Kids go back to school tomorrow - yay! Web So the big news of the day is Google's beta of “Chrome ” it's attempt at a web browser. I have to say, I am *completely* under whelmed. There is little there except for the name and is nothing other than an effort from Google to continue their ways...
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Visual Studio Visual Studio 2008 SDK is available here for download David Kean announces FxCop 1.36 Release SaaS/Cloud Computing/REST/WCF David Chappell has published A Short Introduction to Cloud Platforms Scott Hanselman looks at Atom, AtomPub and BlogSvc, an AtomPubServer in WCF Technorati Tags: New...
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I already did my " Inessential List of Tools " back some time ago but yesterday, in the attempted install of the new VS2008 SP1 , I found that the so-called Hotfix Cleanup Utility would not work for me. Nothing was really working to remove the Beta 1 bits including manual registry methods,...
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Of course, this is so much more than a Service Pack with the release now of ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) and the Entity Framework among others. In my area of interest, CSD, there are some significant changes for REST programming (1st class citizen now) as well as some other additions: There were several...
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ASP.NET/Silverlight First Preview for new Ajax features , ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 went live on CodePlex Via Brad Abrams , the updating of the very cool ASP.NET Ajax Portal application, DropThings Silverlight Cream for July 22, 2008 -- #332 IronRuby/DLR/IronPython Too many things to list individually but many...
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Just got back from a 10 day vacation with my family from lovely LA. We went to Universal and then spent 2 and 1/2 days at Disneyland, which Heather and Jonathan loved. I also got to spent some quality time with my very good friend Jon Flanders . ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 of ASP.NET MVC is out on CodePlex...
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Visual Studio Peter says he is hooked on Brad Wilson's Dark Visual Studio color scheme and so am I! I am using it 100% now. An Amazing Introduction to NDepend BizTalk/WCF/WF/SOA My friend Jesus Rodriguez has a WCF extensibility deep dive on MSDN this Friday I listened in to Jon Flanders Workflow Services...
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P&P/Design Patterns I have been in a customer situation where I have been using a combination of the SAB+VAB+LAB from EntLib in order to create a custom Claims-Based identity system configured with SAB rules expressed with VAB expressions. It had just come up Friday that I couldn't use Ent Lib 4...
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.NET/Visual Studio 2008 How to Download all of Visual Studio 2008 SP1 The Release of Visual Studio 2008 SP1 will Install over SP1 Beta XLinq’n in the New World - Speed Comparison with Xml/XPath (Derik Whittaker) [via Alvin ] Did you know… You can hide or show hidden members and types in...
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ScottGu makes it official today. There is a whole lot of stuff here, and I think its safe to say that this is "stretching" the concept of a Service Pack. Scott's post has a lot of detail. The big ticket items are the Entity Framework and Astoria , but there is a lot of additive stuff. See...
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ScottGu makes it official today. There is a whole lot of stuff here, and I think its safe to say that this is "stretching" the concept of a Service Pack. Scott's post has a lot of detail. The big ticket items are the Entity Framework and Astoria , but there is a lot of additive stuff. See Brad...
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So what have I been doing? Lots of things! I gave Advanced WCF talks in Lehigh Valley and Northern Delaware . The message of EDA is starting to resonate with folks who want their communications infrastructure to be taken care of and want to focus on Event Driven communications (i.e. Purchase Order event...
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My good friend, Tomas, is the master of Visual Studio themes. I was just looking at his latest, Distant Shores (too dark for my taste), where I finally picked up on Damien Guard's Envy Code R VS font. I also grabbed his Humane Studio theme which I am really digging right now. I think I'll go...
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My good friend, Tomas, is the master of Visual Studio themes. I was just looking at his latest, Distant Shores (too dark for my taste), where I finally picked up on Damien Guard's Envy Code R VS font. I also grabbed his Humane Studio theme which I am really digging right now. I think I'll go with this...
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Onto the 2nd cup of coffee. Looking at a whole weekend of work.... ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC and .NET My good friend Joe Stagner has a theory on how ScottGu gets so much work done :) as well as resources on Getting up to speed with ASP.NET and the 3.5 Extensions Speaking of the Man himself,...
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Onto the 2nd cup of coffee. Looking at a whole weekend of work.... ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC and .NET My good friend Joe Stagner has a theory on how ScottGu gets so much work done :) as well as resources on Getting up to speed with ASP.NET and the 3.5 Extensions Speaking of the Man himself,...
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I will be speaking as part of our NuCon 2008 - Denver conference that we are doing together with Microsoft. I am super excited that we have the Scott Kerfoot from Microsoft as our keynote speaker: Keynote: The Future is NOW! The pace of change in technology increases every day. In this keynote you’ll...
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3 states in travel last week, 3 more this week. I'm now Silver on US Despair and headed up on Southwest... ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio 2008 ScottGu continues his link blog posts with Jan 24th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, .NET, IIS Source Code Outliner 1.0 PowerToy for Visual...
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3 states in travel last week, 3 more this week. I'm now Silver on US Despair and headed up on Southwest... ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio 2008 ScottGu continues his link blog posts with Jan 24th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, .NET, IIS Source Code Outliner 1.0 PowerToy for Visual...
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Thank you Code Campers! I had 120 out of 400 of you (ASP.NET MVC was at same time) and you were a great group. I had a great time with a new talk. Remember - just say no to RPC and Request/Reply - embrace the diversity of Asynchronous Messaging and Event Driven Architectures! The slides are here and...
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Thank you Code Campers! I had 120 out of 400 of you (ASP.NET MVC was at same time) and you were a great group. I had a great time with a new talk. Remember - just say no to RPC and Request/Reply - embrace the diversity of Asynchronous Messaging and Event Driven Architectures! The slides are here and...
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BizTalk Services This is one way to find out that the BizTalk Services hosted at http://biztalk.net have been updated :) WCF/Web Service Software Factory/Oslo/Neudesic I really love the new Web Services Software Factory and the Contract Modeling capabilities. They just recently released the WCF Security...
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Lots to catch up on. ASP.NET 3.5/AJAX/MVC It's out! ScottGu details the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP , This release brings additional runtime functionality to ASP.NET and .NET 3.5. You can download it here (if you are using the MVC features also click here to download the MVC Toolkit extras)...
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Lots to catch up on. ASP.NET 3.5/AJAX/MVC It's out! ScottGu details the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP , This release brings additional runtime functionality to ASP.NET and .NET 3.5. You can download it here (if you are using the MVC features also click here to download the MVC Toolkit extras). ScottGu also...
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I want to thank the wonderful members of the Findlay Area .NET User's Group in Findlay, Ohio that came out in the cold the other night - it sure was cold! I want to especially thank you for your interest in the Domain Driven Design portion of the talk and your interest in using O/RM, Repositories...
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I knew it was coming so I stayed up extra late last night but not long enough :) Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite with the .NET Framework 3.5 is available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads ! See Soma's post here . While my copy is on the way, I would like to thank the whole extended team at Microsoft for...
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So sayeth Don ? Soma's announced that Orcas will RTM this month . Lots of .NET families will have something extra to be thankful for next thursday...
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So sayeth Don ? Soma's announced that Orcas will RTM this month . Lots of .NET families will have something extra to be thankful for next thursday...
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So, in the comments on my post about the lack of Resharper 3.0.2 Intellisense for .NET 3.5/LINQ, I made the comment that I actually I use both Resharper and CodeRush!! That's right, I can't live without either :) Both products have distinct advantages - Resharper is the better tool at working...
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So, in the comments on my post about the lack of Resharper 3.0.2 Intellisense for .NET 3.5/LINQ, I made the comment that I actually I use both Resharper and CodeRush!! That's right, I can't live without either :) Both products have distinct advantages - Resharper is the better tool at working in an agile...
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Speaking of Visual Studion 2008, we (Neudesic) have developed a great deal of real-world knowledge of it during the last year and we are ready to tell you about it! Along with our friends at Microsoft, K2 and QuickStart, we are hosting NuCon 2007 , with three deep-dive tracks into Visual Studio 2008...
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