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This is an exciting announcement that I must share: "Microsoft Developer & Platform Evangelism, in collaboration with the Microsoft Parallel Computing Platform product team, is hosting a developer lab at the Platform Adoption Center on April 12-15...
MSDN: Visual C# Headlines
3/12/2010
Scott Wiltamuth, Visual Studio Languages Product Unit Manager, discusses Visual Basic and C# plans for coevolution.
Scott Hanselman
3/12/2010
ASP.NET MVC 2 is out. This means, it's released . It's final. Use it. Love it. You can download it directly , or install it (and whatever else you like) with the Web Platform Installer: ScottGu has many details in his post . There's lots of resour...
I’m happy to announce that the final release of ASP.NET MVC 2 is now available for VS 2008/Visual Web Developer 2008 Express with ASP.NET 3.5. You can download and install it from the following locations: Download ASP.NET MVC 2 using the Microsof...
This is part II of a series on agile architecture. You can read part I here. In the previous installment I provided a definition for software architecture and raised the apparent friction between the up front design implied by software architectur...
Fabulous Adventures In Coding
3/11/2010
Part Two: Machine-generated code: You write namespace Foo { public sealed class Foo { public string Blah(int x) { … } } } You take this code and run a third-party “decorator” tool over it that makes your class into a more colourful class...
Theme your Visual Studio! The Visual Studio Color Theme Editor provides you with a central location to control all your IDE colors. No more having to painfully edit each individual Fonts and Colors under Tools Options. Personally, this extension...
Go over to the Visual Studio Gallery , and you’ll find almost 500 extensions available for Visual Studio 2010 RC. That’s a lot of extensions to look through and the product isn’t even officially out yet! Visual Studio Extension of the Week I am ve...
Scott Hanselman
3/11/2010
We've just pushed live an update to the http://www.asp.net site. This is the first of a series of updates to the site we'll be making this year. The home page for the site was getting bogged down with info and was too visually busy. It was too com...
I’ve been updating some file uploader code in my photoalbum today and while I was working with the uploader I noticed that the File Open dialog using Silverlight that handles the file selections didn’t allow me to ever see an image preview for ima...