I worked hard with my Tech Lead to build a version of the UI prototype we are showing for our new project. I talked about building it in HTML5 and CSS3 and how pleased we were with that. This week, the working hard refers to we built a whole another version with ASP.NET MVC 3 and the Entity Framework...
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This is part of a series . Last time I started talking about the new dynamic type in C# 4, I covered why they were introduced to the language (scenarios), then some deep discussion of how they are implemented with the DLR, call-sites, and bindings, how internally they are represented as System.Object...
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This is part of a series . I really should have combined Named Parameters when I wrote about Optional Parameters last time since they are similar and go well together. Again, nothing thrilling here to speak about in C# 4 (especially since VB has had these forever) but they do address some hardships in...
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This is part of a series . C# 4 allows you to declare optional parameters in methods, constructors, and indexers. A parameter is optional if it specifies a default value in its declaration: void Foo(int x = 42) { Console.WriteLine(x); } Optional parameters may be omitted when calling the method: Foo...
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This is part of a series . I have to admit. I am non-excited about C# 4 features, including the dynamic type. While C# 3, introduced many neccessaary features, especially for LINQ, but very useful in their own right, C# 4 seems more like a solution looking for a problem. IMHO, it seems like the language...
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This is part of a series . Note: This material is from C# 4.0 In A Nutshell Page 239. Like BigInteger, the Complex struct is another specialized numeric type new to Framework 4.0 and is for representing complex numbers with real and imaginary components of type double. It also lives in the System.Numerics...
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Might as well make this a series. I mentioned in the first post , "I have been spending quite a bit of time re-focusing and reviewing C# (and some BCL) fundamentals, with an eye to what's different in C# 4.0/BCL 4.0. The reason for this, is though C# 1.0 was so simple in it's day that it only required...
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I mentioned, in my last post, that I was using C# 4.0 In A Nutshell to better my C# 3 and to come up to speed with C# 4/BCL 4. Another cool thing in Framework 4.0 is the generic set of classes for holding a set of differently typed objects called tuples. Like the Func<> and Action<> delegates...
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I have been spending quite a bit of time re-focusing and reviewing C# (and some BCL) fundamentals, with an eye to what's different in C# 4.0/BCL 4.0. The reason for this, is though C# 1.0 was so simple in it's day that it only required a 28 page spec, C#3 and 4 have really gotten away from me such that...
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Lots more coverage of the VS2010/.NET Framework 4 launch today in addition to my launch post yesterday VS 2010/.NET Framework 4 Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Released - ScottGu has a very extensive announcement post that very thoroughly covers improvements and new features in all areas of the product...
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Yes! Today is launch date for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4! Soma announces the availability here citing " This represents the biggest tools release from Microsoft in many years." It is indeed a lot of capability and a lot of new stuff to learn if you haven't started already. Soma...
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VS 2010/.NET Framework 4 Cleaner HTML Markup with ASP.NET 4 Web Forms - Client IDs (VS2010 and .NET Framework Series) - I am behind on these. This is ScottGu's sixteenth in a series of blog posts on the new release. In this installment, he that talks about some of the important changes made to make Web...
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Great news! From Ron Jacobs , the news that the labs have been updated so everything works on Visual Studio 2010 RC release. And the training kit now includes the Introduction Workflow Services lab....
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Yesterday, I had a short post on the VS 2010/.NET FW 4 RC, but there's a lot more to blog, VS 2010/.NET Framework 4 RC Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate now available - Soma announces the release officially and points to Jason Zander's blog for more information Announcing VS2010...
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ADO.NET Data Services Data Services Update for .NET 3.5 SP1 - Now Available for Download - The team has been re-released Data Services Update for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 having resolved the issue with the previous update VS2010 and .NET 4.0 Extensible Output Caching with ASP.NET 4 (VS 2010 and .NET 4...
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Windows Workflow WF4 Beta 1 => Beta 2 Breaking Changes Document Published – Matt Winkler points to the document on Microsoft.com downloads that lists the major breaking changes that occurred for WF between Beta 1 and Beta 2 My presentations at HDC 09 – Matt Milner’s presentations...
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VS 2010/.NET Framework 4 Beta 2 Add Reference Dialog Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) - The twelfth in ScottGu's series is one a very welcome change - An Add Reference Dialog that loads fast ASP.NET MVC ASP.NET MVC Templates, Part 3: Default Templates - Brad continues his series with a post...
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Software Development Tools TestDriven.Net 3.0 Alpha - Support for Visual Studio 2010 - Yes! My #1 tool of choice has been upgraded with support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2! Typemock Isolator 5.4.3 released - This version fixes some issues raised after releasing Intellitest last week , as well as releasing...
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I will be giving my first presentation in over a year this Thursday to the PhillyNJ group , a branch of the Philly.NET User Group: WF4, WCF4, and Dublin: What's New in Visual Studio 2010 The Microsoft Connected Systems Division (CSD) has been very busy in the VS2010/.NET Framework 4 timeframe. In addition...
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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...
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I have been working a lot with VS2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 for quite a while now, so I will continue to have it be one of the main focuses of this blog. Here are some more links and information in a New and Notable style. VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Beta 2 - ScottGu has yet another post that lists VS...
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I had VS2010 Beta 1 installed. When Beta 2 came out today , I found I needed to uninstall Beta 1.Here are some things you have to watch out for: You have to, of course, uninstall any extras installed after the Beta 1 install. This includes MVC, which is now in the boix. The main uninstall of Beta 1 will...
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Exciting news today! VS 2010/.NET Framework 4 Beta 2 is available on MSDN today and general avilability will be this Wednesday!! You can check out Soma's post here and Scott Hanselman's here for some more perspectives. Here are some more related announcements about Visual Studio 2010 : The launch date...
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Agile/ALT.NET/Software Design Moving to Kanban: A Mentoring Session A Conversation On Adopting Kanban Refactoring Day 20: Extract Subclass Herding code on MVVM and other presentation patterns in WPF & Silverlight Entity Framework/Oslo Julie has more on Oslo & Data Programability Merger Julie...
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Visual Studio 2010/.NET 4 Visual Studio 2010 .net debugging resource Visual Studio 2010: Web application packaging and publishing WPF Data Binding: Lookup Tables Software Development Tools NHibernate: Handling the Special Cases TestDriven.Net 2.22: What's New? Oslo MSDN: New "Quadrant" Videos...
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VS2010 and .NET Framework 4 In-Process Side by Side Part 2 - Common in-proc SxS scenarios Achieving Speedups with Small Parallel Loop Boodies Visual Studio 2010 Performance Part 2: Text Editor A scalable reader/writer scheme with optimistic retry Deploying Silverlight Projects using VS10 Software Design...
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In this blog post I will explain how to get and install the Microsoft Web Deployment Tool, so you can share created packages with others and how to setup a Windows 2008 Server to allow packages to be deployed from Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1...
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From the blog post, "The multi-targeting feature of Visual Studio 2010 allows web developers to develop web applications targeting ASP.NET 2.0, 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0. The key benefit of multi-targeting is that you can use Visual Studio 2010 to create and develop new projects that target earlier versions...
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The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2010 features and a variety of framework technologies including: C# 4.0 Visual Basic 10 F# Parallel Extensions Windows...
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Agile Agility at Scale: Become as Agile as You Can Be: Scott Ambler talks about his new ebook; The goal of the Agility at Scale: Become as Agile as You Can Be ebook is to get people thinking outside of the box a bit when it comes to agile development strategies and see that they really are ready for...
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Visual Studio 2010/.NET Framework 4.0 Scott Hanselman - CLR and DLR and BCL, oh my! - Whirlwind Tour Around .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2010) Beta 1 Scott Hanselman - Demo Dashboard and IDE Extensions - Whirlwind Tour Around .NET 4 (and Visual Studio 2010) Beta 1 Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET 4.0 (Beta...
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Microsoft is releasing Beta 1 of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 today through MSDN Subscriber downloads and to the general public on Wednesday, May 20th through Microsoft Downloads. Get the Bits You can get the bits here from MSDN Subscriber Downloads when available https://msdn.microsoft...
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I just found it here ! Update: It is also here on the Connect site. Update: Somasegar covers this and more in Announcements from PDC2008...
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