Thursday, May 19, 2011

Find Existing ODATA providers.

Find Existing ODATA providers.

Find Existing ODATA providers.

Posted: 19 May 2011 11:10 AM PDT

· The OData Producers list on the OData.org site. · On the ODataPrimer wiki site. Read More......(read more)

Contoso Karate – Data Driven User Interface Widgets in an ASP.NET MVC 3 Design

Posted: 19 May 2011 10:59 AM PDT

In the previous post in this Contoso Karate MVC Series we re-factored our LogIn control widget into a PartialView. We did this for a few reasons. Views want to be associated with only one model and we want to reserve that model for one that is more central to the particular page being displayed. (Specifying the Model for the view [...] Read More......(read more)

Silverlight TV 73: What's New in MVVM Light

Posted: 19 May 2011 09:22 AM PDT

Silverlight TV 73: In this week's episode of SLTV, Laurent Bugnion of IdentityMine appears on the show to discuss his latest additions to the MVVM Light toolkit for both Silverlight, WPF, and Windows Phone. Laurent covers several new features, including...( read more )...(read more)

DotPeek from JetBrains–Free .NET Decompiler

Posted: 19 May 2011 05:32 AM PDT

Some years ago Lutz Roeder, a clever your guy at Microsoft built a decompiler for .NET assemblies and made it freely available to the developer community. (Reflector) A couple of years ago Red Gate Software acquired Reflector and earlier this year announced that it would no longer be free. Due to the massive backlash of [...] Read More......(read more)

Text Searching in Silverlight 5 ComboBox and ListBox

Posted: 18 May 2011 01:30 PM PDT

Do you know that, we can now search text present in ComboBox and ListBox? This feature was not available in earlier version of Silverlight. To implement it, we had to write custom behavior. Now if you are using Silverlight 5, you can easily use this feature...( read more )...(read more)

ALM for C++ in Visual Studio vNext at TechEd NA 2011

Posted: 18 May 2011 08:22 PM PDT

Rong Lu

Greetings!! I'm Rong Lu, Program Manager with the Visual C++ team.

It's been extremely exciting in Atlanta at TechEd North America 2011!

Terry Leeper, Diego Dagum and I had a chance to be at TechEd and joined the announcement of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) roadmap in Visual Studio vNext. On Monday, Jason Zander announced ALM Roadmap in Visual Studio vNext (check out his blog post for the entire roadmap and details), and then Cameron Skinner did a demo intensive foundational session which showed lots of the ALM features we're putting in vNext (check out his blog post and session recording).

But you may ask: so, what does it mean to C++ developer teams? Terry and I gave a talk about this on Tuesday at TechEd (check out recording if you missed it! Smile) and short answer is C++ has made up a lot of ground and nearly all the vNext features work as well (the only exception is the code cloning feature which we're working on to enable for C++). In the session, we talked about what's already available in VS 2010 for C++ as well as highlighted and demonstrated some of the new things will be available in vNext that might be especially interesting to C++ developer teams.

Here is a list of what these new features are in vNext (check out Cameron Skinner's session recording for demos on them):

  • Agile Planning Tools – create transparency across the planning process and full team participation through solutions like the new backlog and task board.
  • Lightweight Requirements – a natural way to capture and receive feedback on requirements early in the process.
  • Stakeholder Feedback – working code which matches the expectations of stakeholders.
  • Continuous Testing – unit test coverage ensures quality in the final product.
  • Agile Quality Assurance – increased code quality with code review support, enhanced unit testing frameworks and new exploratory testing support.
  • Enhanced User Experience – more time 'in the zone', through improved experiences for day-to-day tasks.
  • Aligning Development with Operations – increased connections and insight between the operations and development teams lowering the time it takes to fix a bug in production.

Pretty cool, eh? And now I'd like to highlight some of the new features that will be especially useful to you C++ developer teams (hope you feel the same! Smile). Check out our TechEd session recording for demos of these features as well. Smile

 

Static Analysis

Static Analysis (aka Code Analysis) can help you to identify common coding errors before the application runs. It's already available in VS 2010 (works for C++!), and in vNext the experience will be significantly enhanced.

  • The UI is re-designed to provide richer information.
  • The analysis engine is more powerful to diagnose errors and warnings.

Static Analysis (click for a larger image)

 

Architecture Tools

Yes, we brought it to native C++ world. The set of architecture tools can help you visually discover the architecture of your application, design architecture and enforce the implementation to be compliant.

  • Dependency Diagrams: create the most up-to-date architecture diagrams right from your code! The dependency diagrams can be created by binary, namespace, class or include files (specially designed for C++!).
  • Architecture Explorer: explore the assets in your application and generate diagrams by drag and drop onto the design surface!
  • Layer Diagram and Dependency Validation: use layer diagram to create your architecture layers and run validation to detect if the implementation is in compliant with the design.

Dependency diagram by binary

Dependency diagram by binary

 

Dependency diagram by include files (click for a larger image)

Dependency diagram by include files

 

Create a layer diagram and run validation

Create a layer diagram and run validation

 

Errors are reported if any architecture violations (click for a larger image)
Errors are reported if any architecture violations

 

Unit testing

In vNext, you will be able to write unit tests for your native C++ applications. The unit tests can be written in C++, and run in the unit test framework which itself is also native!

Unit testing (click for a larger image)

 

Code Coverage

Now you've got unit tests, and here comes code coverage which is well integrated with the unit test framework. You can get code coverage data by running the unit tests and learn how much of the code has been covered by the tests. The enhanced code coverage feature not only works great with the native unit test framework, but also will work the same way for managed test frameworks. In addition, it now does dynamic binary instrumentation as oppose to static binary instrumentation in the past, so it's also a lot easier to use!

Code Coverage (click for a larger image)

 

 

Hope you would like these features! Look forward to hearing what you think of them.

 

Best Regards,
Rong.-

PS: our session at TechEd on all these was just posted in Channel 9. [Watch it here] Enjoy! Winking smile

BCP2SQLAzure: Free tool to import/export data between SQL Azure and SQL Server

Posted: 18 May 2011 09:03 AM PDT

SQL Azure BCP makes it easier for database admins and developers, to do bulk copy loads into SQL Azure. This bcp replacement allows you to define each load using an easily XML file.
It´s developed using C#.

Dayforce reduces its development costs by 75% and enables customers to increase labor efficiency by 50% after adopting Silverlight for its workforce management solution

Posted: 18 May 2011 03:25 PM PDT

Dayforce built its workforce management solution on Microsoft Silverlight, presenting managers with performance dashboards, approval workflows, employee time cards, and task checklists. By delving deeper into the applications, manager's can view their...( read more )...(read more)

Offline Microsoft Silverlight Applications

Posted: 18 May 2011 05:19 AM PDT

At Tech Ed US in Atlanta this week I presented a session for building Offline Silvelright Applications. The session covered an end to end solution for developing applications, building on the work we've done with relative Sync technologies, local...( read more )...(read more)

Refactoring the Contoso Karate MVC LogOn Widget.

Posted: 18 May 2011 02:23 PM PDT

Just recently I published this post about creating a "logon widget" for the ASP.NET MVC Contoso Karate application that I've started building. In this post I'm going to re-factor it. Why, you ask? Well, sometimes it's easiest to demonstrate techniques in a "simple" way that is not necessary the most practical way. Such is the [...] Read More......(read more)
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