New and Notable 392
PDC
- PDC 2009 Day 2: Keynote, Steven Sinofsky - Sasha covers the keynote which talked about the development process of Windows 7 and what it means to develop for Windows 7. Internet Explorer was also announced.
- PDC 2009 Day 2: Keynote, Scott Guthrie - Coverage by Sasha. Scott announced Silverlight 4 with three foci: Media, Business Applications, and Out-of-Browser Experiences.There are some data binding improvements, UDP multicast support, REST (with ADO.NET Data Services) and WCF enhancements and improvements, and finally WCF RIA Services.There are also enhancements in Visual Studio 2010 support for Silverlight, with a WYSIWYG design surface, XAML intellisense improvements, data binding, layout, styles and other features. Scott Hanselman demos these improvements in VS10.
- Silverlight 4 Beta Announced at PDC09: Great Learning Material Too! - In addition to the announcement, John Papa has a great list of links for learning materials
- Silverlight 4 Beta Announced! - Shawn W has his take on the announcement
- New Web Features in Silverlight 4 Beta - Cliff Simpkins, from CSD, announces the relationship of WCF to Silverlight, "On the high level, we are announcing an exciting alignment between the different web services stacks in Silverlight. ADO.NET Data Services and .NET RIA Services are being rebranded as WCF Data Services and WCF RIA Services to reflect the fact that both technologies are being built out as programming models on top of WCF.....Specifically within the core WCF model, Silverlight 4 Beta has support for a brand new binding: NetTcp. This binding lets Silverlight talk to WCF services using a high-performance TCP pipe, using a duplex message pattern. In Silverlight, the binding is built on top of the sockets support that’s already there since Silverlight 2, so we inherit the security requirements of the Silverlight sockets API. "
- Welcome to the WCF RIA Services Beta! - Speaking of that, Brad Abrams, says the words I want to hear, " branding change is a direct result of some significant work we are releasing in this beta and it hopefully makes it very clear that we have one technology base for doing services on the .NET platform and that is WCF. "
- Microsoft Office 2010 public beta is live - Been using this for a few days and am impressed
- SQL Service Modeling Services - The “Repository” now has an official name: SQL Service Modeling Services.
- Silverlight 4 Beta is Now Available - The annoucement from the Silverlight team blog
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