Workflow 4 and other stuff

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

 

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

http://teamsystemguides.codeplex.com/

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

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

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

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

Oslo - part 2

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

Interesting links for 2 June 09

 

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

 

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

 

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

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

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

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

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

 

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

 

Great tutorial by Jason Zander

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

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

 

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

 

Architectural Inspections: Implemented in Visual Studio Team Architect 2010

Integrated and Isolated Shell for VS 2010 Beta 1 

 

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

 

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

ViewModels and CheckListBoxes

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

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

 

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

 

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

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

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

 

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

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

ActiPro SyntaxEditor for WPF

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

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

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

 

Chris Sells says that Oslo May 2009 CTP Available Now  

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

Too Lazy to do more than cut/paste links from RSS Bandit tabs :-(

Prism

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 - http://www.softinsight.com/bnoyes/2009/04/22/CompositeExtensionsForPrism2.aspx

http://www.softinsight.com/bnoyes/2009/04/22/BuildingCompositeWPFApplicationsAtEvansvilleNETUsersGroup.aspx

http://elegantcode.com/2009/04/22/code-cast-26-prism-20/

Build Outlook style app - http://blogs.msdn.com/erwinvandervalk/archive/2009/04/29/how-to-build-an-outlook-style-application-with-prism-v2-part-2.aspx

WPF

The future of WPF at Mix09

WPF Coverflow control released

http://blogs.msdn.com/ivo_manolov/archive/2009/04/24/9566644.aspx - WPF test api

http://blogs.msdn.com/ivo_manolov/archive/2009/04/28/9574933.aspx - WPF Application Quality Guide v0.5 Released!

Getting ready for Windows 7

http://blogs.msdn.com/usisvde/archive/2009/04/25/walkthrough-to-get-your-applications-ready-for-windows-7.aspx

http://geekswithblogs.net/iupdateable/archive/2009/04/28/what-developers-should-be-doing-in-readiness-for-windows-7.aspx

Other

Mindscape twitter http://twitter.com/MindscapeHQ

Software Factories - someone's doing it - 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://azuregrid.codeplex.com/

Learn SL - http://silverzine.com/

http://blogs.msdn.com/paulcornell/archive/2009/04/20/visual-studio-2010-model-first-development.aspx - model in VS210 - create an Entity Data Model

All in one code framework - http://cfx.codeplex.com/

http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2009/04/29/let-us-burn-all-those-pesky-util-amp-common-libraries.aspx - Ayende rant

Build a training course - http://coursebuilder.codeplex.com/

BizTalk 2009 released http://blogs.msdn.com/sudhir/archive/2009/04/28/microsoft-releases-biztalk-server-2009.aspx

Poco, Mef, and custom type systems. Are you ready to take the red pill? - more from Glenn Block - 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

Notes

http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4/

 

http://blogs.msdn.com/agile/archive/2009/04/16/enterprise-library-5-0-product-backlog-prioritization-results.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/agile/archive/2009/04/20/enterprise-library-5-0-and-we-re-off.aspx

 

http://wpfonyx.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Introduction

http://sachabarber.net/?p=499

http://sachabarber.net/?p=504

 

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WPF/PrismLayoutManager.aspx

http://exceldatareader.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=26041

http://jmorrill.hjtcentral.com/Home/tabid/428/EntryId/403/Glass-Behavior-for-WPF.aspx

http://shapingsoftware.com/2009/04/13/performance-hot-spots/

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/nikolait/archive/2009/04/10/pex-0-10-released-icse-tutorial-on-parameterized-unit-testing.aspx

http://groovy.codeplex.com/

http://www.milkcarton.com/blog/2009/04/04/5+Minute+Tutorial+On+Managed+Extensibility+Framework+MEF.aspx

http://dbxamlword.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=25872

http://elegantcode.com/2009/04/08/analyze-performance-issues-in-your-wpf-application-with-wpfperf/

http://marlongrech.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/mvvm-mediator-acb-cool-wpf-app-the-mvvm/

 

http://blogs.msdn.com/saveenr/archive/2009/04/20/visio-transparencies-and-soft-shadows.aspx

Notes

http://managedesent.codeplex.com/

http://witsynchronizer.codeplex.com/

http://weblogs.asp.net/whaggard/archive/2009/04/07/mef-preview-5-released.aspx

http://joshsmithonwpf.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/a-mediator-prototype-for-wpf-apps/

http://blogs.msdn.com/pfxteam/archive/2009/04/06/9534426.aspx

http://www.mindscape.co.nz/blog/index.php/2009/04/05/intro-to-wpf-flow-diagrams/

http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2009/04/04/expression-blend-3-preview.aspx

http://blog.vuscode.com/malovicn/archive/2009/04/04/microsoft-unity-auto-mocking-container.aspx

http://team.interknowlogy.com/blogs/ryanabreu/archive/2009/04/03/mix09-brain-dump-part-2-prototyping-and-designing-with-expression-blend-3.aspx

It's Tuesday

 

WPF

Josh Smith has a new CodePlex project called Thriple - a library of 3D WPF components.

Rudi Grobler describes Karl's XAML Power Toys - Extract Properties to Style feature.  He also points to a cool sample app called PhotoSuru. 

Jaime Rodriguez shares his list of WPF blogs.

Sacha Barber describes what he calls the MVVM Mediator pattern.

Charles Perzold has an article in MSDN magazine about writing more efficient ItemsControls.

And our own Tarang Waghela writes about Implementing M-V-VM pattern in WPF.

UX

New article in MSDN magazine on Strategies For Designing Application Navigation

Cory Schuman has a generic XAML loading control

Dax Pandhi has a free WPF theme

Other

Solution Factory is a Visual Studio Addin that exports a solution as a Visual Studio multi-project template

Brian Harry has "lots of news" about VSTS2010/.NET4.0.

Brad Abrams shows off what's coming in Sliverlight 3 for Business Applications.

Project almost finished

Our current project is almost finished, so I've at last had a chance to browse my blog feeds.

Here's the list of interesting items that attracted my attention over the last few weeks.

WPF

Tim Sneath Announcing Family.Show v3 – Our WPF Reference Application - http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2009/02/23/announcing-family-show-v3-our-wpf-reference-application.aspx

The guys from Mindscape  have announced WPF Flow Diagrams 1.0 released

Josh Smith has an article Using ContentControl3D and Panel3D in a ListBox

MVVM videos

Josh Smith Two Model-View-ViewModel Screencasts

Learn Prism - from Blaine Wastell - http://blogs.msdn.com/blaine/archive/2009/02/28/learn-prism.aspx

How to build an outlook style application using Prism - http://blogs.msdn.com/erwinvandervalk/archive/2009/03/02/how-to-build-an-outlook-style-application.aspx

UX stuff

Shane Morris has pointed to New Video Series- UI Design for Developers Series, by Total Training

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 - http://community.devexpress.com/blogs/markmiller/archive/2009/02/26/great-ui-clarity-and-color-on-the-presentation-layer.aspx 

Tip: Invoking Blend from Visual Studio - http://blogs.msdn.com/wpfsdk/archive/2009/02/26/tip-invoking-blend-from-visual-studio.aspx

Bling- easy animation and interaction in C# and WPF

Other

Event Aggregation with MEF (with and without EventAggregator)

http://blogs.msdn.com/gblock/archive/2009/02/23/event-aggregation-with-mef-with-and-without-eventaggregator.aspx

Rob Relyea - what's coming in .NET 4 for XAML - XAML State of the Union – Feb 2009 - http://blogs.windowsclient.net/rob_relyea/archive/2009/02/26/xaml-state-of-the-union-feb-2009.aspx

Somasegar announces DevLabs: Code Contracts for .NET   http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2009/02/23/devlabs-code-contracts-for-net.aspx

Talking Points: ADO.NET Entity Framework http://blogs.msdn.com/publicsector/archive/2009/02/23/talking-points-ado-net-entity-framework.aspx

NaturalSpec is based on NUnit and completely written in F# - http://code.google.com/p/natural/

NCalc - Mathematical Expressions Evaluator for .NET

Rockford Lhotka has a summary article on Parallel and Concurrency Futures for Microsoft Developers - http://www.devx.com/SpecialReports/Article/40965/1954?pf=true