windows Phone 7 applications and as I started to think more about the problem. I thought the same thing I always think: "hmmmm, how can I build a framework that will make these things easy for the developer so they can worry about other stuff!" And so it was born, and I'm currently...(read more)

With WPF and Silverlight against cancer

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 11:42 AM PDT

MVPs are well known for their good heart (like the GeekGive initiative shows ) and Client App Dev MVP Gregor Biswanger is no exception. At the latest MVP summit (beginning of March 2011), he took over a DVD about WPF 4 and Silverlight 4 and asked a few...( read more )...(read more)

New Book "Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual C++" now available!

Posted: 15 Mar 2011 09:00 AM PDT

Ade MillerHi, my name is Ade Miller and I'm Principal Program Manager with the Microsoft Technical Computing group.

Last fall we shipped Parallel Programming for Microsoft .NET and immediately started working on a companion version of the book for C++ programmers. I'm very happy to announce that Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual C++: Design patterns for Decomposition, and Coordination on Multicore Architectures is now available!

 

Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual C++Where Can I Get The Book?

The content is available right now on MSDN Library: Parallel Programming with Microsoft Visual C++, and I hope that will help you be successful with the latest parallel programming features in Visual Studio.

The printed book is available for pre-order from O'Reilly: Parallel Programming with Microsoft® Visual C++.

 

What's In The Book?

The book describes six key patterns for data and task parallelism and how to implement them using the Parallel Patterns Library and Asynchronous Agents Library, which shipped with Visual Studio 2010.

 

Design Patterns for Decomposition and Coordination on Multicore Architectures

 

The book also includes additional material. Appendices on how the Task Scheduler and Resource Manager work and how to use the Visual Studio profiler and debugger to understand your application's performance. It also include an appendix on Microsoft's technology roadmap for technical computing, that sets the book in a larger context.

 

How About Code Samples?

Accompanying the book are code samples for each chapter. This includes small code samples showing how to use each feature of the Task Parallel Library and a larger example for each chapter setting the pattern in a larger context. You can download them from our Parallel Patterns CodePlex site. You can also download answers to the questions at the end of each chapter from CodePlex.

 

Acknowledgements

Once again I'd like to thank my co-author, Colin Campbell and the team of editors and production specialists who did all the real work. I'd also like to thank the countless people who provided feedback, helped with samples and reviewed material. They are all acknowledged in the book.

WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers - Hardware and Device Services

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 06:52 PM PDT

This article is part 4 in a 12-part article series on Windows Phone 7 for iPhone and Android Developers. WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers - Introduction to C# WP7 for iPhone and Android Developers - Introduction to Xaml and Silverlight WP7 for iPhone...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for March 14, 2011 -- #1060

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 09:42 PM PDT

In this Issue: Lazar Nikolov , Rudi Grobler , WindowsPhoneGeek , Jesse Liberty , Pete Brown , Jessica Foster , Chris Rouw , Andy Beaulieu , and Colin Eberhardt . Above the Fold: Silverlight: "A Silverlight Resizable TextBlock (and other resizable things...( read more )...(read more)

Cynergy Showcases HTML5 at IE9 Launch

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 06:40 PM PDT

Today I'm proud to announce we have updated the HTML5 game Jitterbugs, in celebration of the final release of Microsoft Internet Explorer 9. If you've got IE9, you can go play it now. Jitterbugs was originally written for the beta release of IE9...( read more )...(read more)

Looks like the new Office2015 is going to get alot of Metro luvin

Posted: 14 Mar 2011 02:46 PM PDT

If these leaked images are true then Office15 will get alot of metro/zune luvin A video of Word2015 that shows alot of Zune like transitions/animations Heres the rest of the Office 2015 images of the other products : – RussianSite … Continue...( read more )...(read more)

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