Sam Gentile's Blog

MIX10/Silverlight/Windows Phone/WPF

• MIX 10 Rollup Post - I didn't really continue with MIX10 Day 2 coverage so I am glad to see Scott's Rollup post which includes the announcement of the IE9 Developer Preview which is available now
• Install checklist for Silverlight 4 RC, Blend 4 Beta and Windows Phone Developer Tools from MIX10 - A very welcome and through list from Adam on the full setup required Silverlight 4 RC and Windows Phone development.
• Windows Client Roundup for 3/22/2010 - Pete does his 17th roundup for information of interest to Windows Client Developers, including WPF, Surface, Windows 7, XNA, Windows Forms, Silverlight and Windows Phone
• March 21st links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Ajax, Visual Studio and Silverlight - ScottGu is back with the latest in his link-listing series

WCF/WIF/Identity Management

• Conference session materials from DevWeek 2010 - Christiam shares his slides and demo code from his two WCF and one AppFabric Service Bus talks
• Identity Developer Training Kit March 2010 update: WIF+Silverlight, WIF+WCF on Windows Azure - Vittorrio announces the new edition of the training kit which includes two new scenarios: Web Services and Identity in Windows Azure  and Developing Identity-Driven Silverlight Applications.

Patterns & Practices

• Prism - A Look Ahead - David Hill points to a post (here) on the P&P team blog that describes plans for Prism and provides some commentary
• Enterprise Library 5.0 is near; Beta 2 is out! - Grigori announces Beta 2 which completes two out of three stories for VS2010/.NET Framework 4 Integration
• GAT/GAX Dev10 RC Available - Release candidates of the Guidance Automation Toolkit and Guidance Automation Extensions for Dev10 have been posted to the Visual Studio Gallery.  Check out this post for more details.

Other

• vsvars2010.ps1 - Brad has released his latest PowerShell script will set up your environment to run all the development tools from Visual Studio 2010.