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The focus continues to be VS 2010/.NET Framework 4 Beta 2

VS 2010/.NET Framework 4

• Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit - October Preview - The new release has a wealth of resources including demos, slide decks and labs
• No Javascript IntelliSense in VS 2010? Reset your Settings? - Rick Strahl talks about an issue  with Beta 2 for some people in which IntelliSense does not work in JavaScript files or ASPX pages, and the solution with resetting your Visual Studio settings
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 Performance - The Web Development Group talks about fixing a lot of the performance problems from Beta 1 and how you can help them if you should have an issue in Beta 2
• Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 - Web Tools Overview - The team talks about what is new in Web Tools
• The Microsoft Ajax Library and Visual Studio Beta 2 - Stephen Walther talks about the name change from ASP.NET AJAX to Microsoft Ajax Library and the the move to out-of-band releases
• Searching and Navigating Code in VS 2010 (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) - ScottGu, in his ninth in a series of blog posts covers some of the new code searching and navigation features now built into VS 2010
• VS 2010 Code IntelliSense Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) - In the tenth in the series, ScottGu covers small but really nice improvement to code intellisense with VS 2010 – which is its ability to better filter type and member code completion.  This enables you to more easily find and use APIs when writing code.
• IronPython and IronRuby CTPs for .NET Beta 2 - Harry Pierson talks about C#'s dynamic type feauture and experimenting with it from IronPython and IronRuby, with links to the latest CTPs
• VS10 Beta 2 from an ASP.NET MVC Perspective - Phil Haack talks about incluision of ASP.NET MVC 2 in the box and other issues
• .NET Framework 4.0: Complex numbers - Gunnar talks about the new class in System.Numerics namespace: Complex.
• What's New in the BCL in .NET 4 Beta 2 - Justin provides a summary
• The future of debugging is here! Visual Studio 2010 now supports stepping back in the debugger - I don't use the debugger much these days, but this post talks about enabling the IntelliTrace feature of VS 2010
• Tutorial: Getting Started with TFS in VS2010 - Jason gives a full tutorial for setting up and using the the new Basic configuration for TFS which enables you to use SQLExpress.
• Navigating the WF4 Beta 2 Samples - Matt Winkler talks about how the samples are structured

Ok, there was actually some other news, some of this may be a little old

Ajax, ASP.NET and Web Programming

• Announcing Microsoft Ajax Library (Preview 6) and the Microsoft Ajax Minifier - ScottGu announces the release. This update includes a bunch of new capabilities and improvements to our client-side AJAX library, and can be used with any version of ASP.NET (including ASP.NET 2.0, 3.5 and 4.0), and can be used in both ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC projects.
• ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Scripts on CDN - Phil Haack announces the inclusion of the ASP.NET 1.0 scripts to the CDN

Windows Azure/WCF/Contract First

• Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 10/21/09+ - Roger continues doing his excellent job covering the territory
• WCF Extensibility Guidance - The first chapter of this valuable guidance has been published. This is great stuff unpublished before
• Contract First Web Services with WCF - Via Kent Bown, Christian Weyer has published a great article on the topic of Schema-based Development with Windows Communication Foundation. 
• 3.5 SP1 RTM WCF Source Code Available - You can now browse and debug through Visual Studio the WCF reeference source