Silverlight 4, MVC 2, and Windows Phone 7
NEW Release: Developer tools for Silverlight 4 RC along with training, MVC 2 RTM, and Windows Phone 7 CTP have been released. I noticed the Training Kit for Visual Studio 2010 was also updated last month.
Archive for the ‘Microsoft’ Category
Observing .NET with IObservable
Erik Meijer and Brian Beckman introduced the concept of IObservable for .NET in their Channel 9 video “Expert to Expert: Brian Beckman and Erik Meijer - Inside the .NET Reactive Framework (Rx)”, which is getting included in .NET version 4. .NET events present a number of challenges to developers. Weak event managers, like the Composite [...]
Virtual Desktop - VMware Workstation
How I Use VMware Workstation to be More Effective - Personal History and Tips
Whether you are an advocate for VMware’s Workstation, Sun’s VirtualBox, Microsoft’s Virtual PC, or Microsoft’s Hyper-V technology, I think you will concede that VMware delivers a mature, top-notch product for virtualizing the desktop.
Personal Virtualization History
Many years ago, I started virtualizing my desktop [...]
CxO Business Intelligence - Microsoft’s Solver Foundation
In October, Microsoft released Solver Foundation, a framework for delivering business intelligence tools with self-proclaimed CxO benefits. Considering that their first public release was only in February 2009 and they are already on version 2.0, BI experts should keep an eye on this framework and the tools built with it. With the right combination of [...]
Content Delivery Network - Microsoft AJAX Joins In
Scenario: You request a website that utilizes Yahoo’s User Interface code library by embedding the javascript file http://yui.yahooapis.com/3.0.0/build/yui/yui-min.js in a web page, your browser’s request searches through a network for the server that hosts the file, Yahoo’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) responds as the host and routes your request for the file to the nearest [...]
Team Foundation Server 2008 in Action
Although Team Foundation Server 2010 is right around the corner, most teams are barely up-to-speed with the capabilities of TFS. Because the “Basic” edition of TFS 2010 is set to finally replace Visual SourceSafe, it will be paramount for teams to make the appropriate training investments for their people. That said, it is too [...]
LINQ in Action
All levels of Microsoft developers can benefit from reading Manning’s LINQ in Action. LINQ is a fundamental skill that will be required as more and more products and APIs embrace it, like LINQ to SharePoint, which is being shipped as “LINQ for SharePoint” within SharePoint 2010. As an experienced developer, I felt the book [...]
Raymond Chen’s The Old New Thing
Raymond Chen’s book titled “The Old New Thing” is the realization of a web blog in print. Raymond walks us through the history of “backwards compatibility” in Microsoft Windows. Parts of the book can be enjoyed by anyone who has dealt with the evolution of the Microsoft Windows operating system and inevitably asked the [...]
Finally: Organize your Desktop for free!
Passing along this exciting and free product for Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7: Stardock Fences; an incredibly well designed utility for organizing your desktop. The default settings should immediately make your desktop easier to manage. I’ve seen many 100+-icon desktops in my career and I have always avoided abusing my desktop for that reason. [...]
Beta 2: .NET 4, Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio 2010
Update 2009-11-30: What’s New in the .NET Framework Version 4
Released yesterday to MSDN subscribers and to the general public tomorrow… WOW! Read the updates on MSDN documentation for this release and you will be blown away. The number of features is tremendous.
