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.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
That computer is in the shape of a cloud!
The latest computing trends remind me of sitting back in the tall grass with a friend or family member, imagining the different shapes we saw; getting an odd sort of excitement when the other person could see what we could.
Today, computers can talk to each other in more ways than had ever been imagined and the [...]
Microsoft Code Contracts and Specifications
Update 2009-11-30: MSDN Documentation for .NET Framework Version 4
All developers write code with input expectations, code assumptions, and output guarantees (we’ll refer to these as code contracts). My presentation Microsoft Code Contracts - Explicit Expectations helps introduce developers to a new framework available to make those code contracts explicit. The appropriately named project, Microsoft Code Contracts, will ship bundled with [...]
