tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46048365842050949012024-02-20T02:45:19.532-08:00Runge Software R&D BlogRunge Software R&D Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02180238003616913739noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604836584205094901.post-55365585039094106652009-08-24T15:31:00.001-07:002009-08-24T15:31:53.911-07:0025 August 2009<p> </p> <p> </p> <p><a title="http://thedatafarm.com/blog/data-access/more-on-oslo-amp-data-programmability-merger/" href="http://thedatafarm.com/blog/data-access/more-on-oslo-amp-data-programmability-merger/">http://thedatafarm.com/blog/data-access/more-on-oslo-amp-data-programmability-merger/</a></p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/gduthie/archive/2009/08/20/from-sketchflow-to-production.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/gduthie/archive/2009/08/20/from-sketchflow-to-production.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/gduthie/archive/2009/08/20/from-sketchflow-to-production.aspx</a></p> <p><a title="http://ferventcoder.com/archive/2009/08/20/uppercut-ndash-mark-an-application-executable-to-use-more-than.aspx" href="http://ferventcoder.com/archive/2009/08/20/uppercut-ndash-mark-an-application-executable-to-use-more-than.aspx">http://ferventcoder.com/archive/2009/08/20/uppercut-ndash-mark-an-application-executable-to-use-more-than.aspx</a></p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/chrsmith/archive/2009/08/20/f-for-architects-hitting-the-sweet-spot.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/chrsmith/archive/2009/08/20/f-for-architects-hitting-the-sweet-spot.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/chrsmith/archive/2009/08/20/f-for-architects-hitting-the-sweet-spot.aspx</a></p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/archive/2009/08/19/visual-studio-2010-performance-part-3-a-technical-update.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/archive/2009/08/19/visual-studio-2010-performance-part-3-a-technical-update.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/archive/2009/08/19/visual-studio-2010-performance-part-3-a-technical-update.aspx</a></p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/archive/2009/08/18/all-expression-blend-samples-posted-to-the-expression-gallery.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/archive/2009/08/18/all-expression-blend-samples-posted-to-the-expression-gallery.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/archive/2009/08/18/all-expression-blend-samples-posted-to-the-expression-gallery.aspx</a></p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/08/18/updated-compatible-with-windows-7-software-logo-for-rtm-has-new-ui.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/08/18/updated-compatible-with-windows-7-software-logo-for-rtm-has-new-ui.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/08/18/updated-compatible-with-windows-7-software-logo-for-rtm-has-new-ui.aspx</a></p> Runge Software R&D Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02180238003616913739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604836584205094901.post-83605680556214656652009-07-21T20:58:00.001-07:002009-07-21T20:58:22.891-07:00Backlight WPF / SL controls<p>Will check out, but some nifty designer focused controls for both WPF & SL at <a title="http://blacklight.codeplex.com/" href="http://blacklight.codeplex.com/">http://blacklight.codeplex.com/</a></p> <p>Check out the showcase at  <a title="http://mightymeaty.members.winisp.net/blacklight.silverlight/" href="http://mightymeaty.members.winisp.net/blacklight.silverlight/">http://mightymeaty.members.winisp.net/blacklight.silverlight/</a></p> Runge Software R&D Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02180238003616913739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604836584205094901.post-12554466841818961572009-07-17T00:30:00.001-07:002009-07-19T20:57:09.723-07:00Fri 17th July 2009<h3>WPF</h3> <p>Josh Smith has created yet another set of tooling for MVVM - <a href="http://mvvmfoundation.codeplex.com/">http://mvvmfoundation.codeplex.com/</a></p> <p>And Sacha Barber has started his own MVVM Framework "Cinch'" & series of articles - <a title="http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/Cinch.aspx" href="http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/Cinch.aspx">http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/Cinch.aspx</a> and <a title="http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/CinchII.aspx" href="http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/CinchII.aspx">http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/CinchII.aspx</a> </p> <p><a title="http://www.thejoyofcode.com/Creating_a_Range_Slider_in_WPF_and_other_cool_tips_and_tricks_for_UserControls_.aspx" href="http://www.thejoyofcode.com/Creating_a_Range_Slider_in_WPF_and_other_cool_tips_and_tricks_for_UserControls_.aspx">http://www.thejoyofcode.com/Creating_a_Range_Slider_in_WPF_and_other_cool_tips_and_tricks_for_UserControls_.aspx</a></p> <h3>Blend / SL 3</h3> <p><a href="http://adamkinney.com/Blog/30-Great-Posts-and-Tutorials-on-Silverlight-and-Blend-3">30 Great Posts and Tutorials on Silverlight and Blend 3</a></p> <h3>TFS2010</h3> <p><a href="http://continuouslyintegrating.blogspot.com/2009/07/use-cases-and-visual-studio-2010-part-1.html">Use Cases and Visual Studio 2010 (part 1 of many)</a></p> <p><a href="http://continuouslyintegrating.blogspot.com/2009/07/beginning-use-cases-identifying-actors.html">Beginning Use Cases – Identifying the Actors (part 2 of many)</a></p> <p><a href="http://continuouslyintegrating.blogspot.com/2009/07/building-out-use-cases-from-user.html">Building out Use Cases from User Stories (part 3 of many)</a></p> <p><a href="http://continuouslyintegrating.blogspot.com/2009/07/expanding-on-use-cases-and-user-stories.html">Expanding on Use Cases and User Stories (part 4 of 5)</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/comparison-of-azure-and-google-app.html">A Comparison of Azure and Google App Engine Pricing</a></p> <h3>MEF</h3> <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/nblumhardt/archive/2009/07/09/mef-preview-6-available.aspx">MEF Preview 6 is out</a> and Glenn Block ponders the issues behind UI self composition - <a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/gblock/archive/2009/07/18/mef-and-xaml-integration-self-composition.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/gblock/archive/2009/07/18/mef-and-xaml-integration-self-composition.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/gblock/archive/2009/07/18/mef-and-xaml-integration-self-composition.aspx</a> Runge Software R&D Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02180238003616913739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604836584205094901.post-24038772900502589282009-07-09T00:49:00.001-07:002009-07-09T00:49:24.899-07:009 July 2009<p> </p> <p>MVVM – Philosophy and Case Studies - Introduction - <a title="http://devlicio.us/blogs/rob_eisenberg/archive/2009/07/07/mvvm-philosophy-and-case-studies-introduction.aspx" href="http://devlicio.us/blogs/rob_eisenberg/archive/2009/07/07/mvvm-philosophy-and-case-studies-introduction.aspx">http://devlicio.us/blogs/rob_eisenberg/archive/2009/07/07/mvvm-philosophy-and-case-studies-introduction.aspx</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/granth/archive/2009/07/06/how-do-you-update-all-work-item-type-definitions-on-a-server.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/granth/archive/2009/07/06/how-do-you-update-all-work-item-type-definitions-on-a-server.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/granth/archive/2009/07/06/how-do-you-update-all-work-item-type-definitions-on-a-server.aspx</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a title="http://vwcmp.codeplex.com/" href="http://vwcmp.codeplex.com/">http://vwcmp.codeplex.com/</a> WPF KB control</p> <p><a title="http://textfileparsers.codeplex.com/" href="http://textfileparsers.codeplex.com/">http://textfileparsers.codeplex.com/</a> - text parsing</p> <p>Check Out the Killer Apps for Surface - <a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/07/08/check-out-the-killer-apps-for-surface.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/07/08/check-out-the-killer-apps-for-surface.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/07/08/check-out-the-killer-apps-for-surface.aspx</a> + <a title="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/chris-dannen/techwatch/killer-apps-microsoft-surface-complete-guide" href="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/chris-dannen/techwatch/killer-apps-microsoft-surface-complete-guide">http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/chris-dannen/techwatch/killer-apps-microsoft-surface-complete-guide</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Run a build, create some manual tests, run them.  Change some code, rebuild and LabTest will recommend which manual tests should be re-run !</p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/densto/archive/2009/06/29/test-impact-walk-through.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/densto/archive/2009/06/29/test-impact-walk-through.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/densto/archive/2009/06/29/test-impact-walk-through.aspx</a></p> Runge Software R&D Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02180238003616913739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604836584205094901.post-81288830625768338082009-07-06T16:47:00.001-07:002009-07-06T17:02:24.270-07:00Tue 7 July 2009<h3>Reflections</h3> <p><a href="http://martinfowler.com/bliki/IllustrativeProgramming.html">http://martinfowler.com/bliki/IllustrativeProgramming.html</a> </p> <p><a title="http://www.codethinked.com/post/2009/07/05/Why-Do-We-Keep-Building-Tightly-Coupled-Software.aspx" href="http://www.codethinked.com/post/2009/07/05/Why-Do-We-Keep-Building-Tightly-Coupled-Software.aspx">http://www.codethinked.com/post/2009/07/05/Why-Do-We-Keep-Building-Tightly-Coupled-Software.aspx</a></p> <h3>WPF</h3> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/text/archive/2009/06/24/new-wpf-4-0-features.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/text/archive/2009/06/24/new-wpf-4-0-features.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/text/archive/2009/06/24/new-wpf-4-0-features.aspx</a></p> <p>Charting is in the latest WPF Toolkit - <a title="http://wpf.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=29117" href="http://wpf.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=29117">http://wpf.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=29117</a> and <a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/archive/2009/06/25/wpf-charting-it-s-official-june-2009-release-of-the-wpf-toolkit-is-now-available.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/archive/2009/06/25/wpf-charting-it-s-official-june-2009-release-of-the-wpf-toolkit-is-now-available.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/archive/2009/06/25/wpf-charting-it-s-official-june-2009-release-of-the-wpf-toolkit-is-now-available.aspx</a></p> <p><a title="http://blogs.southworks.net/dschenkelman/2009/06/27/how-to-drag-and-drop-silverlight-views-between-regions-in-prism-v2/" href="http://blogs.southworks.net/dschenkelman/2009/06/27/how-to-drag-and-drop-silverlight-views-between-regions-in-prism-v2/">http://blogs.southworks.net/dschenkelman/2009/06/27/how-to-drag-and-drop-silverlight-views-between-regions-in-prism-v2/</a></p> <p><a title="http://blogs.southworks.net/matiasb/2009/07/02/how-to-hide-views-inside-composite-application-guidance-aka-prism-v2-regions/" href="http://blogs.southworks.net/matiasb/2009/07/02/how-to-hide-views-inside-composite-application-guidance-aka-prism-v2-regions/">http://blogs.southworks.net/matiasb/2009/07/02/how-to-hide-views-inside-composite-application-guidance-aka-prism-v2-regions/</a></p> <p> <a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/msmossyblog/archive/2009/06/30/silverlight-expression-3-australian-tour.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/msmossyblog/archive/2009/06/30/silverlight-expression-3-australian-tour.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/msmossyblog/archive/2009/06/30/silverlight-expression-3-australian-tour.aspx</a></p> <h3>I18N</h3> <p><a href="http://west-wind.com/Weblog/posts/814083.aspx">WPF Localization Guidance Paper Posted on CodePlex</a> </p> <h3>Iron Ruby</h3> <p><a title="http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/2009/06/ironruby-tutorial.html" href="http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/2009/06/ironruby-tutorial.html">http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/2009/06/ironruby-tutorial.html</a> </p> <p><a title="http://www.codethinked.com/post/2009/07/05/Why-Do-We-Keep-Building-Tightly-Coupled-Software.aspx" href="http://www.codethinked.com/post/2009/07/05/Why-Do-We-Keep-Building-Tightly-Coupled-Software.aspx"> </a></p> Runge Software R&D Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02180238003616913739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604836584205094901.post-34782072364334192462009-06-25T00:39:00.001-07:002009-06-25T00:40:11.680-07:00Thu 25 June 2009<p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/stuart_kent/archive/2009/06/23/so-what-is-a-dsl-anyway.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/stuart_kent/archive/2009/06/23/so-what-is-a-dsl-anyway.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/stuart_kent/archive/2009/06/23/so-what-is-a-dsl-anyway.aspx</a></p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2009/06/22/announcing-entity-framework-feature-ctp-1.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2009/06/22/announcing-entity-framework-feature-ctp-1.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2009/06/22/announcing-entity-framework-feature-ctp-1.aspx</a> - but don't get excited 'cos we won't see the features in .NET 4.0</p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/06/22/application-skinning-in-wpf-and-silverlight.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/06/22/application-skinning-in-wpf-and-silverlight.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/06/22/application-skinning-in-wpf-and-silverlight.aspx</a> - couple of videos - haven't looked at them</p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/06/22/see-the-preview-of-office-2010-the-movie.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/06/22/see-the-preview-of-office-2010-the-movie.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/06/22/see-the-preview-of-office-2010-the-movie.aspx</a> - ditto - haven't looked at them</p> <p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/alexj/">http://blogs.msdn.com/alexj/</a>    Includes a series of EF tips</p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsqualitytools/archive/2009/06/21/introduction-to-record-and-playback-engine-in-vstt-2010.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsqualitytools/archive/2009/06/21/introduction-to-record-and-playback-engine-in-vstt-2010.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsqualitytools/archive/2009/06/21/introduction-to-record-and-playback-engine-in-vstt-2010.aspx</a></p> Runge Software R&D Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02180238003616913739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604836584205094901.post-27519722357199948512009-06-20T00:16:00.001-07:002009-06-21T19:33:03.025-07:00Fri 19 June 2009<p> </p> <p>VS2010</p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/vsxteam/archive/2009/06/17/new-editor-samples-for-visual-studio-2010-beta-1.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/vsxteam/archive/2009/06/17/new-editor-samples-for-visual-studio-2010-beta-1.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/vsxteam/archive/2009/06/17/new-editor-samples-for-visual-studio-2010-beta-1.aspx</a></p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/mwinkle/archive/2009/06/17/introduction-to-wf-designer-rehosting-part-1.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mwinkle/archive/2009/06/17/introduction-to-wf-designer-rehosting-part-1.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/mwinkle/archive/2009/06/17/introduction-to-wf-designer-rehosting-part-1.aspx</a></p> <p> </p> <p>WPF</p> <p><a title="http://huddledmasses.org/wpf-in-powershell-powerboots-02/" href="http://huddledmasses.org/wpf-in-powershell-powerboots-02/">http://huddledmasses.org/wpf-in-powershell-powerboots-02/</a></p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/06/18/blend-3-great-feature-2-master-details-screens.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/06/18/blend-3-great-feature-2-master-details-screens.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/06/18/blend-3-great-feature-2-master-details-screens.aspx</a></p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/archive/2009/06/19/deep-zoom-composer-june-2009-preview.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/archive/2009/06/19/deep-zoom-composer-june-2009-preview.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/archive/2009/06/19/deep-zoom-composer-june-2009-preview.aspx</a></p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/vsdata/archive/2009/06/18/wpf-data-binding-lookup-tables.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/vsdata/archive/2009/06/18/wpf-data-binding-lookup-tables.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/vsdata/archive/2009/06/18/wpf-data-binding-lookup-tables.aspx</a></p> <p> </p> <p>UX</p> <p><a title="http://devlicio.us/blogs/christopher_bennage/archive/2009/06/19/one-day-with-balsamiq-mockups-a-review.aspx" href="http://devlicio.us/blogs/christopher_bennage/archive/2009/06/19/one-day-with-balsamiq-mockups-a-review.aspx">http://devlicio.us/blogs/christopher_bennage/archive/2009/06/19/one-day-with-balsamiq-mockups-a-review.aspx</a></p> <p> </p> <p>TFS2010</p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsqualitytools/archive/2009/06/21/introduction-to-record-and-playback-engine-in-vstt-2010.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsqualitytools/archive/2009/06/21/introduction-to-record-and-playback-engine-in-vstt-2010.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsqualitytools/archive/2009/06/21/introduction-to-record-and-playback-engine-in-vstt-2010.aspx</a></p> Runge Software R&D Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02180238003616913739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604836584205094901.post-83408935499038654672009-06-10T17:07:00.001-07:002009-06-14T20:45:26.764-07:00Workflow 4 and other stuff<p>Matt Winkle introduces the updated designer - <a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/mwinkle/archive/2009/05/20/introducing-the-wf4-designer.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mwinkle/archive/2009/05/20/introducing-the-wf4-designer.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/mwinkle/archive/2009/05/20/introducing-the-wf4-designer.aspx</a></p> <p> </p> <p>What's new in Globalisation in .NET 4 - <a title="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/dd890508.aspx" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/dd890508.aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/dd890508.aspx</a></p> <p>Odyssey WPF Controls - <a title="http://odyssey.codeplex.com/" href="http://odyssey.codeplex.com/">http://odyssey.codeplex.com/</a></p> <p><a title="http://dotnet.org.za/rudi/archive/2009/06/07/vs2010-help-for-the-wpfer.aspx" href="http://dotnet.org.za/rudi/archive/2009/06/07/vs2010-help-for-the-wpfer.aspx">http://dotnet.org.za/rudi/archive/2009/06/07/vs2010-help-for-the-wpfer.aspx</a> - Rudi Grobler</p> <p>WPF App Framework - <a title="http://waf.codeplex.com/" href="http://waf.codeplex.com/">http://waf.codeplex.com/</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Why no VS 64 bit - <a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/archive/2009/06/10/visual-studio-why-is-there-no-64-bit-version.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/archive/2009/06/10/visual-studio-why-is-there-no-64-bit-version.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/ricom/archive/2009/06/10/visual-studio-why-is-there-no-64-bit-version.aspx</a></p> <p>How to make Layer Validation Diagrams work in the build - <a title="http://blogs.infosupport.com/blogs/marcelv/archive/2009/06/09/how-to-make-layer-validation-diagrams-work-in-the-build.aspx" href="http://blogs.infosupport.com/blogs/marcelv/archive/2009/06/09/how-to-make-layer-validation-diagrams-work-in-the-build.aspx">http://blogs.infosupport.com/blogs/marcelv/archive/2009/06/09/how-to-make-layer-validation-diagrams-work-in-the-build.aspx</a></p> <p><a title="http://teamsystemguides.codeplex.com/" href="http://teamsystemguides.codeplex.com/">http://teamsystemguides.codeplex.com/</a></p> <p><a title="http://blogs.teamsystemnotes.com/2009/06/08/build-automation-and-complexity/" href="http://blogs.teamsystemnotes.com/2009/06/08/build-automation-and-complexity/">http://blogs.teamsystemnotes.com/2009/06/08/build-automation-and-complexity/</a></p> <p>Grassroots Innovation @ Microsoft - <a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/jackg/archive/2009/06/10/grassroots-innovation-microsoft.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/jackg/archive/2009/06/10/grassroots-innovation-microsoft.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/jackg/archive/2009/06/10/grassroots-innovation-microsoft.aspx</a></p> <p>MVVM webcast - <a title="http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032418084&CountryCode=US" href="http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032418084&CountryCode=US">http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032418084&CountryCode=US</a></p> <p>F# scripts - <a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/chrsmith/archive/2008/09/12/scripting-in-f.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/chrsmith/archive/2008/09/12/scripting-in-f.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/chrsmith/archive/2008/09/12/scripting-in-f.aspx</a> and <a title="http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2009/06/09/f-useful-for-scripting/" href="http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2009/06/09/f-useful-for-scripting/">http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2009/06/09/f-useful-for-scripting/</a></p> <p>Oslo - part 2</p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/dkaufman/archive/2009/06/05/from-dsls-and-models-to-quadrant-using-oslo-may-ctp-part-ii.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/dkaufman/archive/2009/06/05/from-dsls-and-models-to-quadrant-using-oslo-may-ctp-part-ii.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/dkaufman/archive/2009/06/05/from-dsls-and-models-to-quadrant-using-oslo-may-ctp-part-ii.aspx</a> </p> <p> Oslo in action - <a title="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GLenz/See-Visual-Studio-2010-and-Oslo-in-Action/" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GLenz/See-Visual-Studio-2010-and-Oslo-in-Action/">http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/GLenz/See-Visual-Studio-2010-and-Oslo-in-Action/</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/jkowalski/archive/2009/06/11/tracing-and-caching-in-entity-framework-available-on-msdn-code-gallery.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/jkowalski/archive/2009/06/11/tracing-and-caching-in-entity-framework-available-on-msdn-code-gallery.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/jkowalski/archive/2009/06/11/tracing-and-caching-in-entity-framework-available-on-msdn-code-gallery.aspx</a></p> <p>EF database first is in 3.5, model first is coming in 4.0, also "code only" is coming for 4.0 beta 1 <a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/efdesign/archive/2009/06/10/code-only.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/efdesign/archive/2009/06/10/code-only.aspx">p://blogs.msdn.com/efdesign/archive/2009/06/10/code-only.aspx</a></p> <p>LINQ to SQL compiled queries <a title="http://peterkellner.net/2009/06/08/linq2sql-uncompiled-verses-compiled-iis-performance-aspnet/" href="http://peterkellner.net/2009/06/08/linq2sql-uncompiled-verses-compiled-iis-performance-aspnet/">http://peterkellner.net/2009/06/08/linq2sql-uncompiled-verses-compiled-iis-performance-aspnet/</a></p> <p> Caliburn (WPF/SL framework) has gone RC - <a title="http://caliburn.codeplex.com/" href="http://caliburn.codeplex.com/">http://caliburn.codeplex.com/</a></p> <p> </p> <p>TFS automated buids video - <a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukvsts/archive/2009/06/12/automated-build-video.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ukvsts/archive/2009/06/12/automated-build-video.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/ukvsts/archive/2009/06/12/automated-build-video.aspx</a></p> <p>TFS Rangers say what's cool in VSTS 2010 - <a title="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" href="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">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</a></p> <p>Visualising Branch Hierarchies - <a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/mitrik/archive/2009/06/11/branch-hierarchy-visualization.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mitrik/archive/2009/06/11/branch-hierarchy-visualization.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/mitrik/archive/2009/06/11/branch-hierarchy-visualization.aspx</a></p> <p>Pex - <a title="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/pex/documentation.aspx" href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/pex/documentation.aspx">http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/pex/documentation.aspx</a></p> <p> </p> <p> Automated UI testing - VS 2010 Coded UI Test example - <a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsqualitytools/archive/2009/06/12/automated-user-interface-testing-with-coded-ui-test.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsqualitytools/archive/2009/06/12/automated-user-interface-testing-with-coded-ui-test.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsqualitytools/archive/2009/06/12/automated-user-interface-testing-with-coded-ui-test.aspx</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Mapping requirements to test plans & test cases in VSTS 2010 - <a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsqualitytools/archive/2009/06/04/no-more-missed-requirements.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsqualitytools/archive/2009/06/04/no-more-missed-requirements.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsqualitytools/archive/2009/06/04/no-more-missed-requirements.aspx</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Memory mapped files in .NET 4 - <a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/salvapatuel/archive/2009/06/08/working-with-memory-mapped-files-in-net-4.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/salvapatuel/archive/2009/06/08/working-with-memory-mapped-files-in-net-4.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/salvapatuel/archive/2009/06/08/working-with-memory-mapped-files-in-net-4.aspx</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Code Contracts Primer -(new in .NET 4) -  <a title="http://devlicio.us/blogs/derik_whittaker/archive/2009/06/08/code-contracts-primer-part-1-introduction.aspx" href="http://devlicio.us/blogs/derik_whittaker/archive/2009/06/08/code-contracts-primer-part-1-introduction.aspx">http://devlicio.us/blogs/derik_whittaker/archive/2009/06/08/code-contracts-primer-part-1-introduction.aspx</a> </p> <p> </p> <p>BizTalk 2009 - Enterprise Service Bus toolkit - <a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/sudhir/archive/2009/06/09/microsoft-releases-biztalk-esb-toolkit-2-0.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/sudhir/archive/2009/06/09/microsoft-releases-biztalk-esb-toolkit-2-0.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/sudhir/archive/2009/06/09/microsoft-releases-biztalk-esb-toolkit-2-0.aspx</a></p> <p> </p> <p>MEF primitives - <a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/dsplaisted/archive/2009/06/08/a-crash-course-on-the-mef-primitives.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/dsplaisted/archive/2009/06/08/a-crash-course-on-the-mef-primitives.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/dsplaisted/archive/2009/06/08/a-crash-course-on-the-mef-primitives.aspx</a></p> <p> </p> <p>MVVM light toolkit - <a title="http://blog.galasoft.ch/archive/2009/06/14/mvvm-lsquolightrsquo-toolkit-for-wpf-and-silverlight.aspx" href="http://blog.galasoft.ch/archive/2009/06/14/mvvm-lsquolightrsquo-toolkit-for-wpf-and-silverlight.aspx">http://blog.galasoft.ch/archive/2009/06/14/mvvm-lsquolightrsquo-toolkit-for-wpf-and-silverlight.aspx</a></p> Runge Software R&D Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02180238003616913739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604836584205094901.post-64007449308030431702009-06-01T21:46:00.001-07:002009-06-01T23:30:00.371-07:00Interesting links for 2 June 09<p> </p> <p>David Hill has posted about a prototype Prism Quick Start Kit - <a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/dphill/archive/2009/05/29/prism-quick-start-kit.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/dphill/archive/2009/05/29/prism-quick-start-kit.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/dphill/archive/2009/05/29/prism-quick-start-kit.aspx</a></p> <p> </p> <p>What's in and coming for WPF 4 - <a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/jaimer/archive/2009/05/27/wpf-4-and-net-framework-4-beta-1-list-of-features-totrack.aspx" href="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/jaimer/archive/2009/05/27/wpf-4-and-net-framework-4-beta-1-list-of-features-totrack.aspx</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/charles_sterling/archive/2009/05/21/running-blend-3-0-with-visual-studio-2010-beta1.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/charles_sterling/archive/2009/05/21/running-blend-3-0-with-visual-studio-2010-beta1.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/charles_sterling/archive/2009/05/21/running-blend-3-0-with-visual-studio-2010-beta1.aspx</a></p> <p>IronPython 2.6 Beta 1 on Codeplex - <a title="http://ironpython.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=25126" href="http://ironpython.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=25126">http://ironpython.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=25126</a></p> <p>The 2nd DLR language - IronRuby is up to 0.5 - <a title="http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/2009/05/ironruby-05-released.html" href="http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/2009/05/ironruby-05-released.html">http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com/2009/05/ironruby-05-released.html</a></p> <p>DLR gets to 0.91 - <a title="http://dlr.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=0.91_release_notes" href="http://dlr.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=0.91_release_notes">http://dlr.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=0.91_release_notes</a></p> <p>VS2010 walkthroughs - <a title="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/dd441784.aspx" href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/dd441784.aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/dd441784.aspx</a></p> <p> </p> <p>What works with VS2010 (Blend/ SL) - <a title="http://dlr.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=0.91_release_notes" href="http://dlr.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=0.91_release_notes">http://dlr.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=0.91_release_notes</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Great tutorial by Jason Zander</p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/archive/2009/05/22/vs2010-tutorial-build-a-wpf-app-with-beta-1.aspx" href="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/2009/05/22/vs2010-tutorial-build-a-wpf-app-with-beta-1.aspx</a> </p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/archive/2009/05/26/vs2010-tutorial-testing-tutorial-step-2.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/archive/2009/05/26/vs2010-tutorial-testing-tutorial-step-2.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/archive/2009/05/26/vs2010-tutorial-testing-tutorial-step-2.aspx</a></p> <p> </p> <p>The Lab Management Product – An Overview - <a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/amit_chatterjee/archive/2009/05/24/the-lab-management-product-an-overview.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/amit_chatterjee/archive/2009/05/24/the-lab-management-product-an-overview.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/amit_chatterjee/archive/2009/05/24/the-lab-management-product-an-overview.aspx</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://www.edwardbakker.nl/PermaLink,guid,19de7161-769f-4b70-81b6-b435c0557093.aspx">Architectural Inspections: Implemented in Visual Studio Team Architect 2010</a></p> <p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/quanto/archive/2009/05/28/integrated-and-isolated-shell-for-vs-2010-beta-1.aspx">Integrated and Isolated Shell for VS 2010 Beta 1</a> </p> <p> </p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2009/05/28/poco-in-the-entity-framework-part-2-complex-types-deferred-loading-and-explicit-loading.aspx" href="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://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2009/05/28/poco-in-the-entity-framework-part-2-complex-types-deferred-loading-and-explicit-loading.aspx</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a title="http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2009/02/03/silverlight-wpf-control-browser.aspx" href="http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2009/02/03/silverlight-wpf-control-browser.aspx">http://mtaulty.com/CommunityServer/blogs/mike_taultys_blog/archive/2009/02/03/silverlight-wpf-control-browser.aspx</a> - App that let's you see demos of WPF & SL controls</p> <p><a href="http://www.thejoyofcode.com/ViewModels_and_CheckListBoxes.aspx">ViewModels and CheckListBoxes</a></p> <p>The Role of Sketching in Software Development - <a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/05/26/the-role-of-sketching-in-software-development.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/05/26/the-role-of-sketching-in-software-development.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/05/26/the-role-of-sketching-in-software-development.aspx</a></p> <p><a title="http://team.silverlight.net/announcements/sketchflow-rapid-prototyping-that-works/" href="http://team.silverlight.net/announcements/sketchflow-rapid-prototyping-that-works/">http://team.silverlight.net/announcements/sketchflow-rapid-prototyping-that-works/</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Blueprints have disappeared - gone into "internal incubation" - <a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/mglehman/archive/2009/05/27/update-on-microsoft-blueprints.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/mglehman/archive/2009/05/27/update-on-microsoft-blueprints.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/mglehman/archive/2009/05/27/update-on-microsoft-blueprints.aspx</a> </p> <p> </p> <p>DSL Tools - VS2010 Beta 1 - <a title="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/DslTools" href="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/DslTools">http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/DslTools</a> and <a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/jmprieur/archive/2009/05/22/announcing-the-visual-studio-2010-dsl-sdk-beta-1.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/jmprieur/archive/2009/05/22/announcing-the-visual-studio-2010-dsl-sdk-beta-1.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/jmprieur/archive/2009/05/22/announcing-the-visual-studio-2010-dsl-sdk-beta-1.aspx</a></p> <p><a title="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Expert-to-Expert-Martin-Fowler-and-Chris-Sells-Perspectives-on-Domain-Specific-Languages/" href="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/Expert-to-Expert-Martin-Fowler-and-Chris-Sells-Perspectives-on-Domain-Specific-Languages/</a> </p> <p><a title="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Chris-Sells-History-of-DevCon/" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Chris-Sells-History-of-DevCon/">http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Chris-Sells-History-of-DevCon/</a></p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Press site for Bing - <a title="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/bing/default.mspx" href="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/bing/default.mspx">http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/bing/default.mspx</a> </p> <p> </p> <p><a title="http://weblogs.asp.net/rweigelt/archive/2009/06/01/7104846.aspx" href="http://weblogs.asp.net/rweigelt/archive/2009/06/01/7104846.aspx">http://weblogs.asp.net/rweigelt/archive/2009/06/01/7104846.aspx</a> -  GhostDoc <a href="http://community.submain.com/blogs/news/archive/2009/06/01/SubMain-acquires-GhostDoc.aspx">has been acquired</a> by <a href="http://submain.com">SubMain</a>, developer of tools like <a href="http://submain.com/codeit.right/">CodeIt.Right</a>. 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 <a href="http://submain.com/blog/SubMainAcquiresGhostDocReleasesNewVersionIntegratesItWithCodeItRight.aspx">new version 2.5 of GhostDoc</a> that has been released just moments ago.</p> <p> </p> <p>VS2010 Code Gallery - some new add-ins for VS2010 - <a title="http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/" href="http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/">http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/</a></p> <p>- RegEx editor, Insert Images in source files, custom intellisense presenter</p> <p>ActiPro SyntaxEditor for WPF</p> <p><a title="http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/d9984737-275d-4919-b7c8-7a5f5f83c74c" href="http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/d9984737-275d-4919-b7c8-7a5f5f83c74c">http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/d9984737-275d-4919-b7c8-7a5f5f83c74c</a> </p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p> </p> <p>Chris Sells says that <a href="http://msdn.com/oslo/">Oslo May 2009 CTP Available Now </a> </p> <p>So what this Oslo stuff all about? - <a title="From DSLs and Models to “Quadrant” using “Oslo” May CTP – Part I" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/dkaufman/archive/2009/05/27/from-dsl-and-models-to-quadrant-using-oslo-may-ctp-part-i.aspx">From DSLs and Models to “Quadrant” using “Oslo” May CTP – Part I</a></p> Runge Software R&D Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02180238003616913739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604836584205094901.post-43863783690205264542009-04-30T01:29:00.001-07:002009-05-06T00:11:40.610-07:00Too Lazy to do more than cut/paste links from RSS Bandit tabs :-(<h3>Prism</h3> <p>In this post, Brian Noyes describes what he calls composite extensions.  It's based on Prism but is not tied to WPF, and describes a region manager like ability for Wonforms - <a title="http://www.softinsight.com/bnoyes/2009/04/22/CompositeExtensionsForPrism2.aspx" href="http://www.softinsight.com/bnoyes/2009/04/22/CompositeExtensionsForPrism2.aspx">http://www.softinsight.com/bnoyes/2009/04/22/CompositeExtensionsForPrism2.aspx</a></p> <p><a title="http://www.softinsight.com/bnoyes/2009/04/22/BuildingCompositeWPFApplicationsAtEvansvilleNETUsersGroup.aspx" href="http://www.softinsight.com/bnoyes/2009/04/22/BuildingCompositeWPFApplicationsAtEvansvilleNETUsersGroup.aspx">http://www.softinsight.com/bnoyes/2009/04/22/BuildingCompositeWPFApplicationsAtEvansvilleNETUsersGroup.aspx</a></p> <p><a title="http://elegantcode.com/2009/04/22/code-cast-26-prism-20/" href="http://elegantcode.com/2009/04/22/code-cast-26-prism-20/">http://elegantcode.com/2009/04/22/code-cast-26-prism-20/</a></p> <p>Build Outlook style app - <a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/erwinvandervalk/archive/2009/04/29/how-to-build-an-outlook-style-application-with-prism-v2-part-2.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/erwinvandervalk/archive/2009/04/29/how-to-build-an-outlook-style-application-with-prism-v2-part-2.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/erwinvandervalk/archive/2009/04/29/how-to-build-an-outlook-style-application-with-prism-v2-part-2.aspx</a></p> <h3>WPF</h3> <p><a href="http://www.japf.fr/?p=178">The future of WPF at Mix09</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.mindscape.co.nz/blog/index.php/2009/04/24/wpf-coverflow-control-released/">WPF Coverflow control released</a></p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/ivo_manolov/archive/2009/04/24/9566644.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ivo_manolov/archive/2009/04/24/9566644.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/ivo_manolov/archive/2009/04/24/9566644.aspx</a> - WPF test api</p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/ivo_manolov/archive/2009/04/28/9574933.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ivo_manolov/archive/2009/04/28/9574933.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/ivo_manolov/archive/2009/04/28/9574933.aspx</a> - WPF Application Quality Guide v0.5 Released!</p> <h3>Getting ready for Windows 7</h3> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/04/25/walkthrough-to-get-your-applications-ready-for-windows-7.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/04/25/walkthrough-to-get-your-applications-ready-for-windows-7.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/04/25/walkthrough-to-get-your-applications-ready-for-windows-7.aspx</a></p> <p><a title="http://geekswithblogs.net/iupdateable/archive/2009/04/28/what-developers-should-be-doing-in-readiness-for-windows-7.aspx" href="http://geekswithblogs.net/iupdateable/archive/2009/04/28/what-developers-should-be-doing-in-readiness-for-windows-7.aspx">http://geekswithblogs.net/iupdateable/archive/2009/04/28/what-developers-should-be-doing-in-readiness-for-windows-7.aspx</a></p> <h3>Other</h3> <p>Mindscape twitter <a title="http://twitter.com/MindscapeHQ" href="http://twitter.com/MindscapeHQ">http://twitter.com/MindscapeHQ</a></p> <p>Software Factories - someone's doing it - <a title="http://vincenth.net/blog/archive/2009/04/24/factory-overview-part-1-a-bird%e2%80%99s-eye-view-of-the-macaw-solutions-factory.aspx" href="http://vincenth.net/blog/archive/2009/04/24/factory-overview-part-1-a-bird%e2%80%99s-eye-view-of-the-macaw-solutions-factory.aspx">http://vincenth.net/blog/archive/2009/04/24/factory-overview-part-1-a-bird%e2%80%99s-eye-view-of-the-macaw-solutions-factory.aspx</a></p> <p><a title="http://azuregrid.codeplex.com/" href="http://azuregrid.codeplex.com/">http://azuregrid.codeplex.com/</a></p> <p>Learn SL - <a title="http://silverzine.com/" href="http://silverzine.com/">http://silverzine.com/</a></p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/paulcornell/archive/2009/04/20/visual-studio-2010-model-first-development.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/paulcornell/archive/2009/04/20/visual-studio-2010-model-first-development.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/paulcornell/archive/2009/04/20/visual-studio-2010-model-first-development.aspx</a> - model in VS210 - create an Entity Data Model</p> <p>All in one code framework - <a title="http://cfx.codeplex.com/" href="http://cfx.codeplex.com/">http://cfx.codeplex.com/</a></p> <p><a title="http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2009/04/29/let-us-burn-all-those-pesky-util-amp-common-libraries.aspx" href="http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2009/04/29/let-us-burn-all-those-pesky-util-amp-common-libraries.aspx">http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2009/04/29/let-us-burn-all-those-pesky-util-amp-common-libraries.aspx</a> - Ayende rant</p> <p>Build a training course - <a title="http://coursebuilder.codeplex.com/" href="http://coursebuilder.codeplex.com/">http://coursebuilder.codeplex.com/</a></p> <p>BizTalk 2009 released <a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/sudhir/archive/2009/04/28/microsoft-releases-biztalk-server-2009.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/sudhir/archive/2009/04/28/microsoft-releases-biztalk-server-2009.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/sudhir/archive/2009/04/28/microsoft-releases-biztalk-server-2009.aspx</a></p> <p>Poco, Mef, and custom type systems. Are you ready to take the red pill? - more from Glenn Block - <a title="http://codebetter.com/blogs/glenn.block/archive/2009/04/27/poco-mef-and-custom-type-systems-are-you-ready-to-take-the-red-pill.aspx" href="http://codebetter.com/blogs/glenn.block/archive/2009/04/27/poco-mef-and-custom-type-systems-are-you-ready-to-take-the-red-pill.aspx">http://codebetter.com/blogs/glenn.block/archive/2009/04/27/poco-mef-and-custom-type-systems-are-you-ready-to-take-the-red-pill.aspx</a></p> Runge Software R&D Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02180238003616913739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604836584205094901.post-49492012303248399782009-04-19T22:58:00.001-07:002009-04-20T18:07:09.140-07:00Notes<p><a title="http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4/" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4/">http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4/</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/agile/archive/2009/04/16/enterprise-library-5-0-product-backlog-prioritization-results.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/agile/archive/2009/04/16/enterprise-library-5-0-product-backlog-prioritization-results.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/agile/archive/2009/04/16/enterprise-library-5-0-product-backlog-prioritization-results.aspx</a></p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/agile/archive/2009/04/20/enterprise-library-5-0-and-we-re-off.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/agile/archive/2009/04/20/enterprise-library-5-0-and-we-re-off.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/agile/archive/2009/04/20/enterprise-library-5-0-and-we-re-off.aspx</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a title="http://wpfonyx.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Introduction" href="http://wpfonyx.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Introduction">http://wpfonyx.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Introduction</a></p> <p><a title="http://sachabarber.net/?p=499" href="http://sachabarber.net/?p=499">http://sachabarber.net/?p=499</a></p> <p><a title="http://sachabarber.net/?p=504" href="http://sachabarber.net/?p=504">http://sachabarber.net/?p=504</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a title="http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/PrismLayoutManager.aspx" href="http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/PrismLayoutManager.aspx">http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/PrismLayoutManager.aspx</a></p> <p><a title="http://exceldatareader.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=26041" href="http://exceldatareader.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=26041">http://exceldatareader.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=26041</a></p> <p><a title="http://jmorrill.hjtcentral.com/Home/tabid/428/EntryId/403/Glass-Behavior-for-WPF.aspx" href="http://jmorrill.hjtcentral.com/Home/tabid/428/EntryId/403/Glass-Behavior-for-WPF.aspx">http://jmorrill.hjtcentral.com/Home/tabid/428/EntryId/403/Glass-Behavior-for-WPF.aspx</a></p> <p><a title="http://shapingsoftware.com/2009/04/13/performance-hot-spots/" href="http://shapingsoftware.com/2009/04/13/performance-hot-spots/">http://shapingsoftware.com/2009/04/13/performance-hot-spots/</a></p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/vinsibal/archive/2009/04/10/launching-a-custom-dialog-to-edit-items-in-a-datagrid-with-mvvm.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/vinsibal/archive/2009/04/10/launching-a-custom-dialog-to-edit-items-in-a-datagrid-with-mvvm.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/vinsibal/archive/2009/04/10/launching-a-custom-dialog-to-edit-items-in-a-datagrid-with-mvvm.aspx</a></p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/nikolait/archive/2009/04/10/pex-0-10-released-icse-tutorial-on-parameterized-unit-testing.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/nikolait/archive/2009/04/10/pex-0-10-released-icse-tutorial-on-parameterized-unit-testing.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/nikolait/archive/2009/04/10/pex-0-10-released-icse-tutorial-on-parameterized-unit-testing.aspx</a></p> <p><a title="http://groovy.codeplex.com/" href="http://groovy.codeplex.com/">http://groovy.codeplex.com/</a></p> <p><a title="http://www.milkcarton.com/blog/2009/04/04/5+Minute+Tutorial+On+Managed+Extensibility+Framework+MEF.aspx" href="http://www.milkcarton.com/blog/2009/04/04/5+Minute+Tutorial+On+Managed+Extensibility+Framework+MEF.aspx">http://www.milkcarton.com/blog/2009/04/04/5+Minute+Tutorial+On+Managed+Extensibility+Framework+MEF.aspx</a></p> <p><a title="http://dbxamlword.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=25872" href="http://dbxamlword.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=25872">http://dbxamlword.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=25872</a></p> <p><a title="http://elegantcode.com/2009/04/08/analyze-performance-issues-in-your-wpf-application-with-wpfperf/" href="http://elegantcode.com/2009/04/08/analyze-performance-issues-in-your-wpf-application-with-wpfperf/">http://elegantcode.com/2009/04/08/analyze-performance-issues-in-your-wpf-application-with-wpfperf/</a></p> <p><a title="http://marlongrech.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/mvvm-mediator-acb-cool-wpf-app-the-mvvm/" href="http://marlongrech.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/mvvm-mediator-acb-cool-wpf-app-the-mvvm/">http://marlongrech.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/mvvm-mediator-acb-cool-wpf-app-the-mvvm/</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/saveenr/archive/2009/04/20/visio-transparencies-and-soft-shadows.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/saveenr/archive/2009/04/20/visio-transparencies-and-soft-shadows.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/saveenr/archive/2009/04/20/visio-transparencies-and-soft-shadows.aspx</a></p> Runge Software R&D Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02180238003616913739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604836584205094901.post-78463617138212819022009-04-08T01:50:00.001-07:002009-04-08T01:50:38.392-07:00Notes<p><a title="http://managedesent.codeplex.com/" href="http://managedesent.codeplex.com/">http://managedesent.codeplex.com/</a></p> <p><a title="http://witsynchronizer.codeplex.com/" href="http://witsynchronizer.codeplex.com/">http://witsynchronizer.codeplex.com/</a></p> <p><a title="http://weblogs.asp.net/whaggard/archive/2009/04/07/mef-preview-5-released.aspx" href="http://weblogs.asp.net/whaggard/archive/2009/04/07/mef-preview-5-released.aspx">http://weblogs.asp.net/whaggard/archive/2009/04/07/mef-preview-5-released.aspx</a></p> <p><a title="http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/a-mediator-prototype-for-wpf-apps/" href="http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/a-mediator-prototype-for-wpf-apps/">http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/a-mediator-prototype-for-wpf-apps/</a></p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/pfxteam/archive/2009/04/06/9534426.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/pfxteam/archive/2009/04/06/9534426.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/pfxteam/archive/2009/04/06/9534426.aspx</a></p> <p><a title="http://www.mindscape.co.nz/blog/index.php/2009/04/05/intro-to-wpf-flow-diagrams/" href="http://www.mindscape.co.nz/blog/index.php/2009/04/05/intro-to-wpf-flow-diagrams/">http://www.mindscape.co.nz/blog/index.php/2009/04/05/intro-to-wpf-flow-diagrams/</a></p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2009/04/04/expression-blend-3-preview.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2009/04/04/expression-blend-3-preview.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2009/04/04/expression-blend-3-preview.aspx</a></p> <p><a title="http://blog.vuscode.com/malovicn/archive/2009/04/04/microsoft-unity-auto-mocking-container.aspx" href="http://blog.vuscode.com/malovicn/archive/2009/04/04/microsoft-unity-auto-mocking-container.aspx">http://blog.vuscode.com/malovicn/archive/2009/04/04/microsoft-unity-auto-mocking-container.aspx</a></p> <p><a title="http://team.interknowlogy.com/blogs/ryanabreu/archive/2009/04/03/mix09-brain-dump-part-2-prototyping-and-designing-with-expression-blend-3.aspx" href="http://team.interknowlogy.com/blogs/ryanabreu/archive/2009/04/03/mix09-brain-dump-part-2-prototyping-and-designing-with-expression-blend-3.aspx">http://team.interknowlogy.com/blogs/ryanabreu/archive/2009/04/03/mix09-brain-dump-part-2-prototyping-and-designing-with-expression-blend-3.aspx</a></p> Runge Software R&D Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02180238003616913739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604836584205094901.post-11845333995226454902009-03-16T17:47:00.001-07:002009-03-16T17:47:07.002-07:00It's Tuesday<p> </p> <h3>WPF</h3> <p>Josh Smith has a new CodePlex project called <a href="http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/introducing-thriple-a-library-of-3d-wpf-components/">Thriple</a> - a library of 3D WPF components.</p> <p>Rudi Grobler describes Karl's XAML Power Toys - <a href="http://dotnet.org.za/rudi/archive/2009/03/15/extract-properties-to-style.aspx">Extract Properties to Style</a> feature.  He also points to a cool sample app called <a href="http://dotnet.org.za/rudi/archive/2009/03/14/flexible-layout-on-steroids.aspx">PhotoSuru.</a>  </p> <p>Jaime Rodriguez shares his <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/jaimer/pages/wpf-bloggers.aspx">list of WPF blogs</a>.</p> <p>Sacha Barber describes what he calls the <a href="http://sachabarber.net/?p=477">MVVM Mediator pattern</a>.</p> <p>Charles Perzold has an article in MSDN magazine about <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd483292.aspx">writing more efficient ItemsControls</a>.</p> <p>And our own Tarang Waghela writes about <a href="http://tarangw.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/implementing-m-v-vm-pattern-in-wpf/">Implementing M-V-VM pattern in WPF</a>. </p> <h3>UX</h3> <p>New article in MSDN magazine on <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/dd458810.aspx#id0080003">Strategies For Designing Application Navigation</a></p> <p>Cory Schuman has a <a href="http://www.85turns.com/2009/03/10/generic-xaml-loading-control/">generic XAML loading control</a></p> <p>Dax Pandhi has a <a href="http://blog.nukeation.com/post/Free-theme-INCY.aspx">free WPF theme</a></p> <h3>Other</h3> <p><a href="http://solutionfactory.codeplex.com/">Solution Factory</a> is a Visual Studio Addin that exports a solution as a Visual Studio multi-project template</p> <p>Brian Harry has <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2009/03/10/lots-of-news.aspx">"lots of news"</a> about VSTS2010/.NET4.0.</p> <p>Brad Abrams shows off what's coming in <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2009/03/09/the-knowledge-chamber-silverlight-3-0-for-great-business-apps.aspx">Sliverlight 3 for Business Applications</a>.</p> Runge Software R&D Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02180238003616913739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604836584205094901.post-75178095591436455412009-03-04T00:37:00.001-08:002009-03-04T00:37:37.800-08:00Project almost finished<p>Our current project is almost finished, so I've at last had a chance to browse my blog feeds.</p> <p>Here's the list of interesting items that attracted my attention over the last few weeks.</p> <h3>WPF</h3> <p>Tim Sneath Announcing Family.Show v3 – Our WPF Reference Application - <a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2009/02/23/announcing-family-show-v3-our-wpf-reference-application.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2009/02/23/announcing-family-show-v3-our-wpf-reference-application.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2009/02/23/announcing-family-show-v3-our-wpf-reference-application.aspx</a></p> <p>The guys from Mindscape  have announced <a href="http://www.mindscape.co.nz/blog/index.php/2009/02/24/wpf-flow-diagrams-10-released/">WPF Flow Diagrams 1.0 released</a></p> <p>Josh Smith has an article <a title="Permanent Link- Using ContentControl3D and Panel3D in a ListBox" href="http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/using-contentcontrol3d-and-panel3d-in-a-listbox/">Using ContentControl3D and Panel3D in a ListBox</a></p> <h3>MVVM videos</h3> <p>Josh Smith <a title="Permanent Link- Two Model-View-ViewModel Screencasts" href="http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/two-model-view-viewmodel-screencasts/">Two Model-View-ViewModel Screencasts</a></p> <p>Learn Prism - from Blaine Wastell - <a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/blaine/archive/2009/02/28/learn-prism.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blaine/archive/2009/02/28/learn-prism.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/blaine/archive/2009/02/28/learn-prism.aspx</a></p> <p>How to build an outlook style application using Prism - <a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/erwinvandervalk/archive/2009/03/02/how-to-build-an-outlook-style-application.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/erwinvandervalk/archive/2009/03/02/how-to-build-an-outlook-style-application.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/erwinvandervalk/archive/2009/03/02/how-to-build-an-outlook-style-application.aspx</a></p> <h3>UX stuff</h3> <p>Shane Morris has pointed to <a title="Permanent Link- New Video Series- UI Design for Developers Series, by Total Training" href="http://ux.artu.tv/?p=121">New Video Series- UI Design for Developers Series, by Total Training</a></p> <p>Mark Miller has as series of posts on Great UI.  Here is the first one I came across - Clarity and Color on the Presentation Layer - <a title="http://community.devexpress.com/blogs/markmiller/archive/2009/02/26/great-ui-clarity-and-color-on-the-presentation-layer.aspx" href="http://community.devexpress.com/blogs/markmiller/archive/2009/02/26/great-ui-clarity-and-color-on-the-presentation-layer.aspx">http://community.devexpress.com/blogs/markmiller/archive/2009/02/26/great-ui-clarity-and-color-on-the-presentation-layer.aspx</a> </p> <p>Tip: Invoking Blend from Visual Studio - <a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/wpfsdk/archive/2009/02/26/tip-invoking-blend-from-visual-studio.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/wpfsdk/archive/2009/02/26/tip-invoking-blend-from-visual-studio.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/wpfsdk/archive/2009/02/26/tip-invoking-blend-from-visual-studio.aspx</a></p> <p><a title="Bling- easy animation and interaction in C# and WPF" href="http://bling.codeplex.com/">Bling- easy animation and interaction in C# and WPF</a></p> <h3>Other</h3> <p>Event Aggregation with MEF (with and without EventAggregator)</p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/gblock/archive/2009/02/23/event-aggregation-with-mef-with-and-without-eventaggregator.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/gblock/archive/2009/02/23/event-aggregation-with-mef-with-and-without-eventaggregator.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/gblock/archive/2009/02/23/event-aggregation-with-mef-with-and-without-eventaggregator.aspx</a></p> <p>Rob Relyea - what's coming in .NET 4 for XAML - XAML State of the Union – Feb 2009 - <a title="http://blogs.windowsclient.net/rob_relyea/archive/2009/02/26/xaml-state-of-the-union-feb-2009.aspx" href="http://blogs.windowsclient.net/rob_relyea/archive/2009/02/26/xaml-state-of-the-union-feb-2009.aspx">http://blogs.windowsclient.net/rob_relyea/archive/2009/02/26/xaml-state-of-the-union-feb-2009.aspx</a></p> <p>Somasegar announces DevLabs: Code Contracts for .NET   <a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2009/02/23/devlabs-code-contracts-for-net.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2009/02/23/devlabs-code-contracts-for-net.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2009/02/23/devlabs-code-contracts-for-net.aspx</a></p> <p>Talking Points: ADO.NET Entity Framework <a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/publicsector/archive/2009/02/23/talking-points-ado-net-entity-framework.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/publicsector/archive/2009/02/23/talking-points-ado-net-entity-framework.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/publicsector/archive/2009/02/23/talking-points-ado-net-entity-framework.aspx</a></p> <p>NaturalSpec is based on NUnit and completely written in F# - <a title="http://code.google.com/p/natural/" href="http://code.google.com/p/natural/">http://code.google.com/p/natural/</a></p> <p><a title="NCalc - Mathematical Expressions Evaluator for .NET" href="http://ncalc.codeplex.com/">NCalc - Mathematical Expressions Evaluator for .NET</a></p> <p>Rockford Lhotka has a summary article on Parallel and Concurrency Futures for Microsoft Developers - <a title="http://www.devx.com/SpecialReports/Article/40965/1954?pf=true" href="http://www.devx.com/SpecialReports/Article/40965/1954?pf=true">http://www.devx.com/SpecialReports/Article/40965/1954?pf=true</a></p> Runge Software R&D Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02180238003616913739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604836584205094901.post-86448425302591733222009-02-19T23:39:00.001-08:002009-02-19T23:39:25.399-08:00Friday notes<p> </p> <p><a title="http://www.codeplex.com/wpfthemes" href="http://www.codeplex.com/wpfthemes">http://www.codeplex.com/wpfthemes</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a title="http://www.codeplex.com/NodeXL" href="http://www.codeplex.com/NodeXL">http://www.codeplex.com/NodeXL</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a title="http://www.codeplex.com/CompositeWPF" href="http://www.codeplex.com/CompositeWPF">http://www.codeplex.com/CompositeWPF</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a title="http://www.codeproject.com/KB/architecture/UndoRedoPart1.aspx" href="http://www.codeproject.com/KB/architecture/UndoRedoPart1.aspx">http://www.codeproject.com/KB/architecture/UndoRedoPart1.aspx</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a title="http://www.codeplex.com/StyleFix" href="http://www.codeplex.com/StyleFix">http://www.codeplex.com/StyleFix</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a title="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles_Sterling/UI-Automation-Testing-with-Visual-Studio-2010/" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles_Sterling/UI-Automation-Testing-with-Visual-Studio-2010/">http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles_Sterling/UI-Automation-Testing-with-Visual-Studio-2010/</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a title="http://davybrion.com/blog/2009/02/performance-rules-of-thumb/" href="http://davybrion.com/blog/2009/02/performance-rules-of-thumb/">http://davybrion.com/blog/2009/02/performance-rules-of-thumb/</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a title="http://www.lostechies.com/blogs/gabrielschenker/archive/2009/02/13/the-open-closed-principle.aspx" href="http://www.lostechies.com/blogs/gabrielschenker/archive/2009/02/13/the-open-closed-principle.aspx">http://www.lostechies.com/blogs/gabrielschenker/archive/2009/02/13/the-open-closed-principle.aspx</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a title="http://weblogs.asp.net/dmckinstry/archive/2009/02/15/outlook-add-in-for-tfs-work-item-alerts.aspx" href="http://weblogs.asp.net/dmckinstry/archive/2009/02/15/outlook-add-in-for-tfs-work-item-alerts.aspx">http://weblogs.asp.net/dmckinstry/archive/2009/02/15/outlook-add-in-for-tfs-work-item-alerts.aspx</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a title="http://www.codeplex.com/wpfpropertygrid" href="http://www.codeplex.com/wpfpropertygrid">http://www.codeplex.com/wpfpropertygrid</a></p> <p> </p> <p><a title="http://sachabarber.net/?p=442" href="http://sachabarber.net/?p=442">http://sachabarber.net/?p=442</a></p> Runge Software R&D Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02180238003616913739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604836584205094901.post-73500858730870401612009-02-15T04:25:00.001-08:002009-04-01T16:31:55.114-07:00Notes<h2></h2> <h3>General</h3> <p><a title="permaink to LightSpeed 2.2 released" href="http://www.mindscape.co.nz/blog/index.php/2009/02/02/lightspeed-22-released/">LightSpeed 2.2 released</a></p> <p><a href="Make Your Application Extendable Using the DLR">Make Your Application Extendable Using the DLR</a></p> <p><a title="http://codebetter.com/blogs/glenn.block/archive/2009/01/28/managed-extensibility-framework-preview-4-a-grab-bag-of-goodies.aspx" href="http://codebetter.com/blogs/glenn.block/archive/2009/01/28/managed-extensibility-framework-preview-4-a-grab-bag-of-goodies.aspx">http://codebetter.com/blogs/glenn.block/archive/2009/01/28/managed-extensibility-framework-preview-4-a-grab-bag-of-goodies.aspx</a></p> <p><a title="http://www.notionsolutions.com/Products/Pages/NotionTimesheet.aspx" href="http://www.notionsolutions.com/Products/Pages/NotionTimesheet.aspx">http://www.notionsolutions.com/Products/Pages/NotionTimesheet.aspx</a></p> <p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/teams_wit_tools/archive/2009/02/12/building-lightweight-dashboards-using-excel.aspx">Building lightweight dashboards using Excel</a></p> <h3>UX</h3> <p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2009/02/02/ux-patterns-explorer.aspx">UX Patterns Explorer</a> - really neat patterns site from Infragistics</p> <p><a href="http://blogs.conchango.com/howardvanrooijen/archive/2009/02/05/implementation-patterns-of-user-centered-design-development-and-agile.aspx">Implementation Patterns of User-Centered Design, Development and Agile</a></p> <p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/shanemo/archive/2009/02/08/art-and-science-of-ux-deepzoom-resurrected.aspx">‘Art and Science of UX’ Deepzoom Resurrected</a></p> <p><a href="http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/01/28/comprehensive-list-of-silverlight-controls.aspx">A comprehensive list to Silverlight Controls for developers</a></p> Runge Software R&D Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02180238003616913739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604836584205094901.post-56814478790354747382009-01-07T23:11:00.001-08:002009-01-07T23:11:02.949-08:00Notes<p> </p> <p><a title="http://www.codeplex.com/ManagedEsent" href="http://www.codeplex.com/ManagedEsent">http://www.codeplex.com/ManagedEsent</a> </p> <p><b>ESENT Managed Interop</b> <br />ESENT is an embeddable database storage engine (ISAM) which is part of Windows. It provides reliable, transacted, concurrent, high-performance data storage with row-level locking, write-ahead logging and snapshot isolation. This is a managed wrapper for the ESENT Win32 API.</p> <p> </p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/windowssdk/archive/2008/10/23/esent-extensible-storage-engine-api-in-the-windows-sdk.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/windowssdk/archive/2008/10/23/esent-extensible-storage-engine-api-in-the-windows-sdk.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/windowssdk/archive/2008/10/23/esent-extensible-storage-engine-api-in-the-windows-sdk.aspx</a></p> <h4>ESENT (Extensible Storage Engine) API in the Windows SDK</h4> <p>I’m not sure how many people know that Windows comes with an embeddable, transactional database engine which is available to developers through the Windows SDK. The ESENT database engine can be used whenever an application wants high-performance, low-overhead storage of structured or semi-structured data. This can range from something as simple as a hash table which is too large to store in memory to a complex application with many tables, columns and indexes. ESENT is used by the Active Directory, Windows Desktop Search, Windows Mail and several other Windows services and a slightly modified version of the code is used by Microsoft Exchange to store all its mailbox data. The ESENT API is available through the SDK and can be used on all versions of Windows from Windows Server 2000 on up.</p> <p>The significant technical features of ESENT include:</p> <p>· ACID transactions with savepoints, lazy commits and robust crash recovery.</p> <p>· Snapshot isolation.</p> <p>· Record-level locking — multi-versioning provides non-blocking reads.</p> <p>· Highly concurrent database access.</p> <p>· Flexible meta-data (tens of thousands of columns, tables and indexes are possible).</p> <p>· Indexing support for integer, floating point, ASCII, Unicode and binary columns.</p> <p>· Sophisticated index types including conditional, tuple and multi-valued.</p> <p>· Individual columns can be up to 2GB in size. A database can be up to 16TB in size.</p> <p>· Can be configured for high performance or low resource usage.</p> <p>· No administration required (even the database cache size can adjust itself automatically).</p> <p>· No download. Your application uses the esent.dll which comes with the operating system.</p> <p>Caveats: ESENT should only be used for applications which have simple, predefined queries; applications that want to do ad-hoc queries should investigate a storage solution that provides a query layer. The database file cannot be shared between multiple processes simultaneously.</p> <p> </p> <p><a title="http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2008/12/23/f-to-ship-with-visual-studio-2010.aspx" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2008/12/23/f-to-ship-with-visual-studio-2010.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2008/12/23/f-to-ship-with-visual-studio-2010.aspx</a></p> <h6>F# To Ship with Visual Studio 2010 </h6> <p>Don Syme has announced that F# would ship as part of Visual Studio 2010 in his blog entry, <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2008/12/10/fsharp-to-ship-as-part-of-visual-studio-2010.aspx">F# to ship as part of Visual Studio 2010</a>. F# combines the succinct, expressive, and compositional style of functional programming with the runtime, libraries, interoperability, and object model of .NET.</p> <p>F# gives you:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/lukeh/archive/2008/05/05/huffman-coding-with-f.aspx">Succinct, type-inferred functional programming</a></li> <li><a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dan/C9-Bytes-Data-Visualization-and-FSharp-with-Luke-Hoban/">Interactive scripting</a> like Python and other languages </li> <li>the foundations for an <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/dsyme/archive/2006/02/19/534925.aspx">interactive data visualization environment</a></li> <li>the combination of type inference and safety, like that of ML </li> <li>a cross-compiling core shared with the popular OCaml language </li> <li>a performance profile like that of C# </li> <li>easy access to the entire range of powerful <a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d11h6832(vs.71).aspx">.NET libraries and database tools</a></li> <li>a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus">foundational simplicity</a> with similar roots to Scheme </li> <li>the option of a top-rate <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/fsharp">Visual Studio</a> integration </li> <li>the experience of a <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/aboutmsr/labs/cambridge/default.aspx">first-class team</a> of language researchers with a <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/projects/clrgen/">track</a> <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/andrewkennedy">record</a> of delivering high-quality implementations </li> <li>the speed of native code execution on the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/concurrency/default.aspx">concurrent</a>, <a href="http://www.go-mono.com/">portable</a>, and <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa663324.aspx">distributed</a> <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework">.NET Framework</a></li> </ul> <p>The development in the first Visual Studio 2010 community technology preview focused on F# for exploratory programming with F# Interactive, programming with data and implementing parallel and asynchronous components.</p> <p>S. Somasegar who leads Developer Division at Microsoft had announced a year ago that F# was to become one of Microsoft’s supported languages on the .NET platform. He wrote, "Language features such as lambda expressions in C# and generics in .NET 2.0 have roots in functional languages, and LINQ is directly based on functional programming techniques. Through LINQ and Parallel FX, ideas from functional languages are helping us address some of the biggest challenges facing the industry today, from the impedance mismatch between data and objects to the challenges of the multi-core and parallel computing space."</p> <p>Luca Bolognese has released a .NET library that provides the full set of financial functions from Excel. You can download the library from <a href="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/FinancialFunctions">Excel Financial functions for .NET</a>.</p> <p> </p> <p><a href="http://www.codeplex.com/sfs"></a> <h3>SFS for Microsoft Visual Studio</h3> </p> <p>Code generator, Entity Framework to any Layer using Text Transformation Templates in Microsot Visual Studio, and other tools for .edmx diagram.</p> <h3>The Visual Studio 10 CTP VPC expired! What should I do?</h3> <p>A couple of months ago, we unveiled Visual Studio 10 at several conferences and provided attendees a copy of a VPC with Visual Studio 10.  We also made the CTP available <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=922B4655-93D0-4476-BDA4-94CF5F8D4814&displaylang=en">here</a>.</p> <p>Thanks to a lot of partners, customers, and hobbyists, we got a ton of great feedback on our bits and look forward to hearing more from the community.  Unfortunately, the CTP came with a timebomb and expired at the end of 2008.  We have not shipped another CTP since then so if you still want to play with the CTP VPC but have run into the expiration problem, follow the steps in <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/archive/2008/12/09/dealing-with-the-team-system-2010-ctp-expiration.aspx">Jeff Beehler's blog</a> to disable the synchronization between your VPC and the host machine, then turn back the clock :)</p> <p> </p> <h4>Free Entity Framework eBook</h4> <p><a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/zeeshanhirani/default.aspx">Zeeshan Hirani</a> has written a 500 pages book about the Entity Framework and has released it as a free eBook.  Wow!</p> <p><a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/zeeshanhirani/archive/2008/12/18/my-christmas-present-to-the-entity-framework-community.aspx#comments">http://weblogs.asp.net/zeeshanhirani/archive/2008/12/18/my-christmas-present-to-the-entity-framework-community.aspx#comments</a></p> Runge Software R&D Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02180238003616913739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604836584205094901.post-1264873477299571272008-12-22T22:35:00.001-08:002008-12-22T22:35:19.076-08:00Last list before Christmas<p> </p> <p>New version of <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/archive/2008/12/21/deep-zoom-composer-has-been-updated-documentation-and-bug-fixes.aspx">Deep Zoom composer</a>.  On the list to try out next year.</p> <p>The VSTS Rangers have released version 2.0 of their <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/TFSBranchingGuideII">TFS 2008 Branching Guide</a>.</p> <p>The November CTP of <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/blueprints">Microsoft Blueprints</a> is out on Codeplex.  Yet another one to check out next year.  "Microsoft Blueprints deliver where other forms of guidance fall short, making you more productive by helping you codify conventions, automate tasks, ramp up quickly on new technologies and requirements, and package successful designs and implementations, so that you can use them again. They can also reduce your time to market, sharpen your estimates, and improve your code quality. <br />A Blueprint is an accelerator for a specific type of software deliverable like a web service, a rich client, or a mobile application. A Blueprint is a package of process guidance, human-readable resources (docs, decks, videos, etc.) and machine-readable resources (code snippets, templates, frameworks, DSL tools, etc.) which help you build or manage a specific task or domain. It’s an SDK for a problem, not a product or specific technology. "</p> <p>For those who prefer guidance in book form, check out <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e3e87bdc-fec1-4489-91fa-e1cf69721563&displaylang=en">Documentation for Composite Application Guidance for WPF–June 2008</a> (Prism). </p> <p>And yet more book style guidance has been released by the P&P guys - <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/AppArchGuide">Application Architecture Guide 2.0</a>.</p> <p>And more updates to the <a href="http://windowsclient.net/wpf/white-papers/wpf-app-quality-guide.aspx#testapi">WPF Application Quality Guide</a>.</p> <p>The WPF group have a new test tool on Codeplex - <a title="TestApi - a library of Test APIs" href="http://www.codeplex.com/TestApi">TestApi - a library of Test APIs</a>.</p> <p>And here's a tip about <a href="http://www.ademiller.com/blogs/tech/2008/12/debugging-wpf-data-binding/">debugging WPF data binding</a>.</p> Runge Software R&D Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02180238003616913739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604836584205094901.post-66150618322576814342008-12-15T23:13:00.001-08:002008-12-15T23:13:49.266-08:00Interesting Silverlight stuff<p>Some interesting blogs I've seen recently are pointing to a convergence between Silverlight and WPF.</p> <p>Bart Czernicki has some predictions about what we'll see in <a href="http://silverlighthack.com/post/2008/12/11/Silverlight-3-What-we-Know-So-Far-What-We-Can-Predict-(Part-1-of-2).aspx">Silverlight 3</a>.  The support for 3D and hardware acceleration sounds interesting.</p> <p>Want <a href="http://community.devexpress.com/blogs/theonewith/archive/2008/12/04/silverlight-on-a-desktop.aspx">Silverlight on a Desktop</a>? Check out project Fiji.</p> Runge Software R&D Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02180238003616913739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604836584205094901.post-19702871396157943712008-11-13T04:18:00.001-08:002008-11-13T04:33:46.072-08:00Build for multi-cores now!<p>I guess we've all heard of the "free performance lunch". For many years we have enjoyed a "free" performance improvement for our apps in line with CPU performance gains. Buy a newer machine and your apps run faster. Basically we're getting more cycles which makes our slow apps faster over time. Whilst Moore's Law predicts exponential growth, this relates to transistor densities, and we've seen a spectacular growth in data storage, but the rise in clock speeds has slowed, and the growth is now to multi-cores. <a href="http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm">The free lunch is over</a>.</p> <p>In line with this trend, <a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going+Deep/Mark-Russinovich-Inside-Windows-7/">Windows 7 can scale to 256 processors</a>.</p> <p>But even though the free lunch is over, the Redmond Steakhouse will be open for free dinners if you build software for multi-cores now. (<a href="http://smartclientfactory.blogspot.com/2008/05/my-thoughts-on-armenian-food.html">The gag</a> continues, Winston)</p> <p><a href="http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/">The Moth</a> has some wise words of advice to start now. I really recommend his recent articles on <a href="http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2008/11/fine-grained-parallelism.html">Fine Grained Parallelism</a> and <a href="http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2008/11/do-not-explicitly-use-threads-for.html">Do NOT Explicitly Use Threads for Parallel Programming</a>. </p> <p>He says "<em>Our goal with parallel programming is to write once and have our code scale well as the hardware underneath it gets better, i.e. see incremental benefits when running our app on machines with more cores without changing the code.</em>" Chunking your app into fine grain partitions which can be threaded provides part of the answer, but <em>"we need some kind of user mode "engine" to schedule only as many threads as the number of cores on the machine and we need this to take place automatically for us. We also need to be able to partition the overall compute-bound operation into many work items that will get executed by the "engine"."</em> That engine is there now, but improvements are coming in .NET 4.</p> <p> Daniel's blog also has articles on Threading vs Parallelism and the Parallel extensions in .NET 4 (which are also available in <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=348F73FD-593D-4B3C-B055-694C50D2B0F3&displaylang=en">CTP for .NET 3.5</a> now).</p> <p>Also worth keeping an eye on is the Microsoft <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/pfxteam/default.aspx">Parallel Programming team blog</a>.</p> <div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:2e1aacb9-eae1-4f15-9262-8d359c4c276e" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/multi-core" rel="tag">multi-core</a>, <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/paralell%20Programming" rel="tag">paralell Programming</a></div> Runge Software R&D Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02180238003616913739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604836584205094901.post-62302096663844152992008-11-10T23:56:00.001-08:002008-12-15T23:35:23.205-08:00Software Factories resurface as "Blueprints"<p> </p> <p>Back on 25th October, I said.......</p> <p><em>Steve Cook is co-author of seminal book on </em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Software-Factories-Assembling-Applications-Frameworks/dp/0471202843"><em>Software Factories : : Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks, and Tools</em></a><em>, together with Jack Greenfield, Keith Short & Stuart Kent.  After a drought of over 2 years, </em><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/keith_short/archive/2008/10/24/yet-another-promise-to-start-blogging.aspx"><em>Keith Short has surfaced</em></a><em> to tell us he's been working on Oslo, so I wonder if Jack has also?  Has the software factory initiative morphed into Oslo?</em></p> <p>Well, not quite.........</p> <p>Just notes for now</p> <p><a href="http://infosysblogs.com/microsoft/2008/11/microsoft_blueprint_walkthroug.html">http://infosysblogs.com/microsoft/2008/11/microsoft_blueprint_walkthroug.html</a></p> <p><a href="http://infosysblogs.com/microsoft/2008/11/microsoft_blueprints_building.html">http://infosysblogs.com/microsoft/2008/11/microsoft_blueprints_building.html</a></p> <p><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/hi-in/architecture/blueprints(en-us).aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/hi-in/architecture/blueprints(en-us).aspx</a></p> <p><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/hi-in/architecture/dd179252(en-us).aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/hi-in/architecture/dd179252(en-us).aspx</a></p> <p><a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/softwareplusservicesblueprints/">http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/softwareplusservicesblueprints/</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.codeplex.com/blueprints">http://www.codeplex.com/blueprints</a></p> <p><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/hi-in/architecture/dd179251(en-us).aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/hi-in/architecture/dd179251(en-us).aspx</a></p> <p> </p> <p>A one day lab on the <a href="http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/DSLToolsLab">DSL Tools has been posted</a>.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><a title="http://wildermuth.com/2008/11/08/Why_Domain_Specific_Languages_are_Important_to_Everyday_Developers" href="http://wildermuth.com/2008/11/08/Why_Domain_Specific_Languages_are_Important_to_Everyday_Developers">http://wildermuth.com/2008/11/08/Why_Domain_Specific_Languages_are_Important_to_Everyday_Developers</a></p> <p><a href="http://wildermuth.com/">http://wildermuth.com/</a></p> <p> </p> <p>Andre Furtado - PhD Candidate (UFPE), Software Engineer (Microsoft Corporation) has a <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/FeatureModelDSL">Codeplex project - Feature Model DSL</a>.  This is based on the Feature Model DSL in the <i>Practical Software Factories in .NET</i> by <a href="http://www.ispysoft.net">Gunther Lenz and Christoph Wienands</a>.  Haven't run it yet, 'cos the installer said I needed VB :-(</p> Runge Software R&D Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02180238003616913739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604836584205094901.post-10909101653376586022008-11-10T23:45:00.001-08:002008-11-10T23:51:15.744-08:00New stuff - 11 November<h3>StyleCop violations as you type</h3> <p>There's a new release of <a href="http://blogs.conchango.com/howardvanrooijen/archive/2008/11/06/new-release-of-stylecop-for-resharper.aspx">StyleCop for ReSharper</a>.  Howard van Rooijen has been joined by some other devs.  This means that you get hit with StyleCop violations as you type.</p> <h3>VS2010 goes WPF</h3> <p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2008/11/07/managed-extensibility-framework-mef-demo.aspx">Brad Abrams</a> has a short video of Scott Guthrie's PDC keynote about some of the things coming in VS2010.  In the video Scott reveals that VS2010 will use WPF and also use MEF(managed extensibility framework) to extend it.  So that's a great validation for us about WPF which we're using, and MEF which we'll probably adopt.  The video's only 6 minutes and is really worth it.</p> <p>Hammett (founder of Castle Windsor - now working on MEF) talks about the <a href="http://hammett.castleproject.org/?p=332">proposed lifetime support for MEF</a>.</p> <h3>Other new stuff</h3> <p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/erwinvandervalk/archive/2008/11/07/prism-v2-drop-5-composite-application-guidance-for-wpf-and-silverlight.aspx">Drop 5 of Prism v 2 is out</a>.</p> Runge Software R&D Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02180238003616913739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604836584205094901.post-40045439784199008062008-11-10T02:07:00.001-08:002008-11-10T02:07:16.802-08:00Distributed Development<p><a href="http://rungesrand.blogspot.com/2008/10/this-week-notes-for-now.html">I recently blogged</a> about some new paper guidance from the Patterns & Practices team about distributed development. The article about <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2008/10/30/new-release-distributed-agile-development-at-microsoft-patterns-practices.aspx">Distributed Agile Development</a> is essential reading for any distributed development shop.</p> <p>A useful companion to this article is work being done by David Tuffley at Griffith University. I saw David present at an ACS meeting on work he is doing on <a href="http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~davidt/leadership/ACS%20Sept%202008%20Leadership%20PRM.pdf">Leadership of Integrated Virtual Teams</a>. As the title implies it particularly looks at the expanded leadership characteristics that are essential to get the most out of virtual / distributed teams.</p> <p>Both articles recognise that whilst co-located teams are preferable, in today's world this is not always possible. So recognising this reality, they provide practical suggestions and a framework to lift our game in this area. </p> Runge Software R&D Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02180238003616913739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604836584205094901.post-28276945231051753262008-11-01T20:28:00.001-07:002008-11-01T20:47:40.834-07:00PDC without the cost & jet lag<p>You can watch videos of the PDC sessions on <a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/">channel9.msdn</a></p> <p>These are the ones that are on my viewing list:</p> <ol> <li><a title="Day Two #2 - Chris Anderson and Don Box" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/KYN03/">Day Two #2 - Chris Anderson and Don Box</a> - Keynote</li> <li><a title="Day Two #1 - Ray Ozzie, Steven Sinofsky, Scott Guthrie and David Treadwell" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/KYN02/">Day Two #1 - Ray Ozzie, Steven Sinofsky, Scott Guthrie and David Treadwell</a> - Keynote</li> <li><a title="Day One - Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/KYN01/">Day One - Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson</a> - opening keynote</li> <li><a title="Oslo - The Language" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL27/">Oslo - The Language</a> - Don Box</li> <li><a title="A Lap around Oslo" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL23/">A Lap around Oslo</a> - Douglas Purdy</li> <li><a title="Oslo - Customizing and Extending the Visual Design Experience" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL18/">Oslo - Customizing and Extending the Visual Design Experience</a> - Don Box</li> <li><a title="Windows 7- Design Principles for Windows 7" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC22/">Windows 7- Design Principles for Windows 7</a> - Samuel Moreau</li> <li><a title="A Lap Around Windows Azure" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/ES16/">A Lap Around Windows Azure</a> - Manuvir Das</li> <li><a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL52/">Team Foundation Server 2010: Cool New Features</a> - Brian Harry</li> <li><a title="Microsoft Visual Studio Team System- A Lap Around VSTS 2010" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL47/">Microsoft Visual Studio Team System- A Lap Around VSTS 2010</a> - Cameron Skinner</li> <li><a title="Managed Extensibility Framework- Overview" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL33/">Managed Extensibility Framework- Overview</a> - Glenn Block</li> <li><a title="Microsoft Sync Framework Advances" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL30/">Microsoft Sync Framework Advances</a> - Lev Novik</li> <li><a title="Parallel Programming for Managed Developers with the Next Version of Microsoft Visual Studio" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL26/">Parallel Programming for Managed Developers with the Next Version of Microsoft Visual Studio</a> - Daniel Moth</li> <li><a title="Microsoft Visual Studio- Bringing out the Best in Multicore Systems" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL19/">Microsoft Visual Studio- Bringing out the Best in Multicore Systems</a> - Hazim Shafi</li> <li><a title="Entity Framework Futures" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL20/">Entity Framework Futures</a> - Tim Mallalieu</li> <li><a title="WF 4.0- A First Look" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL17/">WF 4.0- A First Look</a> - Kenny Wolf</li> <li><a title="WF 4.0- Extending with Custom Activities" href="http://channel9vip.orcsweb.com/pdc2008/TL21/">WF 4.0- Extending with Custom Activities</a> - Matt Winkler</li> <li><a title="The Future of C#" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL16/">The Future of C#</a> - Anders Hejlsberg</li> <li><a title="Deep Dive- Dynamic Languages in Microsoft .NET" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL10/">Deep Dive- Dynamic Languages in Microsoft .NET</a> - Jim Hugunin</li> <li><a title="Framework Design Guidelines" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC58/">Framework Design Guidelines</a> - Krzysztof Cwalina & Brad Abrams</li> <li><a title="Microsoft Expression Blend- Tips & Tricks" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC47/">Microsoft Expression Blend- Tips & Tricks</a> - Douglas Olson</li> <li><a title="WPF Roadmap" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC46/">WPF Roadmap</a> - Kevin Gjerstad</li> <li><a title="Silverlight Controls Roadmap" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC35/">Silverlight Controls Roadmap</a> - Shawn Burke</li> <li><a title="Microsoft Silverlight, WPF and the Microsoft .NET Framework- Sharing Skills and Code" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC27/">Microsoft Silverlight, WPF and the Microsoft .NET Framework- Sharing Skills and Code</a> - Ian Ellison-Taylor</li> <li><a title="Microsoft .NET Framework- Declarative Programming Using XAML" href="http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL36/">Microsoft .NET Framework- Declarative Programming Using XAML</a> - </li></ol> <p>I wonder how long I'll take to get through more than a 24 hour day's worth of riveting presos, especially as I haven't finished the first one yet?</p> Runge Software R&D Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02180238003616913739noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4604836584205094901.post-52896800235181232182008-10-30T20:46:00.001-07:002008-10-31T00:36:12.991-07:00PDC announcements....<h3>LINQ to SQL  being killed off ?</h3> <p> As per <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2008/10/29/update-on-linq-to-sql-and-linq-to-entities-roadmap.aspx">Tim Mallalieu's blog</a>, <em>We’re making significant investments in the Entity Framework such that as of .NET 4.0 the Entity Framework will be our recommended data access solution for LINQ to relational scenarios.  We are listening to customers regarding LINQ to SQL and will continue to evolve the product based on feedback we receive from the community as well.</em></p> <p>That seemed to be the message we've been decoding for a while, so lucky we didn't go down that route.</p> <h3>PDC Summaries</h3> <p>Ayende gives his first impressions of using the CTP - <a href="http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2008/10/27/visual-studio-2010.aspx">Ayende on VS2010</a></p> <p>Martin Fowler <a href="http://martinfowler.com/bliki/Oslo.html">gives his impressions of Oslo</a> based on a sneek preview prior to the release at PDC</p> <p>Sam Gentile's points to his  <a href="http://samgentile.com/blogs/samgentile/archive/2008/10/28/pdc-day-2-coverage.aspx">trusted folks</a> summary for PDC day 2 </p> <p><a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/aaguiar/archive/2008/10/28/pc27-microsoft-silverlight-wpf-and-the-microsoft-net-framework-sharing-skills-and-code.aspx">Silverlight & WPF</a> seem to be coming together according Andres Aguiar's report </p> <p>The Velocity team have announced <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/velocity/archive/2008/10/28/announcing-ctp2-of-microsoft-project-code-name-velocity.aspx">Velocity CTP 2</a>.  Microsoft project code named "Velocity" provides a highly scalable in-memory application cache for all kinds of data.</p> <p>Silverlight has Visual State Manager, but it's not yet in WPF.  However the Expression Blend team tell us how to expose it  - <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/expression/archive/2008/10/30/blend-2-sp1-wpf-toolkit-visual-state-manager-for-wpf.aspx">Blend 2 SP1 + WPF Toolkit = Visual State Manager for WPF</a> - see <a href="http://rungesrand.blogspot.com/2008/10/new-versions-of-unity-entlib-wpf-data.html">previous blog entry</a>.</p> <h3>P&P Guidance</h3> <p><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/">J. D. Meier's</a> Patterns & Practices team has been busy with releases of paper guidance</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2008/10/30/new-release-patterns-practices-acceptance-test-engineering-guide-beta1.aspx">Acceptance Test Engineering Guide (beta 1)</a> </li> <li><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/jmeier/archive/2008/10/30/new-release-distributed-agile-development-at-microsoft-patterns-practices.aspx">Distributed Agile Development</a> </li> </ul> <p>and this comes on top of the <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/AppArchGuide">App Arch Guide book</a> that I blogged about <a href="http://rungesrand.blogspot.com/2008/10/fire-hose-drinking-time.html">earlier in the week</a>.  I've started reading it, and it's definitely recommended reading material.  We'll be following and using it.</p> Runge Software R&D Teamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02180238003616913739noreply@blogger.com0