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I am personally looking forward to the release of Microsoft Expression Studio v4 on Monday. Expression Blend is [...]
For the 7th year in a row, Scott Guthrie, Microsoft’s Corporate VP of the Developer Division, took time out from his busy schedule to visit Arizona in Scottsdale for a technical presentation around the Microsoft 2010 product releases for developers. The event had an all-star cast including Scott Hanselman, Jeffrey Palermo, and local celebrity Tim Heuer presenting [...]
I won the $1,299 Telerik Premium package at the AzGroups AZ.net 7th Annual Scott Guthrie Day of .NET on Monday. Admittedly I was excited to see the red shirt, but was more keen on seeing Scott Hanselman whom I have listened to on his HanselMinutes podcast for a number of years.
Any ideas of what to build?!
The Telerik toolkit includes [...]
Update 2010-05-05: This CTP is not supported to run in virtual machines. There has been one report of getting it to run on Vista through Oracle’s VirtualBox running on a Linux host, but everyone else is reporting problems (Microsoft’s Hyper-V, VMware, and VirtualBox users). The install is also a pain, because it requires an internet connection to [...]
Nearly 1.5 years ago, Microsoft released Enterprise Library 4.1.
Now, in a much anticipated release, the Patterns & Practices team has released Microsoft Enterprise Library version 5.0!
What’s New in Version 5.0?
Major architectural refactoring that provides improved testability and maintainability through full support of the dependency injection style of development
Dependency injection container independence (Unity ships with Enterprise [...]
Sogeti is a recognized Gold Partner Sponsor of the Microsoft 2010 product launch! Sogeti is also a Global Sponsor of the Visual Studio 2010 launch.
From our marketing team for the Visual Studio 2010 Launch:
Sogeti is a leading provider of professional technology services, specializing in Application Management, Infrastructure Management and Testing. Working closely with its clients, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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