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August 29th Links: .NET, ASP.NET, IIS Express, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7

Editor — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:23:36 +0000

Here is the latest in my link-listing series . Also check out my VS 2010 and .NET 4 series and ASP.NET MVC 2 series for other on-going blog series I’m working on. [In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] .NET/WPF/EF 5 Little C#/.NET Wonders that Make Code Better : Nice blog post from James that highlights 5 nice language/framework tips you can take advantage of within your apps. I’m betting a lot of people didn’t know about the StopWatch class. WPF Ribbon Control Released : The WPF team recently released the final V1 release of the WPF Ribbon control. This makes it easy to build ribbon-based applications. Also read this WPF team blog post…(read more)

The Weekly Source Code 56 – Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit – Code Contracts, Parallel Framework and COM Interop

Editor — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 09:07:55 +0000

Do you like a big pile of source code? Well, there is an imperial buttload of source in the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit . It's actually a 178 meg download, which is insane. Perhaps start your download now and get it in the morning when you get up. It's extremely well put together and I say Kudos to the folks that did it. They are better people than I. I like to explore it while watching TV myself and found myself looking through tonight. I checked my blog and while I thought I'd shared this with you before, Dear Reader, I hadn't. My bad, because it's pure gold . With C# and VB, natch. Here's an outline of what's inside. I've heard of folks setting up lunch-time study groups and going through…(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 Released

Editor — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 06:39:21 +0000

The final release of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 is now available. Download and Install Today MSDN subscribers, as well as WebsiteSpark / BizSpark / DreamSpark members, can now download the final releases of Visual Studio 2010 and TFS 2010 through the MSDN subscribers download center. If you are not an MSDN Subscriber, you can download free 90-day trial editions of Visual Studio 2010 . Or you can can download the free Visual Studio express editions of Visual Web Developer 2010, Visual Basic 2010, Visual C# 2010 and Visual C++. These express editions are available completely for free (and never time out). If you are looking for an easy way to setup a new machine for web-development you can automate installing ASP.NET…(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 Released

Editor — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:00:42 +0000

It's a big day at Microsoft today as Visual Studio 2010 officially releases. There's a lot going on with this release and I thought I'd do a big rollup post with lots of details and context to help you find your way to the information and downloads you're looking for. Download Visual Studio 2010 First, if you want it, go download Visual Studio 2010 now. If you're an MSDN Subscriber or WebSiteSpark / BizSpark member, you can download the final release now. If not, you can download a free trial or one of the free Express editions . Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional Web Install ISO (DVD-9) Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Web Install ISO (DVD-9) Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server ISO (DVD-9) I'm…(read more)

Spring Speaking Rollup 2010: Recent Talks and Upcoming Talks at Microsoft WebCamps

Editor — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:27:41 +0000

I've been travelling some, and I have a few more trips at Microsoft WebCamps before I take a much needed break and stop travelling until 2011. I went to Munich, Cairo, and Egypt a few weeks back and presented on ASP.NET MVC (both Beginner and Advanced), .NET 4 in general, Making Your Blog Suck Less , and Information Overload . I presented at Mix 10 on Web Development and Security with Phil Haack . Last week I was in Belgium and The Netherlands and gave some talks as well. I thought it would be nice to put all my recent talks in one place. So, here's some video recordings of some of my recent talks. I hope you enjoy watching them as much as I did giving them. ASP.NET MVC 2: Basics/Introduction Join Scott Hanselman as he explains ASP.NET…(read more)

SmallestDotNet Update – Now with .NET 4 support and an includable JavaScript API

Editor — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:44:03 +0000

A few years back I wrote a post on the size of the .NET Framework . There's historically been a lot of confusion on the site of the .NET Framework. If you search around on the web for ".NET Framework" or ".NET Framework Redistributable" you'll often get a link to a 200 meg download. That download is the complete offline thing that developers redistribute when they want to install the .NET Framework on any kind of machine without an internet connection. The .NET 3.5 Client Profile is more like 28 megs and the .NET 4 Client Profile is a looking smaller that than, in fact. Back then I made this website, SmallestDotNet.com to help out. It'll sniff your browser's UserAgent and tell you want version of .NET you…(read more)

Hanselminutes Podcast 198 – Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) with Erik Meijer

Editor — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:38:41 +0000

My one-hundred-and-ninety-eighth podcast is up . I sit down with Erik Meijer from the Cloud Programmability Team to hear about the Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) . Rx is a library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs using observable collections. Sound boring? Not even a little. Rx is a prescription for awesome. Subscribe: Download: MP3 Full Show Links from the Show Rx Team Blog Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) B# .NET Blog Wes Dyer's Blog Jeffrey Van Gogh's Blog Danny van Velzen's Blog Lambda the Ultimate Blog Rx on Channel 9 Do also remember the complete archives are always up and they have PDF Transcripts , a little known feature that show up a few weeks after each show. Telerik is our sponsor for this show…(read more)

How many PCs in the world have the .NET Framework installed?

Editor — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:29:02 +0000

I did a second .NET Framework features informal poll recently , and as with all .NET related polls the question comes up: How many PCs have the .NET Framework on it? If you're a company that is considering creating a client application using .NET (not Silverlight, but the .NET Framework) you'd probably like to know if your end-user needs to install something extra to use your app. So I started asking questions. We've said things here and there about the pervasiveness of the .NET Framework but I wanted to get the final word (at the time of this writing) and put it somewhere easy to fine. After some digging, here's what I've got: Well over 90% of the PCs in the world have some version of the .NET Framework installed. Over 65…(read more)

2010 Survey Results: What .NET Framework features do you use?

Editor — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:48:39 +0000

In October of 2008 I took an informal survey on Twitter . I wanted to get an idea of what features of the .NET Framework people were using. Also, here's the disclaimer. I did this on a whim, it's not scientific, so the margin of error is +/-101%. That said, the results feel intuitively right to me, personally. I put the poll out again last week, adding only Silverlight to the end as an option. I realize I could have added many other subsystems and choices, but I felt it would have made this new poll too different from the original. There's certainly many ways that it could be improved as a survey, but it's best to think of it more as a "which direction is the wind blowing" question, than a survey per se. I also didn't…(read more)

Favor – Help Us Test .NET 4 Beta 2 on Windows Update (WU)

Editor — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:42:33 +0000

The folks in the .NET Framework Setup team have a favor to ask, and it's pretty cool info so I offered to help. Here's the deal. When .NET 4 releases, the .NET 4 Client Profile will be released as a recommended update on Windows Update (WU) for Vista and Windows 7. It'll be listed as optional on Windows XP. They need help testing the WU parts. You may have heard, but the .NET 4 Client Profile size is WAY smaller than before. There's been lots of cool improvements since the .NET 3.5 Client Profile . For example, on Window XP the download for .NET 4 Client is just ~28Mb for machines with no framework. .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Client Profile .NET Framework 4 Client Profile Web install only Local package and Web install. Only Windows…(read more)