Thu 25 June 2009

http://blogs.msdn.com/stuart_kent/archive/2009/06/23/so-what-is-a-dsl-anyway.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2009/06/22/announcing-entity-framework-feature-ctp-1.aspx - but don't get excited 'cos we won't see the features in .NET 4.0

http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/06/22/application-skinning-in-wpf-and-silverlight.aspx - couple of videos - haven't looked at them

http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/06/22/see-the-preview-of-office-2010-the-movie.aspx - ditto - haven't looked at them

http://blogs.msdn.com/alexj/    Includes a series of EF tips

http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsqualitytools/archive/2009/06/21/introduction-to-record-and-playback-engine-in-vstt-2010.aspx

Fri 19 June 2009

 

VS2010

http://blogs.msdn.com/vsxteam/archive/2009/06/17/new-editor-samples-for-visual-studio-2010-beta-1.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/mwinkle/archive/2009/06/17/introduction-to-wf-designer-rehosting-part-1.aspx

 

WPF

http://huddledmasses.org/wpf-in-powershell-powerboots-02/

http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/06/18/blend-3-great-feature-2-master-details-screens.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/archive/2009/06/19/deep-zoom-composer-june-2009-preview.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/vsdata/archive/2009/06/18/wpf-data-binding-lookup-tables.aspx

 

UX

http://devlicio.us/blogs/christopher_bennage/archive/2009/06/19/one-day-with-balsamiq-mockups-a-review.aspx

 

TFS2010

http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsqualitytools/archive/2009/06/21/introduction-to-record-and-playback-engine-in-vstt-2010.aspx

Workflow 4 and other stuff

Matt Winkle introduces the updated designer - http://blogs.msdn.com/mwinkle/archive/2009/05/20/introducing-the-wf4-designer.aspx

 

What's new in Globalisation in .NET 4 - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/dd890508.aspx

Odyssey WPF Controls - http://odyssey.codeplex.com/

http://dotnet.org.za/rudi/archive/2009/06/07/vs2010-help-for-the-wpfer.aspx - Rudi Grobler

WPF App Framework - http://waf.codeplex.com/

 

Why no VS 64 bit - http://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/archive/2009/06/10/visual-studio-why-is-there-no-64-bit-version.aspx

How to make Layer Validation Diagrams work in the build - http://blogs.infosupport.com/blogs/marcelv/archive/2009/06/09/how-to-make-layer-validation-diagrams-work-in-the-build.aspx

http://teamsystemguides.codeplex.com/

http://blogs.teamsystemnotes.com/2009/06/08/build-automation-and-complexity/

Grassroots Innovation @ Microsoft - http://blogs.msdn.com/jackg/archive/2009/06/10/grassroots-innovation-microsoft.aspx

MVVM webcast - http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032418084&CountryCode=US

F# scripts - http://blogs.msdn.com/chrsmith/archive/2008/09/12/scripting-in-f.aspx and http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2009/06/09/f-useful-for-scripting/

Oslo - part 2

http://blogs.msdn.com/dkaufman/archive/2009/06/05/from-dsls-and-models-to-quadrant-using-oslo-may-ctp-part-ii.aspx 

Oslo in action - http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GLenz/See-Visual-Studio-2010-and-Oslo-in-Action/

 

http://blogs.msdn.com/jkowalski/archive/2009/06/11/tracing-and-caching-in-entity-framework-available-on-msdn-code-gallery.aspx

EF database first is in 3.5, model first is coming in 4.0, also "code only" is coming for 4.0 beta 1 p://blogs.msdn.com/efdesign/archive/2009/06/10/code-only.aspx

LINQ to SQL compiled queries http://peterkellner.net/2009/06/08/linq2sql-uncompiled-verses-compiled-iis-performance-aspnet/

Caliburn (WPF/SL framework) has gone RC - http://caliburn.codeplex.com/

 

TFS automated buids video - http://blogs.msdn.com/ukvsts/archive/2009/06/12/automated-build-video.aspx

TFS Rangers say what's cool in VSTS 2010 - http://blogs.msdn.com/willy-peter_schaub/archive/2009/06/11/vsts-rangers-projects-using-vsts-2010-beta-1-as-part-of-the-tfs-migration-tools-initiative.aspx

Visualising Branch Hierarchies - http://blogs.msdn.com/mitrik/archive/2009/06/11/branch-hierarchy-visualization.aspx

Pex - http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/pex/documentation.aspx

 

Automated UI testing - VS 2010 Coded UI Test example - http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsqualitytools/archive/2009/06/12/automated-user-interface-testing-with-coded-ui-test.aspx

 

Mapping requirements to test plans & test cases in VSTS 2010 - http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsqualitytools/archive/2009/06/04/no-more-missed-requirements.aspx

 

Memory mapped files in .NET 4 - http://blogs.msdn.com/salvapatuel/archive/2009/06/08/working-with-memory-mapped-files-in-net-4.aspx

 

Code Contracts Primer -(new in .NET 4) -  http://devlicio.us/blogs/derik_whittaker/archive/2009/06/08/code-contracts-primer-part-1-introduction.aspx 

 

BizTalk 2009 - Enterprise Service Bus toolkit - http://blogs.msdn.com/sudhir/archive/2009/06/09/microsoft-releases-biztalk-esb-toolkit-2-0.aspx

 

MEF primitives - http://blogs.msdn.com/dsplaisted/archive/2009/06/08/a-crash-course-on-the-mef-primitives.aspx

 

MVVM light toolkit - http://blog.galasoft.ch/archive/2009/06/14/mvvm-lsquolightrsquo-toolkit-for-wpf-and-silverlight.aspx

Interesting links for 2 June 09

 

David Hill has posted about a prototype Prism Quick Start Kit - http://blogs.msdn.com/dphill/archive/2009/05/29/prism-quick-start-kit.aspx

 

What's in and coming for WPF 4 - http://blogs.msdn.com/jaimer/archive/2009/05/27/wpf-4-and-net-framework-4-beta-1-list-of-features-totrack.aspx

 

http://blogs.msdn.com/charles_sterling/archive/2009/05/21/running-blend-3-0-with-visual-studio-2010-beta1.aspx

IronPython 2.6 Beta 1 on Codeplex - http://ironpython.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=25126

The 2nd DLR language - IronRuby is up to 0.5 - http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/2009/05/ironruby-05-released.html

DLR gets to 0.91 - http://dlr.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=0.91_release_notes

VS2010 walkthroughs - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/dd441784.aspx

 

What works with VS2010 (Blend/ SL) - http://dlr.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=0.91_release_notes

 

Great tutorial by Jason Zander

http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/archive/2009/05/22/vs2010-tutorial-build-a-wpf-app-with-beta-1.aspx 

http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/archive/2009/05/26/vs2010-tutorial-testing-tutorial-step-2.aspx

 

The Lab Management Product – An Overview - http://blogs.msdn.com/amit_chatterjee/archive/2009/05/24/the-lab-management-product-an-overview.aspx

 

Architectural Inspections: Implemented in Visual Studio Team Architect 2010

Integrated and Isolated Shell for VS 2010 Beta 1 

 

http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2009/05/28/poco-in-the-entity-framework-part-2-complex-types-deferred-loading-and-explicit-loading.aspx

 

http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2009/02/03/silverlight-wpf-control-browser.aspx - App that let's you see demos of WPF & SL controls

ViewModels and CheckListBoxes

The Role of Sketching in Software Development - http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/05/26/the-role-of-sketching-in-software-development.aspx

http://team.silverlight.net/announcements/sketchflow-rapid-prototyping-that-works/

 

Blueprints have disappeared - gone into "internal incubation" - http://blogs.msdn.com/mglehman/archive/2009/05/27/update-on-microsoft-blueprints.aspx 

 

DSL Tools - VS2010 Beta 1 - http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/DslTools and http://blogs.msdn.com/jmprieur/archive/2009/05/22/announcing-the-visual-studio-2010-dsl-sdk-beta-1.aspx

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Expert-to-Expert-Martin-Fowler-and-Chris-Sells-Perspectives-on-Domain-Specific-Languages/ 

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Chris-Sells-History-of-DevCon/

 

 

 

Press site for Bing - http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/bing/default.mspx 

 

http://weblogs.asp.net/rweigelt/archive/2009/06/01/7104846.aspx -  GhostDoc has been acquired by SubMain, developer of tools like CodeIt.Right. The agreement covers the usage of GhostDoc's documentation generation technology in their products, as well as the availability of GhostDoc as a standalone product. SubMain will continue to maintain and distribute a non-crippled version of GhostDoc free of charge, and will make sure that it will work with future versions of Visual Studio like the upcoming VS2010. The first step is a new version 2.5 of GhostDoc that has been released just moments ago.

 

VS2010 Code Gallery - some new add-ins for VS2010 - http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/

- RegEx editor, Insert Images in source files, custom intellisense presenter

ActiPro SyntaxEditor for WPF

http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/d9984737-275d-4919-b7c8-7a5f5f83c74c 

SyntaxEditor is a powerful text editing control that is packed with features for efficient code editing, including syntax highlighting, line numbers, block selection, IntelliPrompt UI, split views, zooming, bi-di support, and much more. It has many of the same code editing features found in the Visual Studio code editor.

SyntaxEditor is built on top of our next-generation extensible text/parsing framework. While over 20 sample languages are available to get you started (such as C#, VB, XML, and more), custom language definitions can be developed and distributed with your applications as well. SyntaxEditor is designed for use in IDE (integrated development environment) applications, however there are many other applications out there than can take advantage of such a control.

 

Chris Sells says that Oslo May 2009 CTP Available Now  

So what this Oslo stuff all about? - From DSLs and Models to “Quadrant” using “Oslo” May CTP – Part I