Sam Gentile's Blog

News of the  Day

• ReSharper 5.0 Goes RC! - Exciting news from the JetBrains blog that they have made a ReSharper 5.0 Release Candidate build for download. There are apparently no new features on the build but a ton of performance improvements and VS2010 integration fixes. ReSharper has always been an important tool especially if you work on an Agile team but I think 5.0 is the first release that has become indispensible. With new Web support for ASP.NET developers when they work with markup files and web site infrastructure, ReSharper has taken a large step forward.

ASP.NET and Web Development

• Web Deployment Made Awesome: If You're Using XCopy, You're Doing it Wrong - Scott writes about one of his three MIX 10 talks talking about the new ASP.NET 4 Web Deployment features
• Diagnosing ASP.NET MVC Problems - Brad Wilson talks about the MvcDiagnostics.aspx page from the MvcFutures download that can be dropped onto any MVC site giving diagnostic information

WCF/WF/AppFabric

• Windows Workflow Foundation in .NET 4 - I have devoted a lot of coverage to the new totally rewritten, more efficient WF4 and its differences from WF3. Soma speaks about the updates to the designer, the new Flowchart workflow, the simplified Activity model and walks through building a simple workflow as well as concluding with Workflows and WCF Services.
• Windows Server AppFabric Architecture - The .NET Endpoint takes us through a history of Windows Server/IIS as an Application Server (remember MTS??) and states the AppFabric vision "In the upcoming Windows Server AppFabric release we are evolving the application server capabilities in Windows Server to introduce enhanced application hosting and administration tooling (previously codename “Dublin”) for services written using WCF and WF programming models, and providing distributed cache capabilities (previously codename “Velocity”) for .NET applications." The post then takes you deeper into the architecture.
• OData SDK Released - Via Dr. Nick, "OData is a protocol for exchanging structured data sets in an interoperable fashion. The .Net implementation of OData is called WCF Data Services but the team has also released a variety of client libraries for other platforms in a package called the OData SDK. Included are libraries for Javascript, PHP, Java restlets, Windows Phone, and Objective C. The SDK also has samples for hosting services, a data explorer, and performing data validation. "

IronRuby/IronPython

• MIX10 IronRuby and IronPython - Part 1 (Intro) - Jimmy provides an introduction to a series of posts after doing his MIX10 talk (video link included)