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