Sam Gentile's Blog

A collection of links, not all "new"

AppFabric/BizTalk/Identity

• AppFabric Virtual Launch on May 20th - Save the Date - Microsoft will be conducting an event to launch Windows Server AppFabric and BizTalk Server. They will be kicking off  the Application Infrastructure Virtual Launch Event on the web. The event will focus on how your current IT assets can harness some of the benefits of the cloud, bringing them on-premises, while also connecting them to new applications and data running in the cloud.
• The New Release of the Identity Training Kit works on VS2010! - Vittorio announces that they have a VS2010 RTM version of the kit. Based on the latest build of the WIF SDK, the April 2010 release of the Training Kit works with VS2010 RTM & the .NET fx 4.0 and removes all dependencies on VS2008 and  .NET 3.5 (only exception being the Windows Azure labs, which still require the presence of .NET 3.5 since the Windows Azure VMs are 3.5 based). All instructions have been updated, and all the screenshots & code snippets are now targeted at VS2010.

VS2010

• Pinning Projects and Solutions with Visual Studio 2010 - ScottGu  covers a very small, but still useful, feature of VS 2010 – the ability to “pin” projects and solutions to both the Windows 7 taskbar as well VS 2010 Start Page.  This makes it easier to quickly find and open projects in the IDE.
• Visual Studio 2010 Extension Manager (and the new VS 2010 PowerCommand Extension) - In a previous installment of the series which covers some of the extensibility improvements made in VS 2010 – as well as a cool new "PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2010” extension that Microsoft just released (and which can be downloaded and used for free).
• Box Selection and Multi-Line Editing - In another previous installment ScottGu covers  small, but nice, editor improvement with VS 2010 – the ability to use “Box Selection” when performing multi-line editing.  This can eliminate keystrokes and enables some slick editing scenarios.
• April 30th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio 2010 - ScottGu has his latest in his link series